good job. to get good dimension add some more light & shade effect. And water is totally behind, add some bubbles, plants to avoid this

nice just try to make the fish to look like its in the water, by changing the color tones of the fish to more bluish and try to darken it a bit. Nice its great , but its too light and doesnt look like its inside of a water. Anyway thats my opinion, maybe u like it this way better Overall great, keep up the good work

gopankarichal and MrHack thanks for your great suggestion, I have added grass, water surface, light beam and make whole scene a bit darker.

nice

oOo!This is really good!(maybe make the inside of the mouth a bit darker)

The fins are absolutely deadly, the entire piece is just wonderful, but those fins throw it over the top.. very inventive and fantastic.. good luck

EDIT: had to sneak back for another peak.. YEP. . fins are still fantastic.. I lived on a 22,000 acre lake as a kid.. and Just LOVE FISH pictures..hehehe

quite a big fish! good luck!

now we are talking real masterpiece! looks much better.

great work!

Fins don't look attached to the body, and the water surface should be evenly lit, but everything else is great!

amazing

well done..

Pretty ok. If you can make the wood texture for the body a bit rounder near the edges, you'll create more volume for the fish. Good luck!

I like the fact that you used only the source, but...but. since its the under water scene i think you should have introduced maybe bubbles or something so that the fish becomes part of the subject, to me the fish appears to be on its own! otherwise the fish is cool, so as the background. can you see what i mean?

haha! i comented before i read other coments so im not alone about the fish being separated from the water!!!!

Thanks to all for nice comments and suggesstion. Giggles made mouth a bit darker. CMYK46 tried to better blend fins. wazowski made some changes. stayrsa bubbles added using brush from brusheezy.com.

It looks better now!Well done!

Very good job, good luck

nice job

Hey, look familiar FUN!

Good work.

Awesome Job!! Good Luck

very nice, u make photoshop look easy

beautiful i think there needs to be a hook with a worm on it :P very creative thinkin author lovely detail.

where's the photo of the largemouth bass you used for reference?

Very well crafted top stuff!!

very nice one

Congrats, really lovely work

Congratulations for 1st, fantastic pic

congrats

Congrats! Way to go! Great entry!

First again??? Wow Nasikhan you're good, soooo good, congrats!

Congratulations.

Congrats!

awesome!!!!!!!!!!

great

hahahahaaa i like this one!

Nice idea good luck!

kudo's on a very neat effect.. good luck

ummmm ok author, ill have what your having lol goodluck

good

THe vision of the psychopath....Nice

neat.

In case you'd like it, you can use the warp tool and give the fish more the shape like it's diving. Good luck!

He is so wonderfully cute.. suggestion and this is a nit pick.. add a tiny white dot to each black pupil to get rid of the flatness.. he's too real not to have glossy eyes

EDIT: That's better but you might want to try emboss/bevel on the eyes to make them more round.. the emboss works the easiest. just set the black eye in separate layer and go to blending options.. an easy way to make 3d eyes

thank my friend. sorry for my english, i have not understand... a white point in the eyes?

nice

nice

Great!

very original

UGH.. all the tutorials are gone from PST .. but I was able to find this one.. it shows exactly what I was talking about.. good luck author.. and once again.. great job

http://www.webdesign.org/web/photoshop/drawing-techniques/cartoon-eyes.13823.html

nice fishy )) gl

mmmm...aaaa... what the..nice work

haha thats cool

very very cute.. and a very weird effect.. good luck.. hig marks

Nice idea good luck!

nice work well done good luck

nice

at first i thought they were real fish) and then I saw they came from ducks; but u made them look real to me

nice

good

Looks quite natural, well done! Perhaps a little bit of shading for the "fishes" around the head and belly (light comes from up left), but right now it's already believable. Good luck!

GL!

this picture is really great, but correct me if i am wrong, i think that i have seen this picture earlier on photoshoptalent. I am almost sure that you have submited this entry for second time. However nice picture

MrHack, you are right this is my old entry, As Mr Monty said to question

"Can I rebuild my portfolio somehow?

Yes! There is SOME good news! I still have the contest sources and themes since November 2008 on my own computer. If you had entries in these contests, you'll be able to re-upload them. This is because each week, we're gonna have the regular 12 new contests PLUS 12 old ones. The old ones will give you the opportunity to upload your entries again. These contests will be open for voting again."

Therefore you will see some old entries in these extra contest.

Reference :
what happened to pst
http://www.pxleyes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3

great use of the source!

You have kept your sources as well!! Good work - i never thought to do that.. Live and learn!

++ for the idea! great vision! Overall very impressive good luck!

nice

Congratulations for 1st

congrats

Congrats! Funny and well thought of!

Congratulations.

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats!