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{{Infobox company |
| name = Aviary, Inc.
| logo = [[Image:W1000 Logo.PNG|190px|Worth1000 logo]]
| type = [[Company]]
| foundation = January 2002
| defunct = October 2013
| location = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States]]
| key_people = [[Avi Muchnick]], Israel Derdik
| industry = [[.com|Web Based]]
| products = Plime<br/>[[Aviary (application suite)|Aviary]]<br/>[[DesignCrowd]]<br/>Worth1000
| parent = [[Adobe Systems]]
| revenue =
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| founder = [[Avi Muchnick]]
}}
'''Worth1000''' was an [[photoshopping|image manipulation]] and contest website.
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'',<ref>{{cite book |title=When Pancakes Go Bad: Optical Delusions With Adobe Photoshop |first=Avi |last=Muchnick |author-link=Avi Muchnick |isbn=1-59200-524-1 |publisher=[[Cengage#History|Course Technology PTR]] |edition=1st |date=October 7, 2004 |url=https://books.google.
▲Worth1000 and its members have created three books on image manipulation: ''When Pancakes Go Bad'',<ref>{{cite book |title=When Pancakes Go Bad: Optical Delusions With Adobe Photoshop |first=Avi |last=Muchnick |author-link=Avi Muchnick |isbn=1-59200-524-1 |publisher=[[Cengage#History|Course Technology PTR]] |edition=1st |date=October 7, 2004 |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=QRW-BGNUAxIC&dq=isbn:1592005241&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y |access-date=2022-11-02}}</ref> ''I've Got a Human in My Throat'',<ref>{{cite book |title=I've Got a Human in My Throat: Create More Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop |author=TheWorth1000.com artists |isbn=1-59863-070-9 |publisher=[[Cengage#History|Thomson Course Technology]] |edition=1st |date=January 19, 2006 |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=jUDPwAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:1598630709&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y |access-date=2022-11-02}}</ref> and ''More Than One Way to Skin a Cat''.<ref>{{Cite book |isbn=978-1598634723 |title=More Than One Way to Skin a Cat: Create Eye-popping Effects Using Aviary (Without Paying for Photoshop!) |last=Katz |first1=Meowza |year=2009 |publisher=[[Cengage#History|Course Technology]] |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=vLWUKQAACAAJ&dq=isbn:9781598634723&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y |access-date=2022-11-02}}</ref>
==Contests==
Competition mostly took place in a series of themed contests. A subject title
*'''Reality [[manga]]''' - Alter photos of real people (celebrities are popular) so that they look like [[Japan]]ese [[anime]] drawings come to life.
*'''[[Chimera (mythology)|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.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
Others include mating animals with instruments or plants, zombifying or aging celebrities, combining several movies to one, and many others.
==Forums==
The Worth1000
==Intramural competitors==
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==Shutdown and later history==
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=The future of Worth1000 - EVERYONE PLEASE READ |date=12 August 2013 |work=All Arenas \ Community \ General Stuff |publisher=worth1000.com |url=http://www.worth1000.com/discussions/70353/ |
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 it 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 [[Resurrection appearances of Jesus|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.<ref name="theoz-wait">{{cite news |title=DesignCrowd reckons deal worth wait |date=17 June 2014 |first=Stuart |last=Kennedy |newspaper=[[The Australian]] |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/designcrowd-reckons-deal-worth-wait/story-e6frgakx-1226956510827 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140726083947/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/designcrowd-reckons-deal-worth-wait/story-e6frgakx-1226956510827 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 26, 2014 |access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref> 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 acquisition would help "create a bigger and better marketplace for freelance designers".<ref name="DC Blog-bigger marketplace">{{cite press release |title=Worth1000 Joins the DesignCrowd Creative Community |date=18 June 2014 |first=Jo |last=Sabin |publisher=[[DesignCrowd]] |url=http://blog.designcrowd.com/article/475/worth1000-joins-the-designcrowd-creative-community}}</ref> 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".
▲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.
▲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 acquisition would help "create a bigger and better marketplace for freelance designers".<ref name="DC Blog-bigger marketplace">{{cite press release |title=Worth1000 Joins the DesignCrowd Creative Community |date=18 June 2014 |first=Jo |last=Sabin |publisher=[[DesignCrowd]] |url=http://blog.designcrowd.com/article/475/worth1000-joins-the-designcrowd-creative-community}}</ref> 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".
Worth1000 was no longer available online on February 26, 2016.
==References==
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[[Category:Imageboards]]
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