Announcing the Photo Retouching Competition Winners!

Announcing the Photo Retouching Competition Winners!

A big thank you to everyone who took part in our recent photo retouching competition. We’ve had some fantastic entries, and have collected them all for you to take a look at today! We’ll also be announcing the lucky winners, so read on to find out if you were chosen…


First Prize

The first prize consists of the Nik Software Complete Collection Ultimate Edition, with a suggested retail price of $599.95! Congratulations are in order to our winning entry:

Marta


Runners Up

Each runner-up will be able to pick any single Nik Software product for their prize. You can see a complete list here – we’ll be in touch with each of you shortly!

Mercedes Retouch


The Elegant Iris


Ice-Cream 2


70+ Retouching Examples

We’d also like to showcase the other entries we received, and encourage you to check out each author over at their Creattica page (where you’ll also find plenty more examples of photo retouching!)


Portrait


Ed


Age Redux


Bald No More


XR650L Retouch


Photo, Retouching, And A Little Design


Power Ginger


Rainbow


Ryan Leigh Retouching


Retro Girl


Title Can’t Be Blank


Matheus (Beatles Tribute)


Matheus (Beatles Tribute)


Facial Retouch Example


Retouching…


Makeup Photo Retouching


Priscilla


Alina


Ice-Cream


Flower


Photo Retouching


Tawny Horton Photography


Natural-Looking Retouch


Justyna #2


Justyna


Headshot And Edit


El Bajista


Cast Of Clowns Retouch


More Retouching


Monique


Extreme Temper


Child Portrait


Young Girl


Olivia Wilde


Summer Hat


Retouche #3


Alexia K Photography


More Light For The Young Boy


Alessandra Ambrosio


Off Road Truck


Flowers


Female Portrait


Bridal 1


Sarah


Laila


Black Swan


Voyage MINI


Isabela


Retouch


Wedding Retouch


The Graffiti


Girl


Hayley


British Accent


James Headshot


The Magenta Beauty


Model Retouching


Warm Retouch


Skin Retouch


Blue-Gold


Wild


Kitten


Zombie Soldier


Girl With A Triangle Earring


Vera II


Woman


Tresor Perfume


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  • DAKSH

    awesome photography n retouch

    good work guys

  • Steve M

    Wow, awesome job to everyone!

  • http://www.josephnicklo.com josephnicklo

    Some really nice retouches here. Congrats to the winner(s).

  • http://www.sigaspot.com/ SiGa

    Some are really impressing, others are overdone in my opinion. I like it when skin looks like real skin… Therefore the first one is a good choice – the skin still has texture. But honestly – I wouldn´t wanna be the one to choose! ;-)

  • Debby

    OMG!!!!! my image is there!!! i’m so happy for this, i’m new in the photo retouch (i’m student of advertising design)…… and thanks you for the tuts and support for people who want to learn new things and tecnics…..

    (sorry for the bad english… XDDD)

  • Page

    Such a wide range of topics and approaches represented here.

    I hope you’ll do another re-touching competition soon!

  • Bernd

    I don´t agree with first prize, the Mercedes Retouch is by far the best one

    • guy

      i agree. the mercedes one is the best

      • http://justinmarquese.com Justin

        I also agree.

    • http://clickdesignz.com Austin

      Agreed. I also thought that alot of the runner ups were WAY better than the first prize.

  • guy

    the afro guy one is awesome

  • http://www.ericvasquez.net Eric Vasquez

    A lot of these are really well done, although I would have to agree that the Mercedes one is really awesome.

  • http://www.peax-webdesign.com Graphiste freelance

    Some relly awesome works, I agree. great selection, I love this

  • Ryan

    Mercedes is in my opinion the best one, but also the afro one was amazing how he literally kept every hair in tact. Would love to see the selection process he used for it…

    • Joe

      Indeed, i have used the channel-based technic to extrac hair and still have detail….. but c’mon, the affro guy picture its awesome, how can you get that much of detail??, that will be a greath tutorial.

      Any chance the autor can share how he did it? just my opinion

  • http://www.solsticeretouch@gmail.com Pratik – Solstice Retouch

    In my humble opinion, the Mercedes definitely demonstrates a caliber of retouching that should have put it into first place. Thanks for putting on this competition, it’s nice to see everyone having fun first and foremost.

  • http://www.roundvision.nl Nick

    The first girl and the cyclist in the city real class

  • http://www.isshgraphicsart.com ishaan

    Cool post ! Really enjoyed checking out the retouching work.

  • http://www.twitter.com/licoricepirate rin

    wooowwwww

  • http://pica-ae.deviantart.com pica-ae

    the winner looks great! they left texture to the skin and it doesn’t look overly done. I don’t like the glove, but that’s for the original image ;)

    the mercedes… i didn’t expect any cars tbh. and I think it is overdone. the lighting on the floor looks a bit unreal, but maybe like car ads do look.

  • http://www.redpict.info/ Red

    the runners up is cool, great retouching

  • http://www.marcinrogowski.pl Marcin Rogowski

    nice … very nice