The Online Association of Photographers: Announcing the Winners of the Corel “Colors of Fall” Contest

Thursday, 26 October 2017

Announcing the Winners of the Corel “Colors of Fall” Contest

A huge thank you to everyone who entered our recent contest to win a $500 Amazon™ Gift Card and a Corel Software Package. The second-place winner wins a full Corel software package and the third-place winner wins a copy of PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate. The software package includes PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate, AfterShot Pro 3, VideoStudio Ultimate X10 and ParticleShop.

This was a “Colors of Fall” themed competition, and so many of you shared your beautiful photographs, that we encourage everyone to go back and scroll through the comments section to view these wonderful images.

As a bonus to the entire dPS Readership, Corel is offering a 10% discount on their PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate leading Photo Editing Software through November 10, 2018, and as a bonus, you will receive ParticleShop Plugin FREE, a $39.99 value. Just click here.

Yet again, the response was absolutely wonderful! But now, onto the winners! Drum roll please, and the winners of the Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate Editing Software and the $500 Amazon Gift Card are:

Grand Prize Winner: Rick K

I love the new PaintShop Pro 2018’s improved navigation and bigger icons. It allows me to better express my creativity with Editing the RAW image. The reason for submitting an IR image edited with PaintShop Pro 2018 is to show that PaintShop Pro 2018 can easily handle editing RAW IR images. Editing RAW IR images is a multistep process involving a red/blue color swap and precise color saturation and white balance settings. Using PaintShop Pro 2018 the editing process is very easy and the steps can be saved allowing for fast repeatable editing of several RAW images quickly. The picture I am submitting for the contest was taken on the first full day of Fall 2017 using a Canon T1i converted specifically to take IR images. This image was taken using a 665nm IR filter on the Canon T1i. The camera was positioned on the Doyle road covered bridge in Jefferson, OH and pointed at Mill Creek.

Second Place Winner: Kristin G

I’m new to digital photography post-processing, but I downloaded the free trial from Corel and used it to edit this photo that I took back in October 2011 in Acadia National Park in Maine. I watched many of the tutorials on the Corel site and they are a good way to feel ones way around the program and get a taste of the possibilities. The program is powerful yet does not seem overly complicated to learn. I definitely am excited to use Corel to take my photos to the next level. Thank You!

Third Place Winner: Charlie Hoffman

Colors of Fall ~ Wow….Having used Corel products for years the new PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate makes my work output a snap. This photo was taken overlooking the Lackawaxen River in the Pocono Mts. of Pennsylvania.

We were all very happy with the entries. You made us smile, but most importantly, you made us want to do more of what we do; provide you quality information and guidance to become a better photographer. We were so pleased to see that you came from every part of the world. Thank you all for your entries!

Again, for those of you that didn’t win, Corel is offering a 10% discount off their PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate leading Photo Editing Software, and as a bonus, you will receive ParticleShop Plugin FREE, a $39.99 value. Just click here.

The Winners will be emailed with details of how to collect their prize. Please make sure to look for our email. Thank you again for all the wonderful submissions and to Corel for sponsoring this competition.