The face is too blurry, while the tattoo is razor sharp. Also, the chin area looks weird, like it has a triangular coffee stain on it.

It is too dark directly under that lamppost. You can barely see what is there. The whole purpose of a lit lamppost is to illuminate, not be like a poor flashlight.

The lighting is inconsistent, it is too obvious that you flipped the image.

Beautiful and delicate shading. The values on this piece are simply superb. Extremely well done!

The edges of the face are too hard and "cut out" looking, and the highlights on the face do not match the lighting of the baby image.
Fun concept, but the face just doesn't blend with the baby very well.

Really nice 3d work, but the shadow on the left is way too dark. Ambient lighting as well as water reflections wouldn't have that cute boat dropping off into such darkness. Lighten it up a bit, and you have a great image!

The boat is awful blurry in comparison to the background.

Really nice work!!!

Beautiful ship, but it looks like it is floating above the entire background, not sitting in the water. Part of this is due to the way the water is illuminated.

Too dark. It's hard to tell what's really going on, or where your visual focal point is.

Too dark for all those lit light bulbs. The light doesn't even extend past the carton...

Too dark at the bottom, but a very creative entry.

I doubt there's chrome on the old rowboat.
More likely it's iron...Which would look weathered...

Skill level has little to do with the ability to see...
You needn't "worry" about ANY comments, it's whether you can learn to see and improve from other opinions that is the purpose of comments...

It's only the petty minded (and "insane" that feel they have to insult others for voicing their opinions...

I thought 50's horror movie, too!

Looks sleek and fast, nice job!

Some very nice technique, but it seems a bit "flat," compositionally. Too symmetrical, with too much negative space at the top. Perhaps crop the top down a bit, move the eggs closer so they are more interactive, and maybe even rotate one over onto it's side.

As is, everything is so separated from everything else, it is too static.
Beautiful technique, though!

A bit inconsistent in values, I'd like to see the shadows behind the hair darker, and the facial features of the creatures more even across the board, but I really like the concept and overall composition!

Now it looks even weirder, with the angled tip and the white sides...It just doesn't look like a finger hardly at all now.

Must be a real drag trying to find socks to fit...

It's nice, but more suited to the drawing section than Photoshop, to my eyes. Your "subject" is not the source image, and the majority of your image is painted, not photoshopped. Had you used source images for the lion and the person, it would be a chopped image. This is more a painting with a wee bit of the source image added as accent...

Mixed manipulations would even be a better category for this type of work.

Very pretty, but the highlights on the fairy are too high contrast for the rest of the image, especially her leg, which also has a weird blue spon on her ankle.

The top of the planet on the RH side is too black and dark, and the very bottom is too dark, and just "wasted" space. It would help your overall composition to just crop the bottom off a bit.

The flower is beautiful, but the "wrinkled paper" background and oddly shaped lily pad at the bottom are distracting. it is also a bit too yellow, the stem and "pad" should be greener.

The swollen finger is too angular and artificial looking, although the concept is a good one.

A better crop of the background, or perhaps a " 3 days without an accident" sign in the upper RH corner would help pull the image together better...

Great parody, but too much text.
Less is more...

Nice, but your sources are too inconsistent in focus. The boat is too light and fuzzy looking, and the water on the right does not visually "jive with the rest of the image, because the pier visually divides the transition.

I would also rework the clouds, as they contribute to the odd "division" of the image. It looks like two halves of images joined near the center, with the pier trying to cover the seam...

Also the sign is skewed at a very strange angle. You would have to be walking at a 45 degree down the pier to see it...

Your proportions and blending are very good, it's just the compositional inconsistencies that are hurting you.

Hahahaha! Very amusing description. Nice job.

Pretty, but too CBR.
EDIT: "CBR" = Chopped Beyond Recognition. It's when you create a "jigsaw puzzle image by deconstructing the source image so badly that you could have used any image of anything to create with, because the original source is no longer visibly identifiable within the chop.

Warping, recoloring, and adding to an image is one thing. Chopping into such "mystery meat" shapes minimizes it's use in the final image. While it's allowed, (In the opinion of some), it's not the best example of one's chopping skills.

Really nice blending and colors. You improve with every piece you enter!

LOL! VERY creative, good job!

Awesome SBS, but the coffee grounds are so dark, they are very hard to make out, and the tree leaves look black.

Excellent work, very good technique!

Really well done, it looks like a photo!

A bit too dark, all I can *barely* make out is the top of the skull and eye sockets.

Beautiful starscape, but the bottom is too dark.

Extra points for the consistent lighting! Good on ya,for not making it so damn dark you can't make out what you're looking at! Really nice job on the side of her waist. Great work!

Very cute, but agree that the image is too spread out, with too much negative space.

Can't make out the supplied source image....
EDIT: Thanks, Woz, yeah, an SBS would have helped.

Great title! Would have been better represented with a bit more snow/frost/ice elsehwhere in the image, and less inky blackness at the bottom, but it's a very creative concept.

The neck area looks kind of wonky - The really dark shape beneath the head makes it look like the head is floating, and it doesn't look at all like a shadow...Nice job on the background!

The lilies would not be so brightly illuminated in the night...
Also, the moon positioned dead center and behind them emphasizes the unrealistic lighting...I'd suggest eliminating it, and just titling this "Lilies..."

The lighting on the lower RH corner is inconsistent and unrealistic. The figure would be more visible, while the highlight on the hat and face would not be so bright. There would be no glow on the top of the hat, rather there would be a consistent backlight glow around the entire body.

The light from the standing figure does not correspond to the light at his feet, nor especially to the light behind him. It is as if there is a street light mounted on the building behind him, and he's holding a flashlight while standing beneath it.

It's a nice image, but the day to night lighting concept needs much more consideration...

The sky is too desaturated. It should have some blue to it, rather than just B&W.

He looks like he's falling more than flying...Maybe that's why there's a warning sign... Love the goggles!

Interesting, but too dark. It looks like he is wearing giant weird shoes, because it's so dark you cant see the boat... :s

Sky light (ambient lighting) illuminates everything, not just your subject...

This is lovely! It would be better with some sort of background besides solid black, though...
Never the less, awesome work here!

Really beautiful book!
But I'd bring up the lighting on the LH side, it's too dark and does not accurately reflect the lighting above the book on the table. The light will illuminate the entire surface, not just the book.

The light in the upper RH corner does not match the highlights on the skin, I'd suggest losing it, and I would tone down the neck lighting to match the rest of the body, but overall a nice job!

Well done, VERY convincing!