Photoshop Phuesday (9th September - 16th September)

GarageGothic · Tue 09/09/2008 06:54:16

UPDATE: From today (Monday 15th September), you can post guesses on the submitted song titles in the thread. Please use spoiler tags. (In case you're the first to post and have everything figured out, consider not posting the full list but letting others have a chance as well). If your own song title hasn't been guessed by the end of Tuesday, please post it yourself.

After a year's absence, Photoshop Phateverday returns. TerranRich, the winner of the last competition, didn't have time to host one of his own. So with Gilbot's permission, I decided to kick off a new round myself. The time frame for this first competition will be a single week. I hope this will encourage people to get started right away instead of thinking they have plenty of time and then never getting around to posting anything.

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What is a Photoshop Phriday? (just in case you forgot)

Photoshopping isn't drawing a completely new image -- It's editing images to create a new image, such as editing one image or combining several images. The contest usually lasts for a fortnight. Also, you don't have to specifically use Photoshop -- Paint Shop Pro, MSPaint, or any other programs can be used. Please make sure your image doesn't exceed the width of the screen.

See this link:
http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/

And for other examples, see here:
http://www.worth1000.com/

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This week's mission, should you choose to accept it, is: Illustrate your favourite song title

Note that I write "favourite song title", not "title of your favourite song". This is all about translating a cool, fun or evocative song title into visuals in an unexpected way. Go through your record collection or mp3s, I'm sure you'll find at least a few titles that bring up absurd imagery in your mind. Here's an example that I mocked up a couple of years ago for reasons I no longer remember:

Personally I much preferred it without the song title on the poster, but someone I showed it to found the American playwright and Pink Floyd references a bit too obscure. This, however, leads me to the one rule of the competition:

Please try not to reveal your song title in your post or as text in the image itself. It's more fun for the rest of us to try to figure it out on our own. If you want, you can include the title using spoiler tags, or reveal it by the end of the competition if nobody has guessed it. Let me know if this is a problem, we can make exceptions if using the title is absolutely necessary for your image (a newspaper headline for instance) - especially if it's funnier that way.

Deadline is 16th September. I wish you all good photoshoppery.

Andail · Tue 09/09/2008 07:22:25

Great activity, GG! I'll definitely have a go at it

Andorxor · Tue 09/09/2008 22:30:38

Babar · Tue 09/09/2008 23:10:07

A quick, and rather unimaginative entry, but it was just for fun.

Anyhow, welcome back Photoshop Phwhateverday!

LimpingFish · Wed 10/09/2008 01:37:56

Domino · Wed 10/09/2008 03:17:45

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/skeith2572/PP.jpg

For those who cannot figure out what my entry is, see below.

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INVISIBLE TOUCH by GENESIS

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Obi · Wed 10/09/2008 03:57:39

Questionable · Wed 10/09/2008 05:55:24

Quote from: Obi on Wed 10/09/2008 03:57:39

AHAHAHAHAHA OMG I'M FREAKIN DYING!

SSH · Wed 10/09/2008 12:09:40

I hope everyone explains these later, as Obi's is the only one I get...

unless there are song called Gandalf Flute, The invisible man's car or Two halves of a watermelon on a haystack that's wearing rabbit ears.

zabnat · Wed 10/09/2008 13:56:00

Couldn't come up with anything better. But I sure am glad that photoshop phateverday is back

InCreator · Wed 10/09/2008 16:24:30

uuh, I think I get the last one!

Andorxor · Wed 10/09/2008 17:51:19

Barbars is easy

GarageGothic · Wed 10/09/2008 19:36:16

Great entries so far, guys. Keep 'em coming.

Like SSH said, some of them are quite cryptic - I'm sure I'll slap my forehead when LimpingFish's "crouching melon, hidden rabbit" image is explained. But it's all part of the fun

LimpingFish · Wed 10/09/2008 20:04:40

Only Zabnat's has me stumped. Domino's did too, but I peeked at the answer.

TheJBurger · Wed 10/09/2008 20:41:37

Gosh, this is so obvious. I should have just pasted the answer on the top.

BOYD1981 · Wed 10/09/2008 21:05:35

that's not a bus btw

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Wed 10/09/2008 23:01:44

Anyone who likes what I like should have no problem getting this one.

Domino · Wed 10/09/2008 23:29:07

Oh geez, i figured that one out quick. I like it.

Ryan Timothy B · Thu 11/09/2008 01:54:54

It didn't quite come out as I had expected, but here it is.

It was a random song in winamp.

TwinMoon · Thu 11/09/2008 10:02:56

monkey0506 · Thu 11/09/2008 10:13:06

I call this MSPaintoshopping because this computer doesn't have any decent editing softwarez. It does have Paint.NET but I've been playing with M$Paint at work and discovered a lot of things I never knew about it. Anyway, my entry:

Spoiler

It's not from David Bowie despite the Labyrinth reference...

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Buckethead · Fri 12/09/2008 13:49:31

Lionmonkey · Sun 14/09/2008 17:10:14

GarageGothic · Mon 15/09/2008 00:58:52

From today (Monday 15th September), you can post guesses on the submitted song titles in the thread. Please use spoiler tags. (In case you're the first to post and have everything figured out, consider not posting the full list but letting others have a chance as well). If your own song title hasn't been guessed by the end of Tuesday, please post it yourself.

Not an entry, but I felt inspired and also wanted to post something for people to guess:

Andorxor · Mon 15/09/2008 07:58:28

Spoiler

Barbar: Video killed the radiostar

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GarageGothic · Mon 15/09/2008 15:16:22

I think TwinMoon's entry is:

Spoiler

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

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Great song by the way.

TwinMoon · Mon 15/09/2008 16:50:27

Right on both the things you said, GG!

I think Andorxor's entry is

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The Magic Flute by Mozart.

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SSH · Mon 15/09/2008 19:03:12

zabnat seems to be

Spoiler

A million miles from home

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Domino · Mon 15/09/2008 19:08:07

ProgZ's entry

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JUKEBOX HERO by FOREIGNER...he's got stars in his eyes

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LimpingFish · Mon 15/09/2008 19:37:43

GG's is (I think)...

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Hip to be Square = Huey Lewis and the News

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GarageGothic · Mon 15/09/2008 19:43:52

Right you are, LimpingFish!

LimpingFish · Mon 15/09/2008 19:52:05

Hooray! \o/

Two more guesses...

SSH's is...

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There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis = Kirsty MacColl

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JBurger's is...

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I Robot = The Alan Parsons Project

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Most of the rest I thought I knew have already been guessed, except for Monkey's, Buckethead's, and Boyd's, which still have me stumped. $:-\$

And I have a feeling that Lionmonkey's is actually four songs.

Lionmonkey · Mon 15/09/2008 21:37:08

Quote from: LimpingFish on Mon 15/09/2008 19:52:05
And I have a feeling that Lionmonkey's is actually four songs.

Wrong, it (the title) just [huge spoiler]

Spoiler

consists of four words

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[/huge spoiler].

Pet Terry · Mon 15/09/2008 21:48:05

Quote from: LimpingFish on Mon 15/09/2008 19:52:05
JBurger's is...
Spoiler
I Robot = The Alan Parsons Project
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I would say JBurger's is

Spoiler

Paranoid Android by Radiohead

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Rincewind · Tue 16/09/2008 11:01:51

Methinks that monkey's entry is:

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"This monkey's gone to heaven" by the Pixies."

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And a wild stab at Bucketheads:

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"Sleeping with ghosts" by Placebo.

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zabnat · Tue 16/09/2008 11:05:14

I don't have a slightest idea of any of these

, as I only listen to music, not look at the song titles. Besides, most of these are probably kind of music I don't listen. Anyways, SSH is right about mine and artist is

Spoiler

Dune

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Buckethead · Tue 16/09/2008 13:23:37

I guess it's ending today so here is what mine was suppose to be:

Spoiler

Slaying the dreamer by Nightwish

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LimpingFish · Tue 16/09/2008 18:48:44

Quote from: Lionmonkey on Mon 15/09/2008 21:37:08
Wrong, it (the title) just [huge spoiler]
Spoiler
consists of four words
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[/huge spoiler].

Ah. Then my guess is...Hard Vibrations Desert Run Shadow Rock Ant! \o/

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My entry was...actually, mine was really a case of "say what you see"...

Spoiler

Watermelon in Easter Hay by Frank Zappa

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Lionmonkey · Tue 16/09/2008 19:37:53

Quote from: LimpingFish on Tue 16/09/2008 18:48:44

Ah. Then my guess is...Hard Vibrations Desert Run Shadow Rock Ant! \o/

Still no, it's

Spoiler

Harder Better Faster Stronger by Daft Punk

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Ryan Timothy B · Tue 16/09/2008 23:20:05

My horrible entry was:

Spoiler

Man I used to be -- K-os

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Andorxor · Wed 17/09/2008 06:37:23

Spoiler

Twinmoon is right

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BOYD1981 · Wed 17/09/2008 12:45:00

mine was

Spoiler

Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train

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GarageGothic · Thu 18/09/2008 05:56:39

Wow. I'm very happy to see such a large turnout for the revived Photoshop Phateverday. Apparently I wasn't the only one who missed the activity during its long hiatus. So many great entries to choose between, but after much deliberation the judges (namely me, myself and I) have come to a decision.

And the winner is... Obi!

His entry may be one of the more obvious, but that played in his favor as his was the first entry to make me laugh out loud. I also appreciate the attention to details like the shadow on the ceiling. And let's be honest, you could paste that Lionel Richie picture into any image and make it instantly funny. Good show, man. Congrats!

I hope you guys had as much fun photoshopping and guessing the song titles as I did (though I'm kicking myself for not doing The Smiths' "Vicar in a Tutu"). I look very much forward to see what Obi comes up with for the next round. Thanks for participating, everybody!

Domino · Thu 18/09/2008 18:56:15

Obi's was Pure Brilliance. I still have a good chuckle every time I look at his entry.

Good Job Participants.