Sep 07 Contest Votes

[palms1]

This was a hard desicion to make with so many great entrants

1. Cathy H
2. emilylt87
3. LQQKER
4. MS-Bay
5. Lonk

Palms

[jessibelle15]

I liked these 5 best for various reasons:

1-Platterpro
2-Cathy H
3-Matthew Marshall
4-LQQER
5-Nanis

[Racc Iria]

The result was supposed to be realistic and look like a photograph. Eliminating all those that weren't left very slim pickings.

Out of what was left:
1. Doug Colwell
2. Lorraine
3. splata
4. dennisu

Because I needed one more:
5. Lonk

Lot's of great works of art here! A lot of talent in that regard. Just not too many of them looked realistic, which was a requirement of the contest.

[emilylt87]

My Lovely Votes are:

1. Matthew Marshall- Nice work and i love the explanation
2. Lonk- Love it , Just beautiful, except the mirrored teeth
3. Grafx- I like the fact that you took a risk on the eyelashes
4. Roundrock- Love the icy crown
5. nimfabebeaida- looks tons better in full view on deviant art, great hair

Thank you for such a fun contest:

emilylt87

[oltenius]

My votes:
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1. Cathy H
2. Doug Colwell
3. Nimfabebeaida
4. Cupcake
5. Palms1
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Great job, everyone!
Dan

[plattepro]

1. Doug Colwell
2. Matthew Marshall
3. Lonk
4. Photo b
5. Mikkimicole

[OnFocus]

1.Matthew Marshall
2.wojtek
3.dcolwell
4.noud
5.splata
Difficult to narrow down from last 10
others i felt deserved a mention
Dennisu
Lorraine
Mikkimicole
Swampy
& palms
Well done everyone
Does Calvin Hollywood have a favourite, would be interesting to know, after all was his photo that started it
Thanks
Steve

[Shalford]

The best of the bunch.

1. Cathy H
2. Doug Colwell
3. Lorraine
4. Splata
5. Cupcake


Well done to all!

[LonK]

This was a great contest. Almost a third of the entries were from brand new RetouchPRO members. Let me extend my welcome to them and hope they'll all become regular contributing members of our family.

With so many creative, imaginative entries, voting was a real chore. I started by rating each entry on a scale from 1 to 10. I leaned in favor of those who went with my basic interpretation of the contest criteria: a realistic, embellished, Hollywood styled beauty retouch of a gorgeous young woman. I allowed leeway on "looks like a photograph", since we are talking the movie business here! I ended up with over a dozen 10s! It just goes to show how member skills are continually improving. Picking my favorite 5 of those was very difficult.

1. emilylt87 -- lovely soft complexion, cool hair and hypnotic eye makeup
2. Shalford -- very inventive vision; definitely "icy"
3. MatthewMarshall -- innovative sleepy eye manipulation, frosty coiffure and attire
4. dcolwell -- clean, subtle retouch and originative wintry embellishment
5. splata -- symmetry is a great idea: beauty = symmetrical. Delicate crystal lace apparel.

And props to a few more that I really liked for one reason or another: CathyH, grafx, lorraine, mikkimicole, nancyj, ratz, solitear and wojtek.

[roundrock]

1. Jeffere312
2. DougColwell
3. MatthewMarshall
4. Splata
5. Didiben

[CathyH]

Just like everyone else this was hard to narrow down to just 5.
1, Lonk - Just beautiful
2, Splata- Good retouch and I liked the crystal hair
3, MattewMarshall - Nice overall look, I could see this one on a film poster
4, dcolwell - Very photographic and clean retouching
5, K_Gimini_M - Soft over all look

Also really liked these - NancyJ, Lorraine, Ratz. Everyone did a great job!

[splata]

Here are my top 5

1. Lonk
2. Cupcake
3. MathewMarshall
4. dcolwell
5. Mikkimicole

This was a fun contest. Learned alot by looking and trying to match what other people did. Then came up with mine.

[grannysdc]

Nice work everyone !

1. LonK

2. dcolwell

3. splata

4. didiben

5. plattepro

[solitear]

As everyone has said..... very hard..... but here goes...

1. LonK - Great job...using drop shadows really makes the jewelry real.... color was so good, too, because she still had faint life in her cheeks and the warm ring around her pupils..
2. Grafx - Really great lashes and eye makeup.
3. Matthew Marshall - Great frosty hair and loved the lips.
4. Doug Colwell - Overall great plus very 'real' looking.
5. Nanls - Really liked the hair thingy...

Also liked:
Palms - great delicate, frosty hair.
Emily - she looked so pretty... especially her eyes.
Cassidy - liked the look of yours... would have loved it if the jewelry had a drop shadow to make it sit on the skin...

Such a fun contest!
Beth

[dennisu]

This is my list:

1. plattepro
2. mikkimicole
3. matthewmarshall
4. cupcake-2
5. cassidy

Well done to all!! It was a great contest!