Queen Grimhilde's reflection in the knife is great!!!! hehehe.. GOOD LUCK!!!

Knife reflection is a great effect! Nice masking, too. Clean.

Thank you both!!

Smart touch with the knife reflection!

Thanks greymval!

Way too heavy on the vignette effect - it's so dark around the edges that you lose a lot of the effect you are going for. It is also so dark that the lighting of the box makes no sense.

oooooo I really wanna know what's in the box!!! great mystery piece

Thanks man.

It is a bit dark, but I really like the feel of this image. Real nice job using the source image in this way.

Very Mysterious! As Drivenlush said, "I really want to know what's in the box?" Great execution author!

congrats!

Congratulations

Congrats for 3rd

Thanks you mates.

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats

author.. a simple suggestion.. if you place the original image (of the man face) over itself and then blend it with multiply or overlay, you may actually get enough resolution/detail to improve the image greatly.. (High Pass is helpful as well) IMHO, right now.. the eye reflection is super detail and the head of the man is quite blurry.. without a high res that is all we can see.. but good luck. it's a fun image all round

Thanks for your feedback friend......

Not sure if source 1 is usable. Light on head is opposite light on the arm. Good idea, though.

Source one is me!

Author, just post your own pic uncut in a step-by-step guide as per the PXL guidelines and you'll be OK.

LOL If I was called "son" and (not to mention if I was a guy) the guy or gal wasn't my father I would be a little irritated...
Author, I like this picture. I agree about the lighting of the arm vs head though but either way it looks like a lot of hard work to get this so great job!

Thank you! Yeah, I knew the lighting was off, but I need to learn to do lighting correctly. The two images didn't "match" light wise. Some day I'll get it!

I've been called worse on PXL, I guess people translate appelatives from their own language presuming they'll work in english too.

For the light thing, try cloning the shadowed paint into the light area and then add another layer - lower oppacity or set on soft light and paint with white using a soft brush.

Ah, I see what you're saying, thanks.

Author, you'll save yourself a lot of work if you match your light sources before you edit the items. It helps A LOT.

Nice PiC

Thanks Ping, it's something I'll have to learn.

Very interesting work author...love the idea and u shoved nice blend skills...Use same clone stamp or paint brush to fix different light sources issue...With resolution like this that is very possible...also i would suggest u to create slight shadow under his boots...any how this is very nice entry and i wish u best of luck

It would be funny if he was peeing on the wall!

very nice work author...very nice...whole piece is well made and would be good without bigger mill too...best of luck