Gizmodo: photoshop contest

25 Ways Black Friday Could Be Even Worse

Adam Frucci — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to envision true disasters befalling the dreaded Black Friday happening later this week. And yeah, I think it's safe to say crappy sales aren't as bad as this stuff.

Create Some Black Friday Worst Case Scenarios

Adam Frucci — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

Next Friday is the dreaded Black Friday, the day when stores have their biggest sales and people turn into bargain-crazed animals. Bad things will happen. But worse things could happen. What's the worst thing you can envision going down?

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Black Friday Disasters in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

56 of the Most Hilarious and Amazing Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs You Will Ever See

Adam Frucci — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

Is it possible to love the results of a Photoshop Contest too much? Because oh man, these had me rolling on the floor. Seriously, you're going to want to check this gallery out.

First Place—Jim Chitwood

Second Place—Andreas Kokkinos

Third Place—Sergio Hikawa

Create Some Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs

Adam Frucci — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:40:00 EST

Hey, did you guys find the hidden house in Modern Warfare 2 that lets you unlock old-school Nintendo characters as enemies? No? Oh, I must have made that up.

Now it's your turn. What sorts of ridiculous secrets do you wish Infinity Ward put in their latest blockbuster if only they didn't take themselves and their game so goddamned seriously? Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Modern Warfare Easter Eggs in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

15 Improbable Bionic Upgrades to the Human Body

Adam Frucci — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some bionic upgrades for the human body. And it's safe to say that I am not interested in having any of you perform unnecessary surgery on me. Yikes.

First Place—Doc Brown
Second Place—Shaun Legacy
Third Place— Jon McGrath

Create the Ultimate Bionic Human Upgrades

Adam Frucci — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

In the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to upgrade our bodies with real hardware. But what exactly do you want grafted onto your body? The world is your nanomachine-powered oyster!

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Bionic Upgrades in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

31 Views Inside the Workings of Our Gadgets

Adam Frucci — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to show us how your gadgets really work. We all know there's something fishy that makes everything run, and it turns out that thing involves Chuck Norris and animals making shadow puppets.

What's Really Powering Our Gadgets?

Adam Frucci — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:06 EDT

I'm no scientist, but I don't believe that we've really got "circuits" and "microchips" powering our devices. That's just what Big Brother wants you to think! Let's break free from mind prison and see what truth lies within our gadgets.

Create your visions of what powers our day-to-day devices, and send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Inside Gadgets in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

50 Historic Events the Domino's Delivery Man Graced with His Presence

Adam Frucci — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:20:00 EDT

Domino's historic pizza delivery man didn't just drop off pizzas at Microsoft HQ to celebrate the release of Windows 7. Oh no! He also showed up at a whole slew of other ridiculous places, much to my delight.

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Put the Cross-Promotional Domino's Delivery Man at Other Historic Occasions

Adam Frucci — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Apparently, Domino's Pizza is now in the business of delivering pizzas during "legendary occasions," such as yesterday's Windows 7 launch. What other legendary occasions did they show up for?

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Pizza Man in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

38 Surefire Ways (Not) to Make Windows 7 Cooler

John Herrman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Last week we put out a call for help. Windows 7 is great, but it just needs some sex appeal, you know? As usual, our lovely readers came through. Common themes in these Photoshops include: Apple, genitalia, sports, and ugh.

First Place: A man who simply goes by "Richard" sent us this, which I had to censor, extensively. Windows 7 is cooler just because of the mere existence of this picture, for reasons I'm not capable of articulating.

Second Place: Alex Gallitano. Yes! The graffitied stamp of a decreasingy edgy, increasingly irritating urban artist is exactly what Microsoft needs.

Third Place: What Dan Mansion lacks in subtlety, he more than makes up for in thoroughness. No slogan unturned, as they say.

And the rest! [warning: A few of these are pretty gross, and almost definitely NSFW]

Photosketchers of the Giz: You Disgust Me

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:20:00 EDT

I asked for sketches to feed into the magic Photosketch image compositing program. You delivered just a few weirdustrations, but enough to show that there's one little pack of sick individuals reading Gizmodo:

Too bad. If I could, I would name myself winner, and get the $10,000 prize in cash. In fact, if we had that cash prize, I would have done exactly that. [Photosketch contest]

Make Windows 7 Actually Cool for Microsoft

Adam Frucci — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:03:49 EDT

Windows 7. It ain't cool. It seems like a great operating system and all, but the thing just isn't sexy. Let's help Microsoft out and add some coolness to their big new baby.

Send your best examples of the eternal hipness of Windows 7 to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Cool Windows in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

Draw Your Dream Gadget or Technology, PhotoSketch-Style

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:30:00 EDT

More than half-million people were amazed by PhotoSketch, the software that can automagically produce seamless Photoshop-style montages from rough drawings. You may not have PhotoSketch yet, but I would like to see what would you feed to this infernal program.

Click here to mail your sketches. Remember to save them as JPG files with your name in the filename before next Tuesday morning. The subject line should say "Dream Gadget Sketch."

I'm trembling with a mix of horror and anticipation. Good luck to all of us. We are going to need it.

44 PlayStation 3 Ads Too Offensive For Even Sony To Use

Adam Frucci — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Sony has a penchant for making questionable or offensive ads. But man, nothing they've done comes close to some of the stuff you guys came up with. You've been warned; no whining about being offended allowed.

First Place—Brian Garten

Second Place—Jairo Filho

Third Place

Help Sony Create Even More Upsetting and Controversial Ads

Adam Frucci — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:40:00 EDT

Sony loves to make unsettling ads that appear designed to offend rather than sell video games. Fair enough, Sony! But I think we can beat them at their own game.

Create a twisted PlayStation 3 ad for Sony, and send it to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Sony Ad in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it! [Original image from Charlie White's "Understanding Joshua" series]

34 Portable Gaming Devices That Aren't So Portable

Adam Frucci — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:00:00 EDT

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to invent some completely unportable portable gaming devices in honor of the PSPgo. As usual, your minds are more demented than I'd even imagined.

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Make Some Completely Unportable Portable Gaming Devices

Adam Frucci — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Being able to carry around games on a PSP Go, DSi or iPhone is great. But maybe they're a bit too portable? Probably not, but let's design some really unportable portable gaming devices anyways.

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Unportable Gaming in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

42 Shocking Discoveries the Newly-Upgraded Hubble Didn't Make

Adam Frucci — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:00 EDT

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some truly shocking discoveries that the newly-rejiggered Hubble might make. And if the stuff you guys came up with really is out there, maybe we're better off focusing on Earth.

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What Sorts of Surprising Things Will the New and Improved Hubble Discover?

Adam Frucci — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EDT

The newly-repaired Hubble has begun sending back some pretty extraordinary pictures. But what if it sends back some more… surprising photos? For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you to create just that.

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Hubble Surprises in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!