what is your idea ? you put hand sign on flag !

looks way too simple, but it looks like a nice selection of the hand.

Edit: Ohh wait! After lookigbn at your steop by step[ guide i understand what you were trying to do, however it doesn't really show toow ell. What you should do now is move the displaced flag on a layer on top of the hand and set the flag to something like 'Overlay' or 'Multiply. This will really help sell your effect, and earn you MUCH higher marks. (try it with full opacity as well)

ponti55 layers were arranged as per your comments i have now tried changing the blend mode from multiply to overlay and at full opacity. Not sure how successful this has been, Believe the effect maybe weaker than it should be due to the diplacement map as the hand was fairly smooth. Will try to look at this.

author, log on to youtube and do a search for Gavin Hoey , he has a tutorial on exactly this type of work and it will help you greatly. GL

RayTedwell Thanks for the heads up will look later and see if i can improve on the effect

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I like this one more than the second one you did.

Only did one entry in this competition?? but thanks!

nice job

Putting them on a surface with shadows would make this better...

Yes, shadows and maybe different pieces of domino...

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agrees with shadows. Seems too simple.

very nice job

Would be better with a background & explanation of why the hand is B/W...

thanks for your advice and why it b\w i dont know really but i think natural like better

i didn't really understand what you said why it's b/w but i think it would look better in color

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Maybe take the filters off the hand. B&W would be ok to match the box if you want to go that way, and some sort of background or light source would be nice too

nice job

needs alot of work... if this looks anything like the tutorial that you followed then it was a poor tutorial. i would suggest you check out this tutorial instead:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/applying-a-realistic-tattoo/

also, the pen tool is way more effective then the lasso tool

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God save the queen,in this case God hand is hand of her majesty....

nice job

A couple of things, firstly the masking of the hand could be neater, with the contrast in the source image, it probably would have been easier and cleaner just to use the magic wand tool. If you tried to make the hand look more like the clouds in the background that would have been more effective too - I'm sure there's a tutorial for that somewhere

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It's a little simple in my opinion.

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whats gl???