The Crestock blog is about design, photography, technology and trends, for designers, illustrators and photographers.

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  As we speak, many of you are in the final frenzied days of preparations for Christmas, Chanuka or whichever other holiday you may or may not be celebrating, and we'd like to round off an eventful year with a seasonal greetings to all of you!

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  With Christmas closing in, we proudly present a selection of this year's oddest, most bizarre and ridiculous gifts and gadgets for Christmas, Chanuka, Kwanzaa, Festivus or your own.

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  In our third tutorial post based on Photoshop Contest entries, Madalina Iordache?Levay takes us through how she created her stunning entry for the contest's final round.

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  In the second installment of our "how to" series, based on entries to the Crestock Photoshop Contest 2008, David Sykes shows us how he brought together the photographic source materials provided in Adobe Illustrator to create his winning design for Round 1.

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  As we're now already well into December, we decided to supplement our previous wallpaper collections with a Christmas themed collection. Take this opportunity to put your desktop in that festive mood with wallpapers courtesy of some of Crestock's finest contributing photographers and designers.