Nice mood.

Thanks rbs.............

Great blend, author...I'm sure it would look even better in high res! (Hint, hint...).

What CMYK???
SO you see all my mistakes?
Hahahahahaha

The resolution on the turtle source pic wasnt that high.

Yeah I agree with you author on that! I had difficulty because the source wasn't very high! Hey! Nice Creation btw GL!

Thanks Toothpick

I put a high resolution pic up anyhow now.

Very nice work -- great detail

Wow! This is facinating!

Great job

Thanks for the great compliments guys and girls.

Nice blending.

Thanks Solkee.......gotta catch up with you for a beer sometime

Well done!

Changed the color of the background.....thanks sgc

Congrats Freejay, nice work

Great work man, well deserved congrats

Thanks

Congrats for the first place

Congrats!!

Congrats freejay, well deserved.

Awesome work and congrats to you freejay!!!!

Congrats on you win

huh?
I just looked over at the rules and guidelines and not to my surprise, I didn't see anything about text in either the general rules or the photoshop. So I'm curious what you mean by this?

lol me to I didn't see anything about text

As long as the text comes from the default Photoshop texts, then I'm sure it's alright.. It is when you download someones created font, THEN you have to attach a link to it and of course credit them. Hope this helps

Text needs to be created by the authors themselves only in the drawing contests.
In PS contests is the use of fonts no problem.

Never mind the text. What does it mean? Is it just me?

I didnt think it was the dessert, Looks like the sun going down over the ocean, Thats the life cycle of turtles they lay their eggs and when the babies hatch they have to run like mad over the beach to make it to the sea before they are eaten.

yes beaneze and some turtles live in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts in Southwest of USA and Mexico. look here it is interesting. http://www.desertusa.com/june96/du_tort.html
pretty cool, you would not think they could survive here but I have seen these guys and was fascinated by them.
Good luck Author

Thanks for that cabldawg that was interesting, they cant swim at all by that article.

I like the colours in your image Author good luck

cool work...gl

great shell, good luck!

well you did great imo! I love this

love the crackle edge of the shell.. awesome

Thank you guys for your lovely comments...

Nice

Nice

Very nice!

Looks like he/she's wearing a neck brace

haha! very very cute and creative..a little pattern on the white shell would have made this outstanding. i got 2 turtles myself..i call them my kids lol!

Cute work author...gl

Fantastic work, author! Awesome idea! Should be a top entry! GL!

Thanks for the inspiring comments!

Yep...great stuff! Love the source usage here!

Thanks for appreciating...

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