Photoshop contest
A Photoshop contest, or sometimes Photoshop battle (often abbreviated to PS Battle), is an
Microsoft Paint. People can also use video editing software to create these images, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Kdenlive, OpenShot, or NCH VideoPad
.
While
Adobe Systems, the publisher of Photoshop, discourages use of "Photoshop" to refer to anything other than their photo editing software, to prevent their trademark from becoming generic
.
Humor
A large part of the humor in many of these contests involves the use of internet memes.
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
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 "
SITO's "PANIC" (started January, 1994).[1] The game was made popular by art director Jim Coudal in 2001 as "Photoshop Tennis".[2] The matches on coudal.com have since been renamed Layer Tennis,[3]
as they are no longer restricted to the use of Adobe Photoshop.
Each match of Photoshop tennis is generally played with two competing players.software package, or keeping to a particular theme.
Pictures
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Photomontage made using GIMP.
See also
- Adobe Photoshop
- Photomontage
- Email art
- Fark
- Photo editing (disambiguation)
- Something Awful's "Photoshop Phriday"
- Worth1000
- FreakingNews
References
- ^ SITO Panic and Photoshop Tennis
- ^ Wired News. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ^ Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis
External links
- israr
- CarChops
- Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday feature