you need to give the text some tecture like the wall and i suggest that you select the part of the text that u gave a darker color where the shadow is and color it again because the light red is seeing thru as if its badly painted over. holding off my vote for now. edit: perhaps if you select the shadow on the wall and color it in on a new layer with a greyish color simulair to the original shadow and then put that layer with the new shadow on top of all layers its fixed too, just get rid of the darkcolored in part where the shadow is now. It is just a little more work but theres plenty time till contest closes

Great Idea!

Author, if the apples & plate are your photos, you need to post the uncut images in a SBS.

nice one

good hard work!

SUPER DUPER CLEVER!!! WOOT!!

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Clever... really clever entry author.. It's the tail that doesn't blends with the image. may be you could use the same texture from the snail's body and I see the belt (right?) of the helmet casting a sharp shadow to the body, and that should follow over the tail. Also the masked portions still looks like painted. You could use the clone stamp to that portions. Thats all I see. good luck to you , Fantastic image

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lol my first thought was clever! I see it is a general conciseness. good thinking!

Very good idea Author. Nice marks.

This is sweet, it works well.

Hey I like that!!

really love the HDR effect.. Like a modern painting

Cool idea