[artfolio]

1) photo B
2) twinkissed
3) lorraine
4) garazon
5) janet petty

Good job everyone! Cheers!

[RooB]

1) garazone-- It's just all-round pretty.
2) RL Design-- I like the wet look, it suits.
3) cathsaigh-- Excellent job on the hair.
4) Ilsa-- The hand was a nice touch.
5) artfolio-- Stylish.

So many good ones, so hard to choose. There's others I could swap out votes so easily for, because I like them all.

[makeovermagic]

1. Ilsa (overall great look)
2. cazubi (coloring)
3. cathsaigh (great hair)
4. RL Design (water/blue coloring; hair masking)
5. artfolio (nice glamour look)

Congrats to everyone -- they were all fantastic!!

[Doug Colwell]

1. RL Design - very slick
2. Garazon - great skin, bg and text
3. Angie B - nice effect done well
4. Lorraine - classy bg and good clean-up
5. Cazubi - nice work matching colouring & lighting with bg

[Cassidy]

Have agonised over this for days, but anyway here goes...
1. Doug Colwell
2. Garazon
3. Lorraine
4. Twinkissed (the hair to me was the greatest barrier, and most challenging )
5. Cazubi (would have preferred a little more contrast between subect and background )

Better post this or I'll change my mind all over again
damn, changing my mind as I speak

Vidanse, wonderful skin, but the hair was so challenging

[Shalford]

1 Ilsa - It just shreiks Pro.
2 Artfolio - Like a page out of Vogue.
3 Cazubi - Late evening sun reflecting off the face. - very nice.
4 Lorraine - Clean crisp and very good facial tones.
5 Doug Colwell - Good background very good font effects.


I hate this voting bit - so hard to choose - very well done everybody!

[Marthig]

My votes:

1- Lorraine
2- Palomino
3- Doug Colwell
4- Leuallen
5- Kayak Bob

Congratulations to all - Martha

[ogee]

1.artfolio
2.Palomino
3. marthig
4.byRL_Design
5. leigh
I found this contest difficult to do and to judge and in my opinion none of us really found a good solution to what I felt was the main problem which was not the technical “glamourizing” aspect (although time consuming, many possessed admirable skills in this area), but creating a relationship between the “head” and the “word”. Creating this relationship was made more difficult by the actual head we had to use which was a profile shot which highlighted the ear and drew the eye away from the “word”. I thought the five above best solved what I saw as the main problems as well as being technically sound.

[Jaime]

Difficult selection with many good entries to choose.

1. Doug Colwell. Good clean up of hair and nice skin retouching. The highlights of the hair shows some blue color cast.
2. Lorraine. Another excellent work of skin and hair retouching.
3. Rl Design. Fine and elegant work which shows great creativity.
4. Ilsa. Although I think the tone of the new hair didn’t match exactly with the original hair, I like the result.
5. Photo B. The slight inclination you give to the head improves the mood of the composition.

Congratulations to all the participants.

[PhotoB]

1. RL Design
2. Cathsaigh
3. Leigh
4. Vidanse
5. Cazubi

[byRo]

And the winner is RL Design, who will receive this month's prize of Color
Management for Photographers donated by Focal Press

January's top ten:

44...RL Design
42...Doug Colwell
39...Ilsa
31...Artfolio
30...Lorraine
24...Cazubi
22...PhotoB
17...Garazon / Leigh
15...Palomino

Thank you all for such great entries, and for taking the time (and trouble) to vote - I know this wasn't easy.