extreme face stretch

For: displace filter contest

digital beauty treatment

I think she looks good without the retouch, too. but that's not the task here, so these are my steps: 1. skin retouch: healing brush and clone stamp 2. altering face shape: liquify filter 3. bigger eyes: liquify filter 4. mouth and cheeks: liquify filter 5. enhanced eyes: new layer with white b...

For: makeover contest

shaman

other sources for the landscape: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=977854 http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=977853 http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=1269173

For: angry birds contest

size illusion through perspective

which cat is bigger?or are they the same?

For: optical illusions 2 contest

cavalier of a summer night

shadows of the starting image were removed with the colne stamp tool changed into a night scene with adjustment layer (levels, colour balance,..) star made with my own custom brush couple light adjustments were mostly made with dodge and burn on a 50% gray layer set to screen mode

For: down the line contest

Kurt on vacation

Nightcrawler from the X-Men series main changes: skin colour: hue/saturation adjustment layer eyes: hard yellow brush, layer options: outer glow hands: clone tool, levels adjustment layers ear: smudge tool tail: drawing an arrow with the line tool, puppet wrap to bring it in form more muscl...

For: human to hero contest

love hurts

For: your own photo contest

fruity weather caprice

For: ko ps tournament contest

scream valley

For: old forest contest

vanishing in flight

@Lamantine: Original size of my manip is 3500 x 4950px, resolution 300dpi. I would suggest to place the cover text between the butterfly and the butterfly's shadow. The following is written on the media-militia website: "All of our resources are free for personal and commercial use."

For: the attic contest

modern witch transportation

see my own stock in the SBS...

For: leonardo contest

picture revival

All textures, except the old paper, are made with ps filters.

For: mixed media 15 contest

a rare Elbuholi

I used: head of an elephant wings of a butterfly body of a horse tail of a lion

For: four animals contest

fiery pumkin

Halloween is coming ..... and so I remembered a photo that I took long ago.

For: kaleidoscope contest

heart lights

a very minimalistic one

For: kaleidoscope contest

adoration of demeter

For: mosaic contest

ship, ahoy !

reduced to 6 colors

For: color depth contest

living everywhere

Thefeet are my own stock.

For: mixed media 3 contest

fishing in the sky

lots of cropping and blending and lots of adjustment layers...

For: impossible reality contest

Oh no, where's my van?

.....a well camouflaged car. Don't you think? I used the displacment map and the layer mode "darken" for the graffiti. I put some highlights on the man with the adjustment layer "exposure". I added shadows with a dark green soft brush and the layer mode "multiply"....

For: van graffiti contest

captured in the rosery

For: lamp contest

bikini beauty

version 2 ...... I made the head a little bit smaller.

For: wrong head contest

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I'm not 100% sure but I think my grandfather took this photo in the 1950s. Note: although it sometimes doesn't look like it, there are no grayscales in this photo anymore.

For: colorization 2 contest

fairies meeting point

It took me a while searching for the right pics and cropping them. I added some flowers to the foreground to make it more attractive. For the mystic light coming from the background, I made a new layer with a black and white gradient and blended it over the layer with the trees. I used a smooth scat...

For: yellow flowers contest