Blub Blub Blub... hehehe, good luck author

Congrats on third.. great job

Author, you need to post a step-by-step guide to show how you made your entry.

...my creation beyond imagination.......

in my very humble opinion, would neglio a red lighter, or use the filter move

nice idea, bravo

Imaginative!... My honest opinion too, Don't know how but perhaps could've been executed a little better. Perhaps next time play around a little with belnding modes, lighting, etc?

Otherwise cool!

The goggles are so de rigueur!

Aww, congrats on your li'l Sweetie Spud!

Congrats!!

Good image author, but you need to post the original uncut photo in the SBS so we can see how you manipulated it.
EDIT: Thanks, now we can see your work.

Uncut is now up loaded.........sorry.

Really great idea but there's some room for improvement: the light casting on the boy is a bit oversaturated, specially on the right fore and upperarm.

What I see from the original photo of the boy that you even made the dark areas lighter, I think your profit is to be gained here. You can make the original photo a bit darker and use that as a blending layer over the original photo, so you make the lighter areas come out more. On top of that you could lighten the areas you want lighter a bit more.

Something else: in the high res there's a purple area over the boys thumb and the moon and the boy are transparent at some areas, these last 2 are easy fixes though

Cool idea. I admit I don't get the boy-in-outer-space thing unless this is supposed to be an ad for a sci-fi movie or something. As an alternative, I think if the boy's original hedge and tree-trunk background were retained and then augmented by the intense stars-and-Mars [or more-appropriately moon?} sky, this would be more understandably dramatic. [BTW what is the light source for the jar lid and his fingers holding it?]