Try to say that 10 times fast - Bench by the bench, lol. Nice work = )

I decided to enlarge the girl a little bit...

Bird seems to be the hero of creation. Perspective needs attention!!!

cool work author...nice usage of the texture...gl

Composition suffers since viewers 1st stop point is the shadow cast on the bench - which has no relevance imo.
A good idea is to Crop your image so that we can only see a part of the Big bench on which the bird is sitting, and the entire small one. Crop it from the right side of the pic to a few cm after the first bench leg.
You don't need 3 parts of your image , and you'll transfor it to a portrait-mode, which is more dynamic than a landscape orientation.

@greymval... thanks for the suggestion... i will try to consider that...

I hope this gives justice to the tiny girl as the main subject...

Very 3D looking.

I would appreciate any feedback..Im new to photoshop and I really want to learn. So feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

I don't do PS so I can't give advise but I will tell you I do like this a lot. It's very eye-catching

Thank you sooooooo much...feels good to know somebody likes it.

Gee whiz, who knew they had cameras back then? Not sure if turning this into a snapshot on a desk helps or hurts, but GL author.

I also think you did a nice job here, I don't see anything that needs improvement IMO. This is a great place to learn with many helpful members who will offer tips and suggestions so welcome to Pxleyes and good luck! BTW you don't have to post a link to the contest source, only the other outside sources used.

I think now days they have three crosses on golgotha hill as a symbol. Dont quote me on this, I just heard that from a friend. He said it is turned into a tourist attraction for the most part.

Just googled it. No crosses on it now days. I think my buddy is full of you know what....lol. Yeah I posted the contest source, I didnt know. I just didnt want to get it taken off and get my reputation points taken away...It happend to me before.

Nice good luck

very very nice work author...i would suggest only to make crosses just a bit softer...nothing more...best of luck

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

...your texture...is way too heavy. looses the detail in what you are trying to portray here, not to mention, makes it hard to see what exactly you did with blending the "desert" to the "daffodils" . there is a "mood" element to it, but because of this heavy overlay it makes it entirely too distracting. also, your "rain" layer could be softened a little bit.
i hope you don't take this wrong, because i'm only trying to help your vision along...i haven't voted, but i'm sure who you are so i think you'll take my critique the way it is intended.

Thanks a lot Jade ! Working on it

EDIT : Updated. Hope its better. Thanks again

now is way better author...mood stands up now and there is no distractions...love the final product...best of luck

Congrats for your third place!

Congrats on third place!