Editing Photoshop contest

{{Short description|Online game}}
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A '''Photoshop contest''', or sometimes '''Photoshop battle''' (often abbreviated to PS Battle), is an [[online]] game, in which a [[website]] or user of an [[Internet forum]] will post a starting [[image]] — usually a [[photograph]] — and ask others to manipulate the image using some [[computer graphics|graphics]] editing [[software]], usually [[Adobe Photoshop]], however other editors are commonly allowed, such as [[Corel Photo-Paint]], [[GIMP]], [[PaintShop Pro]], [[Paint.NET]] or even [[Paint (software)|Microsoft Paint]]. People can also use [[video editing]] software to create these images, such as [[Adobe Premiere Pro]], [[Kdenlive]], [[OpenShot]], or [[VideoPad Video Editor|NCH VideoPad]].

While [[Photoshop (verb)|Photoshop]] is the industry standard image editing program, [[Adobe Systems]], the publisher of Photoshop, [[Adobe Photoshop#Cultural impact|discourages use]] of "Photoshop" to refer to anything other than their photo editing software, to prevent their [[trademark]] from becoming [[Generic trademark|generic]].

==Humor==
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A large part of the humor in many of these contests involves the use of [[internet meme]]s.

Such contests have recently seen increasing participation on many blogs and forums. The popular internet community [[Reddit]] has a community called r/photoshopbattles devoted to the contests.

A more "underground" variety of these image manipulation jokes involves the blending of celebrity faces with nude or [[pornography|pornographic]] images commonly known as [[Photo manipulation|fake nudes]], often combined with references to movies, music, magazines and other forms of related [[popular culture]].

==Photoshop tennis==
'''Photoshop tennis''' (also known as '''Photoshop Pong''' or '''Photoshop battle''' (similar in its function to a "[[Turntablism#Turntablist contests|DJ battle]]" or "[[Battle rap|rap battle]]" in [[hip hop music]]) is a game played through sequential alternating (photoshopping) of an [[image]]. Photoshop tennis originated in graphics-related [[internet forum]]s in the late-1990s/early-2000s, and shares an earlier history with online image games such as [[SITO]]'s "PANIC" (started January, 1994).<ref name="SITOpanic">[http://www.sito.org/docs/tennis.html SITO Panic and Photoshop Tennis]</ref>  The game was made popular by art director Jim Coudal in 2001 as "Photoshop Tennis".<ref name="wiredtennis"/> The matches on coudal.com were later renamed '''Layer Tennis''' after enabling the use of other software, and continued through four seasons of competition.<ref name="layertennis">[https://web.archive.org/web/20220930183224/http://www.layertennis.com/ Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis]</ref>

Each match tennis is generally played with two competing players.<ref name="wiredtennis">{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/09/47132
|title=Anyone for Photoshop Tennis?
|accessdate=2007-10-27
|last=Schreve |first=Jenn
|date=2001-09-27
|publisher=[[Wired News]]
}}</ref> The players pick a starting image, or one is "served" by a player, then another player makes some sort of alteration to the image in any chosen image editor (matches are not exclusive to Adobe Photoshop). They then send the altered image to the other player or players, usually via [[e-mail]] or by posting the image to a Photoshop tennis forum, who then edits that image and sends it back to the first player. This process goes back and forth until a predetermined number of rounds have elapsed, or the players otherwise wish to end the game. When the final round is over, there may be an independent [[judge]] who determines who has played the best shots, and declares that person the winner, or players may play without a clear winner. Sometimes extra rules can be enforced, such as sticking to one particular [[Computer software|software package]], or keeping to a particular [[Motif (visual arts)|theme]]. <!-- // Context of this sentence? It's not exclusive to any one forum:
Posts have been known to be deleted by moderators even though the "Vote" option has been turned off. An example of Photoshop Tennis can be viewed [http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57080 on the unicyclist forums.]
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==Pictures==
<gallery>
File:Kitrone.jpg|[[Photomontage]] made using [[GIMP]].
File:Wikipedia - taste the fruit of knowledge.jpg|[[Détournement]] of [[Jacob Jordaens]]' ''The Fall of Man'', made using [[GIMP]].
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Adobe Photoshop]]
* [[Photomontage]]
* [[Email art]]
* [[Fark]]
* [[Photo editing (disambiguation)]]
* ''[[Something Awful]]'s'' "Photoshop Phriday"
* [[Worth1000]]
* [[FreakingNews]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071222175836/http://forums.streetfire.net/forumdisplay.php?f=50 israr] 
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071229050640/http://www.carchops.com/ CarChops]
* [[Something Awful]]'s [http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ Photoshop Phriday] feature

[[Category:Arts competitions]]
[[Category:Digital art]]
[[Category:Adobe Photoshop]]