Introduction

When we at #ManipulatedReality were planning this event, little did we know it would be such a success. The response was overwhelming: almost 50 entries for the first, almost 30 in the second and a little over 20 in the third and last challenge – you guys rock!

Because of this success, we have decided to run the Photomanip Challenges again in the future! We don’t have a date, yet, but once we do, it will be announced at *ManipulatedReality and of course also in the chat room #ManipulatedReality.

Now, for those of you who haven’t heard of this before, here are the rules of the game once more:

• For each challenge, 8 stock pictures are chosen and displayed in the topic of the room
• You have to use 2 of these 8 for a photomanipulation or digital mixed media* piece (in which photomanipulation is one of the media used); you can use other stock, too
• Each challenge last 2 hours
• At the end of these 2 hours, there are 15 minutes left to upload the image to deviantArt (scraps or gallery) and send a note to the founder or operator specified in the room’s topic
• Judging is done by the founders and operators of the room, winners are announced as soon as possible in the chat room

That’s it

_{* Mixed media in this case means digital mixed media: using two or more of the following art forms in one piece: photomanipulation, vector, painting, 3d, fractals. – please note, that for this contest, one of the media used has to be photomanipulation (meaning, the stock pictures have to be used for more than overpainting or reference).}

Now on to the challenges!

First Challenge

Stock:


Winners:
1st Place: by *Verticae
2nd Place: by *TammySue and by *bazzabent
3rd Place: by *moonmomma and by :defoxfires

Other Entries:

Second Challenge

Stock:


Winners:
1st Place: by =cryingsorceress
2nd Place: by ~Meyra and by =annie252
3rd Place: by =Foxfires

Other Entries:

Third Challenge

Stock:


Winners:
1st Place: by ~Meyra
2nd Place: by ~hollow-dreamer
3rd Place: by *TammySue

Other Entries:

Practicing before the Event

As there was quite some commotion in the chat room even before the event, the idea of some practice stock came up – here are the stock pictures as well as the pictures that came from this:

Practice Stock:


Practice deviations:

In Closing

Thank you all for participating in our Photomanip Challenges, we hope to see you in #ManipulatedReality for a chat – even though we don’t hold such an vent every day, you can find a lot of sweet people in there who are always helping, critiquing, chatting,…
If you don’t want to miss the next chat event, also be sure to watch *ManipulatedReality for updates!

And talking about sweet people:
I wanted to thank the best team I could wish for: `cosmosue, ^nighty, =Cutteroz, =DesiredAdoration, *Moniquette and `lyastri for their help and constant support – you rock girls!


_{written by ^kuschelirmel}