Nice and unique style...like it

very orangy.. which is cool.. very difficult color to work with and you did a great JOB!!! good luck

I love the mood of this!

wow,fantastic image with great mood...best of luck author

Congrats for 3rd

Congrats!!

I was surprised to see who the author was when i voted this. its beautiful, and congrats on 3rd!

Congrats!!

Congrats!

The brickpattern can barelly be seen, if you decide to make it more visible warp it to fit the form.
Use some reference to help you with the entry:
http://www.grandmas-attic.com/images/a2331.jpg

I wish I had seen this image earlier. Thanks for the suggestion greymval.

You can get inspired from it, but not use it or reproduce it, since it's copyrighted.
I posted it so that you can see the proportions, mood, lighting & how an entry should look.
The lighthouse is your MAIN so it would be better to be more detailed and occupy more space, for starters.
You can search for lighthouses on sxc, you should find plenty of shapes and environments to enspire you there.
You can edit your entry if you want to improve it My stuff-My contest entries.
There you have it: the 3 "you can"s. :P

I respect the effect you were trying to achieve, but rather see step five as the finished entry. I would just create a new layer, fill it with black, set the blend mode to color dodge, and then with a soft white 5% opacity brush paint where you want light. Painting over brighter areas with more brush strokes. Then I would create a new layer fill it with a brown color and set the layer blend mode to color and set the opacity of the layer around 25%. This will give you a more dramatic scene. good luck!

Thanks. I will try that and reply about outcome.

very good dark contrast the waves is just incredible. good work

So, how many PXLs could a PXL packer pack if a PXL packer could pack PXLs?

GL!

Thanks for the tutorials Giulia

Well done here!

very very nice work author...gl

Congratulations!

Congrats for 3rd

Congrats...

Thank you to everyone

i have to say that with the colour of the eye and needle of choice, this image is very eye catching and freaky as hell at the same time lol....

Goodluck author

Thank you

great work