Defeat

pketh :: October 22, 2003

haha, of all my years on the net I’ve never heard of photoshop tennis, is this something you guys just made up?

Too bad there isn’t Fireworks tennis, that’s my forte :)

Rudolf :: October 22, 2003

You can play Photoshop tennis with Macromedia Fireworks or whith the Gimp, or with any other application that knows how to handle a plain old .jpg file. What usually gets tossed back and forth between two contestants is a flat file, not a layered Photoshop document. It’s probably called “Photoshop tennis” because “image manipulation program tennis” somehow didn’t sound catchy enough.

Photoshop tennis is quite old, in fact, but today it is most closely associated with Coudal.com, a Chicago-based design firm that schedules contests between some of the Web’s most widely known visual designers. Browse the Archives and you’ll probably recognise a few people.

pketh :: October 23, 2003

Although I didn’t recognize anyone from coudal.com (which wasn’t a surprise to me), these guys are defintely in a class of their own - amazing stuff :)

kevin :: October 23, 2003

Rudolf, this is partly *your* site! Here you can say *you* won!

Truth be told I’m not all to happy with my own… Except number 06. But you know how we Americans are… so I have to play my part and be loud and obnoxious about having won.

Although that final shot, though not pleasing to look at, does have it’s appeal. In fact… you know what? I guess I DID win! Ha!

katy :: December 10, 2003

there’s also ecorpse.com, sorta like photoshop tennis.

Rudolf :: December 10, 2003

Oops, there I thought for a second Exquisite Corpse had redesigned and scaled down their operations.

But, yeah: collective/collaborative tinkering with images certainly isn’t a monopoly held by Coudal’s. What springs to mind are Fark’s Photoshopping threads, which tend to be a bit crude, and Australian INfront, which has collaborations going on all over the place, even in the forum. Veer.com’s Lightboxing is a recent Photoshop Tennis knock-off.