O’Reilly Media today announced The 2006 O’Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off, a contest featuring eighteen top Photoshop experts as judges, including Mikkel Aaland, Katrin Eismann, Harris Fogel, Tim Grey, Deke McClelland, Bert Monroy, Eddie Tapp, Vincent Versace, and John Beardsworth, among others. O’Reilly is aiming to inspire creativity and discover new and promising talent from the ranks of the 4,000,000 plus Photoshop users. The winners will be recognized with awards and prizes, which will be presented at an event at PhotoPlus Expo in New York on November 2, 2006. All entries must be created using recipes from one or more of the five O’Reilly Photoshop Cookbooks: “Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers,” “Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers,” “Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook,” “Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia,” and/or “Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook.”