The result \u2013 Over 900 youth from 24 countries around the world shared their personalized photos in the Snap, Style & Share<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s powerful about platforms like Snap, Style & Share is how by simply putting a consumer app into the hands of students, we provide them with tools to express their unlimited creativity and potentially inspire them towards careers in design or to being lifelong design hobbyists,\u201d said Naman Khan, director of Secondary Education, Autodesk.<\/p>\n Nine entries<\/a> impressed the prestigious panel of judges<\/a> with their ingenuity, visual impact and skill. Come January 2014, they will be exhibited at the Autodesk Gallery on One Market Street in San Francisco alongside other select and innovative work by Autodesk customers.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s inspiring to see the world through the lens of youth from around the world, and how participants were able to inject their own creative expression into their photos using Pixlr Express in both dramatic and subtle ways,\u201d said Eric Suesz, judge and Pixlr community manager, Autodesk.<\/p>\n The winner also received constructive artistic and technical reviews by artists, Henry and Fong Lien. Henry is the owner and director of Glass Garage Gallery in Los Angeles, while Fong is the Vice President of the Taiwanese American Photographic Association.<\/p>\n Read extracts of the creative reviews for each entry, and visit the Snap, Style & Share<\/em> Gallery<\/a> to see all the submissions for the competition. You can also share your thoughts with us on the Autodesk Students Facebook page<\/a> today!<\/p>\n Competition Category: 13-15 years old <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a vibrant picture. The processed image eliminates almost all of the natural colors from the original photograph, and introduces a psychedelic color scheme and added swirls that accentuate the sense of motion that is inherent in the subject matter.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n \u201cEmily has taking a striking image, and preserved the natural colors of the tree while introducing a cosmic trippy theme accentuated by the celestial overlay. The creation of a frame-within-a-frame gives viewers the impression that we\u2019re looking through a lens that shows a greater reality.<\/p>\n Overall, it might have worked to even better effect if the overlay were limited only within the borders of the frame within the frame, thereby accentuating the theme of being able to view a different, greater world through the inner frame.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n \u201cThematically, the use of the hole cut out of the paper creates a nice metaphor about necessity being the mother of invention. It creates a negative space, but instead of creating emptiness in the composition, it\u2019s the source through which light \u2013 as a symbol of creativity and invention \u2013 pours through. <\/p>\n The dark, flat hand suddenly becomes helpful to carry this theme, as it takes on the appearance of a hand snapping its fingers. It\u2019s another visual representation of the "a-ha!" moment when light, ideas, and invention suddenly appear.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n Competition Category: 16-18 years old <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis piece is sublime and perfect in its simplicity, and it shows admirable restraint and maturity. Instead of utilizing showier effects, the desaturation of the color out of everything but the eyes makes them leap out of the image with glistening life in a way that they could not in a naturally colored photograph. Excellent work.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n \u201cThe addition of an exuberant man-made pattern that\u2019s confined to the borders of the leaves \u2013 rather than simply overlaying it over the entire photograph \u2013makes the processed image come alive. The man-made pattern is reminiscent of beautiful paisleys and Indian textile designs, and their addition to this photograph of leaves reminds us that so many man-made designs have their origins in nature and natural forms.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n \u201cMatthew\u2019s photo demonstrates solid technique for converting a color image to black and white, and it creates a nice study in extremes. You have a figure dressed in professional class garments and one dressed in working class garments. You have a figure coming, you have a figure going. You have a face, you have a back.<\/p>\n These polarities emphasize that part of the very definition of a city and the human-urban experience is a study in contrasts \u2013 rich and poor, clean and dilapidated. That tension between them is part of what defines urban living.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n Competition Category: 19-24 years old<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThere is a subtle space exploration theme in this piece. The circles suggest bodies in space and the tubes suggest rockets. There is also a theme of music that comes through this work, where the cylinders resemble organ pipes which makes the photograph ring with a "music of the spheres" subtext. The cylinders reach out towards us and we reach out back towards them.<\/p>\n Excellent work, and our favorite piece in the entire competition.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a lovely, slightly melancholy, contemplative piece that\u2019s composed of such stark elements \u2013 land, sea, sky, human figures, and globes. The most sophisticated and startling feature of the composition is the conversation between the globe in the foreground, the globe suspended in the sky, and the invisible globe between them, under the feet of the human figures.\u201d \u2013 Henry & Fong Lien<\/p>\n<\/a>
<\/strong>Grand Prize: Ricky from USA<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/a>
<\/strong>First Prize: Emily from USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
Special Prize for Inspirational Creativity: Ruby, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
<\/em>Grand Prize: Shoaib, India<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
First Prize: Mandina, India<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
Special Prize for Inspirational Creativity: Matthew, United Kingdom<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/a>
<\/span><\/strong>Grand Prize: Souvik, India<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
First Prize: Rajat, India<\/strong><\/p>\n