I considered a fun creative duel, but if someone just isn't creative or doesn't have photoshop or something then they're screwed. Though I guess if someone isn't good at puzzles and it's a puzzle duel then they're screwed that way! So who knows

Curtis @ 8/7/2013 18:53

I considered a fun creative duel, but if someone just isn't creative or doesn't have photoshop or something then they're screwed. Though I guess if someone isn't good at puzzles and it's a puzzle duel then they're screwed that way! So who knows

Yeah. It could go either way. I feel like creativity ones would be more forgiving than puzzles or posting ones. You can luck out on them without needing a lot of skill.

bring back flood control.

yeah and people with slow computers are screwed on posting ones :/

Mal @ 8/7/2013 19:51

yeah and people with slow computers are screwed on posting ones :/

Don't forget fucked up networks because of random shit like thunderstorms!

I won at least one challenge on a glitching 7 year old laptop using a tethered phone for internet! Of course that was when I barely beat Sansa so it doesn't count really (:

Just giving the element of choice with the challenges does it I think. That way there's a strategy to it and you can potentially select your way out of something you're not good at. S1 nailed that on the head.

Yay being pathetic as usual!!

Grimapple @ 9/7/2013 0:55

Curtis @ 8/7/2013 18:53 I considered a fun creative duel, but if someone just isn't creative or doesn't have photoshop or something then they're screwed. Though I guess if someone isn't good at puzzles and it's a puzzle duel then they're screwed that way! So who knows Yeah. It could go either way. I feel like creativity ones would be more forgiving than puzzles or posting ones. You can luck out on them without needing a lot of skill.

But with puzzles at least you're basically guaranteed to have the necessary materials to succeed. With creative challenges, if you only have a low-end program like MS Paint the likelihood of you winning are slim to none. I learned that the hard way EVERY single time an ORG I was in had some sort of creative challenge, especially merge-flag making

Greenday @ 10/7/2013 18:41

Grimapple @ 9/7/2013 0:55 Curtis @ 8/7/2013 18:53 I considered a fun creative duel, but if someone just isn't creative or doesn't have photoshop or something then they're screwed. Though I guess if someone isn't good at puzzles and it's a puzzle duel then they're screwed that way! So who knows Yeah. It could go either way. I feel like creativity ones would be more forgiving than puzzles or posting ones. You can luck out on them without needing a lot of skill. But with puzzles at least you're basically guaranteed to have the necessary materials to succeed. With creative challenges, if you only have a low-end program like MS Paint the likelihood of you winning are slim to none. I learned that the hard way EVERY single time an ORG I was in had some sort of creative challenge, especially merge-flag making

Then make the challenge restricted to MS Paint or a specific online art game of some sort.

GIMP is free!

I have GIMP and unless I'm not using it right it's still worse than Photoshop

It is but it's still viable for most things at a push. I don't really like the interface much and it used to crash all the time back when I used it. It was the first image editing software I worked with though.

Before I acquired photoshop I used pixlr a lot. It was pretty good for what I needed which was images for games.

Not sure how helpful it would be for an image making competition but it did quite a bit of stuff I don't understand.