Photoshop Nonsense, Fark Contests

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I frequently compete in the regular photoshop contests at fark.com. The goal of the site is to manipulate an image based on a given source image, or to create something based on an assigned theme. Usually humor is more important for getting votes than photoshop skills, but obviously the best entries combine both. For a complete archive of all of my entries, check out the unofficial Fark Honor Roll. My user name is Dr. Rosenrosen, which you can click on to see my entries.

This is my all time favorite creation. Photoshop Ashlee Simpson's little friend

Here is the original picture:

This is my highest vote getter ever (278 votes). It always helps to have a cute source pic!

Theme: If extinct animals were alive today

Photoshop what you're willing to pay for your gas. (Link goes to GIS for inspiration)

I created a new brush in Photoshop to get the multicolor, multisize stick figures in the background.

Photoshop Theme: Bumper Stickers from the Future (Link goes to inspiration)

Firefox extensions are little bits of functionality that you can add to the Firefox browser.
Theme: Firefox extensions for the technologically inept

I'm a little bit too proud of this one. Another contest winner. Those farkers have their minds in the gutter. Theme: Epic proportions

One of my favorite winners
Photoshop this farker's daughter in awe of something. Difficulty: Has to be able to show her mom the contest

Photoshop: Turn a non-statue into a statue. (Link goes to tutorial)

I got first place for zebrafying a praying mantis (is that a mantra?) in Photoshop this mantis praying

Today's photoshop secret ingredient: Shadows

Theme: Back to the drawing board. Photoshop rejected or unlikely prototypes

Note to self: I'm a bad, bad person.
In honor of Kalashnikov Vodka, photoshop some other product endorsements

Third place for this one.
Photoshop an unlikely extremist group

All I added was the text on the side of the building, but it was enough to win this contest.
Photoshop this building, or how it got this way

Third place here, too. Notice how I used the Iraqi flag tricolor and substituted the religious symbols for the Arabic script? Didn't think so.
Iraqi elections are approaching. Photoshop a campaign sign/slogan for one of the candidates

Sort of an inside joke with fark cliches, but it netted me another first place!
Photoshop some Fark currency

I'm not even sure how to explain this one.
Photoshop the best images from the the Mars Exploration Rovers

Second place for Theme: Unlikely hide-and-go-seek hiding spots

I did two for this contest. (Both of my entries used original paintings by Bouguereau in case you're curious.)
Theme: Photoshop classic paintings for modern times. (LGN)
This one got second place:

This one wasn't as popular, although I like the social critique a little better myself

Theme: Create textbooks for unlikely college courses

I combine my interests of watching Jeopardy with playing Grand Theft Auto.
In honor of his 40th Jeopardy win, photoshop ubergeek Ken Jennings completely humiliating all comers in various other competitions

Photoshop Senators Rick Santorum and Zell Miller playing pull my finger

My entry for Photoshop and rename members of the animal kingdom as if science were funded by corporate sponsors.

As the election approached, there were two contests about the debates. I won this one. I used my new pen tablet to trace a photo of Mr. Cheney. Photoshop what Cheney and Edwards were writing/drawing in their notebooks during the debate

Here's the other one:Photoshop what Bush and Kerry were writing/drawing in their notebooks during the debate

I had fun tying these trees in knots (or stars). Photoshop this seaside park
Original:

My Version:

This was my highest vote getter for a while, until the saber-toothed kitten came along. A clear victory (with 271 votes, almost twice as many votes as 2nd place). However, it is somewhat on the suggestive side. The contest is Non-sports uses for sports equipment

I won this contest: Theme: What if trees ruled the world

I won a similar contest a couple months later with a similar entry: Theme: If insects ruled the world...

Photoshop the consequences of an instantaneous switch to the metric system in the U.S.

For this contest: Najaf's governor has okayed operations around the Imam Ali Shrine where Muqtada Al Sadr and his militia are hold up. Photoshop what the future holds for the crazy cleric. Link goes to GIS for Muqtada Al Sadr, I did a spin of one of my favorite computer games, Civilization 3.

Theme: Unlikely lunch boxes

Photoshop this NATO anti-riot demonstration

Here was the original:

And here is my version. Note that the letters were all formed from the 3 letters "FOR" on the police shields:

First place in the contest Today's Iron Photoshop Ingredient: LIGHTNING

Second place in the contest: In honor of Jose Lima's wife's boobies photoshop, what's been cropped out of other famous photos?

Considering Quentin Tarantino wants to make a James Bond film, photoshop other movies as if they were made by Tarantino

Risk 2210 A.D. lets you conquer the moon and beyond. Photoshop futuristic updates to other popular old-school board games

Theme: Create a greeting card for an obscure holiday. Link goes to list for August

Theme: What if all sites used pornsite-style advertising? Difficulty: SFW. Link goes nowhere

Photoshop farker Hydro-X's adventure in Switzerland. Here's the original:

And here's my version, which won first place

Two successful entries (each scoring more than 100 votes for 5th and 8th place) in the contest Photoshop a warning sign that would've changed your life.

A second place finish for "Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker prepares to throw his hat in anger after being thrown out of the game by home plate umpire. Photoshop the angry fool." Here's the source pic and my entry.

Victory (140 votes) in another contest "One of these things is not like the other....."

A decisive victory for the contest "Theme: Less famous Time-Life music compilations"

I took second place with this entry for Photoshop an ad for the Fark political campaign

I submitted this treatment of a popular religious movement for the contest "To celebrate the opening of Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ,' add a little Jesus to your favorite movie" It earned 138 votes and won second place!

I sumbitted this abstract entry based on this source pic: Photoshop what this farker is looking at outside.

A very popular entry for the contest "How would your favorite or least favorite company be different if you were in charge?". It won 5th place.

This one didn't get tons of votes since it didn't fit the contest theme very well. But I really like how it turned out. From the contest "Theme: 'Hey y'all, watch this.'"


	(The original poster from "The Deer Hunter")

Back to back 4th and 5th place (79 and 77 votes) for the contest Photoshop Bill O'Reilly doing something unlikely

MY FIRST WIN!!!

Here's the source pic and my version for this contest.

Source Picture My version

A 4th place win for another favorite of mine from the contest What kind of effect will Sedna have on your horoscope? (Sedna is the newly discovered planetoid named after an Inuit goddess.)

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