Thanks allot i like this lesson .

I guess the Chop the chopper concept is as close to PSC roots as you can get.

I still love PSC, but it has definitely changed alot since I signed on in '03. I think my first win only got 15 or 16 votes....and it was not uncommon for people to get zero votes on occasions. Every daily contest was like the speed chop contests. Everyone was surprised with the daily image at the same time, and the race was on to get an entry done. To be successful you had to be fast as well as skilled...you couldnt expect to spend several hours on a post...if you did, you would be far behind in votes by the time you posted.
Many members did multiple entries per day, and chat never had a dull moment.

I believe this was DChance in this contest...
http://photoshopcontest.com/photoshop-contest/614/budding-photographer.html?l=all&o=votes


...I'm not sure what happened, but I cant seem to locate the testing area....HELP!

Another notable PSC milestone (which came to memory thanks to Volkswes's comment on this thread) is this entry:

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/30937/croc-eye.html

This was a winning entry from a daily contest in 2003. Up until that time, most winning entries were lucky to garner 30-50 votes. Volkswes shattered all existing records for the time by racking up 82 votes which was unheard of for the time. As Wes mentioned there was no advantage during that period and speed was as much of a factor as skill.

During that time the daily image was revealed each morning at 8 a.m. If a PSC user did not have an image submitted by early afternoon/evening - no matter how good - it would likely not land on the front page and ultimately suffer from low exposure and voting.

Although I'm not sure how long Volkswes's record stood, I believe it was for over a year.

Another PSC milestone.

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/48557/display.html

What's even funnier is that he will always have a higher PSCore than I ever will

fekkin epic

For the new folks who see this...

Back in the day all contests were anonymous and we could see the comments, but not who the comments were made by. The person who posted the pic would show up as "Author" and anyone else was "Commenter". So, Chicken fighting with himself and everyone knowing it was the "Author", but not knowing who it really was just made it that much funnier.

And since you can't see the pic anymore... He actually took the source pic an re-posted it untouched...

We don't need the button 'Prizes' on the homepage. Make that a PSC History button!

(Blue would say: 'we don't need no stinking prizes!')

Love those stories!

I THINK the post that finally broke Volkwes's record was YerPalAl's post in Sept of '04.

It was also a brilliant chop in that it used one thing that Alan is very good at: seeing something totally different than what the source really is.

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/59099/car-quarter.html

After that he started going downhill and now makes a living with his photoshop talents.

That was one of the chops that I saw early on that I was just floored by. I couldn't (and still can't) imagine coming up with something like that.

Alan has a few like that in his portfolio. I've always admired the way his mind works.

Oh come on its the old fart syndrome the brain starts to slowly see things differently due to lack of blood flow and then we just start to drift offfffffffff...huh...what...
"Why you damn kids get the hell offa ma lawn"...."No damn respect, back in ma day we use to live on side of road in shoe box"...."get it all to easy now days"...