Photoshop Contest: Ganonize Link

The time has come for yet another test of wit, creativity, and the use of expensive software for trivial purposes: a Photoshop Contest is upon us!

The gist of this contest is, we’re asking readers to submit the funniest, zaniest, most creative, or most awe-inspiring pictures they can produce with image alteration software, and submit them as a comment below this article. But before we discuss this week’s contest, let’s honor the winners from last week’s contest: Grandma’s Adventure!

Last Week’s Contest

Pictures were selected based on their creativity, quality, and how effectively they demonstrate the image-manipulation abilities of the artists.

Best Submissions

Artist: Totally Red

Artist: Adam Slater

Artist: Petie Cavin

Challenge Mode Winner

Pancakes, Grandma, and made using only assets from last week’s Image Gallery. Bravo, Furious Winter!

Fan Favorite

Gaining 58 upvotes, Rachel Renelle‘s entry is our runaway Fan Favorite!

Thanks again to everyone who submitted entries last week!

This Week’s Contest

Now we turn our attention to a new Photoshop Contest.

Special Note: A version of Adobe Photoshop is not required for this contest. We understand if you use Gimp, Aperture, or some other professional image manipulation program. However, if all you’ve got to work with is Instagram and Meme Generator, you’re out of luck.

Contest: Ganonize Link

This week’s contest carries a very faint connection to the largest media event of the year for a certain global superpower that occurs this weekend. You needn’t guess what that connection may be to enter this contest, instead all you need to do is . . .

Task: . . . reimagine Link as that snout-nosed scoundrel, Ganon. You may use any iteration of Hyrule‘s Hero, and draw inspiration from any one of the many swine-like Ganons that has been featured in the Zelda games. Whether you make Ganonized Link the antagonist of a heroic Ganondorf, squeeze in an image of Princess Zelda shocked at Link’s new piggy tail, or something else is entirely up to you.

Reward: The glory and respect of your peers that comes from us featuring your entry (if we deem it a winner) during next week’s contest.

Deadline: Submit entries no later than next Wednesday at midnight: 11:59 p.m. PST on February 4. Entries submitted after this Deadline will not be considered.

Fair Warning: Submissions that are little more than captions added to photos will be disqualified, so make something bold, fancy, and impressive! Other entries may be disqualified or even removed at our discretion, (hint: offensive, spam, or NSFW content won’t last long) so make your entry is a work of art rather than a quick joke or commentary.

Assets: The Image Gallery below contains some pictures to help you get started. Use them as you wish.

Challenge Mode

Challenge Mode is a variation on the Contest outlined above, and is meant to be tackled by readers who wish for a more difficult test of their ability to digitally manipulate images. The same Task, Deadline, and Fair Warning apply, although the best submission will be featured in a special category next week, and you also must add the comment Challenge Accepted above your entry (don’t write that on the entry itself, write it in your Disqus comment field), and you must follow the Challenge Rule.

Challenge Rule: Entry must contain elements taken only from this article’s Image Gallery. However, you may crop, clone, heal, smudge, and otherwise alter them as much as you need. Your entry must also include facial hair, Ganonized Link holding a flower, and the swashbuckling Sea Hawk, Errol Flynn, in some way (picture provided in Image Gallery).

Good luck! And go Hawks!