I like the story...the image... nicely done...

Hmmm, that is really odd, as I added the url to that image. Trust me, I'm the biggest stickler in the world about using high-quality purchased images.

Why the screenshot though? Is it because I was red-flagged? Just curious, as I haven't been asked to do this yet. Only been a member for a few days.

Man, I was really building up my ranking on this. Do you guys normally disqualify first before asking questions regarding these things? If so, I need to pay much more attention.

Dear moderators, sorry for the mix up on the stock images. Hope all is good now.

Author, entries that are not completely correct are only temporarily removed to allow any problems to be sorted out. Asking for proof of purchase is standard practice for us, when paid images are used, you can either add the screen shot to a step by step, blacking out your name and any other information, or you can send it as an attachment to mods@pxleyes.com
Welcome to pxleyes, you might want to have a quick read through http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/ and also http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/

what is your idea ? you put hand sign on flag !

looks way too simple, but it looks like a nice selection of the hand.

Edit: Ohh wait! After lookigbn at your steop by step[ guide i understand what you were trying to do, however it doesn't really show toow ell. What you should do now is move the displaced flag on a layer on top of the hand and set the flag to something like 'Overlay' or 'Multiply. This will really help sell your effect, and earn you MUCH higher marks. (try it with full opacity as well)

ponti55 layers were arranged as per your comments i have now tried changing the blend mode from multiply to overlay and at full opacity. Not sure how successful this has been, Believe the effect maybe weaker than it should be due to the diplacement map as the hand was fairly smooth. Will try to look at this.

author, log on to youtube and do a search for Gavin Hoey , he has a tutorial on exactly this type of work and it will help you greatly. GL

RayTedwell Thanks for the heads up will look later and see if i can improve on the effect

gl

I like this one more than the second one you did.

Only did one entry in this competition?? but thanks!

nice job

Good representation!

nice

ya kinda don't need the back ground on this one (I like how you lined up the circles aroun the eyes).. I think the background almost takes a way from the work (lines up too well).. but that could be just me.. great Idea all round though

Very nice idea, but i'd change the background, it matches up too clesely with the face painting, and i'm sure that's the bit you want to keep

Interesting idea...

Thanks for the advise guys..........it looks MUCH better!

i didnt see the firts background but this one does look good... may i hand youi another tip.. thru his hair on top and the site you see the whiter background shine thru... its what i call the "hit by a grassmower" look XD. I wrote a tutorial how to avoid it but it was on the old lpst site and its gone now so the best tip i can give is search for a tutorial to redraw hairs or wait till this site has my tutorial again

cool

Nice face paint.