2002 founder avi muchnick headquarters new york city new york united states key people avi muchnick israel derdik products plime aviary designcrowd worth1000 parent adobe systems website www.worth1000.com worth1000 was an image manipulation and contest website . worth1000 opened on january 1 2002 and hosted over 340 000 unique images made in theme contests such as rejected transformers invisible world and stupid protests . in mid 2003 worth1000 began hosting similar competitions for photography creative writing and multimedia . the service was shut down on 1 october 2013 . in june 2014 the site was acquired by sydney based crowdsourcing website designcrowd from emerge media . 1 the website was designed by avi muchnick and israel derdik . muchnick named it after the old saying a picture is worth a thousand words . the site had been featured in many different publications tv shows and stations and radio including pc magazine popular science abc s good morning america bbc cnn new york times weekly world news detroit free press techtv usa today g4 inside edition and many others . 2 worth1000 and its members have created three books on image manipulation when pancakes go bad 3 i ve got a human in my throat 4 and more than one way to skin a cat . 5 contents 1 contests 2 forums 3 terms and worthisms 4 intramural competitors 5 shutdown static museum and resurrection 6 see also 7 references 8 external links contests edit competition mostly took place in a series of themed contests . a subject title is given along with a sample photo manipulation from a previous or similar contest and a brief description of what contestants should try to do . entries were then accepted for a fixed period of time after which they are posted so that people can vote on them and the results were then compiled . examples of contests are reality manga alter photos of real people celebrities are popular so that they look like japanese anime drawings come to life . chimaera create a new animal by mating three or four other animals to one . invisible world take any object or person in an image and make it invisible using photoshop . no indication or outline of the object animal person should be seen except through its function interaction with other objects and or people in the image . some images are based in the 1897 h.g. wells science fiction novella the invisible man . if goths ruled show what the world would look like if goths ruled it . others include mating animals with instruments or plants zombifying or aging celebrities combining several movies to one and many others . even if the photoshop contests were the main attraction of worth1000 it also had a vast variety of contests for photography writing illustration and a multimedia . along with the regular contests members of worth1000 could challenge each other in head to head competitions as well . forums edit the worth1000 website had a large community as well as a large selection of forums . the forums were a place for general discussions and humor and questions and answers regarding techniques for the various types of contests . due to the many active admins and a word filter that monitored the forums a high level of troll control existed . terms and worthisms edit banhammer what will strike you if you break the rules resulting in a ban . losasig the signature awarded by the winner of a head to head match to the loser of the match written humiliation . losatar the avatar awarded by the winner of a head to head match to the loser of the match animated humiliation . worthism slang terms made up worth1000 terminology that appear on the site . filter a feature of the site that changes certain keywords to other words . new jersey the filtered form of the word hell . the most infamous and prevalent of the conversions by the filter . textor one who participates in the text contests . trifecta when the 1st 2nd and 3rd place winning entries in one contest were all submitted by the same person . worthiversary or worthday the celebration of one s x year membership on worth where x is the number of years . karma a user s earned voting power or value . jurors staff of volunteer site users who have a voting karma of 500 almost 3 times that of the maximum karma a normal user can acquire . fantasy series a monthly fantasy image competition . intramural competitors edit similar sites have competed in an intramural tournament with worth1000.com including something awful s photoshop phriday fark.com shutdown static museum and resurrection edit on august 12 2013 worth1000 s founder avi muchnick announced in the community forums that worth1000 would be closed and converted into a static museum . the final contest was scheduled to end on the midnight changeover worth time of september 29 30 . 6 worth1000 was scheduled to close at midnight on 30 september 2013 but problems with the transfer of the site to the static museum status meant that is stayed open for a further 24 hours . however once that period had passed users were greeted with a single page with the message that the site was now closed and would resurface within the next few days as a museum . however after a brief hiatus muchnick announced via a cryptic 1 corinthians 15 4 message and an image from worth s archives of the turin shroud . posted to worth s refugee website communities on google and reddit former users found that the site had been sold to emerge media and would re open soon . worth1000 returned to the version of the site that existed in the week before the shutdown one week after the instigation of the museum . over the following months the new team transferred the site to new servers . however ongoing technical issues and with declining popularity and an alienated user base the new owners announced the intention to rebrand redesign and invigorate the site . contests were hosted to create logos for the new site and admin level users were invited into discussions on the redesign . in june 2014 graphic design crowdsourcing company designcrowd announced that it had acquired worth1000 for an undisclosed amount . 7 designcrowd announced its intent to port all user accounts and artistic content to designcrowd servers while attempting to keep the user experience unchanged . the company announced the acqusition would help create a bigger and better marketplace for freelance designers . 8 the transfer however was repeatedly delayed and by the end of 2015 had not been completed . member frustration was exacerbated by the decision that worth1000 members not wishing to become designcrowd members would have to opt out of the migration rather than opt in . on february 26 2016 the plug was finally pulled on worth1000 . searches for the worth1000 website are redirected to the designcrowd community contest page or to an article explaining where users can find tutorials contests galleries and paid design jobs . the most popular tutorials from worth1000 were republished on designcrowd . see also edit fark.com photoshop contest references edit this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . december 2006 learn how and when to remove this template message clune bronwen 17 june 2014 . designcrowd acquires design and photo site worth1000 . smart company . 1 worth1000 media mentions isbn 1 59200 524 1 hardcover 280 pages publisher course technology ptr ; 1 edition october 7 2004 isbn 1 59863 070 9 paperback 304 pages publisher course technology ptr ; 1 edition january 19 2006 http www.amazon.com more than one way skin dp 1598634720 the future of worth1000 everyone please read . all arenas community general stuff . worth1000.com . 12 august 2013 . retrieved 2013 09 29 . kennedy stuart 17 june 2014 . designcrowd reckons deal worth wait . the australian . retrieved 21 july 2014 . sabin jo 18 june 2014 . worth1000 joins the designcrowd creative community . designcrowd . external links edit worth1000.com official 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