another excellent entry

Shoulda known it was you....fantastic work. Beautiful color scheme. Very imaginative and almost "fairy-tale-ish" Is that a real word? You know what I mean!!!

awsome!!! ... great inspiration and motivation to try to do something better..

Yep, reading can open our minds and grow our imagination!... You really got to show us the meaning of reading good things! Nice entry, author!

Great job

great as always......

Ok... this is great! and I mean REALLY great. The idea, and composition is... can I say great again?. You have some issues w/ lighting but over all, color me impressed. REALLY original.

Holy crap Author! Way to step out of the box. Awesome image and I didnt guess it was you first.

yes the image you have done is really good
but the idea is not yours
its a tutorial... i don't know but i have seen it somewhere

otherwise good efforts you have put in there author

Thank you all very much for the support! I didn't think that many people would actually like it.. Ankitsuhaill, i created this image myself, i used no reference tutorials or images, I give you my word.

Edit: The closest i came to using a reference was Lelaina's "The Magic of the Written Word"
http://www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-picture/4a8b0e00ec014/The-magic-of-the-written-word.html ... this was the image that inspired the idea.

Very nice idea! Whether it's from a tutorial or not. Just a few things; The grass in front is kinda ugly blurred. Can you keep that as sharp as the grass in the back? Also the blending with the book in the front is a little unsharp. Sharpening the edges around the grass would make it a lot better. Where is the water source, in the middle? In that case why is it white? if it's supposed to be water make it blue and ripple the grass thats in the water Good luck!

hey please author don't take my comments in a wrong way....
i am very impressed by your work...seriously i am...

i just said about the idea that was from a tutorial but it is not certainly a copy of that and you have done much better than that tutorial

just fix some small errors like lighting
and you are on the top of this contest....

my wishes

Great work author ... Good luck! =) Fav !

This is really good. This could be great with a bit more work. The grass should extend the page on the left the same as it does on the top. The grass should also have a sharp edge on the bottom of the book. The water needs a lot of work, it also needs sharper edges where it meets the book and also between the underwater and above water part. At first I really didn't know what the water was, perhaps having the water pour off the page or just adding a duck would help. The shadows need more attention as well. Overall this is a nice entry which will score high, but with some minor adjustments this has the potential to be one of the greats. Good luck!

great finish

I'm speechless... thanks to ALL of you for your comments and your advice.. Chalty and Ressiv in particular, i've sharpened the grass, removed the soft edges at the bottom, added a waterfall falling from the centre. I hope it looks better this way.

Again, thank you all so much! I never expected this entry to do well...

Very good! Just one last thing, the water kinda spoils the image for me. Try to create horizontal waves in the waters structure, the structure is really weird now. You could do it with the smudge tool, stroking horizontally. And in the front where the water is going over in a waterfall smudge a little vertically so that the water really looks like its transforming into the waterfall. Nice concept anyway! Good luck!

Fabulous work author...good luck

ooohhhhh dear. i'm enthralled. you've blended and worked the sources so well together. you've captured my full attention. i can't say anything that someone else hasn't already say, except...wow. just pure ..wow.

Well worth it... GL

Great work author. Nice blending of images .

Love your idea, very creative, gl author.

good work

This actually rocks! best entry in my opinion and yeh, slightly off your normal track but i knew it was you specially when i read the style of the authors comment! :P nice work dude!

Really magic image!

Lol and congrats on 2nd as well.

Congrats!! Great job!

Let me say, that I'm really honored, that one of my entries was the inspiration for this fantastic entry!
Congrats for the second place!

In spite of PS crashing, you were rewarded! Congrats!

GL

Nice.

Nice old and grunge look

Wonderful as always, author!
But:
- part of the veil must appear behind the arm;
- magic wand is a bit dark (or sharp) comparing to the rest IMO.

thank u for your nice comment erikuri and the veil goes behind neck and that's why it is in front of the hand

Amazing picture! Reminds me of the magic illustrations in my old children's books

He he, not bad. The pyramid could use a sharper edge where they are adding additional parts to it and IMO, it might look more of a reference to alien construction if you converted the human construction workers into alien looking construction workers, like a couple of grays. But keep the hard hats and plans. It's a nice touch. GL!

lol.. thanks Jawsh.. figured it'd be different..

please hold voting until the duplicates are removed.. thank you

I never vote if I make a suggestion for improvement. It wouldn't be very fair if I did. I'll just wait until you can't edit anymore. (Friday)

seems nobody has any alien heads i can use... not giving up though.. i like that suggestion.. the quest continues.. just hope i can have it done by friday

Just find something that looks like an alien head. A gourd might work.

Author idea is great,but demands a bit more work...First of all selection and masking of last pyramid block is not good,have to be way sharper then looks now,second thing are people that sit on benches near,it would be better to remove them.Another thing is blending problem,try to make edges of the constructor's a bit softer,and yes u could add some blue/gray layer,blend mode set to color with low opacity.This will help u with blending...Any how,idea is great and i wish u best of luck...

I agree with all that's written above. If you cant find a good alien picture, you make the aliens yourself, of course! There's already a great base with these weird helmets. Just copy-paste them a couple of times and create something spacey with them. Remove the men's ears, put antennas on top of the heads, etc. I'm pretty sure you can do that. And dont forget to make the top of the pyramid look less erased. Good luck!

you all are correct... i was sleepy and not thinking last night... lol.. was stuck in chop mode.. my brain didn't switch over to paint...... thank you all for gettin my hea out of the box.

Ok, that's interesting. I would still do something to the guy on the left and Erathion made some good points too.

a hard hat on the alien would be a nice touch

There were no hard hats in 4,000 BC or whenever the pyramids were made. Good idea, but not well thought out.

the theory that i was trying to portray was that ancient astronauts from the future visited civilizations from the past and lent them a helping hand... i agre CMYK that it looks out of place.. and it prolly wasn't the best rendition on my part.. but hey.. its all in good fun... right?

no hard hats!!....how you know, were you there.....................who knows what these aliens had on board their ship..........

you can use 'wazowski's avatar and blend it as the alien engineer.. if wazowski gives u d permission..

Nice work. Looking at the number of sources you have spend quite some time on this already. Still some suggestions though: The contrast is not consistent through the image. I would suggest enhancing the contrast in the background and make the blueprint less bright, making the clouds the brightest part of the image.

This looks like a shot from a really bad 50'-60's b-movie! LOVE IT! Camp factor is great!

Best of luck to you on this spacey entry.

Lol very cool.. GL

Interesting idea! Not sure if the artificial balloons add anything to the frog's ability to fly, though. GL.

hehehehehehehe

Nice entry!
But IMO there are too many balloons, they are a bit distracting; maybe one balloon is better!

I composed it new. Guess its better now

I relly like this one, its original and well executed. I actually like the baloons as part of the composition.

Nicely executed. It seems this is going to be a major road in the evolution of species. Your description made me think about the other recent discovery on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxmpihCjqw

awesome to begin with.. even awesomer with the improvements.. EXCELLENT!!!