very powerful, good luck!

Speaking and biting eyes? LOL Nice work!

Not too shabby. Nice work.

wow! this is a wonderful idea, though i always find such images very scary and creepy))) good luck!

This is looking great. I agree that the shadow of the man needs to be darker. Overall a nice creepy image. Love the description.

For some reason reminds me a bit of Donnie Darko . Perhaps I'd make the guy's shadow a tiny bit darker and give the suite a little bit of yellow photofilter. If you want you can give the guy a tiny blur (you can experiment easier with it if you make a smart object from the head and body) and also add a layer (with blending overlay) with some tiny grain noise, so it fits better with the quality of the background photo. Good luck!

EDIT: good improvement imo

nice work
gl author

Congrats!!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congratulations

Congrats for your third place

She looks like a porcelain doll - you just went too far with it, author, tho you have the right idea. The trick is to leave some pores there, and soften her skin overall. Nice lip shape, tho.

Hope I won't met such a guy in our local wood LOL

great idea , good luck!

You did a great job... just need to make it a lil more realistic,,and since we could not use other skin it was hard

U did good work author but she looks more like wax figure...try to add some skin texture here to achieve more natural look...best of luck

Top entry author...great unique idea and very good execution...best of luck

Great blend and good thinking.

Awesome!!! LOL

great job

lol!!! super idea!!!!

very nice blending,....good idea,....!

Nice blending, GL

what about trying to take a small portion of one of the less wrinkled parts of her face (maybe nose) and use that as a pattern for some texture in her face? Or just painstakingly put millions of tiny dots on her face for pores. lol

Its a very good effort, however there would be more shaping shadows in the face as well as the texture of the skin.
Shadows to define the mouth - for instance:- the curve below the bottom lip and dimples under the nose that shape the top lip. As one ages the muscles soften and drop the fine edges of a structure and if there are false teeth they push the top lip out and straighten it. The Older face actually has higher cheek bones than you have given credit for and there would be deeper hollows over and a slight shadow under the eyes . Cartilage grows all of ones life so the nose may well have been shorter and slightly turned up at the end.

Good work. I will come back and vote later.

Yes I agree! And for some reason I would like someone to change clothes and/or generation look of the picture, but this one is right on theme!

Edit: I would love to see a: 70's, 80's, and then like 2011 look? Maybe even a photoAlbum theme!?

I would put some texture/pores into her skin.

Looks good, especially the bubbles. I'm gonna try out that technique!

I like this entry a lot author...nice imagination. I have one small suggestion that might make a big difference. Perhaps try and lighten the right side of each 'city' and slightly darken the left. This will further help validate that bright light source on the right that creates a highlight on each sphere.

Very cool...love the idea that both of them are smiling...gl

That baby is just ADORABLE! The woman's cheeks look nice. I just don't like her teeth and eyes. But the baby gets high marks from me!

Adorable!!

Very sweet!

Red tomato face looks flat, since this isnt a very original concept there are lots of tutorials to show you how it should be done, hope this helps.

http://jengrantmorris.blogspot.com/2007/10/fruit-faces-tutorial.html

Good luck

I see you've changed her face. I like this one much better! She relates much better to the baby. Cute idea nicely done! (Just one tiny nit pick, there's some edges showing on the right and lower right side.)

The light intensity on the plant and kid face is different. You should add some highlights on the baby's cheek and nose (with some bright green or pale yellow) to get rid of this. good luck

The dimensionality of the baby head really works, but the "mom head" needs to have the same quality...right now she looks like an inflated balloon. Suggestion would be to do some dodge/burn on her, or shading & highlights on adjustment layers. GL author.

Must have been one of those shadowless days, the sign (which is too sharp for the image) seems to have a roaming R which is managing to hang over the lip of the frame despite the sign being obviously set back in the frame. GL though

Been there, Done that! Great job!

Your main problem IMO is that the frame is all one color, the main surfer has an orange sunset glow on his back so that same light will cast a slight burned shadow at the back of the sign (on the sand) and an orange to black gradient overlay at very low opacity on the sign will give it more realism. Hope that helps.

Interesting that so many members chose to whine about the source and not the final image. Everyone would have praised this piece if they hadn't known what the source was. Hypocrites.

Im loving those rabbits

You can try duplicating the sign author and just distorting it so it look 3d... wish I could help, but its not something ive done yet. Otherwise try adding some noise and a bit of an off white colour to the poles... Better yet the chances of it having some rust on it from being close to salt water

Other than that, its funny

GL!

Sorry this didn't get a higher place, i definately voted it to win

hmmmm...maybe instead of white frame u could use some a bit rusty metal texture and create frame with that....if u do that u have to create shadow in frame too...also would be cool to create some detaching parts on the surfer poster to achieve casual look...this is just and idea author...GL

Fantastic idea author...super cool thinking...IMHO u should work a bit more on a sign to give more realism there...everything else is well made...best of luck

Bummers can be funny. I like the idea. The sign does not look right, no dimension to it.

It will be always nice to see your work... do not be disappointed I learned a lot from your entry.... Thanks.

Congratulations in advance this is great art. You are a winner.