very nice fix author...best of luck

Good one author... Keep it up!

This one is more on theme than I've seen. You took a crappy photo and made it presentable. High marks from me! GL!

cooool. Especially love the water displacement.
Well done, author.

Too dark at the top and the LH corner.

well done

Very nice!

Ahhh this is so cool...best of luck author...gl

Thank you guys for the positive and negative comments, just what i need to explore further..

This is a nice image. I am giving it a good vote. However, an SBS always helps in that area and would probably bump it up a few more points for me.

In photoshop the SBS is mandatory I thought, just heads up for the next contest. I would like to know where the source was used here since it's not obvious.

@ Emik sbs is only enforced if no external sources are used

Nice image author

nice shot....

Great photo.

Color change on water and crop work well!

Very very nice work author...Original image is great too but now u have mystic effect here...best of luck

Good work & pretty nice effect.

PERFECT example of on theme! WEll done author!

thanks guys for your kind comments

Congrats lovely work

Congratulations!

Congrats!!

congratulation...

The flames are very dim. Fire is quite bright at night.

interesting chop - i agree about the flames , (not emanating light) and the castle is in too much contrast so is not merging very good with the bridge

Interesting work and I like your idea ... agree with the fellows above ... I also might suggest a few less stars and perhaps more variation in size. If you are using PS you can adjust the Scattering of your brush and the variation of size to get a more Star like look. If you need help just PM me.

Thanks for the advise, I agree with them

I tried to fix the contrast, still not sure the bridge works just yet

much better now.... flames in the "eyes" of the castle look identical maybe a tiny liquify fix to make it more realistic

Thanks gornats - know of any good tutorials for the liquify?

http://www.pxleyes.com/ext-tutorial/photoshop/11684/Turn-a-Girl-into-a-Witch.html

try this one , but for me the best tutorial is experimenting , just give it a go and see what will turn out

The enlarged eye is too blurry. Great concept, but the purpose of magnification is to see something larger and clearer.

Really clever idea and love the song!

I have to agree with Mossy ... perhaps instead of enlarging the eye you could reduce the rest of the Tiger ... your image is quite large and you could easily reduce it to 1200-1500 pixels wide (a lot of monitors are no more than 1280x1024) and still have a decent High res. Also, in high res the edges of the Magnifying glass are a bit rough (to help this you can select the Glass, contract selection by 1 or 2 px then apply a layer mask and blur slightly or you can create a new layer and set blur tool on "sample all layers" and blur the edge then erase away what you don't want ...or if you don't like either of those could just go over the edge with the blur tool but you don't have as much control.

Edit: MUCH BETTER!

Would be even more dramatic if you could introduce a bit more brightness in eye and some color. I realize that this goes beyond logic...but it would make the image stand out even more. Then again...is there logic holding a magnifying glass up to an animal such as this? Anything goes!

cool thinking...GL author