Aug 07 Contest Discussion

[Lynnette]

Doreen, yes, I did post an attempt -"I ain't skeered"

Lorraine can you tell us more about the organization you are helping?

Lynnette

Originally Posted by dweekley

Lynnette, sorry about the delay....I haven't checked to see if you posted your contest results but if not, please do. All the posts I've seen from Ant run in the same vein and do not reflect the other 99% of people on this site, in my opinion. By now you've probaby read Lorraine's post to which I reply - Bravo!
Doreen

[Lorraine]

Lynnette,

The organization is Operation Photo Rescue http://www.operationphotorescue.com/

Quite a few members of RetouchPRO are involved.

Thanks for the interest.

Lorraine

[Kraellin]

and just to respond to lorraine's post about OPR images, we've had several operation photo rescue posts in the restoration forum. it's perfectly fine with me to post these there when you need help with one or want it looked over. just make sure you have the owner's permission to do so or, just post a small portion if the copyright is an issue.

[Gambaler]

Finally. Used CS3

[Ms Bay]

Just to add my 2 cents worth about Ant's comments, I thought this was to be a learning experience for beginner to expert photo retouchers and for us to have fun. Any time anyone puts any effort, their best effort, into doing a task is not "turd" work to me. Some of these people work long and hard to make the submissions look as good as they can to the best of their ability. It doesn't matter what kind of photo is submitted, it is our task to follow the rules and put forward our best efforts. Who cares about all of the other stuff? Hats off to all of the people who have entered any of these contest . . . just continue to have fun. I know I do! Let Simon's, "errr" Ant's comments be reserved for magazines like Cosmopolitan, GQ or Glamour.

[T Paul]

To help with voting here is a temporary link to the entries in Photo Album format:

August Contest Entries

[CathyH]

I'm wonder how the votes will come out when there are so many uncalibrated monitors. Some of the entires are so bluish or redish, how will the be judging? This includes mine too, I happen to see my entry on another monitor and it looked darker. Just a thought

[T Paul]

This turned out to be quite a popular contest. I hope everyone had fun!

Well the voting has been tallied and the winner is……..
SYD!

Prize: Genuine Fractals 5, donated by onOne Software

Genuine Fractals 5 is the industry standard for image resizing. As a Photoshop plug-in, it is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well over 1000% without the loss of sharpness or detail that you would normally expect. Its patented, fractal based interpolation algorithms work like nothing else and the results speak for themselves.

Top 5
Syd – 57
Splata – 46
Lorraine – 40
Cassidy – 31
byRo - 31

[Cassidy]

Hey well deserved congrats Syd, Splata and Lorraine
Byro congrats too, I am really flattered that I tied with someone as skillful as you

[Janet Petty]

Congratulations and happy retouching. You did a fine job Syd!

Janet

[Lorraine]

Congratulations Syd.

I'm honored even be in the running. Great job everyone.

Lorraine

[chillin]

Congrats Syd. I would be disappointed otherwise. I will take you on, in the next challenge LOL. Enjoy, You deserve it.

[dweekley]

Congatulations everyone!
Quite educational and fun for me.
Doreen

[byRo]

Well done, Syd

....and congratulations to all who entered the contest.

Remember, participating is more important than winning. (Except for Syd, of course)

OK, let's get started on the September contest - I've got a tie-break to run with Cassidy. (just kidding)

Rô

[Gilbert]

A worthy winner.......congrats Syd

[ScubaMargie]

Well done Syd and the other place getters. And also well done to all he other entrants as well.

[Syd]

Many thanks to Cassidy, Janet. Lorraine, Chillin, Doreen, Ro, Gilbert and Scuba Margie for your wishes.

Sincerely Syd

[LonK]

Congrats, Syd. You turned my "disaster" source photo into a wonderful keepsake.

[Syd]

Thanks Lonk and thanks for providing the source photo. The most challenging part of it was restoring the colour and I think you did the best job on that by far.

Regards Syd

[splata]

Congrats Syd and all those that were apart of this contest. Can't wait to see what the Sept. contest will be.
Charlie

[Swampy]

Hey, Syd, congratulations! :-)

[Doug Colwell]

Nicely done everyone, and congratulations Syd.

[Jaime]

Congratulations Syd. Well done Splata, Lorraine, Cassidy and byRo.

[Syd]

Many thanks Splata, Swampy, Doug and Jaime. Splata congratulations to you too!

Syd :-)