Voting will run from 24 Mar to 31 Mar 2007. Deadline for votes is 6pm EDST (note Daylight Savings Time).

Only those that entered the contest may vote. All other votes will be deleted. If you did not enter, but would like to comment on an entry, please post your comments in the Mar 07 Contest Discussion Thread (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/contests/16617-mar-07-contest-discussion.html).

Vote for the 5 best entries in order.

Note you cannot vote for your own image. If you do, your votes will be deleted.

Example Vote:
Pick the top five contest entries and list in order...

1. Entry X (First Place)
2. Entry A (Second Place and so on)
3. Entry Q
4. Entry S
5. Entry P

This thread will remain closed until it's time to vote.

And as always, when you vote try to include some things you especially liked about your choices…what made them stand out, what impressed you, etc.
This is a learning experience!

1. Lorrane
2. Soleah
3. anouck_vantroy
4. Doug cowell
5. Irshgalkc


everyone done a great job

1.lilsip
2.PhotoB
3.pkzac
4.Neillo
In my humble opinion these are the only restored pictures. All others are beautiful, but more-less artistic expressions.

Here are my favorites...

1. DougColwell: Gorgeous job, still looks like a photograph and is a lot less noisy.

2. Anouck_Vantroy: Close first for this one. Doug's was my number one because the facial expressions seemed a bit more like the original.

3. PhotoB: Love what you achieved on the top two thirds of this image. It looks like the noise in the bottom third was a little bit more resistant to your treatment.

4. Woodenbender: Besides the fact that I love Futurama and am thrilled they are going to make new episodes next year, I think you did a great job restoring this picture. Like PhotoB's though it looks like you had a bit of trouble with the noise towards the bottom of the picture.

5. Soleah: I think this is an excellent restoration and you did a beautiful job. I think I would have put this higher on my list, but I found that some areas looked a little too soft to me. Maybe some sharpening might have helped.

Great job everyone who participated.

1- Chillin; The sharpest, most photo-like one in the bunch. Great noise reduction without losing detail or looking retouched. Great tonal range.

2- Lurch; Brought out detail and tonal range nicely, has kind of an eerie inner-glow look that I find appealing if not entirely realistic. Only problem is it's just a little soft/smudgy.

3- Soleah; Nice job killing the noise. Good detail, especially in the "missing" face. Great rendering there. Lights are a little blown-out, a little too contrasty.

4- Lorraine; Very similar to Soleah's, again a nice rendering of the child's face and amazing lack of noise. Still a bit contrasty and soft/smudgy at the same time.

5- PhotoB; Nice job bringing out detail and tonality, but still pretty noisy.

Great work everybody!

Here are my votes. Nice work everyone.

1. Soleah
2. Lorraine
3. Irishgrlkc
4. Printmeister
5. Dougcolwell

1.Wooden Bender
2.lipsip
3.irshgrlkc
4.Doug Colwell
5.Soleah

The ones that looked more like a photo to me. :classic:

1. Lorraine
2. Irishgrlkc
3. Printmeister
4. Dave Cox
5. Out of Focus

1. Soleah
2. Lorraine
3. Printmeister
4. Out of Focus
5. Dcolwell

A very close thing between the top two I think

Soleahs just edged it with a very slightly less retouched look.

I love lorraines job, especially the rebuilt childs face on the left.

Printmeisters little childs face is good too, more noise at bottom right though.

Out of focus, great little ones face.

Dcolwell good one, just a little too much noise left.

This was the first time I have tried one of the challenges, and I really enjoyed it. I am just a beginner. The whole forum is a great place to be.
Thanks

1. Lilsip
2. Dave Cox
3. Wooden Bender
4. Chillin
5. PKZac

In my eyes a restoration project should only enhance what currently exists within the image, to bring out levels of detail lost under the fug of age and substrate. IMHO, I believe a restoration should not involve 'painting-in' pieces of the puzzle (ie the baby's face) when we have no real idea what that piece of the puzzles looked like.
If these were my dead relatives, I'd want to see what little detail there was left, brought to the fore — not some washed over, airbrushed-in other person's idea of what my dead relatives looked like. Airbrushing-out the flaws in a photograph doesn't always make the end result a perfect restoration, you're more likely to airbrush-out the soul and character of that original photograph.

I feel my choices are true to what was required by the rules of this contest.

Quite a range of votes this month.

1. Irshgrlkc
2. Dave Cox
3. PhotoB
4. Lilsip
5. Woodenbender

Great work everyone. It was difficult to choose the top 5 entries.

My choices are based on the clarity of the restoration, details and sepia toning.

1. wooden bender
2. Soleah
3. irshgrlkc
4. Doug Colwell
5. lilsip

Lorraine

Narrowing these down to the top 5 was harder than I expected, but my vote goes a little something like this:

1) irishgrlkc (being a fan of Futurama put yours on top, jk :wink: )
2) Doug Colwell
3) soleah
4) Dave.Cox
5) lilsip

Tough vote, this one. On another day they may have been in a different order.... but this is today..! :-)


1 soleah
2 dcolwell
3 irshgrlkc
4 Lorraine
5 anouck_vantroy

Hard to pick, so many great entries. Any way, my pics are as follows:

1 Lorraine
2 Chillin
3 irshgrlke
4 Soleah
5 Slidefoot

1. Lorraine
2. dcolwell
3. irshgrlkc
4. cazubi
5. chillin

WOW, what a close contest! We even had a tie for first and had to go to the tie breaker.

Contest FAQs (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/contests/13446-contest-faqs.html)What happens in a tie for first?

The tie breaker is determined by who has the most first place votes. If it is a tie again, then we will look at who has the most second place votes and so on until a winner is determined.

And the winner is....Soleah!

Enjoy your prize:
The Prize: imageSynth by Luxology (http://www.luxology.com/whatismodo/imageSynth.aspx)
imageSynth is advanced technology that works within Adobe Photoshop for creating seamless textures and for creating high resolution images from low resolution sources using advanced image synthesis algorithms. Hence the name!



Top 5

1. Soleah (tie breaker) - 33
2. irshgrlkc - 33
3. Lorraine - 32
4. Doug Colwell - 25
5. lilsip - 18