Great work, looks convincing! Nice shadowing

Great looking pic.

That's a scary palace i wouldn't go in! Great work.

Wow, the blending is great, brilliantly put together.

this is really really cool

nicely worked upon...!!!

Really well created, and very nice step by step guide, good luck!

Wow!! I love it..Great blending..Good luck..

What a composition! Great blending and work. I just love the towers door. Good luck!

Very well put together. Good work.

great pic@

i like it ..........

my favourite

looks really cool and spooky. I would love to enter

love it! It reminds me of "The Birds" movie. They're gonna come peck at my face!!!!! ahhhhh

another very good one

congrats !!! beautiful work!!!

Congratulations for your first place! It's really a great composition!

Congrats, fabulous work

Congrats!

congrats

Congratulations for 1st.

Congrats!

good work!

Very nice image.. good job

Vry nice how you worked the inside of the tower...

OMG this entry is flawless no suggestions here you dont need em!

I remember this one, it looks more fantastic than it did before, great magic.

author this is beautiful!

you did a great job taking the bricks out.

Nice image

Beautiful image!!! I love it... Excellent work author... if i can find just 1 thing that doesnt work... its that the bricks seem paper thin, but otherwise, LOVELY!!!

great one,,,,,

nice work there author, did a good job on those bricks and i love the background as well.

Cool

excellent everything

congrats lovely work !!!

Congrats for your second place, Angela!

Congrats!

congrats

Congratulations for 2nd.

Congrats!

i love the fog!

Good job.

nice done

Looks pretty good, but I'd do a soft blur on some of the masked edges on the foliage. Good luck!

very nice blending... think a few people are gonna check out CMYK's photos now lol

that is cool! It reminds me of something you'd see in a movie like "The Lord Of The Rings" or something like that.

good job

Congrats for your third place!

Congrats!

congrats

Congratulations for 3rd.

Congrats!

beautiful entry.. there's a bit of a halo around the fence on the left hand side, but apart from that.. great job!!

I love how she starts to blur on the right. Very etherial.

It's a bit too light for the strong light beams, and I'd change the sky a bit above her staff...it looks like smoke's coming out of it. Otherwise, it's a good image.

pretty cool!

You should fix the fence behind her, i looks fake duo to the new background, it's too bright and it has a white stroke.

fantasticccccc

the wheat looks a bit big compared to the birdhouse-- but very pretty!

beautiful image

you cant use the castle image or the pumpkin stock image.. castle is pre made and the pumpkin image is a no no as to the guidelines... ive have asked about these in the forums... see if you can find another castle and use a real pumpkin instead. Im not sure how you will go with the trees either as they are another png premade image. sorry.

Illustrations and renders are allowed since not everybody can draw and know how to use 3D- programs http://www.pxleyes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=95&sid=dfc20094b0034616408a63cb0a407641 However you should be able to do some PS and photo manipulations such as source 5 can’t be used as sources. Also of course copyrighted photos such as source 1

yhanks for clearing that up maja , ill change the child image monday ( when i have access to the psd file. its on my work pc) i didn't notice , funny think is it would have been easier to just draw the child lol half of him was missing anyway, i had to dra his right side/legs and the rest of his bucket as its all cut off or in the wrong posistion in the origianal photo.

Here is a link to the topic about using images like the pumpkin.. the castle is straight forward as it even says on the original image it is pre manipulated, so that needs to be removed anyway.

http://www.pxleyes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=322

I had an entry removed awhile back for this very reason, so i think the rules should apply to all. no offence author, its a fantastic image

hey olivias, the castle is here : http://angelus-knight.deviantart.com/art/castle-stock-6-65114386 , the sky is a sky brush with over layed colors. if you check the pre made image and mine the sky is different, originaly i used the premade but didn't like the sky so used the other versio n with the white sky to make masking easier. . i do have to change the little boy thoe, as he is c/w i didn't notice. ill be doing that monday when i have access to the psd again ( im camping now at my trailor)

Source 1 is © by twehl

did you get that from the comments or did you figure it out all by yourself cmyk? hehe jj :p yeah i didn't notice that, im going to fix it monday when i get at the pc that has the psd file on it. i have a pic of my 2 little ones im going to put there instead . dunno how i missed that, im usually pretty good at finding stock. ah well. easy fix anyway

I don't understand. It sounds like from the link that Oliviasarts posted, you cannot use an image that was already manipulated by someone else. I went to this castle and I don't see where it's been manipulated. It just looks like a castle that someone photographed and made it a stock photo. It says nothing about being premanipulated in the description. Is it my eyes? Am I missing something, or do I not get the problem?

there is a premunipulated version of the image you seen on devident art with a sky, and the castle colors changes. ( i put the wrong link when posting) so my link was showing the wrong image.

Oh, ok. Well really nice job.

incredible!

The child has no shadows on the ground, does it? o.o

shadows added to children ( children also added, replaced little boy with a pic i had of my 2 girls) also brightened the image up a bit. hope you guys like the new version!

Great!! the two little girls are just the right for this entry, the little girl hiding behind the older girl is so sweet. Perfect contrast to the gloomy castle.

Perspective wise the source image (the tower) is off. Should be an easy fix to correct this with the perspective tool (edit > transform > perpective) and make to top a little wider.

OOO and don't forget to post the sources for the sky AND stairs you used

thanks
The stairs are made up of the stairs in the original source

The sky is just a few brushes, with 4 layers over it, black blue grey and purple layer overlayed, and erased in certain spots with a soft brush then the opacity adjusted

The 2 girls are my 2 little ones, i won't put names ( just incase someone can figure out who owns the entry) but the little one is 2 and she was hiding like that every house and in a few pics in the basement. it was so cute i got a few pics of it for my parents to see glad i did now lol worked good for the spooky house

cool idea but I think the pumpkin at the top is too big for the castle awesome job though