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. The website was designed by Avi Muchnick and Israel Derdik. Muchnick named it after the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words". Worth1000 and its members have created three books on image manipulation: When Pancakes Go Bad, I've Got a Human in My Throat, and More Than One Way to Skin a Cat. Contests 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 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