Wowwweeee!! I'll hold my vote until the sbs comes but for now HIGH MARKS!!

really cool image!

Great sbs!! High marks!!

I kinda want more... sigh... still high marks.. but still .. I like this .. alot.. More.. hehehe

Cool image nice construction would expect to see a shadow on the ground tho.... just an idea

wow....just wow

niiiice!

reminds me of something good job.

wow...very cute :P

congrats!

Congrats for your second place!

Congratulations for 3rd

congrats

congrats!!

Congrats!

Congrats!!

silly fun..you could ripple the water with the oval marque around the base of the baby's foot.. it would give it some motion realism.. great IDEA!!!! (oh yeah.. the reflection is awesome)

leg size is huge, because it's a baby feet. otherwise good work

Since babies aren't born swimmers...I would take this as a tragedy.

Good Luck

leg is too big

I repaired it

nice

looks nice

Is it just me or the reflections are all wrong?.. i.e. how can u see a reflection of the sky in the lower part of the ball and any grass on the top of the ball?..

cool

Nice good luck

gl

The sphere needs to be round for a true effect.. (I've sold tons of those things out of my old gallery) Roundness will give it more realism (glass blowers seldom if ever make an ovoid crystal ball) but if you want to keep it ovoid I have no problem with that either.. I'm just thinking of keeping it real.. good luck author.. FUN PIECE

EDIT: Much better author.. really looks better.. I know it's tricky.. especially working with sphere.. if I could.. I'd put a sphere in every piece I entered

I thought it was a circle! I'll see if I can round it up a bit.

Edit: Round enough for ya?

It's floating above the hand...

CMYK, that was kind of on purpose. I'd love to say, to give it that Mystical Magical feel, but really I couldn't get it to look right sitting in the hand. Besides, it give it that Mystical Magical feel, don't you think?

Edit: one last attempt and I think I got it in the hand. I think I'm gonna stop there.

Nice

hmm.. something doesn't look right.. ok. the thing is that it looks like it's in front of the hand, not in or above it. if you still have the fingers on a seperate layer, put them behind the ball layer and play a little bit with the colors and blur maybe. just so it'll appear that the ball is somewhere in the hand area

good job

Nice, but I think you have to play way more with light and shades. Especially around the hand, I'd expect more shading there. Check this tutorial otherwise http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut009.htm. Good luck!

Very nice, good work

maybe make the edge of the crystal ball more defined

Congraaaats ... Nicely done!

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW Can I step on him now before my cat Eats him??? (My cat would eat him, get sick and then I'd have a beautiful red stain on the carpet.. hehehe)

(work in a nutshell is AMAZING)

good work, nice color. one leg is missing

very cool author great job!!

It's good, but think before you imitate a source pic...the leg is obviously missing.
Edit: Nice to see the leg...

nice

good

very nice

Good Luck

Very creative idea!Well done!