Fix your source link and correct the shadows...
EDIT: Source is from blog. Please read http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/

nice blend,maybe u have to blur graves just a bit...bur very good image....

nice vintage finish

nice

Great! Your planet succeeded very well Very good tutorial! There's no need to download planets images when needed

Planet on a reflective surface doesn't work for me, but the rest is good...

hehehe I like this cause it's morbid

Very dark

Match colors of head & body...

agrees with loopy luv. lighten it up.

What a creeper!

A little more bright and it would add to the effect....

nice work, love the background- after I saw the step by step it made me wish you hadn't stretched the bird quite so much

Not bad, but flip the flag part...

Thanks for the comments. I did try to flip the flag, but it just looked off somehow. I tried a few different "stretches" of the bird. The less elongated ones didn't really give a Phoenix feel...just a big bird on a building. I'll keep at it though.

This is a wicked cool but you warped the original source I can barely tell how you used it. But this is still wicked cool nonetheless

Thanks jawshoewhah. Actually, the source image is the only part I didn't warp. I even masked out the bird face in the final step so that you could see the source. It's been changed into a "firey brightness" (hopefully), but in the Hi-Res you should be able to clearly see the source image. But I agree. It's wicked cool. Didn't think I was going to be able to get it to turn out the way I envisioned, but it did.

creative use of source. fantastic outcome

Thanks you scratzilla1 for the wonderful comment.

Very Creative!

very nice but I don't understand why you had to squish the hands. I think it's distracting

gud work

you need to link to where the hands originally came from. Smug mug is not a stockphotography site. Are hands premanipulated or was photo taken like that also ???

Thank you. I have updated my step by step to include the hands picture. It is my own hands taken by me. The link as source was to my own personal gallery on smugmug.

love the creativity behind this idea. The fingers sadly do bring the image down alittle. Sorry can not provide how to fix. Maybe try liquify and "PLUMP"them a little GL

there is no sbs for this image....

There's still no SBS and I agree about the hands. You also could of uploaded a higher res. I can't really see the details.

Thanks for everybody's comments. I had to flatten the hands somewhat to get them to fit. I tried to upload a hi-res, but I think since this is only a 550x700 pxl image, the image you see is the hi-res. I'm kind of new to photoshop manipulation. Maybe next time I can improve the hands. Thanks again. Cheers!

very nice