Nice colors and mood, author.

Congrats!!!

Congrats, nice work

Great repair work! You missed a spot on the blonde girl's left shoulder. I would have colored the background too, but I'm not trying to detract from what I think is an excellent result. High vote from me...GL author.

Thanks CMYK46 - I've fixed the girl's shoulder and will give the background a try later. Thanks for your help

OK done the background now...

nice job on the coloring, you have missed a few legs tho. id color those pants too

Congratulations on the second place

Nice work. Also suffers from the "two heads" problem, and the green on the building is too yellow...brings the background forward...suggest muting that and the red on the roof to help create depth. Color wise, backgrounds should recede. Still, it's mostly a very good repair job except for not reducing the excessive graininess of the original image. GL author.

The pink tones on the shoes bother me, but I'm not a fan of colorization ever since Ted Turner ruined so many movies back in the 80's...

This really is a pretty good job all in all. I do like the choice of colors but the color is a little faded or washed out IMO. A couple of things you might want to try is,... duplicating the layer. Set the new copy's layer blend to overlay or multiply. Adjust the opacity accordingly. Then add an adjustment or fill layer for selective color, play around with the sliders for each color.
I offer this as a suggestion only author, as it is your work and is the way you like. Nice vote from me, good luck.

the only thing you have not colored n what stands out to me is the ground, to me thats kinda weird nice job on the coloring

Thanks for the comments and suggestions, will work on them if I find the time. I kept the colours muted on purpose, to give it the hand coloured look rather than a colour photo. the ground has got a very light colour, but concrete tends to be pretty grey.

Congratulations.

The date on the photo doesnt really go well with the story imo the story is much older then 1987 LOL and polaroids wherent really existing at the time of the story either but, nice take on the source image though Ive had also people from guatamala tell me about this story.

Hi Eladine!
I know the date does not match with the story
I wanted to do some fiction to this pic,thats why I put
that tittle "last photo" and the first polaroid camera was
sold to the public in November, 1948.

And thanks a lot!!

The roof looks uneven and blotchy, and the faces are a bit too dark.

Thanks MossyB - I've tried to fix it up a bit - thanks for your help

you have missed a few scratches right next to the kids legs and the bottom edge is showing little scratches too. you tried well to restore the damage face but you can see half the hairband from the original face that was there. either cover it completely or keep the childs original hair completely then it doesnt get noticed as fast that its the same face as another kid. Maybe you could even flip the face so it looks a tat different when its mirrorred. the child far on the right, in the middle of her shirt is a scratch too. at first it looks like its the line of her jacket/shirt, but its going straight thru the buttons at the bottom so it cant be a clothes edge, its a scratch or a fold.

Thanks Eladine - I'll tackle some of your suggestions as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for your help

looks like you got to fix them things. good improvement