Or at least these pictures!



The Pictures:

Pick ONE.

The Objective
Well, to, uh, basically color the picture the best. Ouch, that sounded like it broke like every grammar rule, but, basically make it look THE MOST realistic as possible. Remember, your skin tone has many shades and different tones of one color. It's not just one layer. Add depth and realism! Don't be afraid to get detailed!

The Particulars
-->Final product must have some colourization added to it. Don't turn in the b/w. Come on, people.
-->Dimension must be NO LONGER than 600px in length or width. All of these pictures either have 1200 as their length and width, so, just change that 1200 to 600 and leave the other number alone. Just some uniformity.
-->Strict colourization. Don't add brushes (Major big brushes..small ones to add some influence are okay) Borders are okay, of course. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO CHANGE THE BACKGROUND, but don't use brushes/textures on your colourization
-->NAME YOUR FINAL PRODUCT! Be creative. It's fun. :D
--> DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2007 BY 12:00 NOON CENTRAL STANDARD TIME (US)
--> SEND ALL ENTRIES TO ME WITH "Colourization Contest" as SUBJECT.


DO NOT MAKE A THREAD DISPLAYING YOUR COLORIZATION

Knock yo' self out!

All four? Or just one?

^I would hope it was just one.

Probably just one. ... I hope.

I'm joining!

same here, already started, take it we only have to do one right?
edit: um... not gonna work out, i look forward to voting though
edit: (may13): ok back in

I'm in.

Of course you only have to do one. Good god, all four would be, like, photoshopSuicide.

But yay! Contestants!

Question: is it alright to change up the background? I'm planning on using a texture, but I'm not sure if that breaks the "strict colourization" rule. The texture covers only a bit of the hair and a bit off her shoulder, everything else is the picture in its original colourized form. Is that alright?

Oh, also: is cropping of the image alright? Not crazy-cropping, of course, but I'm talking maybe half her hand, a bit of her shoulder or something. The reason is that when I resize it to 600 px min in width/length, the image is incredibly small. (I had to expand image to include a title).

Actually, you'll probably get a better sense of it when I send it over, but thanks anyway.

well i don't think u want to over do it with the cropping, and texture shouldn't be a problem if its just the background and not her since it breaks the "strict colourization" rule

i guess its it some small cropping with a final length of 600 things are fine
right?

Oooh, I dont really colorize detailed things too often, but I'm in.

Gigi- Your entry is perfectly acceptable. I meant the brushes/textures towards more of the colourization of her face and what not. Some people use those, and, I don't think its well, a colourization if you did. But you coloured her and it's beautiful! Totally acceptable.

I got started.
I think it looks ugly though, lol.

^ It doesn't. I can guarantee it. I always think my crap looks ugly but then, it comes out looking amazing.

x_x It's probably a bad idea, but I submitted my first colourization. rawr x.x; but dang.. colourization is so much more fun & cooler than i thought.

i have a question: is judging gonna be a poll or by judges?

Can we submit it as early as .. now? Lol.
I think I finished.

And do I submit it by PMing it to you, Sherlock?
Oops, didn't read. Heh.

Yes, of course you can send it to me now. I've already gotten 2 or 3.

DO NOT MAKE A THREAD DISPLAYING YOUR COLORIZATION

Forgot about that.

typo?
Final product must have some colourization added to it. Don't turn in the b/w. Come on, people.
u mean Don't turn it in black and white?
could be way off... just looks wrong

Question: Sepia tones with depth and some realism with out the nasty brown overlay acceptable?

I think she meant she doesn't want people to turn in the original black and white photo with either nothing or barely anything done to it.

The other question she can answer for you when she gets back.

Toya was right. I was saying just don't turn in something not edited.

Well, about the sepia. As long as it DOESNT look like all you did was add an adjustment layer on top that changes the whole thing to brown then it should be okay. You'd still have to create multiple layers to get the multiple tones of anyones skin colour.

AND ABOUT TIME ROBBI! God. Your colorizations are amazing. I should've PM-ed you.

Can I get an example please? :o

^ Of a colourization?

Yes please :) It`s ok if you don`t want to. xD

You just colour it...

Thanks.. :x

Oooh. I would like to have a try at this :D Though I've never tried colorization on a real picture before. I usually do this kind of thing to manga scans or sketches x_x.

Basically we just bring color back into the picture right? We are allowed to do anything to the picture's background?

^ Yes & Yes Please, take a whack at it!

YAYAYAAY I'M IN! Cause AP testing is over! Haven't done many colorizations though...uh oh.


SO um, are we allowed to crop? Or can we only shrink it?

Just shrink, please.

Dang... I should enter this... just because I haven't touched Photoshop in a few months and I wanna see what skills I have left...

DO IT CARRIE. DO IT.

Alright, I'm in.

I'll get started on it tomorrow. By the way, we're allowed to save it in any file format, right?

Well, stick to either jpg's or png's. I'm going to be hosting these on my own webspace shtuff, and I dont want a lot of space to be taken up. :)

And yay! Please, enter!

CARRIE! cB misses you! Or...have you been online for a while? Maybe I'm just slow. By the way, you should do it!

How many entries so far?

Oh, also...how will this contest be judged?

I'm thinking i'll just display the entries, and people put the corresponding number to whichever entry they like the best.

I, am quite silly but, refuse to do poll's for contests. Those are a no-no.

I've been around, just not as active around the design-y sections since January. I was in London with no PS on my (no longer) new laptop so yeah.

I'm finding it a pain to colour in the background -_-

*bump*

6 days left. How'sss everyone goin'?

Yeah it was a total pain for me, too. For the wispy bits without a definite edge, I used lasso tool set to 10 px feather to blend it in a bit. Hopefully that'll work better for you.

And polls annoy me, too.

I've never done one before, but I think I'm going to give this a shot too. I was working on it earlier and The hair is a pain in the rear.

Ah ha. I'll definitely try that. Thanks, Gigi

Eek, idk if I'm going to finish mine.

^ DO IT. NOW.

Im in. Im new at this website, where do i submit it or how?

^ Just PM (personal message) it to oh_flardnarf. Hover over her username, click on the arrow, and choose "Send Message".

just started 2 hours ago 'cause i can't sleep. mine is boring i think -_-". can't wait to see the creativity in the other entries.

Shouldn't the deadline have been over? XD

probably ends tonight

I can't wait.
Ughh, I'm sure a lot of people did better than me though ..

SORRY! Eeek. Back-to-back days where I work like, the WHOLE day. Didn't know that was going to happen when I set the deadline. I shall make the voting topic right now.