Photoshop Battles "Best of 2015" Results

Awards!

A short message from the mods:

2015's "Best of" Awards have been our biggest yet! A big thank you to everyone who helped make them happen; to those who created the original content, to the Gold-supplying admins, and to everyone who voted. Most importantly, thank you to those of you who took the time to find and post the nominations.

Without further ado, here are r/photoshopbattles' voted best of 2015!

 

Most Technically Impressive 'Shops

"Smoking his competition"

facklestix

We're trying to take a picture here!

8906

Nye Hard

dreamshoes

Most Creative 'Shops

because you're worth it

totalitarian_jesus

Window

Cmatthewman

♬ Oh that sweet child o' mine

facklestix

Funniest 'Shops

"You look a little different from your profile picture.."

blue_awning

Cow eating girl eating cow

defdac

Ugghhh, not now John!

facklestix

Best Visceral 'Shops

There is a darker side though.

workingat7

Welcome to wooFsociety | Pseudo-timeplapse

RoyalPrinceSoldier

His name is Robert Fordson

workingat7

Best Clever 'Shops

Like a Puppet on a String

theRippedViking

Apollo 25¢

staffell

Under The Dome

satitanic

Best GIFs

["It's still in alpha stage, but don't worry, you'll be fine. Just try your best not to move, and act unconscious."] (http://gfycat.com/DownrightWarpedBlackandtancoonhound)

RoyalPrinceSoldier

[Untitled]

gnostic_cat

[Untitled]

gnostic_cat

Best Back & Forth Battle

Oh my God, guys; he actually drank it!

DaminDrexil | kasabe | feith | TheBlazingPhoenix | that_c00l_kid

 

Reddit Gold will be handed out to the winners shortly. However, it may take us a while to flair the nominees and winners.

Posted Jan 8, 2016, 8:05 PM UTC

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facklestix•

I'm speechless... so I'll type instead. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that nominated and/or voted for me. It's quite an honor to have participated in this and with all of you fantastic artists. There were so many excellent submissions this year. Thank you to everyone that I've learned from and have been inspired by since I started here. It has been an amazing experience and I look forward to seeing what 2016 brings.

Special thanks to u/DaminDrexil and u/Captain_McFiesty for all their hard work putting together the massive nomination lists and organizing this contest. The amount of work behind the scenes that happens for this to take place is more than I had ever imagined.

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Cmatthewman•

It was well deserved mate. That smoking image is incredible :)

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facklestix•

Thanks man, congratulations to you too. That stained glass image is fantastic!

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DaminDrexil•

There were so many great entries in that Battle; yours included :)

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workingat7•

Congratulations facklestix! I knew I was on to something with that nomination :P

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Cmatthewman•

I nominated this one too. Was asked to remove it though. Still amazes me looking at it ;)

Congratulations to you too mate.

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workingat7•

Cheers mate! Yeah! they asked me to remove it too, but I told them that it was only fair to leave it up and give facklestix a chance :P

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facklestix•

Congratulations to you as well man! Thank you for the nomination.

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DaminDrexil•

Ha! I think most of us wanted to be the one to nominate it; that and u/Cmatthewman's Renaissance Window. It's great to see both of them win!

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CptSasquatch•

Congrats facklestix! Glad to see you at the top, I love your work.

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DaminDrexil•

Congratulations to all of the winners!

And a big thank you to u/Captain_McFiesty, u/ThrobinWigwams, and u/facklestix for submitting my work for the awards :D

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ThrobinWigwams•

It was a tough choice deciding whether to nominate your Bill Gates 'shops or your "This image has been removed for (insert reason here)" posts ;)

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DaminDrexil•

Haha! Good one ;)

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i_am_a_bot_ama•

+1 Congratulations! Awesome entries!

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Cmatthewman•

Big congratulations to all the nominee's and also to the winners. I'd like to thank everybody for the nominations and votes. The mods really do a phenomenal job running this place.

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blue_awning•

What an amazing year for PSB! There were so many fantastic entries in the Best Of's, it's crazy to think that these were just a small fraction of the awesome work that gets posted here on a daily basis.

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, it was definitely well deserved all around. Also, big congrats to u/facklestix for pulling off a hat trick this year, that's amazing!

Thank you to all who nominated and voted, it's an honor to be counted amongst such a talented group of 'shoppers! :)

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facklestix•

Thanks man, congratulations to you as well. :)

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Rstanz•

Your dental patient shop almost killed me I laughed so hard. Well done. Best of the bunch in my opinion. Just thinking about it makes me crack up. Genius. Just genius

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staffell•

Wow...I am humbled to have even been nominated amongst all the other PSB giants let alone get a winner trophy. Before I discovered this subreddit I was just a hobby designer who occasionally messed around in Illustrator, knowing next to nothing about Photoshop. Now 8 months later (or whatever it is) I would consider myself at least pretty competent with the software and I owe it all to this community.

At the risk of being over-the-top hyperbolic, PSB has given me skills I would have probably never had the drive to learn myself thus changing my life. I haven't been able to shop much in the last few months but I'm back now and I intend to better myself even further. Thanks to everyone who nominated & upvoted me.

Cheers!

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DrWankalot•

PSB has given me skills I would have probably never had the drive to learn myself thus changing my life.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Congrats mate! Your winning 'shop is one of my favourites. Well done to all winners and nominees as well - looking forward to more in 2016!

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EhhWhatsUpDoc•

As a beginner, I should just learn Photoshop? I've been playing with after effects and don't really understand the benefits/drawbacks of each.

Also, congrats on winning!

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_korbendallas_•

Congrats to all the winners, very much deserved! Except u/facklestix. I believe doping, currency manipulation and false testimony before a grand jury are the only logical explanations for so many wins. Everyone else did amazing work!

Thanks for the nominations, u/DaminDrexil and u/Captain_McFiesty!

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workingat7•

Congratulations folks!

Big thanks to the people who nominated/voted for me, and the mods for their hard work in keeping this show running smoothly... great job guys! A year ago I had barely scratched the surface of image editing and was amazed after seeing "The Best of 2014", so to have my 'shops nominated this year is awesome! Definitely looking forward to seeing all your work in 2016

Cheers :)

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facklestix•

/cheers guys :)

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defdac•

This is such an honour and a surprise. Thank you so much for the nomination and all the people voting for me. I should take more pauses from r/redditgetsdrawn and do more shops this year. Since I started doing shops here the sub has grown so much - thank you mods for managing this monster!

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DaminDrexil•

should take more pauses from r/redditgetsdrawn

No!

do more shops this year

Yes!

Why not find more time to give both of us attention ;)

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that_c00l_kid•

This, this was very unexpected. This feels weird saying I feel honored over the internet since I don't know any of you, but honestly I do. I feel honored and privileged to have been there and been able to participate in this Photoshop Battle!

First of all, thank you to u/ThrobinWigwams for the nomination!

I'm very happy and would like to thank u/DaminDrexil, u/kasabe, u/feith, and u/TheBlazingPhoenix!

You guys are awesome!!!

And I also want to thank each of the mods very much for making all of this possible! You guys are beasts!

I'm looking for one hell of a 2016 and hope all of you make the Photoshop Battles that I look at every day better than they were in 2015! Happy new year!

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TheBlazingPhoenix•

yaay! extra flair to our names

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that_c00l_kid•

I haven't gotten that flair update yet... :(

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TheBlazingPhoenix•

they sure are working on it :), mods here have been doing awesome jobs

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that_c00l_kid•

Yeah you're right. And the mods on this subreddit are far better as a group than any other subreddit I know of.

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ThrobinWigwams•

You're welcome, congrats on the win!

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RoyalPrinceSoldier•

Congrats to the winners!
Great job u/facklestix for the triple win!

A BIG thank you for those who nominated me!

Thank you too for the nominators and voters, for participating.

Wish I could've helped this year, but the mods did an amazing job pulling this :)

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gnostic_cat•

Thanks to the mods for another great year at PSB, without a doubt you guys help make this sub the best. So much incredible work this year, and so many great new contributors. I really do appreciate all the work that goes into these 'shops by all you guys and I'm honored to be a part of it.

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dreamshoes•

Oh jeez! I really appreciate being honored by the members of this sub... this was my first year contributing and it's been a blast. I love the spirit of creativity and humor and sharing that pervades this community. Here's to another fun year!

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ThrobinWigwams•

Congratulations to the winners! And double and triple congrats to u/workingat7, u/facklestix, u/RoyalPrinceSoldier, and u/gnostic_cat on your multiple wins! And another shoutout to all those nominated, there were a lot of great submissions this year!

Also thank you u/DaminDrexil, u/Captain_McFiesty, and u/Shappie for the nominations :)

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satitanic•

Wow, this was awesome to see first thing this morning. Thanks so much for the nomination and votes!! Also thanks for putting this together and especially for the gold /u/DaminDrexil!

This sub is the main reason I joined reddit and it's been a lot of fun to submit entries and see what all you other talented folks have to offer.

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DaminDrexil•

Congrats again, man!

especially for the gold u/DaminDrexil

For full disclosure, the Gold comes courtesy of the admins; I just happened to be the one who applied for the creddits this year.

There was another mod on the team who dipped into his own pocket to gild a couple of winners (we had more wins than creddits), but I'll leave it up to him to identify himself!

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satitanic•

Ah, gotcha thanks! And thanks to the mystery gilder out there!

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Shappie•

Congrats to everyone! So much nice work this year it's practically unbelievable!

Putin and his hats will one day take the trophy...

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TotesMessenger•

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

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MackTruckerGirl•

Wow, these are excellent!!!

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