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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Missing Iranian missiles located online!

Posted: Saturday, July 12, 2008 2:29 AM by Will Femia

As soon as I saw that story of the Iranian missile Photoshop job the first thought that popped into my mind was "Photoshop contest." Unfortunately my skills aren't so sharp that I was able to get my sample contributions out very quickly. While I noodled with layers and opacity, this guy followed a similar idea to one I had about increasing the number of missiles to the point of absurdity and did it better and funnier (but he didn't add a Santa!). Nearly a hundred thousand views of his image as I write this.

Speaking of better and funnier, this Wired item did a nice job of surfacing some gems from around the Web.

Speaking of round-ups, The Chicago Tribune did a nice round-up of other famous fakes.

We've never had a Photoshop contest here at Clicked and I'm not sure how it would work since I don't have a voting system built into this software. Let's just call this one an open invitation just to see how much interest there is. If someone blows us all away I'll hit up marketing for a prize to give.

Post your link in the comments and I'll try to round them up periodically. Before any comments are approved I'll check the link first so you won't have to worry about surprises when you click them.

I did three of them: this, this and this.

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Your rainbow version would benefit greatly by the addition of a unicorn (make that a Pegasus-unicorn) and an I-<heart>-rock-and-roll logo.  In fact, with those minor additions you might have a swell 70s album cover...
Oops!  I used terminology from the wrong religion in my earlier version.  Here is the more appropriate version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9492205@N05/2661213503/
I have no photoshop skill, so will only be a cheering member of the background, however I can think of several sites that do photoshop contests frequently.  Fark and Somethingawful come to mind, but my suggestion would be to look around Woot.  Their photoshop contest rules are simple enough that you could take them and run with it.

Good luck, and post up if you need guest judges!
You might like this :http://gizmodo.com/5025395/115-more-pieces-of-amazing-iranian-technology-created-with-photoshop 115 morepieces of amazing Iranian Technology created with photoshop.
Hi Will,

Has anyone else submitted a photoshop entry?  Did I win, huh, did I?  Either way, here is the hottest link on the internets right now: Sean Tevis is running for office in Kansas, but the good part is he is a geek who created an xkcd style campaign page.  I'm sure he's past the 3000 mark by now (his poor server), but thought you might like it.

Janis

http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-style/


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