Colour the world!, CONTEST Options

[technicolour]

Or at least these pictures!

COLOURIZATION CONTEST

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!

[Gigi]

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.