This is nicely done, apart from the fact that it is a bit out of proportion. IMO, the face is too small for the body. Also I would personally like to see the face in the same greenish color as the body

Thanks for your suggestion...re-sized head and give greenish tinge

Better now!
(altough I think the head is a bit too shiney compared to the body)

GL !

Maybe it could be better without the green color. good luck author

This is much better. Maybe try to desaturate a bit the head color? To bring it closer to the body tones Anyway, I like the improvement. GL

Thanks very much for comments...I might just leave it. I'm very new to all this and am learning all the time.

Love the concept ... very fun take on the source!

Is it the right image? Where's the sbs and the source links, pls?

It the misspelling deliberate?

Is this an entry? Or a request to remove it?

Badly pixelated.
Edit: (This edit is better...the version I first saw WAS badly pixelated).

wow, Badly commented CMYK46.

I love your artistic point of view. Great job, I knew it was you

its a little cut, copy, paste at random & I was going to comment on the lack of shadowing, until my attention was drawn to the fact that there are lots of characters stood on other characters faces. Layer managment badly needed here I think but easy to fix.

@Geexman, please point out the "LOTS" of characters standing on each others faces, I thought I got them all when a MOD helped me fix this piece at PST, (it was my first manipulation of any merit and I wasn't really sure what I was doing) Now I do know there are a few characters with feet just on TOP of other characters heads, but that had no effect on the resulting image or the goal I was trying to create.

Due the amount of characters, repetition was unavoidable, but the Idea of the piece was to reflect the word CROWD and I KNOW I achieved that.

Also please review step 2, I made 40 new characters from the original 5, to say cut and paste is a bit of a stretch. I know they aren't the greatest creations in the universe and are not 3d, but I did stay true to the source and the over all feel. (I was using PS 5.0 limited at the time) so I had no warp tools or advanced filters so I had to work with what I had.

I kept the image exactly as it finished in the original PST contest, (I have committed this piece to print and it's been in several of my art shows, to change it now would not be right)

Other then that Geexman, thank you so much for your help...

@CMYK, if the image is BADLY PIXELATED ... offer a solution, don't just hit and run with a comment with no aid to the author, it's very bad form and does not improve the site, if you know a solution to a mistake a member has made, offer it up so the member can make the improvement, your hit and run comments with no offer of solution are severely annoying and no one really appreciates them.. they just endure them..

kinda contradictory to be annoyed if someone doesn`t offer help, yet a comment before you are telling me that the overlapping characters "didn't matter". I`d also like to point out that you HAVE improved the pixelation that CMYK pointed out so it must have been a valid & helpful observation however blunt it was.

As requested take it or leave it - http://www.pxleyes.com/picture/27136/4ca89451d6dfc.html

How did I IMPROVE the pixelation.. did I press a magical FIX PIXELATION button??? some sort of filter I don't know about? (please dear god let there be a fix pixelation filter... it would be a godsend) I wonder if it's available through flaming pear)

and err umm.. thanks for the link... I think I'll leave it... I can't make heads or tales of any of them, and 11 circles of an image of 1000s.. really? (give CMYK a big wet kiss for me in your next PM)

Thanks once again for you help, I guess (and chill out, you take this way to seriously)

lol you confuse respect for another male with homosexuality?....... interesting , sorry princess I didn't realize a little critique and advice would result in a childish strop, now I know that you`re self conscious about your flaws I promise to make my comments to you much lighter and less useful.

.... and as soon as you find a way to make a useful comment that doesn't demand an agreement... (if only you were as great as you think you are LOL) that would be amazing

Oh as to being Childish.. that's the greatest compliment in the world.. and I thank you most excellently for that.. hehehe

And yes I am a Princess... a BIG ONE

Smooch and hugs

This would make a great poster!

I like it. It's very cheerful and cartoonish.

I like your concept, however the main part of the jar appears to have no thickness. If you could move the images 'inside' up from the bottom and in from the sides to give the glass more dimension, it'll be more believable that these are in the jar. I'll wait to vote - GL!

edit: yes, that's lots better! now, if you can move the image inside to the right a tiny bit to make the glass thickness a little more even, and bring up the opacity on the sides like you have the bottom of the jar, that will be a huge improvement!

Apart from what pearlie said, I think it will help too if you remove the dropshadow. Right now the shadow makes it flat. Good luck!

Thanks pearlie I went back and brought the image in so that it gives the glass more dimension. I also added a few filters to give it a distorted look like real glass does.

wazowski that you so much I also removed the dropshadow and I think it looks better!

I love comments since I may think something is done only to find out I may have missed something small. Helps me get better. I appreciate it.

EDIT: Brought the inside image to the right a bit and raised the opasity just a tad. Thanks again pearlie

Different and modern approach.

Beautiful... If it wasn't a seagull, I'd say it was the Holy Spirit.

Nice concept, for some reason the nest seems to be off perspective to me, the first thought i got was that i was really far away, then i noticed it was on the branch, maybe you should remove from of the intense light placed on the bottom part.

awesome entry!

I really like this but I have to agree with akassa the composition makes it look as if the branch is heading miles out to sea (unless thats the intention), maybe a little blur could be used on the parts of the image in the distance to bring the nest back.

thanks for the comments guys...

I have to disagree with the perspective issue. I think it depends on how you're looking at it... but I have made changes to the light on the bottom of the nest, and fixed a few issues with the actual nest re the placing i.e. the bottom left corner... was infront when it needed to be behind the branch...

as always your comments are much appreciated

very nice...

great job, love the color and the mood

very... very nice job. I realy like it ;D The color balance is perfect and it looks so mythical. Congrats!

Your light sources are all over the place. The bird is lit from the left, there is a sun on the right behind the rocks, the clouds are lit from above right, and the light rays coming from the nest aren't illuminating anything...Good concept, CLEAN lines, but you need to consolidate the lighting and make it consistent.

MossyB: I think you are getting your left to right mixed up... the rocks are lit from the left hand side with the shadows on the right hand side exiting the frame... the sun is highlighting the central part of the clouds, highlighting the left rim ... assuming the sun is slightly off to the left also... so the lighting direction with regards to the rocks is fine...
so based on the sun being on the high left it's safe to assume that there would be a light source illuminating the birds on the left... if you look at SBS I added light to the face side of the gull as light from the nest... the rocks needed no adjustment as the light from the nest is also on the right... and as for the nest not illuminating anything... its illuminating the branch the gull and the two gulls hovering above... please refer to the sbs guide... step 6 explains the gulls
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