The castle is really nice, but I think the perspective on the sea waves is wrong.

Good fantasy image...

Apart from the ocean, amazing work and nicely done

great job

Great fantasy work! The water looks very nice too!

I guess you would have to call it fantasy to account for the floating tower on the left. Unique idea.

very creative . nice concept ...

Congrats for your first place, Sophia!

Congrats,nr1

congrats with first, real nice image

Congrats!

Congrats

thanks for the comments and votes =)

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Very very good indeed! =) The hair could do some tweaking, but the resti is good! =)

Excellent work! Wow..!!

I tried fixing the hair, but i keep on messing it up. I will give it another try. Thx for comments

..........this is wonderful....the skin tones, and the colors in the dress are remarkable.......someone in this contest said they did this work professionally, this is way above the entry they have submitted.........keep up the good work.

Great theatrical makeup!

Fixed hair, changed color of flower and used a little color in the eyes. Thx for advice. Always welcome

xcellent wrk.....................................gl

Also has have a tip for you. Cutting or masking the selection should be based on the sharpness of the image. By this I mean how sharp or how much in focus the image is. For example if you blow up an image to 200-300% and see how far the pixels merge or overlap between to objects. It may be in a high resolution image this is only 1 pixel but in a lower resolution or scan of an old photograph with large grain, it may be 3 or 4. It is this “focus” that your image selection should be based on.

good advice, but you didn't do this in your coat rebuild......there are large differences there...

Phew! PhotoRepair, I don't think i understand what you mean :-b. Is there a problem with the image? Please let me know

Is it a problem that i cut out everything with the pen tool, and that the edges look too sharp...?

author, stick with your instincts, this is a great job, don't be put off by comments.

You did a great job. I did see that you cut out part of her neck. If you zoom in on the neck you can see the collar bone line is missing from your final image.

yes, I see this, I missed it first time. You have mistaken shadow for body line!!...in the original, it is not easy to see, so i think you could be excused..........

Yess i can see it now, i'll try to fix it if i still got time, thanks anyway

Thanks adeincyprus & dmspaulding07, fixed it. Boy that was a nasty gap I was going to print it on a large canvas. Glad i could fix it first.

Well done! One of the best I've seen. You got the colors perfect! Good luck to you!

FYI: If your concerned about comments and who you should take advice from, I'd stick with someone who well.. has a higher level, since they probably know what they are talking about. All opinions can be good but when it comes down to it, only yours really matters 2nd opinions are good too.

My opinion? This is a winner

Agreed!!....this is a great piece of work...........the very best of luck to you.

Perfectly restored!

This is awesome work!

nice one

I thinks that this is awsome , color are used in maximum..

great job

Congrats on your placement.

Congrats for your second place, Clinge!

Congrats,

Thx for nice comments to all

congratulation =)

Congrats!

Wow, really well done, you know there are people that do this for a living = )

Nice clock ineed

Thank you Akassa.

i think it looks too blury. and maybe go with a different background color? Good luck anyway

Graphopoly. Blurry??? I just checked at high res, looks just right to me...

Good luck author... nice idea

well done

It's not blurry. Different parts of the image are in different resolutions which... I guess could appear blurry, but I don't see it. GL!

very nice

Well done. My favorite part is the look on the face of the girl on the left. She looking at the other girl as if to say, "Don't move. There's a huge bee on your shoulder" while girl 1 is blissfully unaware of the impending stingage. Great job. I'm looking forward to the SBS cause the edges are fantastic. The left eye of the girl with glasses looks like it's half closed. Not sure but it's the one point I see that looks a little unnatural.

Very nice work! In my opinion however, the skin and especially the grass looks very unnatural, i'm really no good at this type of thing so i wouldn;t know what to suggest, perhaps some different shades of green around the grass.

Thanks for the comments guys! Glad you like it =) The SBS will come during the day, I planned to finish it about now, but something came up, I really really have to go now.... Doesn't matter anyway if I lose a bit of reputation, just hope they don't expell it. =)

Oh, and about the grass and the skin.... Yeah, the skin really looks kinda... 'painted' in some parts, probably due to sharpening filters... I'll make sure I fix it.... =) However, I do like that the grass is blurred, kinda looks out of focus, and I really like the effect =) About the eye, hmmmm, it kinda does look half-closed.... Tho I didn't mess with her eyes, couldn't match any I found only with my mum's (the one without glasses)

the grass is surreal, its cool

Thanks all, I added the SBS. =)

An update.... I fixed the skin, and I did some touch-ups to the hair. =) Hope everyhting is OK now =)

You missed a lot of scratches that could have easily been fixed.

Wuuuuuuuuuut?! Where?! O.O I can't see what you mean.... I just can't see what you're aiming at? Have you looked at the SBS?

imo, there are still a number of areas that could be a lot better. the heads and hair on both ladies could be much better, in hi res you can see this...your mother, the one with glasses, her face needs some more work, her nose is not finished well........her arms also look like prosthetics, especially the left one, they lack definition.....imo

Hmmm, some parts could be better, but only if I used external sources for those parts, since they are to blurry. You must understand that the photo is not bigger than an average business card. I tried to do my best here, edges are much sharper, you must admit, but some things just can't be sharper. Besides, TBH, I think this is maybe the only entry which has cleaner outcome than the original. Most of others are just colouring and scratch-removing and simple usage of filters.... Some are even blurrier than the original.Considering the original, the outcome is great IMHO.

Ummmm....nice work on your entry, but your last comment wasnt true .....Other entries did come out cleaner and sharper.... besides that, you shouldnt be putting down other entries to try and make yours look better.

TBH, I see only 3-4 entries in this contests which are cleaner sharper than the original. Others are just colouring and scratch-removing. I'm sorry for maybe putting down the other entries, I was just pissed off by the fact that I spent hours manually making the edges sharp and clean and even using outside sources to bring up the detail on faces etc and then somebody says that it's scratchy and blurry etc. I mean, maybe it is, but compared to the starting photo it's much better. peace

great

Well i thought this should of made top 4 at least.....i have to say that the results are very dissapointing and just dont seem right.

You missed some hair at the back of the head, and the edge of his shoulder is blurry...

Agrees with CMYK but the image being so close should be more in focus like the barber and customer, since they are so close to distance. I understand good source is sometimes hard to find but maybe this wasn't your best choice for outside source. There are way to sharpen soft images like this and perhaps someone else can suggest a method to improve the sharpness, but it will be minimal improvment.

CMYK: Thanks....Have made changes....