Congrats, brilliant!!

Very nice!!

great work good luck Author

This is beautiful work, author, and a different way to achieve the effect. Kudos.

this image has a 3d feel to it.

I feel like he going to look out my computer.... good background choice

very nice concept ,,nicely done GL Author

thank you !
I want to say my opinion about Dragan effect. I saw the works on his site, each one is beautiful but on photoshop I think that each photo had a different treatment , on very accurate shots he worked on raw, then photoshop.So the "dragan effect" is a little over much said, is the HDR effect over a portrait .

great work, very well done effect

great work

great work
gl author

Great work! Best of luck!

cool and greaaaaaat..........!

very very nice work..GL!!

Congrats - great job!

Congrats

thank you !!

Congrats beautifully done

thank you all !!

Congratulation!

Felicitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaari pentru locul I!!
Tine-o tot asa!

Conngrats on your First Place Win

Really well done,I wish a lil SBS would be of so much help But nevertheless looks good to me! GL author

thank you mishti I will try to make a sbs soon.

Very nicely done! The changes are subtle but very believable!

thank you spaceranger, Im not sure if this is over 21 I dont want to change her anymore but I want feedback regard to her age.
My boyfriend told me that look 18)))))))

Excellent work! The facial lines make her look over 21, but holding up well. Really good job.

Great work and I think she looks 21 or even older... GL

very well done author! you successfully showed us a child who has aged!

This one is fantastic Author. Right on theme.

thank you all, i just finish to add the sbs , my english is not good but I hope you will understand, the most important step is the step 1 and 2 the other are just color play.

Extremely well done so believable.

Amazing job! Congrats!

very very very well done!!!!

unbelievably believable you are very good

Bang on the money!!!! Fab

Very nice indeed congrats !! ..and yes, blue is the channel where usually all of the noise is concentrated .. thanks for sharing that

Great work author !!! congrats

wonderfully fulfilled!!!

incredible, good photoshopping!!

Detailed SBS and great outcome...GL

thank you!

excellent work author and a good choice of source

Perfect! The little and the old sisters...

Excelent author, GL!

Awesomeness!

awesome

ohh my God simple touches but the final result is amazing ,well done author .......GL

Great work! Love it a lot! The best one!

Excelent work author.... best of luck!!

Excellent work and right on theme!

congrats

Congrats beautifully done

thank you so much!

Congratulations for your fist place.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Amazing work!!!

thank you!

i knew it i knew it very well deserved congrats

well deserved and congrats

Nice Job Congrats on first Place Win

This image made me laugh so hard! So silly, fun, and well done... gotta love it!

Love the overall texture

I love the texture in this piece.

Wow, it's something to lose the head for!
Nice texture and idea.

Texture is great in high res his right shoe,it's transparent Best of Luck

very impressive
gl author

thank you all, I dont think that the right shoes is transparent

Great and creative, GL!!

it is very good work.good luck

thank you!

Precious work

thank you Cornelia very nice comment

Nice chop Author great idea. Good luck today

Congrats

Congrats, very nicce work

congrats..

congrats..

Congratulations!

Congrats!!

thank you!

Congrats on first place Win!

Super work author!! GL

Beautiful!

thank you guys

Excellent work...would love to see SBS also.

right on target!

The first entry usually isn't the best [generally because it's too quick], but this may be the exception that proves the rule. A high standard has clearly been established.

The 'before' model's fashion choice was perhaps not exactly age-appropriate (if one were judgmental), but the 'after' model rocks it!

looks a little too fake for me..great job though most people dont have those skills!

Looks nice, but I agree with CrystleClear that it's slightly too fake. I always do my healing / clone stamping on it's own layer, then lower the opacity to 80-90%. That way the original skin details and lighting shine through.

guys first of all thanks, yes I agree with blazer and crystel is a little overdone but in this case (very much amount of wrinkles) the face had a very small intact texture so I had to do again the skin, the mistake is the pores and the ligtining on face , I have one week to improve this, thank you very much for yours feedback!

well done!!!

look at hi res,....really great..!
SBS, please..?

D*mn great job mate !!
Good luck

She's fit before the makeover

Great retouching..Good luck author

Fantastic work authos, very well executed, gl

If I took my grandmother to glamour shots.... this would be the result, well this is probably, like 200X better, great job author! Maybe get a part-time job re-doing people's grandmas...... wait does that sound right? Anyway, Super Job author!

Edit: Add SBS and this is a Fav.... for sure!

this is great! Yes, I would add some pores to her skin though to make it REALLY great because it does look a bit fake.

Pores are needed badly, looks a bit like plastic this way.

Thank you all for your feedback I made a change needed on the pores and I provide on description the process.

WOW Great one!

Now you got it , could be a winner.

Top entry author...One of the best in the competition for sure...High marks from me...best of luck

great work author, gl

thank you all for your comments

I may have an entry in here ..and I have to give u top marks ,,lovely work

Fabulous, the lady looks like a super model on the manipulated picture

wow, pretty nice

Great work, very true to life.

Congrats for your first place, Nanaris!

Congratulations

Congrats, beautifully done

thank you all so much!

Congrats!!

Congrats on first Place Win

Congrats, great job!

Amazing! Great work

Very cool, what a great idea about the jellyfish = )

very creative! good luck!

Thank you Androla and Emik !

Awesome idea with the jellyfish as parachutes for the fish, nice chromatics and mood, as well.
I'm not a fan of:
1. Background. No idea if it's an aquarium or the ocean. In the first one you would have some form of "back" of the BG, like an outside word ( you could have made this look like a bubble/ bubble tank, enhancing your composition ). In the ocean, the floor would go further away losing itself in a blurred underwater horizon, or if it's the edge of an abyss you would see the other edge or some seamountains etc.

2. Fish. You only have 2 species repeated a few times with minor hue & scale change, even bubbles on them are the same -makes this very boring. Try using more species and more numbers, maybe a cluster in the background, one very close in the foreground, in order to create More Depth & variety. ( they can also be partially outside the screen.

3. Shadow cast. a) It should be a little more oblique since light comes more from the left, than from the front. b) Dress & umbrella would create a projected ellipse shadow, not a triangle. ( credits for this info: CMYK & his comment on my entry on mushroom shadows).

I wanna make sure that you know: I do appreciate your effort & idea, and I'm only commenting cause I see lots of potential in this entry. With some more time investment it would truly be outstanding.

Thank you Nator!
Grey thank you for your help , I will see If I will change something!

i love it ,good luck

This is so, Lil Bo peep, lol, where are the sheep, love this entry!

Congrats for 3rd

Congrats for the 3rd!

thank you!

Congrats