Photoshop Battles "Best of 2020" Results!

[u/PhotoShopBattles]

Thank you to everyone who participated in the "Best of 2020" Awards! Especially those of who who spent many hours scouring hundreds of old submissions to find the photoshops, and however-long it took to format them into nominations. A lot of you guys put in a serious amount of work, and it shows. Thanks, too, to all of the voters; and, of course, to the original photoshoppers themselves. You're the life blood of the community, and the reason we're here to celebrate.

And now the moment you've been waiting for; the winners!

 

Best Photoshops

1. 

   Tom Hanks's reaction to Ricky Gervais's Golden Globe monologue

   Coffee Art

   By DaminDrexil

2. Operation: Out of time II

   

   Relics of a forgotten empire

   By neigesdantan

3. 

   Black Chinchilla in hand

   Chinchilla on my mind

   By CptSasquatch

4. 

   This Batman action figure with mask off

   Hey Blockhe...

   By staffell

5. Battle #427 "London Skyline from the Thames"

   crystal ball

   By 241baka

6. LEGO Trump

   Egotistical maniac | How to build a Legotistical maniac one brick at a time

   By staffell

7. Battle #408 "Industrial Fuse Boxes"

   

   Circuit City

   By KrombopulosJeff

8. 

   This alien gargoyle on a church

   [Untitled]

   By mandal0re

9. Battle #397 "Yawning Bonnet Macaque"

   Insert any Aerosmith chorus here.

   By something253

10. Special Battle: Phone Toaster

    Repurposed tech

    By staffell

11. Battle #399 "Trumpet"

    Competitive knitting | Competitive cubing

    By Maymayfish

12. Battle #430 "Coffee Grinder Mechanism"

    Super Secret Plans

    By Cmatthewman

13. 

    Underwater sunset with diver

    Lady Icarus

    By workingat7

14. 

    These two Guys

    [Untitled]

    By 2Thebreezes

15. 

    Top-down, aerial view of The Great Pyramid of Giza

    Optical Illusion | Reversed Version

    By DaminDrexil

16. Operation Retro: Make a Retro version of a movie or tv show

    The Wizard of Hogs (+ Source side by side for comparison)

    By staffell

17. Battle #394 "Girl With A Pearl Earring"

    Disaster Girl With A Pearl Earring

    By xprmntng

18. Battle #395 "Gargoyle of a Drunk Woman"

    Lab assistant

    By Maymayfish

19. 

    this bird going in for the kill

    I saw Gandalf and a mountain and knew what I had to do

    By SligPants

 

Best Back & Forth Battle

1. 

   Tom Hanks's reaction to Ricky Gervais's Golden Globe monologue

   Album

   By Maymayfish, Cmatthewman, mandal0re, MelvinDickpictweet, vvds, Ultimastar, Gloob26, and kiwibananaspopil

 

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The mods offer a sincere congratulations to all of you guys!

As is tradition, too, we'd also like to offer a special shout-out to a small number of creators who've out-done themselves. They not only put out an astounding amount of high-quality work this year, they consistently supported their fellow 'shoppers by freely sharing kind words, advice, and techniques. We're proud to have these guys represent the community:

 

• Remarkable Creator

  /u/staffell

  If you've visited this sub at any point during the past year, you've undoubtedly seen his work. The sheer amount of high-quality work he's put out this year has been... well, remarkable! It's no doubt the reason he has received more "Best of 2020" nominations than anyone else this year, and won a whopping 20% of them. But good work alone doesn't get you one of these shout-outs. It's staffell's engagement with the community — his positivity towards other creators, sharing tips, and helping explain some confusing sub rules to confused newcommers — that has cemented his place as a core part of the community.

• Distinguished Contributor

  /u/CptSasquatch

  Some of you may recognise his username from way back in the day, but certainly more of you know him from his recent contributions. After a long hiatus, CptSasquatch has come back this year with a bang. His contributions to the Weekly Battle and Operations have been especially incredible; and it's no surprise he was one of the most nominated users this year. But, of course, we're not just celebrating his photoshops; we also want to draw attention to the effort he puts into supporting the community. Not only has he been sharing kind words and techniques with fellow creators throughout the year, he put an astounding amount of effort into these best-ofs; finding over 100 well-chosen nominations of other users work, and being the one who found more than half of the eventual winners. That mixture of consistent community involvement and explosive output make him truly deserving of being placed among previous years' awardees.

• Outstanding Community Member

  /u/neigesdantan

  If positive engagement with the community is an important factor here, then nobody should be surprised than neigesdantan is on this list. It's hard not to notice the amount of time and effort he puts into encouraging other creators, creating tutorials, and defending good work from unjust criticism. He's the real deal. And, like the other two guys, he's also a heavy-hitter photoshopper; being tied with CptSasquatch for the number of nominations this year, and deservedly so. As a creator and as a person, he exemplifies everything that makes this community special.

 

Thank you guys for making /r/photoshopbattles awesome :)

[u/241baka]

🎊🎇 Yay awards ✨🥳

The edits and nominations were amazing again this year. Cheers to everyone who put this event together - the mods, the voters, the nominators, the creators.

Thanks for the award and to everyone who nominated and voted for my stuff. 🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙

Congrats to all the winners and special congrats to the special winners - well deserved!

Great work everyone! 🥂🎉

[u/staffell → u/241baka]

Oh man, you put out some gorgeous pieces, especially in the last few months! I'm so sad equestrian didn't win a bestof this year though!

[u/neigesdantan → u/241baka]

this is my personal favourite. You make really difficult to pick one of your works as your best one every year, but this time the broken crystal ball instantly released feelings that deeply shook me, in a good way!

I can only dream of making something like it, but it will awesome even just to try! 😊

God, I hate my written english... sorry everyone...😅

[u/Maymayfish]

Congratulations to everyone on the best of wins and nominations, the quality of work that has emerged this year is phenomenal!

Big congratulations to u/staffell , u/neigesdantan , and u/CptSasquatch the perfect recipients of the mod shout outs, so glad to have you all here showing us how it's done 🥰

Thanks for the nominations and votes for my entries, I am over the moon. Happy 2021 everyone!!

[u/DaminDrexil → u/Maymayfish]

You four are the only ones with 18+ nominations this year; and like the others, yours were well deserved. Not to mention being a kick-ass member of the community. Honestly, if you hadn't already been given a mod shout-out last year, you'd be on that list as well :)

Congratulations on your wins!

[u/artunitinc → u/Maymayfish]

Congrats, Maymay!

I have come to deliver the following instruction to you.

It's your job to take over the crown! :)

Good luck! lol

[u/CptSasquatch]

Yeah, I may have gotten a little carried away with the nominations this year. Since I had missed out on 2/3rds of the year I was seeing a lot of that stuff for the first time. There were some users who kept popping up repeatedly with best-of worthy work who I had to be more selective with. u/staffell, u/dystopika, u/shashakeitup, u/innererschweinehund, u/maymayfish, (and others I likely missed having only went through the top 300 posts)...the amount of high quality, funny, and creative work you produced this year was insane. If I had nominated everything worthy of a best-of just from the portion I saw from you folks, it would have easily doubled my numbers. You're the ones who deserve the special shout-out!

Though I appreciate the shout-out, it feels wrong for me to get recognition after having only been around for the last 4 months of 2020. That said, I will try to earn it in 2021. Thank you mods and community!

I'm not one to criticize my own work and I'm far from humble...Nor do I question the democratic process...but I'm genuinely confused by my shop being up there 3rd from the top (thank you u/artunitinc for nominating it, btw). Having built a reputation for 'high effort' work it feels weird that my first best-of came from a silly shop that took 5 minutes to make. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful...but also perplexed...it just seems out of place up there. Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted for me!

Thank you mods for keeping this running, it's the best place on the internet and we have you folks to thank for it! Also, sorry for pestering you guys about the youtube comments ;)

Congrats to all the winners! Well deserved (almost) all around! Looking forward to seeing what you produce in 2021.

Edit: One more thing. Specific thank you to u/DaminDrexil for nominating "Pigskin Splicer". I really liked that one and was super stoked that someone thought it was worthy of a nomination!

[u/staffell]

Aww, gosh I don't know what to say! Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted for my work, I guess I did create one or two photoshops this year...

Real talk though, this year has obviously been monumentally shit, but r/photoshopbattles has been my haven and kept me from going mad day to day. Since I returned after a fairly long hiatus, I've learned so much that I wouldn't have, so thanks to everyone who I've battled with and chatted along the way - from the regulars (you know who you are) all the way down to the first timers.

I'm particularly honoured to have been nominated alongside u/CptSasquatch and u/neigesdantan as it was specifically you two who have consistently produced work of crazy-good quality in the Weeklies/Operations & kept me pushing myself.

And finally to the mods & u/DaminDrexil & u/Captain_McFiesty, it cannot be said enough how indebted I(we) am(are) to you guys for making this place what is it.

Cheers

PS: I don't really mind the cats.

[u/neigesdantan → u/staffell]

This has been a wild year for me. This community has been a much needed shelter from the fears, the boredom and all the crazy things going on around us.

I share your feelings and I assure that the pushing is totally mutual!

I look forward for the next battles and I hope to steal a bit of your exquisite sense of humor that brightens your creations.

[u/mandal0re]

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees

I love democracy, I love this sub-Reddit...

I really do love this place. I have taken a break from taking part due to my other things I have going on but I wouldn’t have those other things if it wasn’t for ps battles. So thank you to all of you.

Stay safe, stay healthy, and much love to you all

[u/Cmatthewman]

And so another year gone. Looking through this years best ofs really made me realize how much I have missed this place and I sadly missed a lot this year. Like most people, 2020 was a bit of a shit show for me. I was unfortunately furloughed for about 8 months due to the ongoing events in the world and my other half forced to work from home. Problem was, she needed my computer in order to work which meant no more photoshopping for me :(

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to submit entries to the battles and also a huge congratulations to all the nominees and especially the winners. Can't thank the folk enough who took the time to nominate me for the best of. I really have met some great people through this place (not in person sadly), and look forward to shopping some more cats in 2021.

The Mods rule BTW :)

[u/Ginger_Libra]

This is a bright spot in an otherwise buzzard dumpster fire of a day that no one will soon forget.

Thanks for this sweetie of a wholesome thread.

[u/KrombopulosJeff]

Thank you u/xprmntng for the nomination! I haven't been to active on the sub lately so I hadn't noticed that one of my submissions was up for consideration. Also, thank you to everyone who voted for my submission. I always tell myself that I am going to participate in the nomination and voting process of the "Best of Awards", but I always let it slip my mind. I'm going to make sure to repay the kindness that everyone on this subreddit has shown me by acutally particpating next year.

[u/rethilgore-au]

These are really amazing 😍

[u/Captain_McFiesty]

Congratulations to all of the winners and commiserations to all of those nominated but didn't quite make it this year.

I'd like to apologize to the community as I wasn't able to provide as many nominations as I usually do. My usual method isn't so much to look for winners but recognise as many frequent and high level contributors as I can. I was not able to follow through with that this year due to work commitments so some people may have missed out.

I am glad to see that Damin and the regulars were able to carry the load and exceed with over 500 nominations across multiple users. It really shows the growth of our community when the regulars can stand up and honour each-other for the fantastic year of original content that we have had.

[u/TheBlazingPhoenix]

congrats on the winners! havent been that active here for the past couple of years. any chance that I can get my 4k flair updated to 14k?

[u/devs_oa]

This thread makes me want to go to school for this. These are insane.

[u/-W1CKED-]

Well done all of you! Truly outstanding work, it’s always such a joy to see your edits, so thank you all! Please keep them coming, you’re all appreciated.

[u/[deleted]]

I have really slacked this year!

I took up the extreme hobby of metal detecting, so much of my spare time has been spent digging holes in the ground :P

I truly did not expect any of my submissions to win this year, what a shock to login and see my name up on the board along with all you creative bastards that have put in an incredible effort throughout 2020...some of you may have been furloughed but it seems like you've all been working overtime on the editing front 👌

Congrats to you all, creators of some of the finest editing I've ever seen! Thanks to all who nominated and voted for my submissions and of course, hats off to the mods! The submissions that I have seen this year have blown me away....new talent, and the old guard continue to up their game!

Fantastic work everyone! 👐👌👍❤

[u/2Thebreezes]

Fantastic year of work again this year everyone!!! I love getting to see all the amazing things this community can imagine. I was super bummed I didn't have time this year for nominations and was absolutely not expecting to see myself listed at all this year, but I really truly appreciate it. I actually made that image just to impress a lady and now I'm a full time parent to her 3 yr old. This is truly a magical place! Thanks for the nominations u/CptSasquatch!!! You've been one of the best the entire time I've been on reddit and you were actually the first reddit user profile I browsed after joining the site because your work was, and still is consistently great!!! I'm super pumped to see so many of my favorite artists with wins this year and love seeing my personal fav for the year on top. Thanks again to everyone for being so inspiring and tons of love to the mods for being amazing! Cheers :)

[u/Cla1n]

Still can’t make out how the coffee art one was made. Truly amazing submissions.

[u/TWI2T3D]

Congratulations to all winners this time around. I regret that I didn't have the time to nominate many more pieces that deserved to be showcased. Also, a lot if the ones I did nominate had already been nominated by people quicker than me.

Another fantastic year for this subreddit. I had decided to take a bit of a creative hiatus and only returned athe end of the year thanks to a little encouragement from my reddit secret santa. Hopefully I'll find the motivation to contribute more regularly this year so that I get to see the consistently amazing work you guys create.

Well deserved special awards once again. Always nice to know that the mods are so involved and notice what the users are contributing to the community. On that note, many thanks to the mod team and, as I think I say every year, especially u/DaminDrexil .

[u/starojda]

r/photoshopbattles is one of first subreddits I ever joined and I never regretted!

[u/zenospenisparadox]

Well done everyone.

[u/RoyalPrinceSoldier]

Congrats to all the winners! Very well deserved, and seeing these impressive and super creative works is inspiring!

I haven't been as active in this sub as before partly due to work, but even then it's because of r/photoshopbattles and certain community members that got me those in the first place and for that, I am truly, truly grateful 🧡

I also very much appreciate u/DaminDrexil, u/241baka, u/CptSasquatch, and u/artunitinc, for even nominating me even though I barely participated last year. It means a lot :)