Feb/Mar 2012 Contest - Beauty Retouch

[T Paul]

Beauty Retouching

This will be a commercial level beauty retouch. The attached photo is being proposed for a fashion magazine cover. Your job is to retouch it so it will be chosen for the cover.

Source Image: Photo by our very own Janet Petty.

Click here to download FebMar Portrait

New to the contests? Please review the FAQs

Prize: Prize will be "Winner's Choice" of any one plugin: Dfine 2, Viveza 2, HDR Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 3, or Sharpener Pro 3, donated by Nik Software

Dfine 2.0
Best-in-class noise reduction to improve the quality of virtually every photo.

VIVEZA 2
The most powerful tool available to selectively control light and color in photographs.

HDR EFEX PRO
The new professional standard for powerful realistic and artistic HDR imaging.

SILVER EFEX PRO 2
The world's leading black and white imaging software.

Color Efex Pro 3.0
52 photographic filters with over 250 effects for professional quality images.

Sharpener Pro 3.0
The most advanced, powerful, and complete sharpening solution for photographers.

THE RULES:

1. Contest will run from 13 Feb to 24 Mar 2012. Deadline for entries is 7pm (U.S. Central Time).

2. I will not answer questions concerning the rules. Interpretation of the rules is as important as execution.

3. Tasks:

• Retouch the image for a fashion magazine cover (beauty retouch).
  
• Final image must be exactly 800 pixels high by 600 pixels wide (portrait format); cropping to get the required dimensions is permitted.

4. When you submit your entry put your username in the filename (ie: tpaul.jpg). This is so users can save the images to a local directory and remember who did what--important when it comes time to vote.

5. Post your entries to this thread. Links will not be accepted. Please restrict your comments, questions or discussion to the Contest Discussion thread. Inappropriately placed posts will be deleted.

6. Only one entry per person. You can change your entry up to the deadline.

7. Voting will run from 25 to 31 March 2012. Only those with entries may vote.

8. Voting:

• Submit the 5 best entries (by artist name) in order, starting with your favorite.
• You cannot vote for your own image.
• Once you have voted, do not change your votes. The votes are tallied as they come in so any changes in the votes may not be reflected in the final results.

Finally, please remember that this is a friendly contest and suppose to be a learning experience. Tips and suggestions to help others are highly encouraged. Also please don’t limit your comments to just the top 5 when you vote. Most members are eager for feedback about their images, so remember to help each other out.

[4personnen]

HI,

I purposely done it quite quickly (wanted to be the first to post) and took the fun side of it...

[Imagocentric]

Here's my image...

[Nasturtium]

here's mine;

[fenix]

I went in the footsteps of the first entry.

[Janet Petty]

Since the picture is mine, I thought I'd join too.

Here tis.

Janet

[Marc]

Ok, here we go...

[Cupcake]

Here is my try!

[Electricneon]

Here is my entry

the colors are really not good I have to save my JPEG at quality 8 to attach it here

[bio3y]

and here goes my

[mikex79]

just simple skin retouch as I am very busy working as an electrician :-)
hope you like it
Mick

[Lorraine]

Here's another entry.

Lorraine

[philbach]

Here is my submission

[rainycat]

Here is my entry.

[edgework]

Here goes:

[CathyH]

Here is my.

[Ruzzez]

I decided to stay the the girl next door look.

[lidicce]

lost a lot of the quality resizing it but i hope you guys still like it, i am still a little new to the site so any critiques would be great!

[Lou R]

Is this the right size? Also found another thing to correct lol

[Veralisa]

Here's my retouch:

[LKB]

TaaDaa

[rl-retouch]

My first retouchpro effort.

[Nael]

hello, my first participation to a contest :

[0lBaldy]

I think my monitor colors are off....

[jansandahl]

I went for natural beauty...

[panorama]

This is my first retouching attempt

[CarolB]

I went for the more natural look.

[grannysdc]

Lots of beautiful entries for this popular contest

[CaptainObvious]

and this is my entry.

[TopiToo]

Hello,

here is my image

updated.

TopiToo