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# What is the Manipulation Station Community? ![pageBreak.png](https://img.whaleshares.io/wls-img/derangedvisions/6be999e5186e6b2fb4ea41fd6aac09da4bdade6f.png) This community is for all creative people on the Hive Blockchain to share their works of photo and art manipulation. So what is "photo manipulation"? >Photo manipulation involves transforming or altering a photograph using various methods and techniques to achieve desired results.^{[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_manipulation)} There are countless pieces of software to perform your manipulation with. The most popular being Adobe Photoshop or a free software called Gimp. Whatever software you use, the outcome is only as good as the creative process that you use when making your piece of art. # Did you say CONTESTS? ![pageBreak.png](https://img.whaleshares.io/wls-img/derangedvisions/6be999e5186e6b2fb4ea41fd6aac09da4bdade6f.png) Yes we did. We will be offering a weekly Photo Manipulation Contest, where we supply at least one image that must be used to create a final image. All other images you use will be up to you to find and use, but you need to use the ones that we provide. You will need to make sure that you source all images used in your creative process. **This is a MUST when it comes to using this community.** I cannot stress this enough. I (@derangedvisions), will have commercial licenses for the images that we provide, so make sure that the images that you choose are able to be used by you and that you source them correctly. ![happydogalwayssmiling_t20_LAWbb1 1.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hive-122516/qLxVChbK-happy-dog-always-smiling_t20_LAWbb1201.jpg) ^{[source](https://www.twenty20.com/photos/3b5591da-971d-4bb5-b321-e42818198d0c)} So this image of this goofy dog is the one that you must use for creating your masterpiece. You can cut this dog out and put him on the moon with a space helmet on if you wanted to. You could put him over some crazy psychedelic background and have him high on shrooms. The possibilities are pretty much endless. The main thing is to have fun when creating this piece of art and to make it look good. We will be judging the final product off of quality, so putting in a bit of extra effort will pay out in the end. ## Prize Pool For the first contest we are offering 100 Hive to be split between the top 3 winners. 50 Hive for 1st place. 30 Hive for 2nd Place. 20 Hive for 3rd place. We are going to be figuring out a weekly reward pool after this first contest. We will also be curating entries, but just because you enter the contest doesn't guarantee curation. Curation depends on effort and quality and will be rewarded as such. Showing screenshots of your creative process and explaining what you are doing is highly encouraged. We are hoping that we can all learn a few things from each other here in the process of these contests and posts made to the community. ## Rules Recap 1. You must use the image or images provided. 2. You must source ALL images used. 3. Entries must be made to the Manipulation Station Community. 4. One entry post per week, but you may include multiple final images in that post. 5. Comment on the weekly contest announcement post with your post url and a photo of your entry or entries. 6. The contest will run for one week and then entries will be closed once the contest post pays out so that @derangedvisions, @acidyo and @hiddenblade can judge the entries. That is about it for the rules. Feel free to post any other form of photo or art manipulation into this community. We will be curating non contest posts as well, but they need to fit the idea of this community. So that means we will not be curating your posts about flowers or some other irrelevant nonsense. Posting irrelevant posts to this community will get your muted, which means that your entries will not show up or be valid. https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/derangedvisions/Uf5lD91A-HiveGlitch.gif