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Double Exposure is delighted to announce the winning images of the 5th Annual PHOTOWORKSHOP.COM Digital Imaging Contest Sponsored by Adobe!

PHOTOWORKSHOP.COM is proud to continue its tradition of showcasing the year's most compelling, innovative pictures created in the Adobe Photoshop digital darkroom. We would like to give a special thanks to all the sponsors and to everyone who entered for making it all possible.

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Top 5 Winners, Lightly Manipulated (Generally "straight" photography, enhanced in Adobe Photoshop by way of cropping, color correction, or other enhancements as necessary to improve its composition or appearance.)

©Kaye Burazin, Ghost Rider 1st Place, Lightly Manipulated

1st Place: Kaye Burazin, USA
Ghost Rider - "My favorite techniques are working with lighting," says Burazin. "Changing day to a night scene was part of the effects used in Ghost Rider. After changing the image to B&W in Photoshop by desatuation of colors, I used Mystical lights spotlight for the headlights and placing the subdued lights in the car windows. This can also be done with layers and using whites and grays painting a fog-like ray and bringing down the opacity."

2nd Place: Bobbie Goodrich, USA
Red Canyon Run

3rd Place: Marija Milovanovic, Serbia
Eyes of a Window

4th Place: Ed Hafizov, USA
The Dawn Fairy

5th Place: Patrick McNamara, USA
Boy in Lake


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Top 5 Winners, Photo Illustration (For images that take strong advantage of Adobe Photoshop's image-editing features including, but not limited to, special effects, composites, montages, etc., with or without the aid of additional software.)

©Wendell Penedo, O Vento 1st Place, Photo Illustration

1st Place: Wendell Penedo, Sao Paulo
O Vento - "'O Vento' means 'the wind'. It doesn't explain the image," Penedo says, "but I believe it doesn't need to. The image should speak for itself."

2nd Place: Madalina Iordache-Levay, USA
Sunset Over the Ocean

3rd Place: Mark Joseph Deutsch, Cebu
Shut Out

4th Place: Fran Forman, USA
Airborne

5th Place: Dalibor Marinkovic, Croatia
Playground


Click here to view a gallery of the winning images and read comments from the winners

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$40,000 in prizes

A celebration of the world's best digital imaging artists, this year's competition proved to be the biggest one yet, with generous sponsors providing $40,000 worth of exciting prizes to our winners, along with the PRICELESS opportunity to see their work in the June 2007 issue of After Capture magazine.


- Canon 30D Camera with EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 (approximate value $1,500)

iView Media Pro 3.1.2 (12 units valued at $199 each)

- Three Nik Software Professional Suite Packages (valued at $449.00 each)

- Two 3-Day Workshops from the Digital Technology Center in Sarasota, Florida (approximate value $1000; travel and accomodations not included)



- Acrobat 8 Professional (10 units valued $449 each)

- Lensbaby 3G with Lensbaby Wide Angle/Telephoto Kit and Lensbaby Macro Kit (valued at $392)

- Attendance to WPPI to the March, 2008 WPPI Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada; includes round-trip transportation and lodging (up to a maximum of $1000) from anywhere in the continental United States

- Two 1-year WPPI memberships (valued at $350 each)


- Moab by Legion Paper: 1 Set of 3 boxes each of Moab Paper (Entrada 300 Natural, Entrada 190 Bright White, and Kokopelli 235 Photo Satin, Chinle Eco Folio) and Legion Paper (Somerset Photo Enhanced Velvet; Arches Infinity Textured; Legion Photo Matte) in sizes 8.5x11, 11x17 and 13x19 (approximate value $3,000)

- $1200 Gift Certificate for purchase of training DVDs from Software Cinema.

- Sunbounce Pro Starter Kit with 51"x74" reflector (approximate value $450)

- $500 Gift Certificate from Wiley Publishing

- $400 Gift Certificate toward any purchase from B&H Photo

- Photoshop CS2 (10 units valued at $649 each)

- CS2 Premium (2 units valued at $1199 each)

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