A Photoshop contest, or sometimes Photoshop battle (often abbreviated to PS Battle), is an

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game, in which a

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or user of an Internet forum will post a starting

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— usually a

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— and ask others to manipulate the image using some

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editing

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, usually

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, however other editors are commonly allowed, such as Corel Photo-Paint,

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, PaintShop Pro, Paint.NET or even Microsoft Paint. People can also use

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software to create these images, such as

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, Kdenlive, OpenShot, or NCH VideoPad. While Photoshop is the industry standard image editing program,

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, the publisher of Photoshop, discourages use of "Photoshop" to refer to anything other than their photo editing software, to prevent their

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from becoming generic.

Humor

A large part of the humor in many of these contests involves the use of

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s. Such contests have recently seen increasing participation on many blogs and forums. The popular internet community

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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

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images commonly known as fake nudes, often combined with references to movies, music, magazines and other forms of related

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or mass art, sometimes contraste ...

Photoshop tennis

Photoshop tennis (also known as Photoshop Pong or Photoshop battle (similar in its function to a " DJ battle" or "

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) is a game played through sequential alternating (photoshopping) of an

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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

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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

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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 software package, or keeping to a particular

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Pictures

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References

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Humor

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References

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