Feedback for the Photoshop Competition

Wish I could think of something as I'm quite a champion of the comp but it does just seem as though interest has wained. It was massive when it was new but it's seriously fallen off.

One idea, but it does seem counter productive, is that maybe it shouldn't be weekly? I know the idea is to generate more regular interest but it can't be avoided that some weeks, sometimes a few weeks consistently, the images available aren't the best to work with.

That's nothing against the posters that are suggesting these images, it just the case that there may not be any relevant images of good potential online on a given week.

Maybe a criteria that images in the Suggestion Thread must get a minimum of X thanks to determine whether the comp goes ahead.

I'll be honest, I've just finished this spiel and it makes less sense to me already.

Possibly that the winner each week must submit a suggestion for the week after next so that the winner will have one week to find an image. This would provide at least one image for the suggestion thread each week. Novelty prizes like Boards.ie mug at Christmas for a year round up photoshop competition, something like a fiver to enter and all entrants fees go to Santa strike force. Show your donation reciept for entry into the comp.

vicwatson wrote: »

I wish I could contribute sometimes but haven't got photoshop and the likes but absolutely love the contributions.

Perhaps this is one of the problems. What if instead of it just being a Photoshop competition, it could be a Photoshop / Caption / Speech Bubble Competition? That way there might be more entrants. If the caption or dialogue is funny enough it should get the thanks too.

Penn wrote: »

One of the ideas we came up with ourselves is to do it sort of like Cracked.com's Photoshop Competition. Where instead of being given an image to photoshop, it's a theme or general idea, though with this being Boards the ideas could be largely more Irish-centric than theirs. Examples could be "What Enda Kenny wants for Christmas", ".

That would work, very nicely indeed!

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

just to clarify, I used a pic earlier in the thread which was not one of the royal pics to manipulate but a royal pic of my own, did i go outside the rules ?

I'm open for correction but as it stands at the minute, you're Photoshop principally has to incorporate one of the suggested images, but that can be say using a single item from said image and shopping it into another. So once there is a connection to the suggestion you're good

Don't know how workable this might be, but I think some sort of delayed voting could help. ( maybe a poll after a certain number of entries/days).

At the moment, posts down at the bottom of the thread have little chance of winning as they have less views and therefore less thanks.
As a result, I think a lot of people don't bother posting if there are 9 or 10 posts already.

Sometimes an extremely topical and photoshopable picture is posted in suggestions, but it may be a full week until its up next for shopping...by which time the moment has past/other photoshops have appeared around the net of it etc.....I reckon in those instances, whatever photoshop comp is running, the new photo should be added to it/second thread started so the creative ideas can come in straight away.....waiting a week sometimes give he feeling of "old news" by the time it comes round.....the moment has passed somewhat.

The winner to choose a topic, from a pre selected list, political, Sport, Films, etc, and a sub menu of either characters or a theme, i.e. Film title, TV, sports man or woman and an characterisation of the person "nickname".. John terry at Chelsea... for ... what ever his off pitch antics dictate.

makes the selection more topical and across a greater number of options.

The winner to select but misses that competition as winner, giving the "next best" a chance and stops the same person winning, also stops picking a known image to suit their needs.

marking... scores... How do you achieve a fair and neutral voting system, submissions to be anonymous... and by poll. Of course, people will guess individuals style and taste.

Ban the use of repeated images, Keanu reeves for example, a very easy cop out. throw out the title photoshop and call it something like Rogues gallery..

A panel to award a second place as a recommended for ..originality, use of colour, special effects.. a whole list of special effort, not necessarily the winner by poll count. Gives a greater incentive to take part and, hopefully, evens out the competition.

Just a couple of ideas.