bit confused with the whole provide a SBS thing if you dont use a source image, surely it applies if you do provide a source image?

Brilliant!

Brilliant!

Like this! reason? It looks like a stage, the backdrop appears almost painted on cloth, the two figures on a stage.!

Its very nicely put together but I like to vote higher for fresh ideas. Great job but i have to concur with CMYK46

Congrats.! imho it doesnt work very in black and white as a letter head though. Thats the sign of good logo. Well done for wining.

It would be awesome if you could add some ground displacement, they sure look heavy and would make an impact or a groove so something! Id be totally convinced then!

A suitable comment to put underneath your image on the wall.

The Plastic Bag.

Years have past and now it grows,
Flourishing where blooms are grey,
Brightening up the hedge rows,
Now seeded and there to stay.

Lasting out the weathers rigour,
In yellows and blues and greens,
Multiplying with utmost vigour,
There's no stopping it, it seems.

Man caused this menace of eruption,
So man can stop its reign,
By preventing its production,
And taking all the blame.

Author - Neil Rhodes Nov 1991

I have to agree with Lamantine!

My comment would be the same as above, double check the original light source, soft and diffused. Thats how all the other components need to be lit, soft shadows and soft highlights.

Great job. Where you have removed the back wheel there is a distinct semi circular mark in the clouds. Perhaps the natural pattern of the clouds could be followed over this mark, to give those high slow moving clouds the natural look they deserve.

Great but as above you could just try the matting controls, use the "layer" / "matting" from the top drop down menus and remove white matt or defringe to get rid of them, Then quick select and feather those edages slightly.

Good start. For yourself then the lights at the end of the walkway wouldnt need to be smaller and in keeping with the perspective? just for yourself mind

Its good the way it looks like it is made from cardbaord!

Hey thanks for picking my tutorial!

You do not show the source for the water stain? or ink stain?

For originality it gets my vote!

Excellent well done, not sure how that shadow slipped past our vigilant voters!

The cutting out and merging the two images is very good, but the depth of field in the blood photo doesnt match the bug and would mean that the bug would be way out of focus.

Awsome bug!

of the text on signs images, this has been well done, the text sits well on the signs as if part of them. Unlike the rest of the entires! Voters will still be looking for something more original though.

I like this, its the nut hut!

Very good, You seem to have a put a lot of effort into the sea floor (which i liked) at the beginning of your SBS and i dont see it anywhere, how come?

The colour on the lips seems to have slipped down here face, looks good from a distance!

That its very good but perhpas not as dramatic as it first seems.

Also has have a tip for you. Cutting or masking the selection should be based on the sharpness of the image. By this I mean how sharp or how much in focus the image is. For example if you blow up an image to 200-300% and see how far the pixels merge or overlap between to objects. It may be in a high resolution image this is only 1 pixel but in a lower resolution or scan of an old photograph with large grain, it may be 3 or 4. It is this “focus” that your image selection should be based on.

Just a suggestion, but the word "think", may stand out more if you add some innner, or drop shadow to the letters, so they look like thay have been cut into the hair more.

its good but when I flip the bits and reposition on speparate layers, they all fit together realy easilly, with a slight rebuild on the mans leg.

Great theatrical makeup!

very good!! but there are still faded crack lines visable, and even one has appeared on the chin that was not there to start with.

looks ok

The left side is great, the right side still needs a little work, but the overhall look is very good.

Yep it is good, I did one of these, thing is you dont feel like then embarking on doing anything futher creative with it, which is where the community think, na, he aint done much, "just removed some stuff" I was the first to clean up "flower girl" but had my entry pulled as there was not much of an SBS. But technically it was better than everyone elses smoothed over, fuzzy, stylized junk, good job CMYK!

The girl also needs anchoring to the ground she seems to be floating, IMHO

Very good, I not sure about the black glow around the girls head and the strangly pin sharp birds in the background when everything else is soft focus. If the figures are casting such strong shadows their faces would be almost black

Very good, im struggling with the lighting though down his left side, seems very uneven and leaves me wondering just where the sun is in relation to him and the fence. If he has his arm with the straw in it towards us, wouldnt his fore arm and poissibly eblow be failry well let by the sun?

Cute but cant really make out the source

The high res shows stars shwoing through the walls of the tunnel? Great job though

I like it. Its not a angel or a man with wings so it gets my vote, avoid the cliché'

Not sure about the wet look of the wood, wouldn't it be dry in the desert?

i am right there with CMYK, good idea but needs a little work as far as the wings go, you could try the scal and distort / warp tools or even perspective to try to move the back a little

if there is only one entry you are sure to win!

At a guess i'd say there is an angel at the white gates?

Floats my boat!

I saw that little X man a couple on entries lower, he sure gets around, love the colour!

Awesome! on the hi res there is a small atefeact, possibly you meant to delete it top right, next to the roof.