Haha! Awesome job on making the hand and sword water-like . I only think that they are too blue. You can either make them less blue or turn the background blue. And post a SBS GL

Disturbing and hysterical all in the same motion LOL.. good luck

good work !! but i think the water is a bit too detailed compared too the wc.. gl though

Very nice, but i think you should work more on matching the colour of the water to the surrounding. Try making it a dark olive green and also try to match the lighting, it'll make your entry far more convincing. Good luck!

Hillarious, great idea, maybe lower the opacity of your water a little...still all in all a good entry

Great image! I think the water color and detail is just fine, but you would advantage from a better stock image. You could try sharpening it and use levels to remove the yellow/green tone.

yikes! that would hurt

Love the sunglasses!

very nice image

Haha! Great job! GL

Maybe change the type & make it larger, otherwise nice image!

Thanks for the suggestion, but that is the largest my text will go. I have Adobe 7. It doesn't allow for much editing.

Rasterize the text (or just merge the text with a blank layer and you will be able to manipulate the text like you would a photograph).. good luck.. cute image

The sunglasses are a nice touch.

Changed the text on sign by using 'Layers' window and clicking on 'character' which allowed me to change the size of the text, then warped the letters in liquify. Thanks for suggesting this change. I like it so much better.

grrrreat chop.......love the glasses

*lol* I love that sign... "Other side of the mountain" And that's for sure a pretty cool looking bear! Great job, that comes with a funny and totally senseless song. Good luck!

Congratulations

need to solidify the base if you want it to look real.. but it's a neat concept (the translucent base makes it look like it begins in the clouds.. but if that was your goal.. more power to ya

Put some more clouds at the base so the tower doesn't look like it's disappearing...
EDIT: Much better!

Much better.. good luck!

It's fantastic! However, if it's a lighthouse you should probably put a light at the top. Also instead of making the tower become transparent you should make multiple cloud layers gaining opacity on top of it.

Pretty cool! It doesn't really look like a lighthouse, but it's still great! GL

Great idea. I think that it would be more accurate if there weren't clouds at the top of the picture since the lighthouse is meant to be higher than clouds. Maybe you should also try to make the sky a little darker (with a gradient) at the top to show that it's really high.

Nice job, author! Rather captivating...

flying boats would have put this over the top for me. well done as it is

great pic.

the coloring is really good, only the bottom part of the tower looks a bit "unreal". love it otherwise

I suppose it's meant to be scary, but the child is TOO CUTE!!!! hehehe.. good luck

too freaky there author, but i still like it

and i am sure your niece would love a printed copy!

Ewww! Now, THAT's freaky! I love your work, good job!

where is url for source?
baby source

Cool and somewhat creepy...especially the mouth, tongue and eyes.

he looks more like an alien.nice job

That is soooo freaky :S

interesting

I really like this one! Great concept

This is really good...if the leaves had shadows it would be great!

i agree with cmyk but u did a very good work.good luck

just freakin awesome

this is fantastic!

wow,amazing,supercool,i love the way the other stuff is in grayscale,giving a dreamy effect and the scattered leaves.amzing job author

congratulations, nicely composition. Love it

great idea and execution! gl

CMYK and mariosilva: Thanks for your sharp eyes. The shadows I had on leaves were too light. I darkened them...looks better! I also added slight reflections to the leaves. Thanks for your suggestions!

Brilliant idea, I like this

Great idea........Awesome job.... Good Luck Author.

that's what I'm talking about!! Great Job!! simple and powerful!!

beautiful work, well done

fun fun fun.. awesome

can't stop looking at it. The edge of the canvas looks terrific, but it's not the continuation of the image. Was that intended? I think it's great, I wouldn't even have thought of making the edge out of the image, too.

Very original and well done.

good entry

fantastic idea author, i love this

Excellent, nice work

great work!!

OMG I LOVE THIS!!! *favs it*

very nice work!! good luck

awesome wrk......................so good...

Awesome work

its an awesome work and i like the idea.. im just confused why the girl shadow go the oposite direction of the others o.o;

Eladine: Good catch...I intentionally created the shadow this way because I wanted her to look as if she's entering the 'picture' space...also if I give her the same properties as the others...the shadow won't be as noticeable and she may look cut out...or not 'on' the bridge. Hopefully that makes sense...thanks for asking!

Great work!

thnx for explaining I knew you must of done it with intention again, very nice work

great use of source author.

Bravo! Great job!

Great! Very cleverly done!

Just fantastic! And for sure the best gallery exit ever! It's such a great compositon. The whole feeling of it is just amazing. Especially your colours. The black and white background, but the main part in colour. I love it! Good luck!

Simple....Beautiful

Thanks to everyone with your encouraging, kind and constructive comments!

Congratulations for 1st, nice one, great pic.

congrats. its very artistict , like a pro photographer, keep it up.

Congrats for your well deserved first place, Rob!

Congratulations!

Congratulations

Congrats!

congrats

congratulations, fantastic work!

this is a very nice and dreamy composition! congrats!

Congrats!

Congratulations for 1st!! really well done and excellent idea!! congrats!!