TJ's tomato chop was the source image with some crisp realistic integrations... NOTHING in common with the wolf howling at the moon chop. Understand ?

"Let He Who Is Without Knowledge Cast The First Vote"

The only issue here is the 25 people who vote for it, let god have mercy on your souls.

All this is why there are so few votes on Thursdays. Has it always been that way?

Only since the Cosby Show went off the air.

I love anon contests!

This just shows how sad this website has become...
Chopper and ReyRey are right, it's a valid post. But it's just plain lame. Like 90% of posts nowadays, and still... people are voting for it.

It makes me wonder, what went wrong during the last 2 years here?

I'm with Gran on this one.

What i don't get is: What happened to creating your own??
That external may have been perfect...BUT instead of using it...i would have thought it would inspire you to recreate one. When i signed up to PSC one of the main things that caught my eye was that these people were USING PS as a ARTISTIC MEDIUM. I would have been to to post anything made by another person. I may have shitty PS skills, but i got more respect for the ones who are ARTIST than to post anything other than what my non-artistic ass can chop up. As soon as the weather gets cold i'll be back to posting the shitty stuff again....i know you will all be looking foward to it.

Why I react to this topic is that one take a winning entry, and ripping it apart. When there are similar entries winning on this site.

If one should discuss stuff like this one should try to keep it general and not picking on one persons entry alone.

My opinion.

My humble opine.
Manipulating images, and manipulating manipulations are two different things. I really don't see that it is ok to use other peoples manipulation work when that work becomes the 'main' component within a composition.
If I had my choice, I'd delete all such images from the site.

So....should i put the tar and feathers back!!!

I'm not trying to bash anyone. Hell it's not the first time its happened. Just think it would mean more if they learned to do that work themselves instead.

Thanks Gran.

It all comes down to this. There really is no set rule. It is up to the voter to look closer and use their brains.
Busch was a lousy president but I can sleep well because I didn't vote for him.
Maybe if you only had three votes you would use them much wiser.

Not that my newbie opinion would matter (i'm trying hard to obtain the right to vote ), but Rey read my thoughts exactly.
3 votes max will ensure people browsing all images carefully, being patient and surely picking what they really like, considering it's a site for dedicated for the passion to create. Now it seems a race to post first in order to obtain some votes on the first people visit.

A contest is open, you browse the entries, if one it really dazzles you, vote for it, if none match your tastes/criteria, come back later, and redo the check, maybe, out of nowhere some work would deserve your attention, and spend those 3 or 2 or 1 even votes on what you really liked after, at least, a brief comparison. I believe this will help artist to improve instead of confusing them when they notice one votes 10 works completely different, and honestly, on different levels. This is how i see things and i bet most of ladies and gentlemen around do.


Have a nice day