I think the river in the background is a bit high, and boats big comparing to the people on the left side of the river/street. But I like the blending of the water in the foreground.

i agree with erikuri

Cool!!

In addition to erikuri, you can ripple a bit the shadows in the bottom right corner, because they are in the water.

Did some tweaking (removed part of the source photo to connect the back water)... the ship is just going have to be a monster.. I tried to shrink it but it kept making the balance go wacky..

Thanks for all the help!!

Except for maybe the motorcycles on the right riding on the water (only noticable in high res) it's a pretty convincing blend, so good luck.

very nice blend author,looks very realistic...i agree with Jaw,in high resolution bike rides on the water...please try to fix that...best of luck

ahhhahah i love the idea!

Creative and fun. I'm not so sure about the orange rays that turn white half way to the ground, however.

It's a really creative work, and very well executed. GL!

Very nice! How did you do the sparkled circle? SBS please.

cool work author...gl

The perspectives of the horses and riders are a little off. They're too big.

jawshoewhah Thanks any better?I saw they pxle bad the smaller I make them

did you download the high resolution version of the source1 image? i'm asking because the cowboys look kinda weird. like you used an awkward combination of filters on em. also, they're too blurry compared to the rest of the image, especially the background when they are supposed be the ones in focus. but the chopping must have taken forever!

Yes but flickr has changed the way photo's come up now I took largest picture but when you make them smaller they pixle I thought it would be good but maybe I should have left alone yea it was a lot of chopping I don't like way pictures come up on flickr now I don't know if I have enough time to re do

The parade is indeed nice, but the shadows are weak (compared with shadows on right side of image) and the rear paraders seem oversized relative to the parade watchers.

The rear paraders if you look at blond girl standing and guy on horse they look same size. The horses were re sized before

good shadows

Interesting idea, but the smoke and steam don't look realistic. And out-of-bounds images are more compelling if the OOB element is more substantially out of the photo frame. Scrunch the left photo edge so the white frame seems to be parallel to the front of the train engine.

Nice effort. But I agree that smoke and steam are cartoonish. Try to make them using clouds render filter, resizing and removing the excess with soft eraser. In the case of smoke, you change the color. It's an idea, GL!

Thanks for the input. =-) I'm stumbling along on PS. But I'm getting it. I'll work on the recommendations listed.

very nice idea!

smoke looks much better now. Well done. New to PS? Have you used other tools in the past then because your work is a high standard for a beginner. Good Luck.

Where are the train tracks?

I was thinking the same thing, CMYK.

Nice image. If you flip the mountain in background it will match the light in the source pic, which is from our right.

thanks for advice ! cmyk46

I agree with CMYK. Make the changes and GL!...

i like it!

Might be more convincing as a park if you put some other source image people in the middle, IMO.

very nice idea,looks like mountain Fuji in the background...good luck

well done author.....more than a park this luks like a golf course