Winna!!

Pretty bizarre Z.

I must have been sleeping for a few days because I missed this contest.

Nice chop and a very complicated SBS. You do good work skyangel.

Good chop Zizounai.

Nice dog fur on the hands. Wish you woulda made an SBS to show how it was done.

YW author. They do look better now. They don't look like they are floating in the air. I got some more suggestions if you would like to hear.

Maybe I said that wrong. I meant some dark color where your subjects touch the ground. Here, I made a gif, using the boy's feet to show you what I mean. https://i.imgur.com/2tfukZe.gif

I used black in this gif, but it's probably best to sample a dark color by the boy's feet using the eye dropper. You can then use PS's Color Picker to make that sampled color lighter or darker. I used a 33% opacity brush, but went over it a couple times or so. IMO he looks more "attached" to the ground now.

Neat idea. Maybe brush some very dark color either on a multiply, or hard light layer underneath them where they join the ground. Just a very small amount. This will connect them to the ground and make it look like the are not floating in the air. Look very closely at your source images and you will see what I am saying. You can use several layers if needed. Sometimes I do a very very fine real dark layer of shadows, and then a more spread out lighter one, and sometimes even a lighter one spread out more. Gaussian Blur can be helpful on the shadows but isn't always needed. Better yet, check out some video tutorials on this. Just making nice shadows will increase the believability of your Chops by a lot.

Creepy. Use stock Photoshop Brush #112 to brush back in her eye lashes where the skull is. It's a "hair" brush. And maybe a little less opacity on the tear so her skin just shows.

I concur still26. It's pretty crazy that we can create art like this. Just a generation ago this was impossible.

"Please don't be shy to tell me how to improve in photo manipulation work as I'm fairly new to it. Thanks again. "

There is a site called Udemy that does online courses. They are offering a Photoshop course called "Mastering Photoshop CC 2017: Learn like a Pro" for FREE!!! It's a 20 hour course and retails for $200 (yea right).

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If you ever need any help, feel free to PM me. I am always eager to talk Photoshop so don't be shy. I will try to critique your Chops from now on and maybe it will help.

Google Video Search and Youtube are chock full of video tutorials from beginner to advanced. Even Googling some variant of "Photoshop Tutorial" into Google Images can work. You get to see the image of what the tutorial is about, and pick one that suits your needs. You can Google things like "Scary Photoshop Tutorial", "How to do Shadows in Photoshop Tutorial" or w/e. The other day I didn't know how to make stars, so I Googled "How to Make Stars in Photoshop Tutorial" and now I am a master haha.

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Don't sell yourself short still26.

Two times in this contest where I really didn't agree with the scoring. This was a nice chop George55 and should have been voted higher. Perhaps people didn't view your SBS and see the work and imagination involved.

Most of the time I agree with the judging here, but this was under-rated. A nice feel-good chop. I even downloaded the Fairy-dust brushes.

YW seestah. Where was that photo taken?

This was destined to win. All the others were really good too, but this one rose above. Good work skyangel.

Congrats George55

Congrats still26.

I agree with this.

Oh my, that lens distortion is making me dizzy.

Yo Author, I was talking about the original source image and not your Chop. If you look at the source http://www.pxleyes.com/images/contests/girl-in-fur/fullsize/sourceimage.jpg, the fur in the center, is out of focus. I thought that's what still26 was talking about.

Yea still.. I saw the same thing with the blurry fur.

Lovely watercolor.

Good chop. BWR approved.

Great work author. Good SBS also. good luck!!

The video in your SBS silly. :-O

I like your version better than the one in the video.

Aliens need to leave Florida now. hurricane a coming.

Is that a Florida crocodile?

Nice work anyar. Imaginative Photoshop.

2nd and 3rd. Not bad.

Congratulations Z.

good work Zizounai.

Right on George. Congrats brother.

Much deserved win. Fantastic job skyangel.

Here's some more suggestions. Please understand that I am not knocking your Chop. It's a great job and a work of art. I sometimes critique what I think are the better Chops a bit more.

https://image.ibb.co/hheDcQ/hints.jpg

I concur.

Wonderful work!! My only critique is the flowers and branches look a little flat. More so the flowers. I don't know a real way to fix that, but I imagine some dark and light colored brushing on Hard and/or Soft Light layers may help. And/or try Dodge/Burn on a 50% Grey, Hard/Soft Light Layer. Maybe also put a line down the center of the leaves like a real leaf has (hope that made sense). Similar to the lines you put on the flowers.

But overall an ace job. Very impressive and imaginative. Very nice SBS too.

Congrats DS.

Congrats on your win G..

2nd *AND* 3rd place. Cool.

Congrats Zizounai

What a great idea. Executed very nice. I can say that I am impressed.

Now that's bizarre. And clever.

So tiny. Can hardly see the full res.

Congrats skyangel

Congrats Zizounai!!!!!

I liked this one. Was too late to vote on it though.

I can deal with that haha. These Chops do require imagination while making them, and require imagination while viewing them.

Christoph where are you??!!! Come bask in your glory!!