Are you looking to start your new year with a fresh set of prints to help promote your design business? Today, our friends at UPrinting are kicking off 2012 by giving away business cards, posters, or postcards to 36 lucky Tuts+ readers. To enter, all you have to do is submit your entry using the form below and select which prize you would prefer.

Update: The winners for this giveaway have been selected. Thanks to everyone who participated.

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Photoshop is a great app to create textures for 3D graphics. If you have tried to create textures in Photoshop, you have probably experimented with the default filters in Photoshop at some point. The problem is that the default filters in Photoshop don’t give you much flexibility and don’t always look very realistic. The good news is that there are some great third-party plugins that allow you to do some pretty amazing things with filters, and even create your own. Filter Forge is a versatile Photoshop plugin which allows both novice and expert users create a wide variety of realistic and abstract textures and effects.

Update: Congratulations to Hector J Maxwell, Luke Jackson, and Michael Gehrmann! You have all won a free copy of Filter Forge Basic! We have forwarded your information to Filter Forge and they should be in touch soon with instructions on how to redeem your winnings!

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