I think she is praying ...... nice work author

Fantastic result author...Great colors and fantastic final product...very well done

Thanks for the comments guys. Feedback is always welcome.

its lovely, and a great shot to start with...however, i do think your flesh tone is a bit orange. (could just be me, but i think it should be a tiny bit pinkish)
and another way of colorizing photos, use blank layers overlayed on the original image with the blend mode set to "color" and then put different colors on individual layers.

Nice one! GL!

LEes see, am I right?

Nope. I thought you were someone else. GL! author!

great job at getting rid of the aging as well.. good luck author

Nice work author. GL.

Nice work...best of luck author

Thanks guys!

Well chosen source photo, good color...GL, author!

Coming from you it means a lot Thank you !

This image is really beautiful! But here I come again.. The right side of her lip could use some better masking, as well as her right eye.. The green of the eye is also found under the eye. I am also seeing some masking problems around her hair.. All visible in hi-res.. Maybe you should fix that..

everything is ok, except some gray spots on her face: eye, nose, cheek!

Fantastic work author...colorization is great,model is perfect and final product is awesome...one of the top entry's for sure...best of luck

Nice outcome. Great work! GL Author.

beautiful source selection and gud colouring on her body except that white areas visible on her face ...... !

...and...her fingernails.
they are still grey. as is the middle finger on the image. its all very well done, and i agree with CMYK about the choice of photo...its awesome.

to help the white spots in her skin (mostly because of exposure in the original source) try pulling down the exposure and gamma in the settings. see if that helps a little. if you did you colorization on the source, then i don't quite know how to fix that..but...i usually use seperate layers set to "color" blend mode, so i can do adjusting to the main b/w source to help with the shadowing and color adjustments.

GORGEOUS!!

Very nice colorization! GL!

I applaud you my friend. This one is definitely my fav. GL!

Great but it looks like you missed a bit in the chest area

The edges of the arms have a bluish cast, and her legs are a noticeably different color from the rest of her body.

Fantastic work author...u have to be proud on this...u turned hot chick to even hotter chick...well done

love her hair...........

(just for future help, what hair dye colour was that.... i have a few greys and that looks like a good choice)

nice work ..... but there are still some gray colours visible on her shoulder area,edges of arm and in eye portion ... i love her hair .... GL !

you still have a few spots to catch on the shoulders...also, it seems that the (viewers) left hand side shoulder by the hair line is slightly discolored from color-over from the hair... it gives a strange orange glow to the skin tones, and since there are some noticeable grey spots right by it...it stands out alot. (same with a bit on the toenail polish areas, but thats getting pretty picky)

otherwise, you did a great job, and i like that the white sheet has that bluish cast that alot of people don't seem to get when doing a recolor on a photo...there really isn't a pure white to anything.

Wow, this almost looks like a digital drawing with the color effects. GL!

Nice work on this, and cute photo.

No but the colors are a little wild. I would quite say this is realistic, like the contest asks for.

Great photo and wonderful colorization, well done !

Fabulous colorization...well done author