March Contest: Remove the driver, license plate, and all signs of the street and put the car on a plain white background, suitable for a catalog listing.

File: Photo by dvehwt at Stock.Xchng (http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=88684) car.tif (http://www.retouchpro.com/contests/source_images/car.tif)
Note: The best way to download the images is by rightclicking (or Cmd/Ctrl clicking) on the link and using "Save Target As".

THE PRIZE:
Prize is Exposure, donated by Alien Skin (http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/index.html)

THE RULES:

1. Contest will run from 1 Mar to 24 Mar 2006. Deadline for entries is 6pm EST 24 Mar 2006.

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 Mar 05 Contest Discussion thread. Inappropriately placed posts will be deleted.

6. Only one entry per person.

7. Voting will run from 25 Mar to 31 Mar 2006. Only those with entries may vote. You will vote for the 5 best entries in order.

Please don’t forget to post your entry/comment/vote to the correct thread--there will be three!! Posts made to the incorrect thread will be deleted.

Entries: Mar 06 Contest

Discussion: Mar 06 Contest Discussion (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12960)

Votes: Mar 06 Contest Votes (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12961)

Note: RetouchPro Moderators are allowed to enter

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.

Lots of fiddling on this one.

enjoyed this one !

OK, as a relatively new member, this is my first RetouchPRO contest entry. It was a lot of work (especially since I've never done a vehicle before) and a lot of fun -- learned bunches. I hope I didn't break the rules? The instructions said remove the license plate, which I did, but then I replaced it with my own personal plate. Every car ad I see does have plates! Also, put it on a white background, which I did, but then I faded it as a rolled background. Apologies if I messed up. Hopefully I'll know better next time.

I did mostly smudging, some surface blur and lighting effects.

Okay - I didn't listen to the directions. I figured there would be quite a few great entries from which to choose - so I submit this.

1999 Ferrari 355 Spyder 2-Door
3496cc
375 bhp at 8250 rpm
Maximum Speed 184 mph
Acceleration (0-30 mph) 2.2 seconds

Now with Added Attitude

Ken.

hi!
my variant of restoration .
I remove the registration number, patches of light on the windows and I tried to give new appearance to them.
Thanks for such contest – very interesting and very useful.

First contest...and was alot of fun! Never worked on a car before so it was pretty cool to see what other users did...that's a great way to learn.

Mike.

Here is my version

This was very fun... Everyone is doing awsome! :bigthmb:

I had fun.

I really thought this would be a piece of cake... :nod:
It was evil.

Until I tried to fill in the blanks of a car, I didn't realize how much my eyes miss of the every day routine. :classic:

Really good entries so far.

Lorraine

I kinda defined background as back ground.

Cheers

Dave

Stumbled across this site a few weeks ago. Loved the idea of the competitions. Here's my attempt. If I ever see another reflection.....

Harder than I tought

Sorry, i didn't like the color red.

Hoolah!

Gigadals

A challenge

Tougher than I thought. learned a few things about retouching cars with this one. Competition's pretty tight by the looks! Good luck everyone.

here is my effort.

Did one with white background...this was killer!

a real tough one.

Pain in the ass! :mad:
I prefere working with organic shapes!

We are ready to go ahead with the catalog publication as outlined.

To prepare the 1999 Ferrari 355 Spider for the catalog listing, the decision was made to take the vehicle out of the sunlight and into the studio for a re-shoot. Our lighting consisted of (5) 2k, and (4) 1k hot lights with scrim's placed at each end of the car and another large scrim suspended overhead at a 20° angle.

Of course the Ferrari was washed, chrome polished and the interior, tires and matte black plastic exterior parts had an application of Armor-All before the photo shoot. In post-production, there was a need for minor retouching to remove various studio reflections and I'll be happy to put the details in your project discussion forum.

Listing price is $99,500.00. ;-)

(I have a Flash animation of this "assembling" from layers but it's too big to post here...) Some really nice entries everyone - great work!

Wow this turned out to be an extremely close contest and the ties show it!
This was the first time we had a tie for FIRST. In the event of a first place tie, the tie breaker goes to the member with the most first place votes.

So the winner of the March RetouchPro contest is….

HannibalVector

Congratulations on a job well done!

HannibalVector has won a copy of Exposure (http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/index.html) by Alien Skin

Exposure brings the look and feel of film to digital photography. Simulate the warmth and softness of real world film, both color and black and white. Reproduce realistic film grain, and simplify your digital photography workflow.

The top 6 were as follows:

HannibalVector: 52 (tie breaker with 8 votes for first)
Pocoroba: 52 (tie breaker with 5 votes for first)

InfiniteMonkey: 35
Peth: 35

Doug Colwell: 32
StudioJ: 31

Great job to all!