Congratulations Halloween Photo Editing Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the Halloween Photo Editing Contest.
We received a ton of great entries, and the 9 judges who evaluated the finalists had their work cut out for them. We pulled our judges from Instructables HQ and several people who had a hand in the creation of Pixlr. They used range voting on a scale of 1-9 judging entries based on clarity, ingenuity, creativity, quality of presentation, and execution of the Instructable.
The winner, Hollymann and her Zipperface tutorial, created a project that was both glamorously disgusting and well-documented. The combination of final product and step by step process was a winning combination in the judges’ eyes. We really liked seeing supplemental text on top of the photos themselves, particularly because it was informative without being distracting.
The special “Hooray! You used Pixlr!” judge’s prize went to doodlecraft’s Ghosts in a Graveyard project. Wrangling a four year old, taking 300 photos, and the quality of both the photos and the edits all contributed to win the judges over. The results were excellent, and doodlecraft might have snagged the top spot with some more screenshots and meta-explanation of which Pixlr tools she had used and why.
The other entries were also excellent, and we at Instructables really appreciate the time and effort it takes to share a great project. The real winners here are all of the people looking to improve their photo-manipulation skills who now have a much larger repository of tutorials for a free and browser-based photo-editing application. Also, Halloween enthusiasts everywhere can now zip their faces and turn their friends and families into ghosts. (Among about 78 other awesome options.)
Good work, everyone!
Carley Jacobson
Contest Manager
We received a ton of great entries, and the 9 judges who evaluated the finalists had their work cut out for them. We pulled our judges from Instructables HQ and several people who had a hand in the creation of Pixlr. They used range voting on a scale of 1-9 judging entries based on clarity, ingenuity, creativity, quality of presentation, and execution of the Instructable.
The winner, Hollymann and her Zipperface tutorial, created a project that was both glamorously disgusting and well-documented. The combination of final product and step by step process was a winning combination in the judges’ eyes. We really liked seeing supplemental text on top of the photos themselves, particularly because it was informative without being distracting.
The special “Hooray! You used Pixlr!” judge’s prize went to doodlecraft’s Ghosts in a Graveyard project. Wrangling a four year old, taking 300 photos, and the quality of both the photos and the edits all contributed to win the judges over. The results were excellent, and doodlecraft might have snagged the top spot with some more screenshots and meta-explanation of which Pixlr tools she had used and why.
The other entries were also excellent, and we at Instructables really appreciate the time and effort it takes to share a great project. The real winners here are all of the people looking to improve their photo-manipulation skills who now have a much larger repository of tutorials for a free and browser-based photo-editing application. Also, Halloween enthusiasts everywhere can now zip their faces and turn their friends and families into ghosts. (Among about 78 other awesome options.)
Good work, everyone!
Carley Jacobson
Contest Manager
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