Cool work author...good luck

As everyone told before,its to blurry,but i like the idea and whole composition is well made...good luck

What a mouthful! GL

Very nice idea and great execution - but it's a shame that it's blurry...

I have to agree on the blur, but the source is very well suited to a light shade, well done author!

Nice idea but image is blurry

More white on the little bird ot more light as you want but it is just a suggestion....

the idea is very sweet but something not rigth,anyway good luck

ROFL ...what can I say ... it wonderful!

...and a lit light would be much more compelling.

good......

this is magnificent... good job

(play with the burn tool. I could see some major shading for this.. hehehe good luck author

Nice idea but I think the outcome is a bit blurry that you lost all the details and the textures on the source image..Good luck

nice work on matching the textures

OMG its a real Big mouth.............good work author!!!

Sparrow: "Hey, friend, here's a little gift... take it."
Seagull 1: "Hmmm... what do you think?"
Seagull 2: "I think it's too tiny!"

Nice blending of the images!

good work but maybe should be better with more shadow on the birds to integrate them more into the pics, and the little bird needs also a color adjustment. Good luck author.

hahahahaha....perfect

Funny! x10...

good idea

LMAO! The birds are a great touch!

Atleast it's outside... my awesome mutt still goes in the house... once in awhile!

funny like the birds --- check the masking of the "Dog Water"

Edit == now corrected should have explained clearly sorry

A great way to use the source. Would be more 'your own' if you did not just cover up the reference material, but just used it really as a reference to create your flower. Even the green and purple portions could be made from the source by using color changes (hue/saturation) .

Add SBS

awesome

Nice work author! I will have to double check your sources... I think I know these girls... I may owe one child support... lol....

Keep up the great work!

nice blend author...good luck

Seriously, not much use of the source here. I don't need to go to your SBS to see where you used it.

This isn't CBR'd. It's minimal use and you COULD have used more of the source.

It's hard to deny the author's observation that "I've seen a LOT worse!" Nevertheless, this still seems rather slight. Making the text a lot more prominent, and perhaps more of an advertising message instead of just a label, might help.

like the font. good luck Author

Open pic in Photoshop........ press Image/adjustments./exposure and play around to make the light look more natural.
Maybe desaturate it a touch too
Image/adjustments/hue-saturation.

I don't get it...except for being lighter, the leaf is the same as in the source pic.

my point still is, you can't really SEE the source being used. i mean, i HAD to look at the 9 step sbs just to see if you'd tried to use the source in any other way.

Don't take all of this the wrong way, its just, there are SOOOO many entries in different contests in which the source is minimal, or...barely seen at all. I was just trying to be helpful in suggesting using it in a way which people could see without having to look through 9 steps on how to make a leafy text.

...and a 9 step sbs to show it.
i think you could have made the source more relevant to the piece. such as making a background for the hand to be over instead of the original sources background. would have brought more attention to the source image of the contest.

You only used the source in the text?

I have to agree with Lamantine!

Very CBR.

Nice idea but you need to adjust the exposure

great idea i like it ! g l

Interesting idea, but shadows on the wearer's neck would make it seem more realistic.

IMHO this would improve by replacing the "stones" with a pic of turquoise or something...

Congrats!!

Congrats!

Congrats...

Congrats

Congrats! for 3rd

Congrats, Diane! Nice...

Congrats for your third place, Disco!

shadows need some work