Beautiful result - I wouldn't have imagined a cactus could be made to look so good. Well done!

Thanks Mossy. I love this flowers, we have different kinds of cacti in the yard, so, it is a treat for the eyes when they bloom.

Fantastic, good luck!

Awesome, reminds me of the wild mountain flowers in the place where I was born

Very delicate effect, nice colors. A bit too fuzzy in the foreground, though. Perhaps duplicating the layer and overlaying it for more definition?

SBS?????????????????????????????

@ mazanda: since I followd all the steps of the second tutorial, I won't be closing in an sbs
I placed a link to the tutorial - I can't explain it better then in this tutorial

YIPPEE!!!! JUST BEAUTIFUL!!

Very sweet and well done ! good luck author

Beautiful work. The dancer's skin is a bit too orange, though...Like she's the victim of an uneven and bad spray tan job. A bit less saturation and possibly a small percentage of a cooling filter would help her skin considerably.

Enchanting

Lovely work ... wonderful results and well done SBS!

Beautifully done! Love the transformation of the little statue.

So happy you like my ballerina! Thanks for the very kind comments.

Congratulations! Simply beautiful

Congrats Lois beautiful work

congrats.... i knew it...

yep! this is a winner! Congrats! great work!

Thanks so much for all the comments and votes! Love you all!!

love this entry -adding to my favs... congrats on first.

Congrats on the 1st place

Soooo Beautiful...I love the purple flowers it added more beauty to pic ..^_^..

Unless your goal was to make this into a Post Card, you should remove the text or at least change the title so they aren't the same... (comes off as a bit overkill..)

While I can see what you were doing with shadow casts, you may want to BURN the hard straight edge of each flower so they blend with the shadow/grass.. (they are sticking out harshly at the moment)

(all just IMHO.. what you chose to do with the entry is fine by me )

Cute entry author, good luck