you chose the right one Mase

nice touch ups Marco.

And thats what I'm talking about! Still has some issues, (like the huge yellow lane marker) but every one seems to be more in the scene. As Emeril would have said, its Happy.

Now, if that was what was submitted, I prob would have gone and voted for you. Notice things like the signs in the background are out of your focus, as they should be. And elements such as the red bricks on the right side aren't SCREAMING "I'm not part of this source" at you anymore.

again, brilliant idea, just not brilliant execution.

anyway again LEARN from this!
Don't Quit, take your ball and go home.

BTW Marco HANDED me my arse in the second round last year,
http://photoshopcontest.com/tournament/view/472/display.html
I thought mine was so freakn brilliant, till everyone started pointing out what I so blindly could not see. I chalked it up to a learning experience, and grew as a photoshopper.

Look at it this way, doing this stuff is like having children, they may be bastards to everyone else, but in your eyes, they're little angels

Cheers!

can I borrow that again by the way

well currently my son is proving to be the exception to this rule

What is all this talk of 20 hours? You people sound like me now.

Patim, I never like to lose a chopper on this site, but the points made by deshone, marco, etc. are all valid. Mason's was actually one of my favorites of the round. I'm glad his entry that was just a cleanup was the best cleanup; he executed it beautifully and even if it is "easy" as Granulated said, it is extremely time consuming and difficult to make it look that good. Your entry had the aforementioned flaws (shadows, colors, etc), but another thing that you have to think of when you are putting in 20 hours is "Can people actually tell this took 20 hours/was a lot of work?" It's all hard to hear, but it's the truth and if you can take it as such and keep a level head about it, you will be better off in the end.

Sore loser!

What? He told me I could call him that. <_<

You grew to shop for more photos?

That's it, NO MORE H2H contests, most no-shows dare not come back, bad loosers walk off, we loose to many .ppl every year

yep thanks to Marco, I can shop with the best of them now

I get all the good bargains!


10 for that? you must be mad!

bah look at it like natural selection... only the strong survive. Adapt or be eaten. Such is life.

Think its hard here? Try the real world son.

And no more voting and winning and all that crap!!! Everybody is a winner!!! Change the format of this site to positive comments only, including little smiley faces, rainbows, angels, cute kittens and the like.
Oh, and ban marco while you're at it.

I think we should now all engage in an orgy of threadbombing. mightybeet can start us off.

Hey Patim, chin up bro. I felt that way last year when I lost the H2H with all the controversy surrounding it. It made me quit for a year and without advantage, I just didn't feel like chopping anymore. I, like you said wow H2H again, let me give it a shot. You do your best, and you let the voters decide. I stop trying to figure out how voting goes around here sometimes, people will vote for what they like. So don't take it too hard on yourself man. Don't quit just because of this, you're a better chopper then you think.

I wished I'd had my ass handed to me instead of loosing by 1 vote. Now that really sucks. Anyways... pull yourself together!

Hmm leaving eh... Another one has spat the dummy out and fled the mayhem eh.