great mood

wonderful work, can't say more. Love the way you kept adding and adding things to make this image, this mood. Absolutely gorgeous, my fav. Good luck author!

Impressive amount of work and love the results. Nisha is right ... the mood is wonderful!
I do think that the arches/pillars could use bit of clean up ... there are tiny bits of the original image showing when viewed in high res and the edges could be improved.

As the stone in the arches and pillars are old, the edges would have pits, dents and cracks that would show when viewed in profile. If you use a layer mask you can "push" the mask in with the smudge tool in places like where the round stones meet each other (there would be a slight indent). Roughening the edge and taking away that straight-edge mask look would really help. Let me know if this doesn't make sense and I can try and explain better.

EDIT: Changes look good.

Scale problems: Leaves are too big, cat is too big. Woman figure has white outlines that could be easily removed by selecting the figure, contracting 1 pixel & deleting. Good concept that could benefit with some tweaks...GL author.

Thanks a ton ARCA and CMYK46 for ur precious suggestions...indeed it did improve the overall feel of the image( i think so)...further suggstions r more than welcome

Fantastic mood and great composition author...love the purple feel and your moonlight is amazing...well done man

Thumbs up dude

Kinda surreal...love the shadows.

Love it , nice job author

Very very nice work author...love the shapes...best of luck

(the title is from a line in the song by the Cranberries, "Free to Decide" Thanks!! erathion

Great entry GL

Very creative and wonderful work Author ... not sure if I understand it but I don't always understand my husband and I love him so I guess it is okay to love this!

What's funny arca is that I don't understand why a person would take a piece of paper, fold it into an airplane, then attach it to a fluorescent green clothes line with clips and then take a picture of it with over exposure to the sun (JUST KIDDING LAMANTINE)

When I saw the source I was like, well how do ya do! had to think of something that would match the wonder and uniqueness

Awesome work author, you kept the texture of the source really well, so it's recognizible, your colors & composition are awesome too, so high marks !
It should get more views!

Thanks for the vote of confidence grymval, but I'm not part of the .. ahem LOOP as it were, so my expectations are always low LOL.. just a fact of life

... read your reply at work and everyone wondered what I was laughing at ... love it!

This is so well thought out, love the art, layers, etc. but LOVE the title! So fitting for the true artist that you are, author.

I don't get why only 55% - (voters forgot their glasses, maybe), but i'm glad at least this came on 2nd. Congrats.

Thanks greymval, I'm happy with what ever I get , no need for ego biscuits here

congratulations...

Congrats!!

very nice compo author...love the color selection and mood is great...best of luck

Very cool final product author...Concept is great and maybe u could place some soldiers on the walls too...Castle is constructed very very well...Best of luck

Really good work! You could have used some vegetation from the source to cover the bottom edges of the castle (esp left side), but that's barely noticeable. Good luck.

Great construction, don't really know what to think about the people, but as a whole, this is a very nice creation

What sense (or lack of) would that be?

Oh, that he's blind and walking towards a broken bridge. Well you could put a bandage on his eyes ( around his head) to make it more obvious.

kind of looks like hes checking out the nice sunset

didn't you uploaded this one into the wrong contest ?

http://www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-contest/16355/red-umbrella.html

GL

I think now it makes Sense.

yup it does now :P

This entry would fit better in other contest....

The light source on the umbrella in foreground is opposite the background light source...

I don't why he's senseless... HE'S DEAD!!!! I mean, I'm no medical doctor or anything but I think he would not live long with his head several meters in from of him. But the head looks like it's positioned weird.....

Even if he does not have senses any more... or he is dead.... it is still a nice image... (but it should have done better in the other contest).... good luck author.