You can say you beat me in round 1. I'm okay with that.

Thanks Tofu… at least I can get some sense of accomplishment

thank you.

I agree with ReinMoose that it's uncool to chat up or down entries in an open contest.

And I also agree with Nancers from another thread... NONE of the b*tc#!ng threads are original to this H2H. This is (only) my fifth one... and after EVERY H2H Round 1, at least a few people have complained about the source, lack of original ideas, level of chopping, no-shows, and yes, hypocrites who dared to opine without having entered a chop. My complaint is that you guys can't come up with a single decent original complaint about the H2H? C'mon! My popcorn's getting stale!

he said gold, not chicken

Its just a game on the internuts people...so
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET OVER IT.
Its just a game, no ones going to rule the world or win the big account over the h2h, (That being said I did get lots of work from showing images from PSC is true) So move on please and just take peoples opinions for what they are...opinions nothing more than that.

GET OVER IT PLEASE

Ok Im done

(This opinion was brought to you by the letters G and F and many fluffy bunnies were injured during the typing of this post)

I know what he said, naive italian!! Now go make me some pizza!!

After close consideration... I retract 40% of my previous statements.... Which 40, I will let the reader decide Jeffs words were not that offensive... just the thought behind it was a bit rude but for what it's worth, I am glad I go to round 2

Blue is right. It's only a game on the Internet. Which makes all of these threads and dramas completely useless, as nancers stated... Except one.

Prizes, rules, aliases, complaint, no-shows, yadda yadda yadda... Who cares? It's just for fun. But as a matter of fact, we tend to have less fun chopping and/or voting when sources pics suck like this.

I don't know who chooses them (it doesn't matter much) but it's just insane. Don't you guys realize that the best rounds, the best contests have come from good sources? Inspiring ones? Clean and simple objects/compositions giving ideas even to those with limited creativity. What happened in round 1 was so predictable, I can't believe mods decided that this mug would make awesome chops.

Anyway. I'm not even chopping so I should just STFU(AC). Right? Ok.

There's 200.000 gallons of crude oil spewing up into the Gulf of Mexico every single day. It takes ONE CUP of crude oil to contaminate a 50.000 gallon aquarium..and turn it into a toxic swamp in 48 hours !
Some scientists and oceanographers are getting very,very worried.
This is....inconsequential.
Have a nice day.

But I really like ice cream!

This is round 1 of the H2H. What do you expect? There's 128 people involved. I don't know anybody within 100 miles of me that does anything like this in photoshop; people who use photoshop as a hobby. I welcome everybody who signed up and put effort into this contest. I'd hope people would put their best effort into this, but that's just not a realistic expectation in round 1. Round 1 is a community event. Thank You to everyone who took the time in their lives to be involved. Reviewing 110 entries is a good way to learn from each other. I saw some very creative entries with this source, and am inspired by those ideas to step it up if I proceed to round 2.

I thought a majority of the entries were fantastic. Kudos to all that participated.

Let's talk about this when the round is over.