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Use of Photoshop: chimp or guru?

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In my daily browsing to learn and evolve (thanks nate *) often I came up to see some photoshop contests made by great artists and simple contest made by wanna-be-ps-gurus and Im-at-first-stakes; love to stare at those images manipulated or created to offer a different point of view.

Tools of the trade?
Photoshop, a rich collection of items (gradients, switches, actions, brushes..), a color palette ready to be checked, a great creativeness and some green Tencha Fuji tea =)
There are mainly two ways, as said, to build up a new image in Photoshop: edit and manipulate an existing one (using other pictures and photos as support) or to create something new from scratch.

I’d like to take in consideration the first method: manipulation, to show you this contest held on Fark.com, where users had to manipulate and crfeate something nice usign a given ISS picture.
The “Photoshop the ISS at full mast” contest has something creepy in it..

That’s the original image:

ISS
I’d like to give the pic right proper credits but I don’t find any at Fark.com

And here are a bunch of examples of the manipulations.. there’s lotsa work to do =)

ISS
entry by Whoopti Dew
(nice concept.. need to be more precise on details)

ISS
entry by darkeyes
(that’s the worst image I’ve ever seen, for contents and meaning)

ISS
entry by Dr. Rethoric
(yummi!)

ISS
entry by GeeGee
(oh, that’s lovely!)

Can you say you’re better than them into manipulating?

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