great job author!!

Nice job .......Lift his top eye lid up and fix his receding hairline

His left eye looks still looks a bit lazy mayby adjust that?
Good job though ! GL

Thanks guys, see what i can do...

EDIT

Adjustments made....many thanks peeps

The eyelid looks better......but the hair looks blurry...needs to be re done.........cut out sections from the original and paste them in front where it recedes. Then just make the hair darker.

EDIT

Changed hair again looks a lot better, thnaks freejay

Nice done, good luck author !

everything looks great except for his left eye. It is still blurry.

nice work author...gl

I would put some texture/pores into her skin.

Yes I agree! And for some reason I would like someone to change clothes and/or generation look of the picture, but this one is right on theme!

Edit: I would love to see a: 70's, 80's, and then like 2011 look? Maybe even a photoAlbum theme!?

I agree it would be better with some skin pores. SO many effects help you learn how to smooth skin texture, but I've yet to find a decent one to add back pores (without using another source, which is verboten for this contest...). The Healing Brush tool allows you to retain some skin texture, but it totally trashes the skin tones, leaving a horrid, mottled effect.

I like the idea of a "progressive" effect through the decades. Maybe that will be a future contest!

Its a very good effort, however there would be more shaping shadows in the face as well as the texture of the skin.
Shadows to define the mouth - for instance:- the curve below the bottom lip and dimples under the nose that shape the top lip. As one ages the muscles soften and drop the fine edges of a structure and if there are false teeth they push the top lip out and straighten it. The Older face actually has higher cheek bones than you have given credit for and there would be deeper hollows over and a slight shadow under the eyes . Cartilage grows all of ones life so the nose may well have been shorter and slightly turned up at the end.

Good work. I will come back and vote later.

what about trying to take a small portion of one of the less wrinkled parts of her face (maybe nose) and use that as a pattern for some texture in her face? Or just painstakingly put millions of tiny dots on her face for pores. lol

U did good work author but she looks more like wax figure...try to add some skin texture here to achieve more natural look...best of luck

You did a great job... just need to make it a lil more realistic,,and since we could not use other skin it was hard

She looks like a porcelain doll - you just went too far with it, author, tho you have the right idea. The trick is to leave some pores there, and soften her skin overall. Nice lip shape, tho.

great job thinning her torso, You may want to duplicate the edge of where her hair meets the edge of her skin from the orignal picture to reduce the sharp contrast, (you and always blur the tight spaces with a super tiny brush...(but these type of manipulations are always very difficult when you get to the edges..(Sometimes drawing your own hair on a separate palate with the smudge tool (Much easier to work with in a separate area as not to fight with the size of the original picture) and lay over into the work you have already done can help

(Hi res always shows the nit pics) but I can tell the print version would be excellent.. GOOD LUCK!!!! (and as always IMHO)

Thanks, I totally agree about the hair, will see if I can find time to work on it.

I have done some more work on the hair, still not totally happy, but I think it's better.

Smudge is a tricky little monster... much improved.. it does take practice.. good LUCK!!!

She looks a bit to much plastic as younger...hair don't look very realistic...try to work a bit more on this entry author because model image have a lot of potential...best of luck

nice work....I did the same thing .. this is harder than you think to get those skin tones right.. good luck

Boy, his hairline is low enough for him to be a Neanderthal...
His chin is also now too narrow to support a lower jaw with teeth.
Strange looking youth, that's for sure!

Face is much better this time, but the hair still isn't right, Isn't hair hard to do?

I am beginning to hate hair..lol
but disagree with chin too narrow