Our main goal for our total website redesign here at Zixpk.com, was to create something that was modern looking and at the same time easier to navigate. There are many changes across our new site, some might be as huge as the brand new navigation system or as simple as a few tweaks to our sidebar. Non the less, almost every single pixel got transformed in this new design.

Do to multiple emails asking for the deadline extension for our Intuos 4 graphics tablet giveaway, we have decided to extended the deadline to Sunday May 17, at 11:59pm (This is the last time we are doing this!). If you don't know about our giveaway, read here!

*Update: this contest has ended

This post is part of our regular series of posts showing photo-manipulation. We search for a particular image and see what others have done to it to make it their own. In this post we featured the stock image "Hilltop House."

The author Alegion, which is the only name I could find of him, released a stock image called "Hilltop House." This image was able to captivate the imagination of many photo-manipulators because of the surreal feeling of the slanted house on the hill. The general direction that most people chose when editing this image was that they either incorporated a dark horror scene, included a female in front of the image, or for some odd reason many people incorporated horses.

» Below is the stock original image

Most of the images were done by beginners but there were a couple that really shined above the rest and truly made this image their own. Below we have compiled the top 6 of our choice.