Hippychick

There a tons of tutorials for this effect...I haven`t followed one, nor have I used any special filters or brush`s that the tutorials tend to use.

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Purple Prickly Pear

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Truths have thorns

Truths and roses have thorns

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Sky

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Storm's A Brewin'

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The benefits of compost ...

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Seduction Bot v3.1

In a post-skynet future, the machines build a sophisticated bot that attracts then kills human males. This bot, having physically disabled her latest assignment, prepares to administer a lethal injection. Unfortunately as she prepares the dose, she is alerted that her power reserves are low so ...

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Absence of Pity

sbs has sources

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shebot

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Turtle ride

Just source and my imagination

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Ship View

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The Dragons Realm

I had to edit my image due to copyright. I appologies for this guys.

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Red Chairs el Gato

source and photos I take

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New Face

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Happy man

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Irish Captain

Got a lil captain in ya!

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Ribbon Statue

Only Source used

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Join Me For a Drink??

warping of the face, patching of the texture to get rid of the lichen growing on the statue. color overlay painted for color, then eyes burned and dodged with a color overlay for the eyes. Placed atop a background, thanks to R.Motti @ flickr.com ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/motti/183678981/sizes/...

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tribal

hmm... looks like they are ready for war....:)

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Tears for a fallen king

The queen wheeping over her fallen king. Updated version, thanks to Warlock for the suggestions.

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Swimming Pool

Created this image in 3ds max with mental ray as renderer.

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Water in Cave

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Realization

The figure in the picture was taken by me. The buildings were not from any particular source. I browsed some pictures from the ruins to get a general feel for the architecture & made my own using good old 1-point perspective. I also asked a few questions of ChaCha(424424) on the cell phone regar...

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Lake Towers

Thanks to Paul Brentnall and Evgeni Dinev.

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