So you think you're good with image-editing software? A creative genius when it comes to Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Picture It! and others? Here's your chance to prove it with Pop Photo's 2004 Digital Wizard Contest. You could win the $1,000 grand prize and have your work published in the magazine! (There are cash prizes for runners-up!)

Download the 12 photos in the Digital Wizard Contest file, and then work your magic. You have to use elements from at least four of the shots in our digital dozen. You can't add any other images, but you can apply any filters or plug-ins that your software can handle. ~Popular Photography

For more information visit the Popular Photography web site (http://www.popphoto.com/article.asp?section_id=5&article_id=806&page_number=1).

It's a great opporutnity to show off your manipulation skills. Best of luck!
Deadline for entries is 1 April 2004!

For info...

"To be eligible to enter, you must be 18 years or older at the time of entry and a legal resident of 50 United States or D.C. "

Just to save anyone ineligible from the time spent downloading!

Good catch Leah!

~T

only way to go... :(

So who, if anyone, submitted work to the contest? I would really like to see some of the other submissions...

I went with a whimsical approach and used five of the photos...

Nicely done Rondon! I like the world inside of the mouth with the onlookers peering in from the lip.

~T

Wow, very well done! I really like the use of colors! Very uplifting!

Mine is more of a, uh? black comedy? Don't know if that is the right word, but i'll submit now, and let you have at it.

Great job seemlessly blending the photos together. I like the monotone color and I'm guessing you created the wings from the sunflower? If so, nicely done!

~T

Yeah, wings were created with sunflower pedals, type was taken from the ferry boat. I do a lot of personal work in monotones, with distressed type and cracks in the photos, so this was just a natural progression of things.

The bubble spewing Daisy is neat... and the giraffe will go unnoticed at mass..
nice one... did you enter it ? I got a couple of flattering e-mails from someone so I did... after I give my 10% of the winnings to RetouchPRO I'll go camera hunting.
oh well! nice to have a dream.
Hi Subtle... missed your's... neat stuff.

Thanks Rondon! I did enter it for fun. Of course my mother loved it and wants a large print of it for her birthday (got to love mothers)! I am looking forward to seeing the winning entries. It will be fun to see the different approaches people took, what photos they used and how they combined them.

http://www.popphoto.com/article.asp?article_id=872&section_id=5

for better of for worse.

The smart money says Shane will win.

Docle Le's should win, but it's too good.

M.

I really like Andrey Kasatsky's, Frank DiGiovanni's and Chris Mayernik's entries. I do question some of the entries though, especially since the rules stated that you could not use images other than the ones provided.

I had the same thoughts! I wasn't quite sure of the technical ability of some of these finalists... Don't know that they quite qualify as "wizards"...
Ah whell, such is life.

Yes out of "hundreds of entries" I must admit I am puzzled by a few of them.

For what it's worth, yours should have been right up there.

(I just realized how that sounds in the midst of our despondant conversation... but I mean that in a good way!)

Why thanks, but I didn't expect to make it to the finals. I just anticipated that the finalists would be better (grin). But then again that's the beauty of art...it's all subjective and beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

I had fun with the entry and enjoyed seeing the different approaches people took in combining the images. Personally I wish that they had posted more than 9 as I really wanted to see more of the entries.

~T

I would have liked to have seen more of the entrants for sure.... pretty tight with their bandwidth.

someone at RetouchPRO posted the link for worth1000 here
http://www.worth1000.com/

I've been thinking of trying some of those challenges... it's done often which is good..

guess I should have named mine "bad breath" :cry:

Rondon:

After seeing the winner's entries, I thought that your attempt was at least as good as theirs.

Alan

The winners' have been announced and they show how they made their images:

Web Site (http://www.popphoto.com/article.asp?section_id=5&article_id=900&page_number=1)

Bah Humbug !