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I love the way your mind works! Incredible image ... stunning in every way!

Perfect piece of work author...I saw this image when was submit and i did not wanted to vote in rush because i wanted to made treat for my eyes...so today i have more time and i am enjoying in your creation author...This piece of work goes straight in my favorites...well done and best of luck

congtrats my friend

Congrats Cornelia awesome work

Congrats Cornelia,awesome entry...

Congrats for 1st

This is a cool concept, and it's nice to see a mix of 3d & 2d.

Great idea and very nice work author...I have to ask why the 3d elements are so blurry? U made them in 3d and they have to be sharper for sure...IMHO u should fix that...best of luck

erathion, thanks for your comment i used a motion blur filter on the spacecraft to try and convey movement/speed. Also the spacecraft is not supposed to be the main focus, i wanted/needed the starfish to be the point of interest as that is what i had to photoshop and the craft is used to bulk out the scene. Hope this makes scense, i can make it sharp, but feel this would detract from overall image. Thank you erathion, i do appreciate you taking the time to comment.

An interesting image with a lot of imagination, but i don't really agree with your choice of how you transformed the starfish itself. The source lost a lot of depth, and in high res it looks over-warped. I'd suggest either shading the starfish with the dodge and burn tools to give it a bit more depth, or simply adding the source again, but this time without the flattening.

ponti55 i needed it to match the desert scene. I didn't want to go mad with the transform but if i hadn't someone would have commented that it didn't blend with the background enough......and you have commented on the opposite thanks for your input..

Well then i might suggest simply changing the background. In my opinion it would improve the image dramatically if the source didn't look so 2-dimensional.

Congratulations!

Congrats...

Congrats for 2nd

Nice chop! And kudos to using your own stock photos! My only nitpick would be maybe the edges around the starfish you turned into a bra. They just seem a little hard. Other than that, well done!

Make a blue overlay over the model, so it blends better. ( create new layer of solid color - blue- right click on it create clipping mask so it only affects the model, Mode: Overlay Opacity-20%- more or less) You could make 2 clipping layers one blue on green so that you have a turquaz overlaying your model.
Your background also has some noise that should be present on the model, so you could either lower her opacity -95-98% or add a noise over.
There's also a masking problem on her hip, use some clone stamp to cover over her human skin :P

Thank you very much for the suggestions I'll start working on them right away.

Nice looks good ..gl.

Water is always hard to work with...This image have a great concept author and u could turn it in fabulous entry...I would like to give u few advices because i had similar problems when i created my underwater entry's...For better blending,solid color layers with different blend modes are always good thing to do. Val gave u advice to use blue overlay layer,and that is good thing to do. I would gave u advice to use dark blue overlay layer,with opacity set between 20-40%. Also in this case u have to make whole scene a bit slighter and for that dark brown layer with color blend mode and goldish layer also in color mode will done the work. Play with opacity of course. And now magic stars,add on top of these layers,dark green soft light layer,play with opacity and u will get crazy blue-green water color,and goldish layer will gave some nice mood.And finally u could add on top of these,blue/gray layer,blend mode set to color,with a low opacity max10%. And thats it,great underwater scene. And u could create some bubbles behind the purple thing to achieve better depth...Sorry for this novel author...

erathion.. if you make us have to do a report on your comment.. you will receive a severe beating.... (oh.. very nice chop by the way author... giggle snort) smooches erathion.. just kidding!!!

author.. you should be very proud of all the work you have done... I'm exhausted after looking through your sbs ... GOOD LUCK

His comment was very helpful an I hope I was able to create the mood and feeling the were helping me achieve. I'm glad you appreciate the work because it was a very lengthy process. Either way I was very pleased with the end result

Now, who wouldn't help a hot naked chick lying on the ocean's floor . Glad you like the end result.

You'd be a fool not to help

Yes! that looks much better! One of the best entries! GL author!

Congratulations!

Congrats...

Congrats for 3rd, cool

Great job, love it

Nice result. Appreciate your imagination. I liked the bubbles and Jellies. I as a designer has met with the same staring and blindness problem. The solution what I found good is; Get away from PC, Do somthing else for sometime, Give a gap. Color perception get wavered as you keep stairing at the image for long. You end up giving lesser color than needed. Keep going..GL

I think its beautiful!

I think its very nice author I would just leave it as it is

Thank you all for your nice comments!

Nice one! My fav! GL!

very cool work author...gl

Thanx for the nice comments and fav's offcourse

Cool concept. The 3 o'clock earth starfish is maybe a bit too close; a little more distance might be more dramatic/threatening/tell more of a story. The outer edges of the 12 o'clock starfish's arms seem weak because (as revealed in hi-res) the water line bulges instead of remaining flat to the earth's surface.

The moon is hard to discern plus the closer starfish isn't casting any shadow. I think just deleting that closer starfish would be a simplifying improvement.

Nice1..Faved!

nice idea!

A good idea, despite a similar image already being in the contest. I agree with Dan about the uppermost starfish being above the waterline even though it has been clearly warped. Other than that it looks good Good attention to lights and shadows too.

For the comments about the upper starfish, it is as I want it to be. Yes it has been warped. I am trying to portray the creature as if it is wrapping its upper most arm UP and over the atmosphere and curvature of the Earth. If you notice the other arms are digging into the surface. Ponti and Dan I am not sure what you 2 are getting at. As for having been done as a similar idea...well I started this project as you see it with out seeing the other similar entry. It is not the first time things like this have happened here and probably will not be the last. Thank you for the comments and the favorite.

This is a pretty cool concept, name and execution, author. Quite the mutated starfish, very scifi!

That one center leg on the bottom starfish looks as if it's really burrowing below the water surface - great work! Dust and fire on the others works, too. Planet looks like a NASA image, nice job on that as well.

This swarm looks unbeatable

Very cool work author...gl

Wauw amazing :O

should've been third at least ..