r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Jan 22 '15

Operation | Closed Operation: Happy Birthday, Photoshopbattles!

Three years ago this week, /u/probablydyslexic posted this photoshopped image to /r/pics, which prompted this conversation, and with that, /u/atomichugbot launched /r/photoshopbattles that day. Who could have imagined that that was the beginning of the greatest subreddit ever! Happy Birthday, photoshopbattles!!

The Operation

Choose one of the following:

build your version of an atomichugbot

use /u/probablydyslexic’s photoshop as a stock image

Good luck everyone.

Previous Agent

Congratulations to /u/Cmatthewman, who was the winner of the previous Operation: Movie Merge with the entry The Dark Chocolatier. Congratulations!

Prizes

The winner of this week’s Operation will:

Receive three months of Reddit Gold! Hell yeah!
Get a number added to their contributor flair.

If you this is your first win, your standard flair will be replaced by this winners' flair. On your second win, you'll get this winners' flair, etc.
Get to keep the trophy for a week, after which it's handed on to the next winner.

(more information on flair here)

The Rules

Submit your entry as a comment to this thread.
You can post as many as you want.
All entries must be an original image (or GIF when appropriate) created by the submitter. Images unaltered by the submitter or not created by the submitter will be kindly inserted into a giant vat of acid.
Please be sure to tag NSFW entries appropriately.
If you see anything inappropriate or entries not properly tagged, either report the comment or send a message to the moderators.
To vote for an entry, just upvote the users comment.

You can vote for as many different entries as you want, but please do not downvote. Downvotes will not be counted when deciding winners.

Upvotes should be based on quality of entry, creativity, and accurately reflecting the assignment. Of course, we cannot control how you choose to vote yet, as our mind control device is still early in its beta phase.
Every entrant gets a contributor flair.

These will be handed out by a bot, but due to our comment hiding system, sometimes it misses people. If you entered but didn't get one, just send the mods a message, and we'll fix you up.

The Schedule

All entries will be hidden for the next 60 hours. (until Saturday, January 24^th) Around 18:00 UTC, voting will open and all entries will be visible.

Contest mode will be enabled for another 24 hours. This will sort comments randomly, obscure vote counts, and automatically minimize child comments.
Contest mode will be disabled on Tuesday.

From there on out, each comment's vote total will be visible, and entries can be sorted by karma (just like any other reddit thread).
This Operation will end on Wednesday, January 28^th.

Next week's Operation will be posted the same day.

If you have any suggestions for future Special Operations, please send a message to the moderators. All suggestions will be given consideration. When your idea is used, credit will be given.

Enjoy, yo.

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u/arcticrune Jan 23 '15

A true battle of the Titans

u/lains-experiment Jan 23 '15

Lotso Atomichugginbot.

u/feith Jan 24 '15 edited Jan 25 '15

Atomi Chugbot

Some of the sources

^It ^took ^me ^way ^too ^long ^to ^realize ^it ^said ^"atomic ^hugbot"

u/fennichase Jan 24 '15

The military's only defense

u/Cmatthewman Jan 27 '15

Catzilla

u/CptSasquatch Jan 24 '15 edited Jan 28 '15

atomichugbot administering the Heimlich maneuver on probablydyslexic's cat edit: Thanks for the gold!!

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u/well_that_went_wrong Jan 28 '15

how did you do that? did you paint that all by your self? Did you use a graphic tablet for that?

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u/CptSasquatch Jan 28 '15

First I made these shitty sketches as a guide, then I used the Pen tool to create selections and filled with black for the outlines(sorry, merged some of the color onto my outline layer). Used the Pen tool/selection tools to make selections for adding color on layers below outline layer. The rest was just adding highlights and shading with levels adjustments layers and masks. All done with a mouse.

I would normally use Illustrator to do something like this and use gradient mesh for the shadows/highlights, because my shading isn't so great...

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u/well_that_went_wrong Jan 28 '15

Thanks, nice of you to shared this. The idea you made "real" sketches didn't even came to me. Great work and even greater idea, especially if you know the source picture from the cat.

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u/CptSasquatch Jan 28 '15

Haha yep, my idea came from that original awkward cat holding image.

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u/Cmatthewman Jan 29 '15

I appreciate this even more now that i've seen the work that went into it. Congratulations and nice work :)

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u/CptSasquatch Jan 29 '15

Thanks, I also enjoy your work. Keep it up!

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u/feith Jan 29 '15

Great work! I'm glad to see it got to a victory even with the surprisingly low amount of votes this battle. It's nice to see an entry that was created from scratch for a change (and very well done at that).