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# I don't think I would just want all compos to be about Photoshop though
and half the fun is bending or breaking the rules with something more original than the compo itself - even though the mods get uppity about that and therefore deserving people don't get the recognition for their efforts because it's off at a tangent to the rules, but who gives a shit about the rules anyway, unless it's some shitty troll posting shockporn to get our backs up. I welcome the use of manual skills printing, painting, photography, 3D, Stop-Motion animation etc. what I don't want to see is 10-second Photoshops of Gordon Brown with a dotted line around his dodgy eye *fires up Photoshop*

;)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 10:49, archived)
# I can see where this challenge can work, but I don't have the resources to do it
i.e.
1. print a picture of Brian Blessed's shouting head, track him down, take a photo of him, then take another photo of him with you holding the cutout in front of his face.

2. Print a lifesize garry glitter cutout and place it in a school playground

3. sorry, got to get on with work now
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 10:55, archived)
# 1, 2 and 3 can all be done with Photoshop skills ;)
especially 3.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 11:09, archived)
# of course they can
but the people around Blessed and the children's reactions to the cut outs would be harder to fake if you were to do it in Photoshop, it would also be pointless (in photoshop) as its the doing thats the funny thing.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 11:12, archived)
# I think that was my point
Being able to track down Brian Blessed would be the fun part *stalks*
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 11:15, archived)
# Ah, see I DO want all challenges to be shop-based
mY reasonign ebing that most people come here during work time, where it's easier to serruptitously shop something, than it is to create a Heath Robinson contraption on your desk and take a photo of it
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 10:55, archived)
# I have seen such Heath Robinson desktop contraptions here on b3ta and welcome
the waste of office resources and time :D

But I think all compos should be all media - so if you want to use Photoshop then great, but if you want to get dirty with the manual stuff then also good!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 10:57, archived)
# Oh, yeah I don't mind that
it's when they go "No photoshop this week, or we'll have your kneecaps"
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 11:21, archived)
# Rules are always meant to be broken
but I agree - being able to fake something in Photoshop can be a lot of fun too.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 11:25, archived)