Good treatment of a subject that's been done badly so many times.

I like this image a lot except theres hardly or none play with lights or shades on the building on the front/big floating isle while that captures ur attention the first. It makes it look a little flat. Perhaps you can liven it up somehow that building. I will put it on my favs anyway because its a very nice image. well done.

this is really well done..i see you put a lot off effort into this and so many source images merged together....the only think i'd try to work on or get rid of instead is that lower right statue of angels. or add some soft cloud brush over it or burr it a bit to give a DOF view.

other than this, one of my top piks

good luck

I like the variation of island bottoms! Perhaps if you darken a few of the highlights of the further island bottoms...it will vary it even more! Nice work, author!

This must have taken some time, the results show it.
That one balloon that's exactly centered behind that tower is a distraction from an otherwise great piece of work.

thanks for the feedback i agree, some tweaks here and there will improve the image, but i ran out of time... actually i started with this some 20-24 hours before the deadline, so i didn't had time for some adjustments..well, i have to be happy with what i got

and here is small WIP ...

http://s6.postimage.org/q0de4nt6p/fantasy_wip.gif

Great job and win !!

Congrats!!

Congrats !

Congrats, very nice work

Congrats

Congrats!

great job and well deserved win...congrats

well
it will be good if its ur idea
but....
this one is not

u shuld mention the tutorial u used for this, nice work though

moreover the lighting is not much realistic on the front most island, try n fix that, gud luck author

THANKS CHROMATHOUGHTS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO LIST THE TUTRORIAL !!!! I HAVE ADDED THE TUTORIAL TO MY DESCRIPTION.

THANK YOU

i like this but wat chromathought said is rite...its must fix...overrall,i love this image..

i changed lighting to look better

much better now, gud luck

At least you should use different source compared to the tutorial to create that. It's not practice, that's copying, no creativity is seen here, not mention that the image of the given source looks like cut and paste

Cool I always love floating cities !! The stones look a bit too perfect at the downside though... should be more damaged !

Anyway good luck with this contest author !

wow 100% agree with langstrum

@ langstrum, i did less islands and added a few different adjustment layers and did a few things differently it wasnt only copying. this was my first attempt to something this extremem so bare with me please.

Unfortunately I have to agree with langstrum; even you follow a tutorial, you could look for another images to create your own floating island, to make something different. And as you didn't upload a sbs, it's difficult to say if you really made it or if you downloaded the tut image and added the supplied source. Pls, don't take me wrong, but you have to show your effort here. I know you can, because I saw another works made by you.

this is like a MAGIC WORLD . i like it ! good luck

i really like this!

Good image.