Thank you Robbie. Just used "R", rotated the image around and saw the helicopter. I do that a lot with the sources so you can "see things" using various angles. Kinda like tilting your head and seeing a rabbit or w/e in the clouds.

The shadow IMO is about 8 o'clock. do you think it should be more towards 8:30?

Mahalo abdou . Kind words. :d

Mahalo seestah!

You have some round yukkies you might want to erase just in front of the creature's face

Yea those dots were added by the Nik Filter and I don't know why. I was hoping no one saw them but you have the eye of an eagle. I will try to clone them out. Thanks for the suggestion.

Those yuckies were actually in the external external source and were exaggerated by the Nik Filter.

That was a problem area. I spent more time on that than anything else (well not quite but it felt that way). I tried so hard to find legs that would just cover up that seam. I had the edge a little harder, then softer, and kinda settled on medium. Tried using some of the paintbrush texture to make it blend. Tried some color, and other types of brushing. Perhaps you see some solution that I don't, to which I am all ears, but I kinda racked my brain on that stupid seam. I was hoping no one would notice but you and Z with your damned eagle eyes are seeing ALL of my faults!! haha.

I beat on it some more. This is a before and after https://image.ibb.co/h8cTYA/before-and-after.jpg

You made it less defined. I was thinking more defined like in this reference......
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-bird-flying-under-the-blue-and-white-sky-during-daytime-162292/

I made the changes you suggested. Thank you.

Oh wow. I didn't think this contest ended till tomorrow. Thanks Rob!

Mahalo seestah Z!!

Thank you wyndham

Thank you thank you SA.

Merci seestah.

Thank lolu. Hope you liked it.

Thanks Ichappell. I re-did a bunch of things. Too much to type out but it is all written out in the first step of the SBS. TY for the suggestions. I didn't do any fog shadowing though.

Nice changes, especially those cables/ropes holding the balloons.

Image has been updated. the old version is in the SBS if you want to compare.

Holy crackerjackers. Do you really say that in real life? BTW I do have Paypal.

Thanks for your help with this. I didn't know what you specifically meant by "Play with the levels and curves", but I did darken the entire boat/sub some with Curves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGSPUOaHYn4

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