you need to blend more the face.

i really don't like the suggestion of a svastica in the bkgd !!!

I hope to work on this more tonight, thank you all for your votes so far.

This entry was made on a mac book, in Photoshop CS5 and I felt very confused using Photoshop on a mac, Im back at home now and have a bit of time to play with this on my desktop.

As for the Swastika, I do not condone or support the ideas and beliefs of the Nazis, it was simply an idea.

I just got home and back on my good ol' windows based photoshop. I worked on the image a bit more, however I never saved my final .PSD file and had to do my final touches with the finished .jpg and an old save .psd (around step 4 on my SBS)

Welcome to pxleyes! I'm kinda confused about what your trying to achieve with this photo. Is it supposed to be a statue of hitler? If so why hide the swastika right behind him. You could've used any other background in that case.

Its supposed to be a Photoshop of the HMS statue. :p

Why use a swastika in the background? With Hitler as the main subject for the Photoshop, the mere insinuation of a swastika in the background holds alot of power, even if its not visible. Also, it makes better sense in my mind to used something that matches the theme i was photoshopping this into.

Good job with the shadows, funny idea. The source works well with the original.

Thank you sgc! It was not easy to match that shadow, since the image I used had the shadow going the wrong direction! also that stone texture was difficult to create, especially at full resolution.

Here are the correct links to the source images used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S33882,_Adolf_Hitler_retouched.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CurtisHawk.JPG

Mods, sorry for the confusion in reguards to this.