I like the idea for the image, and i think you have accomplished it quite well. Only a few things to point out as far as inserted objects go. The blue butterfly could use some better masking, very hard lines around it. also the bird added in near the tree is translucent, i can see the flowers be hand it, through it's body... also some of the added items to the girl, look very flat. I believe this is due to the lack of proper shadows from the objects in relation to her body. Great work over all! Feel free to PM me if you would like a few tips on seamlessly blending objects.

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You're missing a lot of shadows and lightings, most objects in your scene have intensely light with no shadows. Plus the background lgiht sources comes from behind.

Thank you very much for your feedback Akassa. Criticism of this kind help me to improve. I will try to improve the drawing.

I made some changes in light and shadow. Personally I like it better now. Thank you very much for your advice.

some definite improvements. keep practicing!

Very neat work, like the way the smoke was turned to a woman's dress. I do see some hard white edges to the "arms", and parts of the dress, which suggest that the masking was just a little off. What helps me mask objects cleanly is to first use the pen tool, which takes more time, but yields much finer results. Then once i have my selection made, I will feather the selection by about 2px, and maybe contract/expand the selection a little as well to get only the object and nothing outside of it. Doing this will give e softer, more natural look to your objects.

Good Luck!

What an eye you have to see this image in flipping the source .... Great Work ... Favorite!

yes there are some hard edges on high res , if i reduce the size of the image it won't be visible ....
so as Nator sad , i think it looks fine overall .
anyway ...thanks for the detailed observation

makes me think of the movie roger rabbit when the girl in the tight red dress comes out nice work, looks great author.

Perfect!! and fav!!..
GL author!.

Yes, a few technical issues, but I like your vision and creation. Texture of the background works well with the colors and shapes of the foreground, very nice, author.

I love your entry but it needs one more adjusting, the planet in source 8 is someone elses photoshop work and you cant use it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginedreality/170835601/in/photostream
also wheres the uncut photo of the girl? the on in the steps already has it cut.

I do love this image, the colors and the composition, the subject. its just fantastic great work and yes please do see this in highres its definately worth it.

OH THANKS ELADINE!!! I didn't even notice that, I'll get on replacing that planet right away! Also, I'll have to dig up the original photo too, I didn't save it unedited in the file I worked on. I may have to go back to the raw file and redevelop one.

And thanks Nator I might mess around with that a bit

I can just see this in poster format or in the postcard racks... you know those postcards with the special metalic printing? this would be so nice with that. beautiful work.

OH YES!! I know exactly what you mean about the metallic printing, that would be SO AWESOME!
Thanks again for your help! I ended up using the same moon picture used for the middle planets, to remake the one in the corner. I think it looks much better now anyway
Also I added the original pic to my SBS.

@ Nator, good suggestion, I made her a bit more "glowy" and added some more smoke and little glowing particles!

People should check out the hires before voting. It's really a treat at high res. Nice work as usual author!

Thanks pixelkid!! And yes I feel like this piece doesn't have the same impact in the smaller image as it does in hires

That's a wonderful image..love the idea and the result..hi res is a must see..Great job author!

well done ! fav!

Nothing much to say, fantastic as usual

Nicely done, author!

THANKS everyone!!!

gratz well deserved!

Congrats Rob , beautiful work

THANKS EVERYONE

Congrats for the gold!

THANKS!

Thats the idea i had in mind with the contest goal.

Very nice!

Good idea and well done!

Great job! good tutorial too.

Lovely choice & execution!

so cool

Well done, amazing blending with the letters.

Good work, author, a far cry from the original Arial Bold!

Sources for smoke images?

All of the sources were fortunately, taken by myself

Source smoke images are included ad Step 6 & 7 of the SBS

your pic is amazing!!