chose some parts of the picture and cut it out: neststuff, branches and a part of the ground. I doubbled blured the ground and blend both versions with a layermask. I died everything. The "clouds" are made with aurorabrushes from obsidiandawn.com
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the eggshell became a dress, it was transformed with liquifyfilter. The person (?) is drawn.
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the hand is from a private photo. the sand is - like the ribbons - made with a brush. The ribbonbrush was a simple s-form, done with the pentool, the sand is a result of some jitter-experiments in brushdialoug.