Hey! I think I saw this on Tanked! hehehehe.. great job, lots of fun!

Congrats, George!

Thanks IDt8r.

Congrats, George!

Congrats George!!

Now that's a pretty Fish.. good luck and great job (slight blur brush on the top edge of the fish.. there is some white debris just on the edge) (just want you to get a high HIGH SCORE) and always IMHO

Thanks friend but that just look fine for me. Actually it's a part of the effects under the sea that were revealed thru the lighting.

The top fin is too sharp for the rest of the image - it looks "cut and paste," and the bottom is a bit too dark, going to almost pure black, but this is a creative idea, and the fish looks pretty real!

Thanks MossyB for your personal views but I wont change it cause I really want it that way. The fin is not in same texture with the other part of the fish and I applied selective lighting to highlight the elements I wanted.

like it author good luck

I like the fish too, I think you did a good job. Good luck author.

Author, very good !

SBS would be good.

Sorry Bob but I didn't able to save my final work in psd format when my computer crashed down. I'll try if I could find time. I really love to do it friend.

Cool fish!..like it

Aweeeeeeeesommmmmmme

Thanks Driven......!

Very nice work.

Very cool! The two magenta anemone-like things stand out too much, IMO, plus the two fish seem like perfect clones (which they are!). Shifting the eye of one of the fish would be more realistic.

Fantastic scene author, great shapes and its obvious that u invest loads of work to create all this cool elements. I remember when i created one underwater scene i was not happy with it cause in my eyes it looked to flat, u don't have that problem cause u created very cool DOF but maybe u could same thing that i did and to see how it goes. I created one blue/green layer, changed opacity to overlay and played up with plastic wrap filter. At the end i liked result so much. Any how this is so cool image and i wish u best of luck author...

Thanks Eration, Dan. I changed the saturation / brightness of the anemonae. Made the fish kinda different. It is hard, just thinking of NOT using the brush tool to paint, but we have lots of filters and other tools to work with.

Truly impressive work, author! Love it.

Perfect, author!

Too much repetition and not much depth. Good idea otherwise...GL author.

Wow... Great work author..

Really Superb idea & Great Presentation

All the best author

Great job author,good luck

Thanks for comments..... and support!!!!

Great SBS - otherwise I thought you had used a photo source for background. Great work! GL

Thanks Artgirl..... comment appreciated.

Wonderful work! Well crafted with great detail!

@Spaceranger: Thanks for your comment!

top dog in my book, great detail.

Precious

Congratulations, George, superb entry

Congrats!

Thank you for your comments, suggestions and support.

Congrats George!! Well deserved first place!!

Congrats George lovely work

Congrats appreciated....thanks for making my day brighter!!!!!

Nice job George, I new this was a winner!

Congrats George...well deserved 1st place..Keep going with fantastic work...

Thanks Ichappell / Erathion.

hey auther this is my first post as im new to this site, i would like to congratulate you on the fantastic work, love the image

oh p.s can anyone tell me what SBS is? i seen it in alot of comments, thanx

Great work! Congrats!!!

Hi George55! congrats!!!!

great job!

Nice chop! And kudos to using your own stock photos! My only nitpick would be maybe the edges around the starfish you turned into a bra. They just seem a little hard. Other than that, well done!

Make a blue overlay over the model, so it blends better. ( create new layer of solid color - blue- right click on it create clipping mask so it only affects the model, Mode: Overlay Opacity-20%- more or less) You could make 2 clipping layers one blue on green so that you have a turquaz overlaying your model.
Your background also has some noise that should be present on the model, so you could either lower her opacity -95-98% or add a noise over.
There's also a masking problem on her hip, use some clone stamp to cover over her human skin :P

Thank you very much for the suggestions I'll start working on them right away.

Nice looks good ..gl.

Water is always hard to work with...This image have a great concept author and u could turn it in fabulous entry...I would like to give u few advices because i had similar problems when i created my underwater entry's...For better blending,solid color layers with different blend modes are always good thing to do. Val gave u advice to use blue overlay layer,and that is good thing to do. I would gave u advice to use dark blue overlay layer,with opacity set between 20-40%. Also in this case u have to make whole scene a bit slighter and for that dark brown layer with color blend mode and goldish layer also in color mode will done the work. Play with opacity of course. And now magic stars,add on top of these layers,dark green soft light layer,play with opacity and u will get crazy blue-green water color,and goldish layer will gave some nice mood.And finally u could add on top of these,blue/gray layer,blend mode set to color,with a low opacity max10%. And thats it,great underwater scene. And u could create some bubbles behind the purple thing to achieve better depth...Sorry for this novel author...

erathion.. if you make us have to do a report on your comment.. you will receive a severe beating.... (oh.. very nice chop by the way author... giggle snort) smooches erathion.. just kidding!!!

author.. you should be very proud of all the work you have done... I'm exhausted after looking through your sbs ... GOOD LUCK

His comment was very helpful an I hope I was able to create the mood and feeling the were helping me achieve. I'm glad you appreciate the work because it was a very lengthy process. Either way I was very pleased with the end result

Now, who wouldn't help a hot naked chick lying on the ocean's floor . Glad you like the end result.

You'd be a fool not to help

Yes! that looks much better! One of the best entries! GL author!

Congratulations!

Congrats...

Congrats for 3rd, cool

Great job except for the blurriness at the base of the thing holding the strawberry. Good luck!

I agree about the blurriness; but the whole image is very nice!

Fantastic image!! I have to agree with the blur, it is a bit distracting to the eye. Very well done and best of luck

Great image author,i don't have any nit picks...my new favorite...

Agree with CMYK. Otherwise love it!

super work on the blending and choice of images -- water over the earth is especially nice

good entry!

Congrats

Congrats!

Thank you for all.