Photoshop contest

A Photoshop contest is an online game, where a Photoshop contest website will post a starting image - usually a photograph - and ask the site's users to alter the image using some kind of graphics editing software, such as Photoshop, The GIMP, or Paint Shop Pro. The contest usually asks you to edit the pictures in a humorous way, or according to a specific theme. The users then go away and edit the image to the requirements and post their results to the site. Once all the users have posted their versions of the image, they vote on the quality of the other users' submissions. The user whose image gets the most votes wins.

A large part of the humor in many of these contests involves using "cliches", which is a tremendous repitition of the same joke or source material so much so that the original joke is lost and using the cliche itself is the joke. Here is a list of the most used cliches:

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Admiral Ackbar, and his phrase "its a trap"
A doctored picture of a person standing on the world trade center with a plane about to hit it.
An image of a disheveled James Brown
An image which acompianed the joke "Arguing online is like the special olympics, whoever wins, you're still retarded".
An image of a large man holding a large can of mustard with his arm drenched in mustard

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