Interesting. I think the horse size is OK if you don't know about the bike. Since you chose to focus on the background of the source image, I'm curious as to why you didn't bother to level the horizon. In hi-res, the moon looks like it's dipping into the ocean. I think you've grown the dolphins into orca whales. I wonder if the theme would be more compelling if the dolphins were journeying in the same rough direction as everything else (and perhaps moved to near the left edge).

If the front of the applecoptor is 6 o'clock, I would expect the tail to be at 12 o'clock, but instead it's at 10 o'clock. In hi-res, you can see a light-colored outline around the rotor and landing strut that ideally should be removed.

Creative idea. Perspective issue: If we're looking up at the light, why can we see down onto the socket holding the bulb? Shadow issue: If the socket is wider than the bulb, how can the skinnier lamp post be lit? And why is the light intense on the ground but not on the even-closer buildings?

Cool over all. I personally don't think the duplicate background towers add anything, however. Also, the palm trees look fake. And the hi-res version highlights the white edge around the tower's top and the fakiness of the tower-bottom and sand-dune edges.

The pawn nozzle seems slightly skewed from the body of the space shuttle.

Nice, but I wish you had incorporated even more parts of the pawn.

wazowski and itsdesign are right on. And why not use Prince's previous name or some other (vaguely) recognizable symbol and come up with a slightly explanatory title to make this seem less random?

Creative in a Rorschach-test kind of way. Instead of duplicating the bird, why not find a flower in the lower half of the source and make it a 'hummingbird finding nectar' plaque?

It is awfully simple, but that might be redeemable if there were any recognizable hint of the source image.

Creative and cool idea. The hippie wardrobe on the alien is very odd, however. (Why not apply some effects -- e.g., filters or different blend modes with duplicate layers -- to the hat and scarf separately to see if you can come up with fashion more 'alien'?) And there is no drama as the tones are pretty even across the image. I think your SBS Step 2 is compelling but Step 3 is bland, flat wallpaper IMO which translates into a flat final image (which then isn't particularly understandable without the explanation of your title).

Intriguing is obviously in the eye of the beholder. I really liked your SBS Step 1, but I think you limited yourself by keeping that result whole and simply rotating it.

Cute. And I suspect you are correct, erikuri. For a greater connection with the source, I kind of wish at least one of the figures used the green from the source and all the elements were recessed (to the same degree as the red border).

Very pretty. The black outlines on the petals make the flowers seem like an illustration while the jewelry looks real. The vase reflection is off; it should be a simple vertical flip of the vase warped to make the flip's top edge follow the vase's curved bottom edge (so the purple point along bottom edge matches up, for example -- see your SBS Step 6). It's odd that the vase reflects while the jewelry merely casts shadows -- and down for the pearls but up for the gold chain at that. [Adding reflections for the jewelry would be tricky. Put some jewelry on a mirror to create a model to work from.]

Nice. What is causing the trapezoidal shadow on the left? Perspective issues: Top and bottom edges of side-wall posters should follow the blue lines in SBS Step 4. On the floor, the sides of the bricks should all be pointing towards the same vanishing point as the bottoms of the side walls. Ditto for the sides of the carpet.

Good idea. The perspectives are off, however. If I cover up the stair steps, it looks like a perfectly fine balcony railing with a kitty seen from above. I would expect to see more of the back of the gull from that vantage point though. The problem is that the gull back and the stair treads are not parallel with the ground which is nearly parallel to the picture plane. Instead, they are perpendicular to the picture plane.

Nice concept. I think more shadow behind his head would be in order, however, and the the shadow below her champange-pouring forearm is weird.

Kudos for giving all of us struggling nitwits that "I should have had a V8" moment by pointing out how the concept of horsepower perfectly fits this theme. I do agree about the horse-size problem, however, but that can be easily remedied by making the horses bigger (which just means the floor they're galloping on is lower). The ropes need shading on their lower edges and should cast shadows onto the horse necks IMO, plus the break in the ropes between horses could be clearer. If the horses are neck-and-neck (or nose-and-nose), then the line connecting those features needs to have the same vanishing point as the other elements in the image. [I would just give the horses a more-jagged relationship.]

I'd been thinking that your middle door needed a label -- and thanks to the inspiration of erikuri, I would suggest perhaps "LIMBO" might be appropriate. The middle door should also have the masks for consistency. (Note that the masks bear no relationship to any of the labels; they are purely decoration.)

Creative. I personally feel all the black space in the middle is excessive and starts to work against the "lighten up your business" slogan. I find it curious that the green glow in the front is the only light without rays going towards the sky. The yellow and red foreground lights need their bottom edges cut back so that it doesn't look like the front rims of their pots are emitting light (all the light should be coming from inside the pots). On the other hand, the right edges of the yellow and purple lights need to be a bit wider so they come right up to the edge of the pot rim.

I think if his shins looked less like they're going off to the side and more like they're going down the slope of the roof, this might appear more convincing.

Very cool! I'm impressed that despite the many and varied elements, 99% of the image is nevertheless directly from the source (and largely recognizable as such, too).

I think kevinice95 has (perhaps inadvertently) hit upon how to raise this up a notch: have the cat Photoshopping itself doing something awesome rather than merely finetuning a sunset (yawn).

Interesting, but I think some spinning blur around Beethoven's edges, for example, might capture some of the "roll over" aspect that is largely missing from your image.

Very cool, although I do hope the real future isn't just variations on a single theme.

The multi-wing fighters are very cool except for their dark blue border. Retaining the matching blue lighthouse contest source really reduces the overall impact of the image IMO because it becomes obvious where the planes came from. Additionally, the near plane looks like it's about to clip its wings on the tower.

Cool concept, but I don't feel like the space base is resting on something solid. And the dramatic lighting of the top half of the tower is inconsistent with the shadows on the ground.

I don't think the castle-hill reflection should be more distorted than that for the canoe. More problematic, the castle-hill reflection implies that the lighthouse is surrounded by trees which is obviously not the case. Also the sky reflection has fewer clouds than the actual sky. And the castle-hill reflection is still unrealistically scrunched. Given the height of the hill, a simple vertical flip from the water line up would not permit any part of the lighthouse to appear in the reflection as long as the bottom edge of your image remains cropped where it is. [See your River source for an example of how a simple vertical flip from the water line up is the way reflections work.]

Very nice, and the perspective on the castle completely works.

Cool concept that actually works best if the tower looks like it's leaning backwards.

Pretty, but the castle-hill reflection is off. Just as your canoe reflection is a simple vertical flip from the water line up, the castle hill from the water line up should be vertically flipped to create its reflection. (Stack some things on a mirror to see how reflections work.)

I'm impressed that you were able to illustrate what I would have thought would have been a difficult Beatles song to do. (But migue1ito's comment is my favorite part of this entry. )

Very nice, but the diamond sparkles may be a bit too subtle given that diamonds are an explicit part of the song's title.

Cute, although the notion of a flying submarine is kind of odd.

Cute. I really like that the right and left halves aren't merely mirror images of each other. I think I would cut the bottom of the feet straight across so they rest wholly on the bottom edge of the image rather than try to suggest there's some sort of invisible floor the robot is standing upon or alternatively that the robot is balanced upon the balls of its feet.

Cool! I wish you were able to find a more expressive face. (This intense-concentration one is clearly suitable, but a more gleeful expression would add punch to the image.)

I think "Fractal" is a pretty misleading title. Background is cool. I don't get the extremely transparent outer petal edges on some of the flowers.

loopyluv and cabldawg71 are right on with their advice, but the kitties need a mini dark shadow where they touch the ground as well. Hopefully all of that will eliminate the impression that Butch's dish is encroaching on the black kitty tail.

The z-plane argument is technically correct and indeed explains the apparent lack of arc in the exiting tea (it's flowing away from the viewer). Maybe changing the title to "More sideways tea, sir?" would alert the viewer that a non-traditional interpretation is required. And I just realized that the teapot isn't casting any shadow (which might provide some insight into its orientation)!

Basic concept is good. U.S. pennies would work if you used a plausibly U.S. environment. A less-obstructed-sides, country-lane-like background would allow you to make the fireman bigger and thus the focus. The perspective of the pennies seems slightly off (not quite squished enough) to be flat with the pavement.

I like the colorizing of your vintage pics. (BTW are your sources mislabeled?) Your SBS doesn't explain what the white lines are all about. Why are the diamonds only in the lower half of the image? It seems a little odd that the side girls are obviously hanging from something but the middle girl appears to be standing on something in the middle of space. [Better choice IMO: a girl on a swing.] Diamonds floating in the sky have nothing to cast a shadow on, so your drop shadows merely make it look like they're hovering just in front of a picture of clouds. The fuzzy near clouds over the naughty bits seem out of place with the in-focus near girls and far clouds. (And shouldn't your title say "Sky" singular?)

Adorable! The roof (including the eave edge) needs to be in shadow, however.

Quite convincing.

Creative idea. The liquid hand looks fairly good. Some brighter-white highlights (like at the left edge of the tea in the cup) might make it appear more convincing. The teapot doesn't seem tilted enough for tea to be able to escape. The perspective is also off; I would expect to see as much of the top of the teapot as I see of the top of the cups.

Very creative. The text layout is really cool and contemporary. I note that material 2 is presented in a color other than a, b, c, or d, however. [To spruce up the English a bit -- Paragraph #1: "comfortable" with an M and "situations" plural. #2: "atmosphere" with exchanged H and P. #4: replace "cause" {slangy} with "because" and delete the comma in front of it, plus "pe" should be "be." #a: "witch" should be "which." #d: "armony" should be "harmony."]

If the flying horse and rider aren't moving fast enough to suffer any blurring, then it's not clear that the falling rail would be blurred. BTW you forgot the rail holder on the top LH side. And the RH holder strikes me as just the half towards our side of the jump and would need a matching half towards the other side of the jump to form a V for the rail to rest in.

Shouldn't the horse's belly cast a shadow on the white photo border the horse is jumping past? Also, I think the shadow makes it look like the horse is jumping right alongside and parallel to the background when appearing to be jumping at an angle slightly away from the background and towards us would be more compelling. For real drama, I would alter the perspective on the photo border to make it seem like the front plane of the photo is parallel to the jump itself so it appears as if the horse is jumping straight out (not sideways) from the photo.

I like the simplicity. The orange seems perhaps a bit bright for being on the shady side of the structure, however. And why not use a minimalist beachscape for the setting?

To add more to the illusion of depth, I would have the teapot's top knob and spout bottom overlap the frame some to make it clear that the pot is roughly half in and half out of the frame.

I laughed! Not sure what the nurse is holding, but a long needle sticking up out of it would add impact IMO.

Pretty impressive. The white jump visible in the background between the top rails of the mid-ground and foreground jumps has disconcertingly repetitive marks on its horizontal cross bar that just screams cloning. Additionally, I think cloning out the people on the ground as well as the jumping horse and rider would yield a more elegant final result.