No need to feel awkward, author! This happens all the time. It's happened to me as well. Glad you posted it. It's different and you used different techniques etc. It is in fact a completely separate entry by a separate author. Having said that...I really like what you have done. Extremely well done blending and shading. This is not an easy task. Thanks for posting and good luck. .

well done.. :clap:

I agree with pixelkid. It is against the rules to copy someone's work but that's usually very obvious, It's not unusual to have similar ideas and some sources evoke the same ideas to many people. This is very well done and I'm glad that you posted it as well!

Have to agree ... glad you posted as did a very good job!

Hi, just wanted to say thanks to you guys for your nice comments, they made me feel much better about the entry! And I've just seen that it got 1st, as well, which was unexpected, so I'm smiling big time and thanks everyone

Congrats on 1st!

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Congratulations!!

Congrats very well blended

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Congrats ... now aren't you glad you posted it

Congrats on your win

Clever use of source! Great job Good Luck!

i really like that u didnt just swap the faces and leave it at that..u added other things to make the image more interesting..good job

This is a nice job, but in my opinion this is more of a Photoshop of your background image than it is of the original source image.

Fantastic work author...very nice work with the source image but u added some great details...well done...

I quite agree with the others, great job autor

I liked that you included a different focus by adding an intriguing background to help tell the story for the image. Great vision and really nice execution. The blurry artillery in the foreground is brilliantly done!

Congrats!!

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Congratulations!!

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Congrats on your win

nice imagination

i like the idea , i don't like that you used a picture tube

The background image is stretched out quite a bit. Very unique idea. GL

If you could possibly give more shape to the workers...it would help. I love the idea!

Thanks all for comments I was away from computer couple days under the weather I just got in here tonight I redid as to some of Ideas given... gornats I used the tube because I drew it before and filled in and saved it for other projects ...sorry Thats why I save a lot of things I 've made on projects for future use I save in tubes it keeps Them transparent

Congrats Chuck...

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Wow ! Boy I didn't see that comming Thanks Everyone

Nice work for first entry. The drop shadow on the flag should be on the left side of the sailor.

Good Luck, and welcome, keep coming back!

Thank you for the advice, sgc! I hope is better now...

Seems to match his shadow much better. Good Luck!

cool work...gl

author this is nice image but demand a bit more work...Try to blend elements a bit better...watching your image u could achieve that using some color layers....First, on top of all layers create dark brown layer, blend mode set to color with opacity in between 20-40%. Then create golden layer with similar settings and on top of that dark green layer with blend mode set to soft light around 15-30%...Just an idea...GL

Nice job of choosing the right sources for the coat and direction of the light. I noticed that you added eyes to the statue. Thats fine but the hat on the guy doesn't pass as anything other than a statue. You can probly get away with the skin, but I would suggest putting a real hat on him.