horses don't eat kittens.. LOL.. good humor author

The girl is floating...otherwise this is great.
PS: IMHO the only thing that would make this better is if we could see what the girl is holding, like maybe a carrot?

A horse is a horse of course of course....say Wilbuurrrr, Good work on this one

in high res i can see the lines where you copy pasted wall below the sign you can fix that ofcourse with the patchtool or by leaveing the top layer a lil long and with a large soft brush on like 25% or so erising the edge so the flow better into eachother.. as picky as i am.. at the doorstep the cuout is really a tat too sharp in high res use a soft blur on that edge and you will also that tiny dark cutout line there most likely... the girls feet are not on the floor and while looking there i also saw a copy paste line there that you easely can cover with patch tool

I rly like this piece.. very realistic done too

Thanks for the improvement tips. CMYK - am considering your carrot suggestion. And to Eladine - wow. Your eyes are far better than mine - after putting in the intitial time in the construction of this piece - I said, "I'm done. Time to submit" I never looked back until the comments started to roll in. Fixed what was pointed out (girl, masking, sharp edges) keep 'em coming - this just keeps better and better from your suggestions.

xD very nice!!

Very well. One thing though, if you zoom in at the girls feet the wall behind has a very sharp edge and doesn't quite meet with the floor. You can blend that out with the eraser and clone tool. It might help if you add some shadows under the wheelbarrows aswell. Otherwise great image!

XD sorry but dont worry im even mroe pickier on my own work o.o; and i rly like what you did.. good job on the corrections by the way altho the copy paste lines above and below the door openeings are still there :P high marks from me anyway.. good job

Nice blend and good composition. I like the simplicity.

Holy hi resolution . No worries El, appreciate your attention to detail . Here is a sincere request; however - please provide me with your home email. Those c&p lines were dreadful! I gave a cursory look before submission, then I really took a look last night after your review ( ), then today I come back to check and I didn't even get most of them! so perhaps you'd be interested in "proofing" my entries prior to submitting them?? (for a small fee, of course!)

At any rate - I think this final correction should make you happy. I challenge you to find a single straight line anywhere on the piece lol !

And to you Thomas - if you'll review the source pic, you'll see that the "foundation" of the stable is indeed lifting there too on the left side. I tried to follow your suggestion in creating a blend at that point - and with your skills I might have been able to accomplish it - but alas, with my own I was leaving Captain Cloning Marks all over the image which Eladine would have discovered later this afternoon
so in the interest of saving myself some more time (or just being lazy) I opted to leave it as it was. Great eye; however - good perception and even better attention to detail.

(sheesh - you guys are even better than I remembered! )

(little disappointed in you CMYK though - not until today did I realize I spelled PIXLEYES with an "i" in the sign - slipping in the old age, bro - or just going for the obvious oversights?

EDIT: There you go, Bob. A carrot per your request (hope it improves your for typos and straight lines!!)

Ummm...I didn't mention anything about typos & straight lines, although I did say this is a great image. I'm glad the suggestions I DID make helped it be even better. Good luck, cranky author!

good use of source. Great to see you take on board suggestions to improve your entry. well done author.

great work..

great blending! good idea

Well done for trying Author. This entry definately deserves a high mark all the same.

I think you have improved it though haven't you? It looks better than it did.

Nice job.

aaaahhhhhh

Nice job.

Nice job.

Indeed Thomas, the image has improved greatly. The uh, carrot was an excellent suggestion. as were the shadow enhancement below the wheel barrows.

Anything else jump out at you??

I like this one!

Congrats for your third place, MrBig

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats on the 3rd place Amigo...well done

Congrats!

Congrats!

The lighting on the bottom of the chin and under the cigar throws the effect off. Perhaps you can darken it with "selective color" making a selection and then darkening/tinting the whites.

EDIT: Nice correction. Looks much better!
That cigar in her mouth just kills me!

I see what you mean, Mossy. While I haven't had much success with "selections" inside an image - I did grab a soft BURN brush and darkened alternately the "shadows" and the "midtones" at about 7% each. Definite improvement in the overall blend.

Thanks for the help.

Thats one Butt Ugly Critter...

This made me cringe...it's perfect!

super cool neat work...gl author

I like that you added a different background and blurred it to add dimension, good source finds. Well done!

Thank you, Pearlie.

Should of got second........this was more original

congrats! This one was pretty funny!

congrats for the 3rd place

Congrats!!

Congrats on your win

very nice construction author...cleaver usage of gray scale....best of luck

in the high res - the middle board doesn't seem to match correctly and there is a little bit of a green tint on the leg... well IMO, maybe something to look into - if I were you...

the floor boards are much too wide and detailed , so the wheelbarrow looks like a tiny toy.
it would be nice if the axle of the wheel is visible. good luck

I agree that the scale of the boards makes it look like a toy, which is okay, but the lighting on the front of the wheel and the wheel barrow are not consistent. You have it lit on opposing sides, I'd tone down the contrast on the side of the wheelbarrow.

Great observation, James,

I have adjusted the middle board and must admit that the perspective looks much better. Thank you for your input. I left a bit of the tint on the support leg as that's the way it imported from the source image - upon following your advice, I recognized that by desaturating it - it is more suitable to the piece. Another great suggestion.

The rescaling of the image was intentional to further differentiate the Wheelbarrow from the source with minimal transformation. I will,however; work on producing the axle per your request Gornats. I assume you meant protruding out from the frame to our perspective?

Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks, Mossy - I agree. I don't know if this adjustment was quite what you had in mind, but I believe it helped add some consistency to the lighting on the image. I used RENDER-LIGHTING EFFECTS-SPOTLIGHT and then brought the intensity down. It created a bit more mood to the image and softened some of the harsh light.

Thank you for your suggestion.

nice work author, good to see you here

Looks good to me, welcome back!

Cool idea; the perspective on the wheel looks odd at the top, like the wheelbarrow is made to turn in a right hand turn.

Thank you for the welcome Wayne, and master Chappell. Feels good to be choppin' again.

As for your observation SGC, I took another look at the psd file and adjusted the perspective a bit. I think it definitely improves the image and adds better balance to the wheel.

Thanks for the help.

Great concept, but there are no water reflections to give the impression of rain. It looks like chippped paint or some other solid surface, not water.

This looks exactly the same as the first image. You can't tell by looking at it that you changed the hat.

ah, Dear Visba - that is a compliment I believe. Indeed, I tried for an absolutely realistic effect. To say that it looks "exact" is quite and honor. However; the Step-by-Step guide cleary shows the differentiation of the textures and ther steps taken to achive this "exact" effect. Thank you for your comment.

hats not working for me...perhaps you should leave it more the gray color EDIT: Looking better Author

you know Lchappell - it seroiusly considered leaving it grey. It went well with the uniform and left more of that "original source" feel to it Where were ya an hour ago??


EDIT: When a level 16 gives you some advice, it's probably wise to take it
There you go, sir. The grey shade works much better. Thanks for the tip.

excellent experiment and Idea... I would suggest that you split apart the SBS into single sections... write a much more detail description of each step and qualify it into a tutorial, this would make all the work you've put into it worth it, and help a lot of beginners out on how to match tones/ textures/ feel... etc..(and just an added cheekiness, I'd of put a bird peeking out of the black fur... but that's just me

Clever use of source, good luck!

Much better

wow, I almost thought this wasn't even photoshopped!

aah, indeed K5683 . . . . that may be working against me at this point. If it weren't for vispa and lchappell - this image would be suffering.

I LOVE all the fantasy stuff that is out there, but alas - it is beyond my capabilities. Please review the SBS and you see that the image has in fact been photoshopped. But I would LOVE to see the idea created by some of the members here with some SERIOUS skills (golem, Waz, CMYK, Lchappell . . . . any of you...!)