Heavens Gate

Well, this one took me quite a long time.. But it was quite simple to make.. I gave the stair a right side by copying and then transorming into shape.. I then took the gate and cut that out using the pen tool, did the same for the mountain. I put it all together and at the end added some clounds...

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Mermaid Cove

Model is my own stock by me. I want to thank ~sixwings over at Deviant Art for the beautiful source I used for the background and Gao Hul for the lovely blue beta fish that I created the mermaid's tail from.

For: water reflections contest

Flooded Room

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tiger taking a bath

With the pentool I've cut the tiger out. I've made a copy of the tiger and I've mirrored the image upside down and I've used liquify and then twirl. I've smoothen the edges of the tiger with the smudge tool. Thanks to mothdevil morguefile and MeiTeng sxc

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Lincoln taking a dip

cut paste transform blur erase . I used my own photos

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beer reflection

i have used ready free source pictures, some blur, a little liquify and everything else is in SBS.

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Smoke Bull

Except background only source image used. Please see SBS and I hope you like it :)

For: cigarette smoke contest

The Last Summoning

EDIT: Changed the sky...again (no source - render clouds, motion blur, color overlay, blending) and the lightning. Sorry for all the changes, but I had a hard time finding a clouds pic that I both liked and could use...so I made my own. Hope you like. Will try to update SBS when I get a chance&g...

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Bulb Explosion

Thanks to tome213

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Kamikaze Timer

An egg timer exploding itself when ready. Becomes a real boiled egg. No sources used.

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Oh nooo!

This is going really bad...

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Planet Explosion

Used some of tricks from following tutorials http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/create-a-realistic-space-scene-from-scratch-with-photoshop/ http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/drawing-techniques/planet-explosion.1162.html Thanks to manged.deviantart.com, wwworks and madmi...

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evil smoke ...smoking

all done with liquify, copying , cloning and pasting and using eraser. No outside sources used.

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Addiction...

Brushes: http://www.obsidiandawn.com/light-beams-photoshop-gimp-brushes - Thanks Obsidian Dawn http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/1772-Smoke-Set - thanks CreativeNerds http://cgtextures.com/login.php?&texid=11425&destination=texview.php?id=11425&PHPSESSID=cdf28845fc54aafbcb6f120aa123bca...

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Mr. & Mrs. Smoke

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Cigsmoke_art

Only source image used.

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The Lonely Stone

For: stone ear contest

Stone girl

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Toad

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Hear..Speak...See No Evil

At Wikipedia you can read about this very old carving of the famous 3 wise monkeys. I gave them stools for their 'throne room'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys Thanks to David Monniaux for the wonderful photo of this fabulous carved panel.

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Listen to Me

Thanks to mikebaird, racketrx, Marcus Ranum (http://www.ranum.com/), Nalia-Te-Agashoine and Philgarlic

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Whip It Good!

It took over 60 shots to get this one, but it paid off!

For: leather contest

I love you!!!

For: texture closeup contest

Play the game !

For: white contest