It’s time to challenge your skills and show everyone what you can do. RetouchPro is hosting a Contest…yes CONTEST, and this time there will be a time limit and a PRIZE!

General Rules:
1. Contest will run from 1 March to 23 March 2005. Deadline for entries is 5pm EST 23 March 2005.

2. All contestants will work from the same photo. Download the photo from the following link:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b27507 (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b27507)
Click on the image to go to the download page. The challenge is to cleanup and colorize this black & white image. Make sure to download the 1.5MB TIF version of the image.

3. Post your entries to this thread. Please restrict your comments, questions or discussion to the March 05 Contest Discussion (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9947) thread. Inappropriately placed posts will be deleted.

4. File Format: JPEG (.jpg)

5. File Size: No larger than 100 KB

6. Discussion of the entries can be made in the following thread (March 05 Contest Discussion (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9947)).

7. Only one entry per person.

8. Voting will run from 24 March to 31 March. Only those with entries may vote. You will vote for the 5 best entries in order. Post your votes in the following thread (March 05 Contest Votes (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9948)). Note you cannot vote for your own image.
Prize
The winner will get a free 1-year subscription to the Photoshop Fix monthly newsletter (a $59 value). American and Canada winner will get the paper version in the mail, if the winner is from another country they'll receive an electronic subscription. http://www.photoshopfix.com (http://www.photoshopfix.com)

Images:
Do you have an image that would be perfect for a future contest? Post them in the Contest Images Thread (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?p=83472#post83472).

Final note, we can only offer future prizes if lots of people enter, so invite everyone you know that might be interested. The more the merrier and please don’t forget to post your entry/comment/vote to the correct thread as there will be three!! Posts made to the incorrect thread will be deleted.

Entries: March 05 Contest Entries

Discussion: March 05 Contest Discussion (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9947)

Votes: March 05 Contest Votes (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9948)

Note: RetouchPro Moderators are allowed to enter since the voting is open to contest participants only.

Here's my effort.

Christine

Colourising's not really my thing, but thought I'd have a go anyway.

Hi,

Same as Gary "not really my thing" either but I tried colorization....

I don't know enough about what I'm doing to make any comment.

The only 'extra added attraction' was Feivel's glow at the end.

I HAVE MADE MINOR CHANGES TO MY ENTRY.

first time colouring, was kind of fun.

Hey have a nice day everybody

Had a blast :)

Done with colorizing technique from: Worth1000.com

The biggest challenge I had was to control the translucency of her shaw; hope I pulled it off. I also really like green eyes. Auburn red with green eyes is my favorite combination in a women; reminds me of Christmas. What a gift that would be for me. :)

This is great fun and I hope to see more contests.

I enjoyed cleaning up and colorizing this Photo!

This one has been edited to fall more in line with the restoration / colorizations that seemed more expected ? Sean

Got some real competitors here. Looks like the voting will be difficult.
Here's my humble entry.

I forgot to mention, this represents about 6-8 hours of work and another 6-8 hours of just staring at it.

:grin: Remember -- vote for Pedro.

Love to color!
Just a thought...wouldn't it be easier to view and vote on all the entries if they were in a gallery?

This was a ton of fun, and nice to see so many entries - hope to see lots more.

Here is my entry. I love coloring images. Thanks Flora for your instructions on attaching files. :wavey:

Here's my attempt after 30 minutes of playing...

Well here's my effort?

For what its worth here is my attempt.

I think this is only the second time I've tried colouring images. Here's my attempt - I tried to make it somewhat accurate to the colours of the time.

About three hours work.

Could we have a paint by numbers next time please?

Cheers
Dave

Good luck to every one!
I enjoyed it a lot.

Spent so much time on this, my head's permanently tilted on the same angle as hers.

This is my first attempt at coloring B&W, thanks to the tutorial.

Well I thought I would try my hand at a colorization (my first), and hats off to everyone who has tried so far. I didn’t realize how difficult and time consuming this would be, and addictive! I started with the Worth 1000 colorization tutorial using primary color layers and went from there.

hi all, nice competition, here's my attempt

The people entering this contest are producing some very nice entries. This was a good idea Doug. And thanks to TPaul for monitoring it.

Janet

Sorry about that, just a joke!! This is my try.

Thank you

L.A.

What fun this was! :dizzy:

I think the voting's going to be much more difficult than the colourizing!

Had fun! :thumbsup:

Rô

Wonderful work here! Great job everyone!

Here's mine ...

just saw this contest and thought i'd try it out

First try at colorizing. This site is great!

Trying to make the b&w picture look as if it was actually hand color was a change to try a new way to change the color of a picture. I think the picture turn out better than I had hope.

Here it is.
Nice contest!

Mike

This is my first post here in a long while. Love the contest and I will be back for future challenges. I wanted this picture to look like a real, old color picture. Wanted to stay away from the blurry look and try to make it look as real as possible. I wanted to keep the film grain. Found out by doing this that using lots of tones makes it look much more realistic than one continous skin or hair tone. Hope you all like it. Great job everyone

P.s. I added a center to the rose, just didnt like the big black center it had.

Good luck everyone!

I have been away from the site for awhile, day job has been too heavy. It was fun to get back with such an interesting challenge. Here is my attempt.

Here is my entry. This monthly contest is a great idea.

Here's what I spent a rainy couple hours doing this morning. I'm not too into coloring but here goes nothing!

I tend to procrastinate. :)

I procrastinate even longer -- I decided that I needed to do this so I could vote -- didn't give myself enough time (colorizing for me takes a LOT of time). :dizzy: :)

This contest is now closed.

Voting will run from 24 March to 31 March. Only those with entries may vote. You will vote for the 5 best entries in order. Post your votes in the following thread (March 05 Contest Votes (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9948)). Note you cannot vote for your own image.

Vikki was kind enough to load all the contest entries into one gallery for easier viewing.

The numbers on the images corresponds to the thread number the owner posted in the contest at RetouchPro.

http://www.pbase.com/vhansen/contest

Click here to view the winner (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showpost.php?p=86451&postcount=52)....or go to the March 05 Contest Votes Thread (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9948&page=1&pp=15)