Obviously, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

color change is quite different.. odd to choose dark olive tones.. almost pea soup green.. but it's your choice I guess.. definitely different

EDIT: WOWZERS.. you jumped through the hoops didn't cha.. LOL.. good job!!!!!

thanks probably u where rigth abot the tone.

looks much better in the before version

Interesting idea good luck!

good luck

good job

which is before? which is after?

simple but pretty good

original image has got number 1 in sholder is the left dow side

Good Luck

the original looks the best

nice source image, but I don't see much difference (except her nails). To be honest her skin looked better before...

Same what FairyGardens said.

the shoulders are too 'burnt'

There is lot of difference between a GIRL and an OLD WOMAN(read the contest description again).

Gopan.. my mother is 82 years old and has had 10 children.. and she is STILL a girl to me.. and she's just as beautiful as she was when she was 21 thank you very much.. even more so.. we can't all look like Britney or the Jonas Brothers.. thank you very much... sheesh.. Oh Author... I can see the love in your work..You may want to pull back on the saturation a bit to give her less TAN red and more FLESH tones.. It works for me when I do restorations on water damaged pics

GolemAura: Thank you!!

I am not a professional. I am doing this for fun. When it no longer becomes fun, it's time to step back. I removed my entries from that particular contest because it seemed to me they were more interested in ogling pretty girls than in the quality of the retouching. The "girl" I chose was a beautiful (to me) elder and I used the Dragan effect on the picture. I got slammed because she wasn't a young pretty girl. I choose not to participate in a contest where quality is not important, only how young and pretty the girls are.

ouch... I'm sorry I didn't get to see the entry... GK - wrong comment imo

they must create their own account to submit, please red flag mods to ask what you should do

this photo was already used in the contest once; the person who make this should make their own accounts;it's easy and free

Wow best entry so far...

???

??

why removed?

removed by author because it wasn't their work, they let a friend use their account... they realized their boo boo and got an account for their friend.. it's all good.. they fixed the problem.. kudos for that