Super clever animal placement and excellent source blending.
Very nice work

You've done a good work hiding them.

Great work, I was looking at the tree and all of the sudden I saw all the Gnomes, and wow, good blending, looks like this too a while. = )

The gnomes where drawn in which made blending really easy! Tee hee - it was a fun image to do. It did take quite a bit of time but I could have gone on and on and on.

I am dying to see if anyone has found the bonus creature?

Oh boy.. flash back to the hospital waiting room paging through a Highlights magazine LOL

I was thinking about that sort of thing. I loved these puzzle pictures as a child (okay, I admit, I still like them). It was fun to create one of my own. Only trouble is I knew where everything was so couldn't look for it

lots of work is invested here...gl author

Congrats my friend on 1st!!!

Congrats Arca lovely work

COngrats for your first place Arca, great job!

This is incredible. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the way this was constructed. Its a beautiful world you created. My favorites are the wolf and the fairy.

Nice, but try to remove the blue.
Edit: Revision is better.

your main source image can't be used off of dA. i'd change the model stock before your whole idea gets pulled.
edit: better. Now you could work on cleaning up the edges a bit.

Hay,

Its really nice image manipulation as per my view.

Few things I would like to suggest:

1. Figures of girl is cutting and pillar make it bit bright.
2. Pillar have some white color at bottom remove that.
3. As "CMYK46 says" - remove blue color.

Best of luck!

Has a great feel to it ... unfortunately as Adhir said there is some white on the pillar where her hand is that takes away from the red effect. I also find the white glow around her is a bit distracting but that could be just me?

It is a lovely image ... just a few minor problems IMO!

thanks a lot guys...changes been made..

Better!

Lol!

Nice than before

wow

Is there pure Black ? I am asking this question all the entire entries. Please tell me if there is pure black & tones of red not black.

go and check the all blue contest

cool work...gl

This is sweet! Nice magical feeling very well done! Excellent SBS as well!

very beautiful

Wonderful result, and an excellent use of the source! And even though the concept of a mushroom house is a little dated, this entry looks amazing.

From your SBS it looks like you spent a lot of time on the mushroom guy you created, but he's not too visible in the final image, i suggest brightening that up a little to make him pop out some more.

Great job

Thanks Spaceranger; nishagandhi... (thanks for the fave by the way!! :p)

Ponti55, initially I wanted the mushroom man to be there as something you 'just' see coming into the light, overlooking his house ('coming home')... but... after the jpeg save... he did look a little darker than the psd... so I lightly erased the vignette to boost him up a little... it's only very slight but anymore and ill have to illuminate the foreground more which I'm trying not to do.... however I'm sure you don't want to read the explanation... just to know that I took your advice LOL!!!!...

Good suggestion ponti55, slight change really makes a nice enhancement. Author your explanation is most helpful in understanding your thoughts in creating this fine work.

great job

I love the lighting on this one. Guides the eyes. :0

Very cute, but the mushroom house is too angled on the hill.

MossyB: Subsidence... (it's a fantasy world... normal perceptions don't exist... ...)

Wonderful work and an excellent sbs, well done

It's really lovely!!

good experimantation on lighting... i wonder how the mushroom man will fit into tht hut, esp with his big hat.. well done author...

@pearlie: haha.. tht could be the solution pearlie...

Cool little 'shroom house! I like that crooked chimney, very Tim Burton/storybook looking. Very nice work, author. How the man fits in there? Why, I'll bet he eats a little bit of the 'shroom and "gets small"........

Love the whole image ... your Mushroom guy is wonderful and I noticed him and got the whole feeling of coming home. The atmosphere you have created with a few mushrooms and some magical lighting is ... well, magical! Extremely excellent work!

Cute work.

Lovely trolls' abode

Congrats for your third place, James!

congrats

Congrats!! Really love it!

congrats

Congrats James...

Very well blended! Her edges look a little soft in contrast with the rest of the image.. but overall it's great! Well done and good luck

The wing on the LH side is too dark. It looks like she is leaning against some sort of "shadow wall," and is visually confusing. The wing on the other side needs a bit of work, it looks like a curtain, rather than a wing.

Other than the wings, this has beautiful lighting and blending. Really nice work!

Spots on the wings is not corresponding with tucks
I understand that the girl is magic creature but even magic creatures need to have a shadow. Especially under the fingers... especially her rigth hand... looks like it hang in the air but not like it leanes on a mushroom.

nice job

****Updated image****
thank you all for the critiques. i worked with some suggestions and am happier with the image now.

Nice improvement, these wings look much better and more natural (if wings on people could look natural). Has a lovely storybook quality!

Fairytale worthy and well crafted piece. Good work!

Now this this I was surprised to see it was you but still impressed. GL!

I'm sorry but I really don't understand what you have done here. The line in the middle of the image and the streaks of light don't really make sense to me. Am I missing something?

lol

The house is a bit too stylized for the rest of the image, it is somewhat confusing looking.
Otherwise, this is a truly lovely piece.

good attempt