Photo Editing Competitions

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by Carly Ogborne (subscribe)

Published February 15th 2011

Fancy yourself a bit of a whiz with photo editing software? Then put your money where your mouth is and enter an online photo editing competition.

You know those 'ZOMG CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS PHOTO!!!!1!!!' e-mails that your mother won't stop sending you? Chances are, most of them originated here. Worth1000 is a dedicated creative photograph site that runs dozens of different competitions. You might also like to check out the effects or illustrations category.

Comic website Something Awful hosts a weekly competition entitled Photoshop Phriday. A different topic is chosen each week – it might be a theme, a movie or an event taken from the news. Participants enter a photograph or video that has been manipulated with their own hilarious take. The winners are displayed on the website. To participate, you will need to join the forum.

Photoshop Tennis (sometimes known as Layer Tennis due to Adobe's attempts to discourage use of the term photoshop in a generic context) is not a competition but a game that is played between two competitors. A starting image is selected. Player One makes an alteration to the picture and 'serves' it to Player Two. Player Two makes an alteration and serves it back. The game continues until the players wish to retire.

Get creative and get cracking and your fauxto might even end up as a meme.

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