Overall really nice source selection. Really like how you kept the part of the car in the reflection.

Very nice. But the snowman doesn't fit completely. I don't know exactly what it is. Or the shadows or it misses some motion (like the road)

very nice, well done!

Very nice image... I think the snow man looks good if you are looking at it while driving, but if the concept is to look in the mirror the snowman should be blurred. I think that is what Marcia saw looking back and forth from snowman to mirror to snowman.... You can't see 2 things clearly at the same time.. Great entry and g/l

Great idea, and well executed.. maybe suggest the sky on your background image with the one form the source, to help it look like it matches. And also if you look closely there's a slight blue color cast. I suggest opening the source image in photoshop and duplicating it, then going to Filter -> Blur -> Average. This gives you the overall colour of your image, then just copy that into your finished image and set the mode to colour or soft light and play around with the opacity. But like i said, great idea, and a very convincing image.

The snowman needs dome dynamic to create the moviment feeling. Nice work.

I agree about the snowman but my question is about the lanes....in the reflection it is just a two lane road...in the rest of the picture, it is like a highway with a median in the middle--so it kinda doesn't match

Thanks all for your comments and criticisms. I've added a blur to the snowman, changed the sky colour, and removed the other lane from the image outside of the mirror. (although I thought that it was a path and not a car lane). Anyways, I removed it just in case and to avoid confusion

you did a great job fixing stuff, but what happened to the snow on the trees---it's gone now?

Thanks K5683!!! I completely missed that one. I forgot to unhide my layers before saving the file.

Good idea....source fits in perfect

Congrats for your second place!

Congratulations for 2nd

congrats!!

Congrats!

Congrats!!

i think that little caterpillar is too bright to be on that part of the head

Lips need texture too...

I agree fix those things it would make look better...good luck

yeah, thanks guys for your comments. I'm working on MkII at the mo

Edit: there, hope this looks better

creepy! but neat

Good work! The tutorial you mentioned is interesting. I'll try it some day... Good luck!

Wow!

nice image.gl

the puppet was an INCREDIBLE fine author... good luck (really love the mood)

very good use of source.. nice colour balance , creates a great feel. GL

For a second there the guy in the background looks like Alice cooper *LOL* Nice author.

very good

lol..... could it be Ossie in back round nice

Just a wonderful image all around... the dress is EXTREMELY powerful.. good thing the castle is higher to pull the eye away from her.. hehehe.. good luck author.. very nice work

Yep, good job. I'd sliiiightly calm the yellow in the girl - overall imperssion is tha she just doesn't belong there - looks like she is taken from some sunny place and chunked onto this cloudy scenery. Just love the rest, apart from the blur tool on the castle and the grass in front of the girl's dress..). I hope u don't think that I dislike ur entry - on the contrary, otherwise I wouldn't have cared to write all this

good work

really nice

very nice...I find the maiden in the tower very fair

love it!!

How clever! You really captured the wingspan of the pterodactyl. The nest is well blended and the background looks prehistoric! Well done and nice image!! It would take me weeks to come up with something like this!!

very nice

nice

Good looking image...the rings & string are still visible on the wings, and you need to slightly blur the sharp edges...otherwise nice job. ,-)

always wondered how those guys take off..they haven't any running gear.. GREAT IMAGE..good luck

Thank you for all your nice comments. I've altered my image thanks to the eagle eye and great tips from CMYK

good idea

nice

Nice application.

looks real