Too blurry, rather than smoky/misty/ethereal. The stars also look a little flat and fakey.

Fascinating image ... the concept is lovely. In hi-res I noticed it could use a little clean up on the chop of the woman. A little smoother cut around the hand and removing the stray pixels would help.

Lovely image though!

thanks arca

I can see this in the game of Final Fantasy!

What a sweetheart ... and the title just makes it that much more well, for lack of a better word, precious!

it's really cute... love the expression of the little dude..

very nice and good use of external sources... Good luck to you

Great Image author! very best of luck to you

Nice concept and work on this piece.

Wonder idea and great work ... lovely!

Thought it would`ve been top 3 buddy, well done

congrats buddy....

congrats!!!

Weirdly cool

what pretty cool is this would actually be a real hairdo back in the day..hehehe.. good luck author

LOL ... gotta love this! Truly a fun piece. GL

Funny and original one !

Crazy idea....LOL...good luck

LOL, off the top of MY head, I'm thinking this could be Marge Simpson's great-grandma! Hmmm, in the sitting room with the candlestick? Funny concept, author.

This is such a beautiful image and makes me feel like I am up there with that bird. Bird could maybe use some motion blur so that it doesn't seem to be motionless. Your SBS is SOOOO outstanding. Would like to know what program you were using. My Adobe 6 doesn't seem to have all the options you described. High score!! GL

very soothing image................

very sweet work, good luck!

Artgirl ...I am working in CS5. What options doesn't 6 have? I used to work in PS6 and may be able to suggest alternate ways to do the same thing ... PM me if you want

Re Wing Blur - I know what you mean. I did try that when I was first working on the picture but it never looked quite right. I could perhaps blur the wings a bit? I did have the teardrop hanging more straight down originally but thought that having it flowing backwards helped to give the sense of motion.

Once again.., beautiful job

Very nice Author I like this alot

Fabulous work author...animated part in SBS is nice touch,,,good luck

Simple but amazing! Very good job author, i love the perspective and the colors overall!

I imagine the bird carrying our dreams in that bubble... Very beautiful image, and the colors are so nice!...

I was SO looking for a coconut in the bubble. My first thought was, "Is it an African swallow or a European swallow".
Back to the point, its painterly and VERY nice!

animated sbs is very good

very pretty, I like attention to detail on your mountains

Pingenvy ... I am pretty sure it is a North American Wood Swallow but I changed the colour to match the image better...it was originally; a great iridescent blue on the back and lower part of the wings, white belly and brown/gray everywhere else ... tee hee, sneaky me! Oh and sorrry about the coconut ... I will consider it if I do a revised edition someday

Very nice image.

Congratulations!

Thank you all so much for your comments and support ... I am certainly loving my new home! Many hugs to all!

Congrats

congrats

Arca, wonderful work!!! congratulations!!!

Congrats!! Sweet image!