Nice spin on this = )

lol at first sight i didn't notice wich part of the photo you used :P
cool picture though

Very neat idea! Pretty tree.

Love that you used the non-obvious part of this to be your main focus. Nice work.

I totally saw a christmas tree too when I looked at the source, but then I saw you did it first so I didn't want to "copy". You did a great job, though. It's nice to see the not so obvious come forth and conquer!

HEY! Congrats on your first placement!!

BTW, I loooooooooooooooove your username.

Congratulations! In the mood!

congrats!

i've seen something like this..

The tree looks like it's popping out of the card. If this was your goal, it would have been nice to raise the tree up so it's higher than the left fold of the card. Good luck!

Thx for the tip secretsather, the tree is raised now.

Be sure to credit the tutorial you used to create this image.

CHEESE SAUCES ... CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!! already...!!!!! I haven't even finished my Halloween candy yet... hehehehe.. great job author.. very well done

Very nice mood And very sweet!

Beautiful Christmas card

cool work author...best of luck

Not the merry christmas I would wish anyone!

oh...he's making a poop. and it's steamy.....(:

Post sources for tree & smoke...

Thank you guys for comments. CMYK, it is posted: SBS, steps 15,16,17

Oops, didn't realize those pics were your own, sorry...but what's with the helicopter?

And what about helicopter CMYK? I just checked, link to this image is working... Or you're asking what is it doing there?

Get it while it's hot!

I think CMYK is hinting that the helecopter doesn't really fit with the image. I was thinking the same thing. Also your snow filters you used on the tree and elephants feet, well they seem very fake, I would play around with them more. Try blending them better.

ha this made me laff

o.k. CMYK and Jawshoewhah, about helicopter: My idea was that helicopter just brought this elephant to the Christmas party and flying away. About filters: I only used hue&saturation adjustment to make the colors of light on elephant and tree sampe purpleish as a base image. May be it could be less strong though... I'll try to play with it, still have time.
Edit: Corrected Hue&Saturation on the elephant level.
Thank you Jawsh

You used another elephant layer, didn't you? (see tip of the trunk) I honestly think a better blend would be to just feather a pattern stamp.

No, Jawsh, I didn't use another elephant layer, took me a while to find out where this lines were coming from. But I find it and fixed. It was my sloppy masking of second shadow of the tree, that wasn't masked right. Thank you and diamond medal for you sharp eye.

good one. nice image. good luck to you

ahha the shit steam , is nice idea..

great