nice

cool

very nice

Please fix your source links, they're both for the same image.
Edit: fixed.

Now you need a link for the figure.

cmyk, the figure is in author's sbs. reminds me of lord of the rings, good job author!

Cmyk, figure of person is from my own collection, you can see in SBS,

Wasn't there when I commented. GL.

What say you? What say you? I am Isildur's heir. Fight for me. And I will hold your oaths fulfilled. What say you? And where is damn Aragorn...i am just joking author,great creation...good luck

Congrats for your first place.

Congrats Satire, a beautiful piece

Nice job.... Congrats on the first place!

Congrats!, great job

Congrats!!!

Nice colors and blending!

i like this a lot!

very nice work author...great colors and very good blend...best of luck

Yellow in foreground, middle ground & background kinda reduces depth, but it's a good blend.

Thanks everybody!

nice but too much yellow

Great mood and pretty good blend.

Congrats for your second place!

Congrats!, for your 2nd place, nicely blending.

Congrats!!!

wow i love this 1

Thanks Tuckinator!

you must have put a lot of time into this. great job.

Pretty nice work, but the leftt side dark and big boulder doesn't fit into the perspective here very well. There is also a slight problem with the scale of the people when compared to each other. Walking kids and the one fishing could use a slight shadow, you can use the rock shadows as a guide, where the light comes from. To make it even more realistic, you could cast some shadows from the big bushes and trees on the left side of the river bank. (There is also a minor masking error on the left side of the cycling path.

i got rid of the bad boulder. put some shading and shadow on the kids and the fishing kid and fixed the masking boo-boo. but i gotta go to sleep now. i will try to address the rest tomorrow, if work and school permit before the deadline. Widiar, i do appreciate your comments, i really do. but i was so deflated (it is ok, i recover fast and you are right about what you say) in hearing them. I think when i work so long on these things i quit seeing them till you are good enough to point them out. then it is like a sore thumb... sticking right out - blaring at me! but, i do want to thank you for taking your time and giving it a good look over.

Already a lot better with the out of perspective rock removed. You could have blended it in with perspective tool and shadows perhaps, but takes a lot of skill and times, so obviously better choice if you're busy on your life (aren't we all). I'm glad you appreciate my comments and suggestions. And I know how you feel.I think we all sometimes (even best of us) make a picture for hours, then send it with full excitement, how good we did.. waiting some praise and then someone comes and tells how obvious flaws we missed.It is always a good thing to give the image "a rest" and take a new look with fresh eyes and mind.

But it's the whole point of this site I think.. to learn, give and take tips and improve our skills. Would be utterly boring to see 100 perfect chops every night with nothing to say but 'Awesome work dude!111' ..

Widiar, you are so right!!! I have been learning photoshop since january this year, each time i enter, i learn something (some lessons are harder than others!!!) one thing i have learned is that i love it! and another is that no matter how hard the critique is to take - no comments at all is much harder to take!

In high resolution u have big light source issue author...people in the water are in the total sun,and in your image there is no sun anywhere...also u could blend boy on the rocks a bit more,to change his color.Change mode to CMYK and play a bit with curves...i would ton a down magenta for sure.People are to big for the rest of the image,and they need some shadows...Sorry for the nit picks but idea is very nice and this could be good entry...good luck

There is sun where they are, the coloration of the water is the depth (in real life - look at the original in the sbs, note the trees close right no shade in the water, if you look over at the trailer on the far left the sun is directly overhead and the shadow is directly under it.) although even if you were to assume it were the trees the girl is to this side in full sun. i will work on the boy, thanks for the tip. i used some shading as widiar suggested on the kids and the fishing kid. as for the sizes i used the rocks on the beach right by the swimmers to get the size right, and the same for the others. i then used vanishing points to verify them with the distant ones. i also used the items in the original (to the far left) to verify so i have to gently disagree with you on size.

please dont apologize for the nit-picks, it is good that you took your time and looked so thoroughly at this piece. i truly thank you for your comments (and your comments are why i now take the time and such extreme measures to actually measure the people and the perspective now.) my next attempt i will add the steps taken to measure out things to my sbs,

Interesting image. But background image (river, running course) is cloudy, and fishing boy too. Given source and kids in the water are lit by sun.

hey erikuri! thanks for your comments. (btw... loved your "screwdriver"!!!!}

Congrats for your third place!

Congrats! for your 3rd place.

Congrats!!!

The shadow from the big rock it is still there ...Try to blend a litle grass there..

Nice image btw

Please post source link.

the source is my own picture taking at bar harbor

then post it uncut in the sbs

Beautiful mood. No naming? How about something related to New Year?

mmmmmmm I think the new year fits the image but I don't know what should I call it...
"Happy new year"

Very cool mood author,and great colors...well done

I agree with erikuri and erathion, great mood! nice job, author. I think having no title makes it unique