PhotoDune Photo Manipulation Competition Winners Announced!

PhotoDune Photo Manipulation Competition Winners Announced!

on Nov 15th 2011 with 47 comments

Earlier this month, we celebrated the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography marketplace by tasking you to create a photo manipulation using several stock photos provided by generous members of the PhotoDune community. After scouring the submissions, and judging them carefully, we are now ready to announce the winners.

1st Place: MVP Hamster

Congratulations to Alexander Buhler! You have won $100 in PhotoDune Credits and a 1-year premium membership to Tuts+.

2nd Place: Hamster Wrestling Noodles

Congratulations to Marten Beerda! You have won $75 in PhotoDune Credits.

3rd Place: Hambo

Congratulations to Jayson Lotriet! You have won an Envato t-shirt.

Thanks to all the PhotoDune authors who generously donated their images to us for the duration of the competition. Please take a moment to review their portfolios.

European Hamster courtesy Lifeonwhite

Woman Eating with Chopsticks courtesy Monkeybusiness

New York City Skyline courtesy Lifeonwhite

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  • http://behance.net/joozek Joachim

    The first place isn’t too good cuz we have lockout in the NBA.
    By the way, fine competition.

  • http://rosscoh.com Ross cohen

    Will you post other ones? Maybe the runner ups so we can see what other designs were submitted?

  • Jack

    1st place must be hard to do. I guess it doesn’t win becouse evanto logo :-/

  • Zeplix

    Sorta dissapointed in the winners…

    I would love to see the other submissions! Any chance you could make a post showing all the ones you recieved?

  • http://cute0designer.deviantart.com/ Taha

    are you kiddin’ me ??!
    bad shadows bad blending bad with the light even bad cropping for a white background, you can’t even call it a manipulation, really you can’t

    i just want to see the other works so i can tell this is the best
    anyway congratulation for who won this thing

    • Infected

      Totally agree with you.
      The first place is okay from a professional point of view – but surely not too much effort and/or … “crazyness” in it.
      Second and third place are plain weak…

    • http://indesigner.cz INDesigner

      Yes, I agree with you, I wanna see other work, first one is kind of good – somple without idea, but good, but second one and third one is terrible, Its like made in MSPaint :D

  • brunelle

    i’m agree with Taha ! o_O

  • benksy

    That’s all?

  • http://www.ibrightdev.com Justin St. Germain

    damn, i didnt realize that the competition ended so soon, i didnt get a chance to do mine. oh well, maybe next time. btw, the one that won second place is far better than the one who won first place, and really, the Hambo one is just plain bad. are those the only three that were submitted?

  • http://www.idesignit.co.il/ Elron

    VMP is great! i think he won by justice.
    Spaghetti hamster is a creative idea and i like it! but i dont see why parts of it are blured…?
    Hambo’s good as well, but it doesnt looks so realistic…

    Great job everyone!
    I’d like to see all the rest of the submissions!
    Elron

  • Alexander

    It’s funny how people get upset because the winning submission, which in this case is mine, isn’t some world class design masterpiece.

    Seriously guys, nobody claimed this is high standard design work. It’s all about having some fun messing around with a photo, packed together in a competition to motivate people with a small price.

    I think there turned out some nice ideas and still somebody’s got to be the winner.
    Still curious about the other submissions, though.

  • Michael

    They should show everyone’s work, Im interested in looking at the other entries.

    • Edwin

      i’m agree… i also want to see the others entries…

  • / Paolino Perpetuoni

    Just because “nobody claimed this is high standard design work” and “It’s all about having some fun messing around with a photo, packed together in a competition to motivate people with a small price”, doesnt mean winners are allowed to do similar feces.
    I’m pretty sure of the higher quality of other works that didn’t win.

  • Edwin

    REALLY?!

  • http://www.leplanb.fr Alain Bossuyt

    Hello.
    I’d liked to see the other entries, if it’s possible… Just curious to see the other designers works :-)
    Thanks for your goods and practible tuts !
    Live long and prosper :)
    Alain (from France)

  • geir B Nystad

    I don’t think the winner put much work in it to win, but who am i to judge. I should put cell phone in the hamsters hand or paw, and I guess I could have won also. Kinda disappointed in the winners, sorry to you who won, but also congrats on the win!

    • Alexander

      It was the first idea which came to mind while I was taking a break, so I gave it a shot. Even if it didn’t take me too long, I had fun doing it.
      Regarding this fact, I see no reason defending my work for beeing unspectacular or whatever people are calling it. Just join the next competition and we’ll surely see some more interesting results.

  • http://www.timrizzo.posterous.com Tim Rizzo

    Hooray for the winners!

    Here’s what I sent in:
    http://timrizzo.posterous.com/attack-of-the-hamster

    It’s not perfect either, but time was a limiting factor here…

    • http://www.ibrightdev.com Justin St. Germain

      see, i think that is better than the ones that actually won. it is for more interesting to me at least than a basketball hamster.

      i feel like the people of the community should have voted to make the winner here

  • wsizoo

    Honestly these are kind of pathetic. The winner may be ok, but the other two are terrible. THERE’S A CHUNK OF WHITE ON HIS FOOT!!! Come on guys. Clearly no one with any sense of perfection entered this competition. And the shadows FTW.

  • Mokka

    Hi guys!
    Here’s my entry:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/monicapresti/6351757068/in/photostream

    Me too I’m curious to see the other works.
    Congrats to the winner, the MVP Hamster is really funny!

    • http://www.timrizzo.posterous.com Tim Rizzo

      My favorite so far. Great Job! Technically perfect (ok, the wig could need a little more work), and really funny.

    • http://www.ibrightdev.com Justin St. Germain

      this is pretty good actually. love it, and the concept.

      • Simon

        Wow, some of these manipulation are beautiful. They are much better than the top three, I wonder how these guys won because it doesn’t make any sense.

  • http://www.highqualityprints.com/ High Quality Prints

    All great photo manipulations, but def love the winning one the best. Nice job everyone!

  • siodre

    congrats to the winners. this was my entry.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/siodre/6349023976/in/photostream

  • Strat

    Dang alright well there’s always another contest I would hope haha anyways yea I definitely agree that there should be a post of all the submissions.

  • Strat

    Yea I definitely want to see the other entries! Also, here’s my entry in case any of you want to look:

    http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lufoe9qasn1qeojwyo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1321582889&Signature=S0hk5utuQ4yToEnLVS3ovb%2BV%2F2c%3D

    Good job to anybody else who entered as well!

    • http://www.ibrightdev.com Justin St. Germain

      amazing job. its the first non-hamster one i have seen.

  • http://whysodumb.com Abhimanyu

    Grant, we all are greatly disappointed. Please do upload the other entries.

  • http://cute0designer.deviantart.com/ Taha

    this is my entry
    http://cute0designer.deviantart.com/art/Angel-of-Death-268054464
    i added more than a 1000 light for the windows in the night scene

    • http://www.ibrightdev.com Justin St. Germain

      Tasha, great job. looks good

  • Skema
  • JulioLeite

    Taha, great job!!

    my entry: http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3050/braininboxfinal.jpg

    Title: What if the zombies dominate the world?

    :)

  • SuPo-77

    Sorry! Hambo is very bad for me! the 2nd one is muuuuch better tan the others but….more entries i see above in your posts , haha , like Julio Leite , taha ,skema, strat, tim rizzo , siodre…buff .They are REALLY GREAT WORKS! More deserved to win tan the winners!
    Ah , my entrie http://i839.photobucket.com/albums/zz319/SuPo-77/ratkrueger.jpg

  • Geir B Nystad
  • Elliot

    so they just wanted an ad

  • http://sdplabs.com Srinivas

    Congratz to all winners!! But, i don’t agree with the 1st winner. Second is better one.

    Good luck to all other entries.

  • Jack
  • brunelle
    • http://retouchphotos.net/ Zeplix

      See that’s just silly, that’s already way better than any of the winners…

      • Brunelle

        Thks you. :)

  • http://www.yourdigitalspace.com/ Swamykant

    Congrats Winners.

  • http://retouchphotos.net/ Zeplix

    Here’s mine:
    http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/297526_10150353056246892_226050151891_8668482_856383263_n.jpg

    Didn’t use the hamster at all! :P

    And I must say, several of the ones already posted are a lot better than the ones that won… not sure what the judges were thinking.

  • http://www.ennovates.com Aksh

    I think the second winner is not that much good to get this award. I’m sorry for the words but I don’t think so