Excellent thinking.

very good masking! what tool did you use if i may ask? oh, fix the pattern right below the zebra

This looks really good...try to show the tail covering more of the "elbow" part of the hind leg or show us it's there.

Nice job on this...perhaps you could round out the Zebra's bottom a bit and maybe bring one of the back legs down a bit so that it doesn't look like the zebra is resting on a flat surface... this would really enhance this image. Great job already though...love the shadow!

EDIT: Looks

thanks for your nice comments and notes , , i re-edit it with new enhacements with the tail

elficho ... beleave it or not , i use a "Polygonal Lasso tool " in masking the Zebra , , and then compleat the neck & tail 's hair with stamp & smudge tools

If you fixed it, it looks good. It's just a little simple. Probably would of looked better if maybe there were more than one. Just a suggestion.

great job

nice