You can see the straight finish of the eye source. See if you can fade that out author.

mmmm... good job..

this will be an awe entry if you work on the arms... reffer any hands and work on it.. Now i am holding my vote... and good luck to you

I agree..........the assemblt below looks good, but the bars block the best view of it.

How is Salt a bad omen?

I would try to improve the arms.

The blurry bars in the foreground are distracting and dtract from the overall image

I agree - the subject is hard to distinguish andloses its brillance amongst the 'rubble'

Out of focus. Good idea, poorly executed.

I think a better focus on the salt grains up front would be better than the back. Right now most of the image is out of focus. I'll hold my vote.

Don't forget the sharp line by the lowest lip!! ; )

Please post apple source. That's a pretty gigantic apple compared to the dogs...

Your getting better! Got into the top six this time.

Strange...

What was he smoking before he started meditation...........?? Good luck to you!

Shadows are still wrong. I would suggest a subject where the shadows are not there and you can add them yourself.

Shadow that was under nose is still there. No shadow under nose.

Nice work but I do agree with the masking suggestions that others have made. Would make a good idea an excellent entry. Good luck to you

Would be nice if the head blended into the neck. Idea is good but perhaps you need a different source. A bald head would be good and would blend nicely. Good luck

You didnt completely remove the eyebrow, there is a smudge, try use the patch tool to remove it.

Needs a shadow under the nose...

Uh...looks so...disturbing - but good idea and nice done.

agrees with edges.

some bad cloning work around the head too.......

flip the head horizontally and like alan said, work on matching the shadows

too much surrounding area, and the highlights top right are blown. good effort.

the stone is lost in the chippings

Just tuning the head is not quite enough-- now the shadows don;t match the lighting

For tilted pots, some flowers are stuck on them!

I agree with Jello...

Crazy idea...good luck author

the dirt actually looks like an oasis ( a piece of foam soaked in water used in floral arrangements and bouquets and fake flower arrangements) are they fake flowers??

masking fo the flowers needs some work to get rid of the white on the edges of the leaves and between the petals.

Could use a bit of work to clean the masking of the flowers and the rear most flower should be blurred to match the teapot

Better -- tail and stem still could be tter and maybe some blurring of the edges of the dog just to soften the transition. I find blurring the jpeg is sometimes easier than doing it in the PSD file

Someones got some cleaning up to do :P hehe nice entry. Love the colors

Hehe cute one I think you could fix the dirt a bit more, unless you like it like that but it's a simple fix you can just use the warp perspective on the dirt and put the 2 top ends down to match the cup curve. If I make any sense lol. It's just to sharp to look piled up.

Very nice colours, the stems need some work mostly on the near left vase.

And who put flowers in your tea..?

unusal image -- maybe send a bit of time on the blending of the tails and stems also the masking of the dogs -- the area under the belly should not be there it is background form the orignal image

very nice

nice effort, though I agree with kyricom, I would not have recognised this as an amethyst if you hadn't said....

agrees with Kyricom

this is good..

cooll.. I assume that a lot of effort was put in to get the lighting..

Might crop it a little closer, and the lighting fades the typical deep purple of an amethyst. I like the shadow and reflection through it, though. Nice job

OOOOOOOOO, it's blue. Lovely. Wish it would be closer.

Excellent detail in high res, good luck!

Image seems a little soft