Duct Tape People pictures -
There has been an attempted robbery in a Kentucky liquor store by a man wrapped in duct tape to conceal his identity. The so called "duct tape bandit" was stopped and held by the store owner until the police arrived. Ironically, the owner used the baseball bat wrapped in duct tape to stop and catch the burglar.
Duct tape your favorite public figure or celebrity. Place duct tape over mouth, face, body parts, but remember to keep your entries safe for work. You can apply duct tape on their skin, hair, eyes, or on their clothes or shoes. We are tired of hearing celebrities and politicians whine, duct tape them.
Alphabet Shapes pictures - Let's help the kids learn the alphabet by alphabet-shaping the world. Reshape objects, people, animals, in photos or paintings to give them (full or in part) a shape of letter(s) from English alphabet.
Landscape pictures - Using any landscape or structure, create an advertisement or message from it. Feel free to use name brand products (Pepsi, McDonalds, etc) or create any general "message" such as the marriage proposal in the story below.
NASA loses moon landing tape pictures - Well, that's quite surprising isn't it? "Looking for over a year, and
still can't find the tape" is quite a statement worthy of world
leading Space agency fed with with billions of dollars from tax
payers. And to make matters worse, it's not just a tiny roll of tape, ... NASA says "there are over 700 BOXES of transmission tape from Apollo missing". After statements like that I wouldn't be surprised if
tomorrow NASA boss comes up with a statement "OK, found it. It was
under a couch." There's a speculation, however, that NASA people are "full of wit" and that the tape is
missing because the whole Moon landing was staged and filmed hoax, and
now they decided to get rid of the evidence. Well, not to worry,
folks, FreakingNews is here to save the world yet again. Let us help
NASA 'restore' the missing tape by showing the stills/photos of Moon
landing mission in its original "uncut version" showing all the
evidence that moon landing was a staged hoax. P.S. Since the time I first published this contest, NASA has published they now can't find their Shuttle Discovery either. Just kidding. But it's only a matter ot time, you know...
Duct Tape Mania pictures - Show creative ways of using duct tape - fixing something, products / objects and art, etc., using duct tape. As long as duct tape is used in some way - your entry qualifies.
Paper Art? pictures - Show how things/objects would look if they were made out of paper (or using paper parts) rather than original materials. Paper car? Paper PC? Paper houses? It's your call!
Newspapers pictures - Let's try to start things on a more positive note! Your mission is to create Newspapers front pages that are full of positive, yet unusual news. See the Newsmuseum for Front Pages and ideas.
Reshape the Money pictures -
This Thursday U.S. Mint puts into curculation the dollar coin with the second American president John Adams engraved on it. This new dollar coin program prints coins of constantly changing design - four new US presidents per year in the chronological order they held the office. Every collector's dream will be the crooked dollar coin with Richard Nixon.
In this contest you are asked to change the geometric shapes of U.S. money. Alter coins and dollar bills to any flat shape other than their present shape. An example may be a dollar bill in triangle, round or banana shape. In addition to reshaping the currency, you can (optionally) change what is depicted, engraved on it.
Paper Money pictures - If dollar continues to fall, it'd be soon cheaper to make things out of paper money and coins than from usual materials. In this contest you are asked to show how US paper dollars and coins would be used instead of money means - use them as materials or parts of other products and objects.
Ape pictures - Save the ape, bring them home - show them adopting and assimilating to life in big cities.
Shapes- Card Suits pictures - This is a themed contest. Do NOT edit the theme post. In this contest we are going to create images changing the shape of any common item to any suit of a deck of cards (hearts, clubs, diamonds or spades) as in the theme post.
You will have 3 days to submit your entry. Submitting it early will give you plenty of time to read the critique comments, and edit your image accordingly. Typical FreakingNews entry guidelines also apply. You can find them here.
Choose the image of your choice and create an image with the items shape changed to any suit of a deck of cards as in the theme post.
Thanks to TigerPrincess for sponsoring this contest and to midian for supplying the theme image.
Out of Shapes pictures - This is a themed contest. Do NOT edit the theme post. Changing objects shape is a common obstacle faced when doing many complex photoshops. In this contest, we want to flex those muscles by having you manipulate the standard shape of everyday objects. You are asked to make round objects square, Cubic ojects spherical, or square objects pyramids.
There is a good tutorial on changing shapes located here by hygglobert to get you going in the right direction. You will have 3 days to submit your entry. Submitting it early will give you plenty of time to read the critique comments, and edit your image accordingly. Typical FreakingNews entry guidelines also apply. You can find them here.
Choose the image of your choice and make any object in it a different shape than normal as in the theme post.
Thanks to midian for sponsoring this contest and to hygglobert for supplying the theme image.
Duct Tape pictures - Next year's half time show will be sponsored by Duct Tape. / i luv duck tape you can use it to hold anything together but OOHHH my goodness / everybody is making a big deal over this New Jersey it was just 1 breast i'am pissed because she didnt show both. / One of the better entries I've seen. Excellent work. The only very small thing I would have tweaked is Janet's hair overlaying her suit. Nothing major. Great job. / I dont see the big deal with it. When I was watching it i just figured she was wearing a body suit or something. If the press and everyone wouldn't have made such a big deal out of it I would have never known. I still like Janet and Justin is okay. They made a really good team. I thought the choreography was really well done. / Now no one can sleep with her tks a lot lll / I DON'T SEE WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS. WAS BRITTANY SPEARS&MADONNA TAKEN FOM THE GRAMMYS.THEY HAD A TONGUE KISS. THIS IS DISCRIMINATION. I LIKE JANET JACKSON AND HER MUSIC. / Good Going Janet.. ANYTHING to get the spotlight off your brother.. / Janet's reaction to her breast being exposed was fony. Give me a break, she could of acted a little bit more shock or something. / JANET'S EXPOSURE EPISODE IS COMPLETELY AN ATTENTION SEEKING EPISODE. SHE TRIED TO SEEK MEDIA'S ATTENTION . / very funny and is there a random caps lock craze going round. / Maybe she didn't have two. / You don't get out much do you. / damn, nothing is definitely gonna pop out.-
Taco Bell Diaper pictures - Free with every purchase. / 3 - 6 Liters Beautiful diaper chop / This is simply fantastic idea and diamond execution. This Taco Bell e.coli diaper is what we'll soon need
Superdog and Newspaper Stand pictures - CiCi is a normal dog. 'CC' is a superdog. But what nobody knows, is that they are one and the same. / Very good. . . . and my wife's favorite so far. My only 2 technical suggestions would be to try fading the tie just a tad more and make the whites of the newspaper photo look like the the newsprint color (in other words, if you look at a black-and-white pic in a newspaper, the lightest parts aren't any whiter than the bare paper). / I love this. The most amazing and superbly done entry in this contest, in my opinion. / Thanks for the feedback so far. Raygregory, I've made the two changes you've suggested. Looks better now, doesn't it. / Yes, I agree, certainly looks much more real now. The one other thing I would suggest (tho I realize it's too late now to change it), would be to add some brightness/contrast to the whole thing. I think that would liven it up some. Here's a tip: Often when I do something, it looks great on my screen. But then when I load it up to FN after it's "optimized," it looks kinda lame. I've found that by adding an adjustment mask on top of all the layers and then over-revving either the saturation or the brightness/contrast (this takes some experimentation), the uploaded image can be much improved. / Lotsa work went into this one. Great job. / Very funny idea backed up by some great choppage / Even better after edit - see ya in the top 3. / great idea, i love the reflection , just awsome / cool idea, but a little blurry. it needs lit'le more of contrast and sharpness -for me. / . First place with a 7.7. Thanks everyone. I noticed in the voting history that I voted relatively low for the entries in this contest. This was not my intention. This is only the second contest I'm participating in and I haven't had much experience with voting so far. I wouldn't have given my own image any more than a 6 I think. So, my apologies for my low voting. It was not my intention to be unfair. edit: I now see that the first contest I participated in, was an ADVANCED Photoshop contest, and this one an APPRENTICE contest. So I guess I was comparing these images to the ones in the advanced contest.
Escape pictures - / Beautiful work. Great color, composition, and depth. Hand painted flames. I gotta know... . / this is truly a great piece of work. all i can say is . / The flames are both hand drawn and use photo layering.
Newspaper Tulip pictures - "Two-lip Service" A tribute to the written word. Please full view. / excellent work... i tried to do that but then I remembered it was only my 2nd time using PS and I got lost / Excellent job. I really like it. good quality. / Oh baby. This is so wonderful. Great execution. I'd like to see the ladybug stuck to a tulip stem with a paperclip. HAHA. / That's just great. Very good warping here. / As many time as I looked at it today, I like it more and more
Duct Tape Toilet Paper pictures - No Dingleberries with Duct Tape brand Toilet Paper / The toilet paper is facing the wrong way. It's supposed to go the other way. ... J/K. / Simple yet very effective. And it would probably work too. / it makes my eyes water just thinking about using this stuff / -->
Paper Airplane pictures - / What happens if it unfolds due to wind. (maybe that's why it's in space ) Very nice creation. / Brilliant Idea. Top notch execution. The shadow takes this over the top. Best I've seen in a while. / We forgot that the ship will heat up during re-entry. Well, it was a nice idea. / The United Paper Company launchs a new air campaign / Nicely done, definately one of the best in this contest.
Paper Laptop pictures - Use it and toss it. / I heard they're charging PA-PER-View in these laptops. / Did I say that I love it. Well, I bloody do. / Hey it won't shut off it keeps re-cycling / BAwahahahaaaaaaa. / The Unknown Laptop (owned by Murray Langston). / Man congratulations.... I had a sneaking suspicion when I looked at this it was a Mashby, Glad to see I was right.. (just needs a touch of duct tape & a few thumb tacks and it would be a true Mashby creation ) / CONGRATS MASH..I See you found your Prize... / Boo yah. Thanks for all the kind comments and especially the sassy prize.
Horse Grim Reaper pictures - / One of the better entries in the contest. Impressive work in many regards and looks as iconic symbolism of death.
Duct Tape pictures - Next year's half time show will be sponsored by Duct Tape. / i luv duck tape you can use it to hold anything together but OOHHH my goodness / everybody is making a big deal over this New Jersey it was just 1 breast i'am pissed because she didnt show both. / One of the better entries I've seen. Excellent work. The only very small thing I would have tweaked is Janet's hair overlaying her suit. Nothing major. Great job. / I dont see the big deal with it. When I was watching it i just figured she was wearing a body suit or something. If the press and everyone wouldn't have made such a big deal out of it I would have never known. I still like Janet and Justin is okay. They made a really good team. I thought the choreography was really well done. / Now no one can sleep with her tks a lot lll / I DON'T SEE WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS. WAS BRITTANY SPEARS&MADONNA TAKEN FOM THE GRAMMYS.THEY HAD A TONGUE KISS. THIS IS DISCRIMINATION. I LIKE JANET JACKSON AND HER MUSIC. / Good Going Janet.. ANYTHING to get the spotlight off your brother.. / Janet's reaction to her breast being exposed was fony. Give me a break, she could of acted a little bit more shock or something. / JANET'S EXPOSURE EPISODE IS COMPLETELY AN ATTENTION SEEKING EPISODE. SHE TRIED TO SEEK MEDIA'S ATTENTION . / very funny and is there a random caps lock craze going round. / Maybe she didn't have two. / You don't get out much do you. / damn, nothing is definitely gonna pop out.-
Taco Bell Diaper pictures - Free with every purchase. / 3 - 6 Liters Beautiful diaper chop / This is simply fantastic idea and diamond execution. This Taco Bell e.coli diaper is what we'll soon need 
Superdog and Newspaper Stand pictures - CiCi is a normal dog. 'CC' is a superdog. But what nobody knows, is that they are one and the same. / Very good. . . . and my wife's favorite so far. My only 2 technical suggestions would be to try fading the tie just a tad more and make the whites of the newspaper photo look like the the newsprint color (in other words, if you look at a black-and-white pic in a newspaper, the lightest parts aren't any whiter than the bare paper). / I love this. The most amazing and superbly done entry in this contest, in my opinion. / Thanks for the feedback so far. Raygregory, I've made the two changes you've suggested. Looks better now, doesn't it. / Yes, I agree, certainly looks much more real now. The one other thing I would suggest (tho I realize it's too late now to change it), would be to add some brightness/contrast to the whole thing. I think that would liven it up some. Here's a tip: Often when I do something, it looks great on my screen. But then when I load it up to FN after it's "optimized," it looks kinda lame. I've found that by adding an adjustment mask on top of all the layers and then over-revving either the saturation or the brightness/contrast (this takes some experimentation), the uploaded image can be much improved. / Lotsa work went into this one. Great job. / Very funny idea backed up by some great choppage / Even better after edit - see ya in the top 3. / great idea, i love the reflection , just awsome / cool idea, but a little blurry. it needs lit'le more of contrast and sharpness -for me. / . First place with a 7.7. Thanks everyone. I noticed in the voting history that I voted relatively low for the entries in this contest. This was not my intention. This is only the second contest I'm participating in and I haven't had much experience with voting so far. I wouldn't have given my own image any more than a 6 I think. So, my apologies for my low voting. It was not my intention to be unfair. edit: I now see that the first contest I participated in, was an ADVANCED Photoshop contest, and this one an APPRENTICE contest. So I guess I was comparing these images to the ones in the advanced contest. 
Escape pictures - / Beautiful work. Great color, composition, and depth. Hand painted flames. I gotta know... . / this is truly a great piece of work. all i can say is . / The flames are both hand drawn and use photo layering.
Newspaper Tulip pictures - "Two-lip Service" A tribute to the written word. Please full view. / excellent work... i tried to do that but then I remembered it was only my 2nd time using PS and I got lost / Excellent job. I really like it. good quality. / Oh baby. This is so wonderful. Great execution. I'd like to see the ladybug stuck to a tulip stem with a paperclip. HAHA. / That's just great. Very good warping here. / As many time as I looked at it today, I like it more and more
Duct Tape Toilet Paper pictures - No Dingleberries with Duct Tape brand Toilet Paper / The toilet paper is facing the wrong way. It's supposed to go the other way. ... J/K. / Simple yet very effective. And it would probably work too. / it makes my eyes water just thinking about using this stuff / --> 
Paper Airplane pictures - / What happens if it unfolds due to wind. (maybe that's why it's in space ) Very nice creation. / Brilliant Idea. Top notch execution. The shadow takes this over the top. Best I've seen in a while. / We forgot that the ship will heat up during re-entry. Well, it was a nice idea. / The United Paper Company launchs a new air campaign / Nicely done, definately one of the best in this contest.
Paper Laptop pictures - Use it and toss it. / I heard they're charging PA-PER-View in these laptops. / Did I say that I love it. Well, I bloody do. / Hey it won't shut off it keeps re-cycling / BAwahahahaaaaaaa. / The Unknown Laptop (owned by Murray Langston). / Man congratulations.... I had a sneaking suspicion when I looked at this it was a Mashby, Glad to see I was right.. (just needs a touch of duct tape & a few thumb tacks and it would be a true Mashby creation ) / CONGRATS MASH..I See you found your Prize... / Boo yah. Thanks for all the kind comments and especially the sassy prize. 
Horse Grim Reaper pictures - / One of the better entries in the contest. Impressive work in many regards and looks as iconic symbolism of death. 
Jessica Biel Duct Tape Bikini pictures - Jessica Biel In Duct Bikini / Without duct tape, the assets of Jessica Biel could fall apart.