reminds me of the glacial lakes we had in Wisconsin.. only the size of a basket ball court but the middle was over a hundred feet deep (the glaciers used to pull giant stones out of the ground .. melt and leave their water behind in sockets like this.. awesome imagination author.. good luck

awesome humor author.. good luck

hehehe.. clever idea author.. good luck!!!!

Floaty Happiness!!!

this is so very sweet.. GOOD LUCK author

I think my brother had one of these when I was a KID.. he always said he spent his first year of college money on it.. and then totaled it LOL.. great job.. very fun car!!!

nifty image!

that would be 19, if you count the whole cube it would be 20

looks like you pulled the background straight out of the movie Halloween, when the girls are walking home from school, and Michael is hiding in the sheets of the clothes line.. EEEEKKKK.. just scared myself... YIKES.. good luck

9+9+9... minus 1 (the center cube technically doesn't exist, it's a gear that all the other cubes ride over) so 26

Unless you want to say each cube is an 8.. (your additional indentions give existence to them) so that would be 8X26... 206 (216 if you count the center cube)

hehehe.. very nice work

lazy! (giggle snort).. heheheh.. smooches my baby.. INSTANT FAV.. (next time be just a bit more creative... hehehehehehe) as I bow before the master.. (you really are a panda bear in the universe of cute creations.. hehehehe)

(neck joint is AWESOME!!!!!)

very mandala

such a numerical creature you be.. hehehe.. very nice work author.. wonderful feel and creation

Spaceranger agreement

love the inner disk

IT's BAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!

Yippee.. I wonder where it went.. so happy.. good luck author.. beautiful image

kind of weird.. this really doesn't belong in a exercise of photo manipulation.. but a statement in the power of universal humanity... we will never meet my dear... but I will hold you in my heart.. so when you see the moon.. and I, in my part of the world, looking at the same moon.. are one, fate is the only thing that separates us.. wonderful source discovery... (I doubt this beautiful soul and I will ever play cards.. but wouldn't it be great?!?!?! super great job!!)

very moving

AWESOME!!!! (ICKY TOO)

VERY CRISPY!!! AWESOME!!! good luck

SO PRETTY!!!

WOOO HOOO A ZOOM ZOOM

nicely done, love the BACKGROUND!!!

super duper job!!!

HOW SWEET!!! good luck (very fun image)

FANTASTIC!!!!

Smudge is a tricky little monster... much improved.. it does take practice.. good LUCK!!!

SWEET!!!

if this was any sweeter, they'd have to write a law against it.. OY (very good job)

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!

Author, if you turn the image vertically you can load incredibly LONG Images (Just make sure you stay in the 5mb limit, (in most Photo programs you will be able to VIEW ACTUAL PIXELS and this will tell you when you reach the size you want for high res WITHOUT losing Resolution)

Remember, Web Pages run vertical forever, but have limits horizontal.. GOOD LUCK (super nice image BTW!!!)

great job thinning her torso, You may want to duplicate the edge of where her hair meets the edge of her skin from the orignal picture to reduce the sharp contrast, (you and always blur the tight spaces with a super tiny brush...(but these type of manipulations are always very difficult when you get to the edges..(Sometimes drawing your own hair on a separate palate with the smudge tool (Much easier to work with in a separate area as not to fight with the size of the original picture) and lay over into the work you have already done can help

(Hi res always shows the nit pics) but I can tell the print version would be excellent.. GOOD LUCK!!!! (and as always IMHO)

WONDERFULLY DONE!!! (the henna hair is AWESOME)

Author, you chose one of the most difficult images to create shadows for... especially when you use photos from a source site where each picture is taken by a different individual, in a different frame of light at all different exposures and facings..(You did a very excellent job blending in the water in the back ground..

you also need to understand that a child sitting on a swing would be the WHOLE shadow and the shadow from the swing itself would blend into the child's shadow as well.. (gaussian blur works great to get rid of the sharp edges and you have much more control over a duplicated darken copy of an image then you do over a global light drop shadow) (sometimes cloning out all the shadows at the beginning is a big help, (also dodging all the shadows of your subjects can give you a blank slate to work with) but there will always be strange angles of light (especially when there is water (light reflector) clouds (light benders and shadow casters on their own right) even the brightness of clothing can cause shadows to go wonky..

There are several tutorials you can follow to hone your skills, but I commend you for this attempt, and always remember we all start somewhere .. now I'm off like a prom dress.. GOOD LUCK!!!

Lots of fun in this image, LOVE the Magnifying glass

Very Cute

very well done twisted humor

love the haunting feel.. good luck!!

hehehehehe.. silly author.. LOL.. well done in a very pure aspect.. love the hair you created... hard work.. good luck

what a WONDERFUL CREATION.. without hitting copyright.. you should be very proud author.. your creation has fantastic structure/balance and lovely coloring... I saw the Vituvian Model instantly... (IMHO) the only improvement is to make more entries.. giggle snort

Your child like coloring is fantastic!!! it reminds me of early animation.. as much as I love Haley.. do try to create your own characters so you can own them.. (I can see you already have a knack.. so why not go for it.. hehehehe)

Wonderful work, and great Idea.. way to think outside the box.. WOO HOO and another giggle snort for good measure.. keep up the good creative work

thin the strings author... you got something great here.. only need a tad bit of improvement... (google MACY's DAY PARADE BALLOONS to get an idea of the thinness needed to create the proper idea)

Great idea ... can only get better

it may be my eyes.. but the string is confusing the image.. to me it looks like the dog is far far away, floating over the water... but the string reels it in and makes it seem like we should think the dog balloon is sitting right next to the human subject.. and it doesn't work.. if you made the string's perspective running out to the water... a very difficult proposition but it can be achieved...(lots of shear for wiggle and perspective for dof) I just feel like the dog is chasing the birdies but the string/leash doesn't look right..

sorry.. it's a great image, but it's visually confusing.. if you describe what you were trying to achieve I think that will help.. good LUCK!! and great job

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

great idea.. disturbing as all hell, but still a very great result (heebie Jeebies!) really is a thing that makes you hmmmmmm?

very believable good luck author

really love the dome effect you created,,, the groves are marvelous

right on target!

happy dance

the best part of this image is how it makes one shiver ( I can almost see my breath)

nice brush usage

that's a lot of birdies!!! very fun image