I got the image of a spring and selected it using the pen tool.
I put it over the flamingo in the source image after I made it bigger. I used the ctrl+Shift+I+ Del method to cut the flamingo into the spring shape. I played with the blending modes and opacities to get the spring to look more like the initial flamingo. I masked a lot using layer's masks.
Added leaves all around the image and sky in the backround. I added some gradient adjustment layers, brightness and contrast and shadows using different tones of grey.
Added some light beams and cropped the image for composition purposes.
SBS upcoming! (5 years and 3871 days ago)
hehehehe..I think I know..hehehehe
(your magnificent color tones are showing author.. MREEEOOWWWWWWW..purrrrrr..hehehehe) GREAT WORK
Do you....really??? Do you???? Do you???? Lol!
Beautiful stuff! Nice work, author. 
Super!!!! Great job, looks great! Nice atmosphere too!
it looks like a mythical creature! i like it
great mood, very nice chop
beautiful
wow, how u did that? it is simply amazing. the background, the light, the shadows. Really amazing. nice work and i hope you win this contest. see u
COOL!!! good luck is a very very nice one
Gorgeous image & colours very nice work indeed!....personally i think it looked better with out the light rays
cool very good
this is an amazing image ! Love it!! Best of luck!
this is an amazing image ! Love it!! Best of luck!
Nice idea Author good luck to you
Thank you so so much for the great comments...! I haven't forgotten about SBS...will be posting it most probably tomorrow...as I have to work as well....unfortunately....lol....otherwise I would stay on Photoshop allllllllllll day long...!
Good image
nice work
very nice 
pretty cool
Good one.
Are you sure this is not 3D ? LOL. look better than any 3d soft can do. Congratulations and good luck.
congrats!
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I tried to show that the grandparent's time is past, while the parent's time is present. The child, who is the future, is in the forefront. It's in an oil painting format because that was the medium of choice for the grandma's generation, showing that the influence of the past still affects the present and the future. (5 years and 3898 days ago)
wow author..this is a totally new piece and you've jumped forward ten time in finish work.. congrats on the improvement.. I'm very impressed.. good luck!!
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as a grant parent she is living her present, as a mother the lady in the middle also living her present............my point is this is showing only present
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Okay Photoshop Gurus and fellow authors.. answer me this.. why would this image not save in JPEG form directly. It kept saying " invalid jpeg marker is found"
My SBS saved fine..
I finally saved it as a flatten TIFF then converted it back into a Jpeg and it finally worked...
Was working on another blue project and I tripped into this (the circles wouldn't go with what I was currently working on and I got distracted) all PS (5 years and 3905 days ago)
too much children... 
about jpg, maybe you had a little mode problem with bits and channel? interesting anyway...
good work
nice job
Thats pretty Good luck
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Good idea, but heads 1 and 3 are distorted...
The picture was like that in the first place and 3 isnt distorted?
Compare to your source pics...they are distorted...when scaling pics always hit he Shift key.
nice
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