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OMIFAN9 posted a cute Elaine picture (with Niki Taylor, who would be 15 or 16 at the time of the picture, and looks it) over on TFS: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/showp...;postcount=2519 I agree with Annie, that I have previously only seen the part with Niki, and never knew it included Elaine. (!) And that has to be one my "favorite" flipped pictures, ever. Not only do they get Niki's mole on the wrong side of her face, but they make the car right-hand drive. (!)

Oh, I love those Versace cards. Gorgeous. Thanks VIVIENNE and karabas12! And welcome, karabas12! You picked a great thread to join!

I was trying to find out something about Maria von Hartz, and ran into this post by Veritas (SuperiorPics) from 2005 over on SuperiorPics: http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/...p;Number=236703 I wouldn't mention it, except that the post has so many of the "harder-to-find", lesser-known models (compared to, say, Marisa Miller), for whom it's sometimes hard to find much of anything. There is: Karen Alexander Meghan Douglas Gail Elliot Anne Flore Suzanne Lanza Basia Milewicz Alina Puscau Annette Roque Ingrid Seynhaeve Tatiana Zavialova

Great stuff, Phil. As usual.

I think you did a nice job, and it looks good. I think your layout looks nice. On the FRONT COVER, the picture of Cindy has been horizontally flipped. The mole is on the wrong side of her face. On the BACK COVER, the biography text is in two different fonts. (You might also try full justification of the text to make it into nice even blocks. Ragged-right doesn't really bother me, but you might try it and see how it looks.) On the FRONT COVER, the text through her hair is a little bit difficult to read. Personally, I would also drop the small green image of her. You don't need it. She's so pretty, and that larger picture is so eye-popping, you don't need another one. One other thing I would say is, none of the images you chose are "famous". Which is fine. You do have an "older" Cindy and a "younger" Cindy, which is good. If this were an "actual" DVD-cover, I would expect the BACK COVER to have something like a collage of (desaturated) images that were famous and that made her famous -- part of a REVLON ad, that pose of her knocking back a can from her PEPSI television ad, an exit from a VERSACE show, her appearance in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. If I were making a "mock-up" to show as a sample of my design skills, personally, I would try something like that. I don't know the program you're using. I think you did a nice job. People don't realize how much work there is in floating an image from its background, and strands of hair are notoriously difficult to handle. You might be able to shrink and feather your selection 1 or 2 or 3 px to smooth it out. If you don't know it, take a look at the program THE GIMP. It's like a free version of PHOTOSHOP. The program is free and you can also download free tutorials and user manuals, and there are forums where you can trade tips and tricks with other users. http://www.gimp.org/

I think Kirsty is a good model (one of my favorites), and a beautiful woman. But I have never been that partial to that first picture. They didn't do much with her hair, or make-up, or wardrobe. I appreciate simple, and all, but that shot just has never done much for me. But you have convinced me. Looking at it now, I love the textures in that. In her skin, around her face, in her hair. That's a really pretty shot. I think I have just seen lousy scans of it. By the way, did anyone notice that the title to this thread was fixed?! Thanks to persuazn!

Great stuff, as usual, Phil.

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John, thanks for all the early Cindy. It's all really a treat to see.

site is invite only so I could't look.