this is cool..nice mood but not unique in my eye....but its a great job author..respect

Very good.

Good mood & color.

really nice... add some sbs please

sebasebus, sbs added.

Great gllomy mood!

Thanks to arylia for his lion's pics

The work is nice , but the background source link is missing, gl author

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/912700 Sorry but i try to put this link when i submit this contest but it didn't work ! Nox i hope it's ok

you can edit it from my stuf f-my contest

Flower reflections are wrong...you would see the bottoms, not the tops. Otherwise this looks good.

Also the reflection of the doors wouldn't flow through the reflection of the flowers. The flowers would block the reflection, a quick mask could fix everything. Nice image and good luck!

Great piece. Good luck.

Fabulous.

nice one.. but it would be better if it was darkened it a bit.. IMO..

Looks good! (Would be nice to mention the rain tutorial).

Thanks CMYK! I didn't follow a tutorial for the rain but I can sure explain how I did it. I made a new layer filled it with 50% gray. Added noise and then did a motion blur on it. Set the layer mode to screen and then adjusted the levels to my liking. I then duplicated the layer and transformed it to make different layers or distances between the rain. For the drips, I painted with a white brush where I wanted them and then used the smudge tool to transform it the way I wanted. Then I added a bevel from the layer options, and adjusted the opacity. For the splashes of water I made a custom brush and clicked for each little splash. I hope this clears up some of the things I did, if I have time I will make a tutorial on how to do rain with pictures and descriptions.

Very cool. GL

Clever use of source!

This is the tutorial I meant: http://www.planetphotoshop.com/rain-drops.html

Thats funny CMYK! I saw you post this tutorial on another entry a little earlier. I immediately went and watched the whole video. It goes to show how many different ways there are to do things in photoshop. I did learn some new things in the video, thanks for sharing.

great one!
I would personally lose the ring - it's distracting in this context. Anyway, high mark from me.

I like where you went with this but I feel the head needs a touch more colour adjustment to blend into the stock image you used... and I agree the ring is a little distracting and could be used elsewhere in the image, but it's up to you!?!... good luck though

Thanks hymerion and JamesD for the comments. I didn't like the ring either, but I wasn't 100% sure.

that's much better... GL!

Pretty nice blending

I'm surprised to find your entry.so low. Too bad, it was really good.

Great image.. very eerie.

Thanks Ponti, I guess it was my mood coming off a 54hr work week...lol!

Poor guy, looks sad and imprisoned

He's just hungry

Very good blending

Good job. I like the way the knocker turned out.