I'd remove the drop shadows on the pieces above his left hand. Otherwise well done.

Thanks CMYK. I added a gradient mask to the shadows instead which lightened the shadows above his left hand because removing the shadows completely just did not look right to me.

ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch (great chop) ouch ouch ouch ouch

Motion blur comes to mind.

IMHO step 3 is better then end result. Personally I do not like the added egg shells.

I removed all shadows, repositioned some pieces and added zoom blur to some pieces. The zoom blur layers were blended on screen mode.
Hey Rob, now it looks more like step 3 except with added egg shells flying off the head.
Thanks for your help guys.

Well I read all your comments and to me this looks like it has a point to it, and looks well done. I like the fire the explosion effect and it marries well with that face.

Congratulations

Congerts SA. Really nice use of the source model and blending it in with the exploding egg.

Congrats!

Congratulations....

Congrats Skyangel, it looks so real

Thank you very much everyone.

really good work...

i remember this add -- great work

Fun memory/entry... but wasn't it for speakers?

A great parody of a classic commercial! Very well done! Good to see your work again author!
In case anyone doesn't know the ad we're talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2WcBi9mu6A

supercool love it

Nice to see you back.... and good to see your work again. Nice image..... good luck!

pretty fun and welcome back

Thanks guys, The ad was for audio tapes but in 89 they used it for video tapes also.

http://www.adclassix.com/images/89maxellvideotape.jpg

a fun image

Nicely done!

Congratulations.....!

Sweet thanks guys

Congrats!! Really great to see you back!

Congrats - great image!

as i said its supercool congrats very well deserving entry

halerious! i love love love it!

Congrats !

WOW!!!! THIS IS AWESOME!!!! You wouldn't happen to have maybe a step by step? Pretty please

@MnMCarta. Thank you!! Please bear with me and keep your eye on this entry. I will recreate the SBS in FULL soon. This is a really, really old entry from PST. (I rarely keep my SBS's beyond a few months as I have a smallish HDD and it gets clogged) I posted a few steps to keep in-line with the contest theme requirements. As it's you I'll do the image again with the full SBS.

OH TY!!!!!! and can you detail the "how-to" as if I never used PS before? I remember a lot of buttons just the terminology kills me! I'm just a southern gal with a little vocab. LOL

super idea, bravo!

this is great image. brilliant idea and well done its going in my faves

great concept author.....keep it up
GL

Wonderful. Love the sense of movement you have captured! Definitely a fav!

fav fav fav.... as it should be

Very creative and interesting.

crap, that is so cool can't wait to see sbs author, i wouldn't know where to start

brilliant idea

i like it ,good luck

loved this before... love it again...

Awesome! I'm not the old PST member but I this is the second time I see that work. Really love how you distorted the characters and make the realistic shadows, the idea is exceptional. One tiny thing is the white stroke around his mouth in the reflection seems shouldn't be there

really cool n brilliant concept
fabulous just fabulous

superb

Great idea Congrats in advance

Very good.

Fantastic work author...Idea is amazing and execution is perfect...well done

Love this, and great sbs, easily made into a good tutorial.

congrats!!! woo HOOO

Congratulations!

Bravo for a job exceptionally well done! Hugs!

Congratr . . . .

congrats

Congrats! great work!

Congrats!!

congz

Transform some of the leaves so they're blowing at different angles...

Good work!

lol, nice idea author.

CMYK46 Thanks for advice is that any better?....and thanks all

Ummm...no.

Please upload next time in high res so we can see the details of your chop. Thanks

Humorous idea...and boy does he have his work cut out for him. If you transform some of the leaves in the height only...it will help.

nice creation author. GL

very nice

Very nice effect, and well composed

Very nice

Great Image...Would be nice to see a high res and SBS

Looks good

Wow, really nice effect. I would love to say that you've got a sure winner here, but looking through the other submissions, you have a few others to contend with. Personally, I'd say if this doesn't win, it'll at least be in the top three. Great concept and just as great entry. High marks from me, good luck.

be original, please don't imitate or duplicate

I like this alot. Would recommend doing something with the rendered clouds in the bottom left. Kinda detracts from the overall coolness of the peice.

wow......very cool effect + awesome use of brushes....Love this entry....but wats Gopan saying "be original" ??

Hi LKY, please go through all entries, you will understand why I said like that.

while it is a great image, i have to agree that its not original... there are atleast 2 others that did similar image with smoke bruches. still get a vote though as it is good work

nice job author!!

wow fantastic

Very good blending...nicely done sbs? and high res wud b gr8 .............

Beautiful

Beautiful

i like the way she looks like smoke

Good overall effects. Masking is a bit uneven, but nice outcome in general.

you did very well

beautiful creation! I'd love to see a tutorial about it.