Love O'Rielly Photoshop books like me? Well then, you may also be interested to find out that they are running a
photomanipulation competition with some pretty excellent prizes! Not only can you win Adobe Creative Suite 2, an Epson Stylus Photo printer, and other cool prizes, but you'll also quickly expand your knowledge of Photoshop with easy-to-follow recipes from the O'Reilly Photoshop Cookbooks.
Just take up to 3 of your own photos and manipulate them with Adobe Photoshop, using recipes from any of the 5 O'Reilly Photoshop Cookbooks then submit them to the site before August 15 for your chance to win.
Of course, this DOES require the purchase of one (or more) of their books, but they are surprisingly cheap and well-featured (unlike some other books that spend half the pages repeating the manual) that you'll be glad of the purchase anyway.