ack, you are going to get a beating for the shovel not casting a similar shadow as the snail.. but good luck and great job, I like the image

Votes and Notes

Looks like grass is growing out of the snail on the left, and the edge of the rock is too smooth for that texture.
EDIT: On second look, some of the grass is transparent.

The grass color is a bit bland, and the rock looks very flat and "cut and paste," but that may be the effect you were going for, rather than realistic...

ok thx guys , great notes :

- the mountain's gone

- grass's fixed : colours and position

Transparent grass removed ............. !

Very interesting background! Shell looks kind of flat right now, maybe you can increase the contrast of the lighting.

Thank you for comment Kid: I worked more on the shell. I added more color and made it more convincing using the smudge tool, levels, and layer adjustments.

This is really nice, author...do you think you could maybe vary the brightness of the white flowers. I like how you have some blurrier than others...but if you vary the brightness so that they are not all the same...it'll help. Nice job, regardless.

Thanks pixelkid, I will see what Ican do. Lowering the brightness does not take much time.

Cute little fellow!

So Sweet!

Fantastic work author...all details are perfect...its so cool how u use only source image to create image which is rich with details...well done man

you are the best with smudge tool with which I sometimes get frustrated using it,....

Thanks for comments.

dekwid: It is fun working with the smudge tool, you just have to be adding strokes and colors that go together. Different sizes of brushes and Opacity blendings. It takes time, but at the end, it pays.

Really nice work with the source and final image.

Great work!

Very nice work......Best of Luck Author.

Thanks for comments and support.

Truely awesome...., beautiful entry...

Thought I already did this, but I guess it didn't stick. So, Congrats, George! The shell is beautiful and I really like how you did the flowers and leaves.

Congrats!

Thanks for comments and congrats. I appreciate it.

This is really nice work, not easy to create a water look and I think you have done well with this one!

SBS could be more detailed, but good work here!

What a dainty crystal snail!

So cute and original = )

so cool work author...hat down for very water effect...well done

Congrats

thank you for your comments and votes!

Congrats!

Congrats...

Congrats!!

Nice looking slime and good shadow! In high res there are some white edges i suggest removing, but it looks great besides that

Tnx ponti55
You are totally right about edges ...Already done

Hehe, I like this. I love how you smudge the grass where the snail came through. Great detail, and the slime is nice too. One small suggestion, I would slightly blur the background a bit, just for the effect, but thats just my opinion. Great image, though

Nice.! GL

AMAZING!!! Texture and blending is so nice to me

very very nice work...i like snail trail and squished grass...

Congrats for your second place, Derdevil!

Congrats

Oh cool, congrats on second!

Congrats...

Thank You all !!

Congrats!!