Nov Restoration Challenge:

The challenge this month is to restore the photo so that it looks like a professional studio photo. This means a non-painted no-wacky-background something-a-dad/mom-would-put-on-his/her-desk-at-work portrait that actually tries to use the various retouching/restoring/compositing skills we try to promote here at RP". Questions? :dizzy:

File:
Two versions are provided (8MB or a 1 MB)

Baby (http://www.retouchpro.com/contests/source_images/Baby.tif) (8 MB file)
Baby_sm (http://www.retouchpro.com/contests/source_images/Baby_sm.tif) (1 MB file)

Photo donated by Phil (philbach) :happy:

The best way to download the images is by rightclicking (or Cmd/Ctrl clicking) on the link and using "Save Target As".

THE PRIZE A copy of Fluid Mask, donated by Vertus (http://www.vertustech.com)


THE RULES:

1. Contest will run from 1 Nov to 23 Nov 2005. Deadline for entries is 6pm EST 23 Nov 2005.

2. This is not a Photo Art challenge. Keep the image as a photo.

3. When you submit your entry put your username in the filename (ie: tpaul.jpg). This is so users can save the images to a local directory and remember who did what--important when it comes time to vote.

4. Your final image size should be as close to 800 px on the long side and 600 px on the short side as possible. Also remember that the file cannot be larger than 100KB.

5. Post your entries to this thread. Please restrict your comments, questions or discussion to the Nov 05 Contest Discussion thread. Inappropriately placed posts will be deleted.

6. Only one entry per person.

7. Voting will run from 24 Nov to 30 Nov 2005. Only those with entries may vote. You will vote for the 5 best entries in order.

Finally, please remember that this is a friendly contest and suppose to be a learning experience. Tips and suggestions to help others are highly encouraged.

Note: RetouchPro Moderators are allowed to enter

ok, here's an early entry as i'm going to be out of town later this week and may not get back in time. i will most likely change this at some point, but if i cant i'll just live with this one.

oh, and you need to include the actual deadline time, T. you've got the voting date, but not the cutoff for entry time.

Craig

edit: replaced my first with this current one. may happen yet again :)

For my first contest

Not really by bag (don't like baby pics), but had to enter so I can vote. Sorry Phil, not meant as a dig at your daughter, who's really cute, rather that I don't seem to get a handle on dealing with baby pics.

Tried to keep the image integrity including the hairy furry background...

Here's my stab at it.

Here's my entry

Here's my entry and my first try at a contest. Used PSP9. Used clone tool for missing areas and addressed the color corrections using paintbrush in Legacy Color mode at 50%. Along with noise reducing filters and soften brush to remove scan dots.

The first, but not the last !!

hmmmmmmmmm

And here is mine

Its always a pleasure to participate

Here's mine

First Contest - hope it keeps up with the talent.

I tried to stay as true as reasonably possible to the original. I felt that a few enhancements were necessary, such as softening the blanket and adding the missing foot.

Lorraine

There's some real talented entries this time!

A much happier baby with her new foot!

Loverly

Your daughter sure was a happy baby, Phil! Thanks for contributing this one - it was a lot of fun! :pleased:

- Kurt

This was fun. Joined a few days ago and I love the site. Hope to get some work after getting a portfolio together.....

I haven't quite finished so just adding it for now, so it reminds me to finish it.Mine is holding the rattle as all my baby pictures i am holding a rattle, i guess to keep me quiet!

very cute baby :)

That was fun!!

and thanks to my son- she now has a foot. :)

(minor adjustments to saturation made 11/16/05)
(size adjustment *oops* 11/18/05)

Im a New Member

Think im going to love this place - found some exciting things already!

Here is my picture for the Nov 5 contest.

Tried to get it as "studio-ish" as I could. Tried to get it so a mom or a dad would want to put it on their desk. That was my main desire. Hope I have stayed within the bounds of the rules here - seems like there are a 100 posts - all differing slightly - on what exactly the rules for this image are supposed to be.

Ray

Here is mine. :bigthmb:

Hi All! Here's my first time attempting a challenge. :classic:

She's wearing a pair of really cute bootees(I think mums will make their babies wear their best shoes when taking a pic at the studio) and her dress is more symmetrical. Cleaned up the skin and change the background to a studio-ish backdrop.

Hi Everyone.

Well I finally got something I’m happy with. I Hope you like it.

Ken

I did this with the Gimp. I'm going to try another with PS if I can get the time.
EDIT: This shadow on the chest is busting my hump. I can not make it look good. :cry:

Woe is me.

Congratulations to all the posters so far, your results are incredible.

As to "my baby" all I can say is that I think she looks happy, and I guess have run out of tricks to improve the colouring. She may be a girl (I am not doubting Phil's word !!) but her dress was not pink, from the start I saw it as light blue, and that's what I gave her. The rest I leave for the discussion thread. Be kind with my result.
Regards - Martha :wavey:

I used several of the methods proposed in the discussion thread, and colorized as I thought looked best.
I am replacing the image again, fixed some details that I didn't like. :wink:

Great fun as always, thank you for a lovely challenge! Took my mind off housework:) Alrighty, who am I fooling.. took my mind off the housework I wasn't doing! :lmao:
Thanks so much!
Teri

Probably spent nearly 20 hours on this so I'm stopping now... could spend another 10 at least fixing all the flaws I can see in it but you just have to learn when to walk away lol.

I'm in the beige camp for the fur.

I think the cloth is one of those woven to show highlights of a different color depending on the angle, in this case grey with green highlights.

Pierre

Always doing something different, I thought I'd to make some more fur instead of cloning a whole foot. Don't know if that was a good idea - but it was fun though.

(The colours got changed a bit somewhere along the line. If I have time I'll post one which looks more like I saw on the screen at home)

Rô

First post.. Cheers from Istanbul..

Seen a lot of good restored pics around so i decide to tag along too. Happy to join in the contest...... ooops group. :bigthmb:

Ok, after much deliberation I've decided to make this my entry. I actually finished about 90% of it before the rather passionate discussion began over rule interpretation. Then spent the rest of the month reading with much interest as many of you shared your expertise... thanks for taking the time, I for one really appreciate your posts.

This is my first contest post

Here is my entry!

Here's mine. Once again, great entries.

Here is my latest :nod:

Thanks Phil for this photo.

This is my try at cleaning up the little one. I decided to fix the left foot by cropping it out instead of cloning the other.

This was a real challenge. Fun, though.

A couple hours to spare and I have an entry-- just in the nick of time, I wager ! :dizzy:

This is my first contribution here.

Here is my attempt. I decided to crop rather than replace the foot.

This month’s contest winner is kschulz! Congratulations!

THE PRIZE for this month’s contest is a copy of Fluid Mask (http://www.vertustech.com/), donated by Vertus


The top 10:
kschulz - 94
Lorraine - 52
Peter S - 32
Bob Down - 31
byRo - 26
garazon - 24
lhines - 22
chanchalbd, lazze_gurra & Loverly tied - 14