While most of our Contest Corner Challenge contests are ‘photography-theme’ based (ie - take a photograph of _______), every once and a while we like to do a contest for those that love the digital manipulation side of the art of photography. About once a year we try to do a “Digital Darkroom” Contest Corner Challenge where we supply a dozen or so photographs, and then ask the community to take at least 3 of those photograph (or all of them), and meld them together to create a new “digital creation.” The entry period came to a close last week, and yesterday we finished voting (see the final voting results here). The photo creation at the top of the pile was “Green Giantess” by divmiller - a very creative combination of several of the supplied photographs.

You can browse through the entries and original photographs to see who put together each “digital darkroom creation” here in the CCC#76: Digital Darkroom #4 Photo Gallery, then head on over to the award thread to congratulate Diana on her first Contest Corner Challenge victory!

The contest was sponsored by Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com (what are you waiting for, go buy some stuff!!)!

Since Diana was not a Premiere Member, she has received a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership. Way to show off those Photoshop skills, Diana! Congratulations on your win!

While most of our Contest Corner Challenge contests are ‘photography-theme’ based (ie - take a photograph of _______), every once and a while we like to do a contest for those that love the digital manipulation side of the art of photography. About once a year we try to do a “Digital Darkroom” Contest Corner Challenge where we supply a dozen or so photographs, and then ask the community to take at least 3 of those photograph (or all of them), and meld them together to create a new “digital creation.” The entry period came to a close a couple of days ago, and 18 people stepped up to the plate and merged the photographs together, and now it’s time to vote on who did the best job.

You can browse through the entries, as well as the original photographs here in the CCC#76: Digital Darkroom #4 Photo Gallery, then head on over to the voting thread to cast your vote.

The contest sponsor is none other than Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com (what are you waiting for, go buy some stuff!!)! If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Slik Monopod 350. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

We’ve got until approximately 2:15am EST (6:15am GMT) on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 to cast your vote, so decide who did the best job, and cast your vote here.

We try to do at least one “Photoshop” contest per year in the themed photography contests called Contest Corner Challenges - we call them “Digital Darkroom” challenges. Unlike our regular Contest Corner Challenges, where you’re asked to take a photograph with a certain theme, the Digital Darkroom challenges have you take at least 3 of the provided photographs, and use your post-processing skills (with programs like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro) to combine them into one completely new image. It’s been over a year since our last Digital Darkroom Contest Corner Challenge, so it’s been a long time coming: Contest Corner Challenge #76: Digital Darkroom #4. You can see the photographs you’ll have to work with here in the contest thread, (also thumbnails on the right —->) or you can download all the full-size photos here (a ~16mb file).

The contest sponsor is none other than Amazon.com - find and discover anything you might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as beauty, health and personal care, jewelry and gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics (cameras & photography equipment!), office, toys and baby, and home and garden. In addition, a portion of the cost of every product purchased through this link goes to support PhotographyCorner.com (what are you waiting for, go buy some stuff!!)! If the winner is a Premiere Member, they will receive a Slik Monopod 350. If the winner is not a Premiere Member, they will receive a Lifetime, Level I Premiere Membership.

You’ve got a couple of weeks to put your “photograph” together, so head on over to the contest thread and download the photos, then open up your favorite post-processing program and start being creative in the digital darkroom! Entries are due in by August 3rd, and voting will begin on the 4th.