Excellent piece of work & great use of the source pic. GL author!

very well done -- great depth nice use of light

Thanks guys

Terrific work author...great usage of the source image, fantastic humor and top notch final result...well done

very nice work, high score

Fantastic work, amazing, good luck!

very good job, good luck

Wow, that's pretty awesome. Great job! I agree, lighting is fantastic!

Instant Fav!!..GL author.

Jeez, this is very creative! Love how his eyes fit in. Great vision, author.

Very nice work .....G/L Author.

Thanks for all the great comments

Congrats Freejay terrific work

You should add sbs and show us sources

Hold your horses......i only posted the pic 2 minutes before you commented

wow........I used to use fractalius plug-in to simply give this effect, good luck...very nice

cutie pie kitty.. great eyes

Thanks,,,his name is Rafi....this is from a pic i took 4 years agp....i still have him

Very cool looking

very nice effect that fractalius tho somehow i doubt it will run on my cs 5..

very nice entry author, looks liek you created a mythical creature there. very nice!

Such a pretty kitty...lovely image, really...beautiful

Great work, especially the composition. Top notch!

Thanks CMYK and all the other great comments

this is hot!

The lighting, his eyes, everything about this image is top notch. Well done!

I would hate this kitty to cross my path... Great image.

excellent work , gud luck author

Great artwork, so this is "Torch Cat" from Fantastic Five? Flame On Very realistic and good blending between the cat and the fire, well done

Great blending with the filter work! You're BOTH on fi-yah!

Stunning

THUMBS UP AUTHOR

Looks really realistic, great work.

i like it very much, you could have add something more so it isnt so empty, but i fore sure allready like it allot

Nice job congratulations!

Thanks everyone for the comments
Thanks IChappell

Congrats Freejay wonderful work

its amazing!!! congrats!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Freejay, easily the best entry

Mmmmmm.... can I keep it? Stunning result, congratulations Freejay.

COngrats on 1st place

Thanks everyone

great idea.. disturbing as all hell, but still a very great result (heebie Jeebies!) really is a thing that makes you hmmmmmm?

Amazing and amazingly weird! Nice work author.

amazing work author, very well blended

great blending! your imagination impressed me! good luck!

Wow! This is a great entry and you amazed me with your idea and creativity. GL!

great imagination! Good luck author!

Simple and effective...GL author.

Wowww!! amazinggg!! very good =D

This has to be a fav.... this enry is the bar that others need to reach.... but well... I will give a congrats in advance for this entry.... even if it is the first one!!!! Superb Job, Author!

WOW!

THanks Woodcutter and everyone else for the kind words.

great ideea very clever, good luck author!

Nice entry, maybe have a new look at the left foot again, it doesn't really blend well with the background, should be an pretty easy fix, NVTL: great idea and well blended between the finfers and the feet.

Thanks Rob.......i cleaned up that edge around the left foot, and lightened the shade at the bottom of it a bit....i hope thats what you meant

LOL Great idea!

nice blending,great work author.... GL

This image appears to be a rip off of this image:
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/365389/handstand

Mossy....you think i am the only person in the world to have the same idea?
Im sure you could find plenty of similar works.....i didnt rip off anyone and take offence to your insinuations.
I could find a similar picture for every entry here, post a link and claim its a rip off....but i am a better sport than that and dont try to demean other entries..

haha, pretty nice blending skills

I had considered this too, and I had never seen an image done like it before. Nice entry author, execution is perfect.

Thanks Solkee and everyone else for the great comments.

Gives new meaning to 'Let your fingers do the walking'. Nice work!

There is nothing new under the sun, only variations on a theme...........

Congrats for your first place, Freejay!

Congratulations

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats Freejay very well done

Congrats Jay, well done and so you!

well done, bro.

congrats!

Thanks everyone

Very Cool ideaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Congratulations for 1st

Congratulations!!! Very creative... how often do we "walk" our fingers across a surface!? :o)

Could use a neck that looks attached to the body, but not bad. Please post source links.

super fun!!!

Thanks fir the nice comments

Congratulations!

Congrats Jay, always good to see your work!!

Thanks

Thanks

No, you came in third. That earns you a blinky "TOP THREE" award.

Wow...kinda creepy, but Super Cool....nicely done author. Super image.

this is a gorgeous entry!!

Thanks

Very Sweet!

Lookin' good, but SBS could be better.

Thanks bob....i never do a over detailed SBS
I

Kind of terrifying in an 'oh god make it die' sort of way, but very good...

Nahhhh Fredex....its cute...hahahahahahaha

I love it ! Good luck author

I think you could have done better merging of the image parts.
Still, its super great idea.
You have my vote

Yoguy
Please clarify what you mean....what parts could i have merged better ?
I cleaned it up a bit more and fixed a few edges anyhow .

Author, you know I like your work, but being lazy on your SBS doesn't get you anywhere. In this case I'll give you a break because it's kinda obvious what you did, but members need to learn, too.

light is coming from the right. see that the front side of the barrel is in the shadow. the fingers should be darkened, all so there is shadow missing beneath them. all so i would try to darken a bit the left side the shoulder, ear, and cheek.

see that the front side of the barrel is a bit out of focus and the left back side, is sharp. the baby depth of field is opposite. the back shoulder is out of focus and the front fingers are in focus.

all so i would add some adjustment layers on top of all to unify more the image

Thanks for your opinion Yoguy, but i have to disagree....Its obviously not alot of light in the pic, and the barrel is on a sloping angle while the fingers point straight down, It makes perfect sense to me that the shadows are right, especially if you compare them to the shadows on the babys face. Also, it seems the barrel is also weathered and more darker on the outside,

As for the focus, you may be right but its such a slight difference its hardly noticeable.

Thanks for your input, but it would be much more appreciated if you had given it before the deadline had finished.

sorry for the late reply, it was immediately after i so your response
nevertheless i think your post is the most creative and in spite of my perfectionist opinion i think it is well done
you still have my vote

Thanks yoguy and the others fr the nice comments

Super work and even though she is kinda creepy she is kinda cute too! It's a two for one elf!

Excellent transformation author.

Thanks Solkee and Arca )

Surely the best entry on this contest...

congrats

Congrats Freejay it is cute too

Thanks guys and gals

Congratulations on a wonderful creation!

Congrats on your win, and thanks for your comment on my entry.

Thanks Arca and CMYK

cute child......

nice edit though....