Drowning Island

hi after almost 6 months i managed to submit a new entry. Only ps and some stocks used. hope you will like it.

For: mixed manipulations 7 contest

Duallegs egg

sorry guys.. i lost the psd in some logic reasons. but at least i can soften the shadow. i'm apologize.

For: three stones contest

Megajellydon

we've heard about megalodon the giant ancient shark,now a brand new world of jellyfishes. this is the continuation of the external sources link http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1322655 sky http://www.sxc.hu/photo/11686 subamarine http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1285784 seagull http://www.sxc.hu/photo/130305...

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Sing Me A Song...

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Wild-Wild West

I chose a western motif, simple entry, just cut the images from the source and added to new background...I resized the cutouts to perspective and blended...

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shoes

For: armour suit contest

Motor Heads

See SBS The buildings in the back where created with the Content aware System in CS5 Extended on the Rusty Metal Picture A good example of Content Aware in CS5 can be seen Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI ;)

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The Hidden Treasure

Simple editing with texture combination. :)

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Make Face

Here comes the bully... (Changed the source of my crack brush...my bad) Thank you for the reminders...!

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Destructive Curiosity

Absolutely 100% created in photoshop! Took a really really long time, but I feel the work was worth it.

For: mixed manipulations 6 contest

Exile's Wall

Thank you to Elandria at Dreamers of Avalon - See SBS for permission. NOTE: Link to her stock image is to a stock pack. There is no link to the image directly, the given link is the BEST link I can get! It takes a second to get to the correct page. Please wait. Thank you to Digital-Amphetami...

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Splashing Roses

Thanks Alexandra Fomicheva for the tutorial.

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Child Play

for some reason the hands images are not available in web page link for that reason i added the images in the step by step guide

For: mixed manipulations 6 contest

Thinking About You

For: mixed manipulations 6 contest

planet Z

lately I have been reading many tutorials of planet making, but after reading the Realistic Star Field tutorial by Greg Martin http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html and the planet tutorial by UCD http://ucd.deviantart.com/art/Land-Planet-Tutorial-4586548 I w...

For: mixed manipulations 6 contest

Mage

Credits to *AilinStock , ~paradoxstock and madmiked.

For: self chops contest

Drawn From Reality

I will not be able to offer a very good step by step because I wasn't aware of saving each photo and step if you used your own photos. Its going to mainly have the photos I used to create this final image. I only used 2 photos to create this one.

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"let them eat cake"

this makes me laugh. i kept toying with different ideas and finally settled on this idea. :D hope you guys find it as entertaining. its good for a laugh anyway. Check sbs for original source photo taken by myself.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous

yeah..minimal use of brushes...however,i won't deny that i used some. thanks to the artists out there making decay brushes for this sort of application. some hand painting and overlay...really quite simple manip.

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Cornelius

I came across some great brush sets and decided to do some painting!!

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Come a little closer....

most of this was done with liquify. was done a while back, but i did some adjustments to it and added some coloring that i think really suits it. original picture in sbs. no outside sources used.

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A Grave Future

Yes its a bit grim but still one of my favorites. 2 images were used to create final picture. Both images are mine.

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Brutal

Inspired a long time ago when I saw Nator's winning image in the "Asian Man" contest, source 1. I replicated this then but never really thought i'd have a use for it.

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Rise Of The Jedi

Joits-http://www.flickr.com/photos/joits/ Thanks for the great photo of Darth Maul...:)

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