Better now, but check the lines in the clouds and the horizon. Looks like you changed the girl, too...she has extra hair.

Moon should be round & has white edges. It should be above the horizon. There are several vertical lines at left in the clouds.

Add a black and white Gradient Map adjustment layer, then set the layer mode to luminosity to kill some of the haziness of your image. Good luck!

Nice mood and colors

Yes, this one is much better...... good luck!

This one looks better, maybe take care of the hut illumination, because of the light direction it should be darker! GL

Author, you can still "redo" your entry. You have some nice pics in the page you selected, just be careful when blending the horizon. It does not have to be that dark, usually darker colors go to the foreground, and more faded colors go to the background. Here in this entry, you put the horizon line too dark and overlapping the tree, it does not look good. Like I tell you, you can still do something nice with the pics you have. Mi advice: look into the work of others and you will get some fresh ideas, or read tuts like bjaockx says!

The people look huge compared to the palm trees on the left. Maybe make the palm trees larger or the people smaller. Good luck author.

I am a fan of your ideas and compositions, however i have found that your images feel half hearted and seem thrown together and rushed. There are many mistakes that i saw in the small image, and in the hires, i saw even more. I think you have progressed over the time you have been on PXL, but keep on practicing and read and do tutorials. they help out on the basics as well as teaching you some awesome tricks! Good Luck!

while i think you have created a nice scene, i agree with rusvelt. There are masking issues on the palm trees, and on the "island". i never suggest using a wand to mask out your objects. the pen tool is the most precise tool to use. yes it takes some time, and your eyes start to hurt, but when it's done the lines are clean and perfect. there are many tutorials around about proper masking. good luck and have fun!

The background hills look like they're in front of the tree.

Beautiful scene, very relaxing.

IMO, the island (or land) on the rights seems like is floating upon the waves and the tones are not correct. Besides, the palms on the left are too tiny and blurred, whilst the island should be out of focus, according to sea. Finally, there is no high-res to see more details. I think that with some adjustment it could be better!

Lack of creativity in this

IMHO, adding a shadow under the girl and a texture on the whole image would have make it blend better. Besides, because of the long exposure on the water (as you can see it seems like silk), the reflection of the girl should be a little more out of focus. Finally, take more attention during selection, in high-res is easy to see transparency on the girl's nose. However, I like the composing and the sources used. Wish you luck.

good work

Also, the boat on the background could be blended better to result more realistic. By the way, nice composition. Good luck Author

There's a blur near where the hands touch the leg that could be cleaned up and the boat on the right isn't masked completely. Overall image is nice.

Looks great now! GL author.

Light on the boat is from the right. Light on the model is from the left. Paying attention to things like this can really improve an image. It's not too late to make improvements to what otherwise would be a very good image. Good masking on the model except for the foot.

I would add more contrast on the ground close to the throne.

The concept and the composing of the image is very nice, but some things are wrong.First, low the contrast of the moon adding some blur on it. Moreover I think there's too much light on the girl and on the track she's running on, thinking about the moon should be the only source of light she should not be so shiny. Things will change if a car is behind her! Sincerely, i would modify a lot of things, but I don't know where to start from.

The woman fits better. Maybe use the burn tool to give her a cast shadow and also darken the left side of her body since the light source is coming from the top right. When you are making the cast shadow keep in mind where the light source is coming from. Keep working on it and you'll have a cleaner image. Good luck!

It a nice entry, I see were you going with this, if your going to re-edit the image, don't forget to put the moon behind the clouds. Cause the moon is in space, not in the atmosphere.

I think the dark shadow from the hill to the ground needs to be more gradual/subtle. AS it sits now, I think it's too powerful and takes away from the image. I also agree with spaceranger's comments. Good luck. I will hold my vote in case you decide to make changes.

Mask work of the woman is too sharp and angular as though you used the polygonal lasso. There are several tint shape layers on the figure which make no sense as though they are off register. The straight right side of the tree where the image ends makes it obvious it's pasted on, you could fix that with some careful cloning, the tree shouldn't be so sharp either it should match the softness of the rest of the image at that distance. The moon should be softer as well. I think you could improve your entry if you would work on these basic problems.

I agree, the grass on the foreground should be before the fairy toes, and the shadows are not proper, it seems like she's floating. The use of dodge and burn would have made the 3 dimensional effect looks better, moreover, more depth of field is needed. By the way, the composition is good, maybe there's too much saturation, but plenty of people love color explosions, so it's just my opinion.

The figure needs some fixing on the edges, white lines and some over erasing near the wings. You've given a drop shadow shifted to the right that wouldn't be there. Figure is lighted from upper right so shadow would be beneath and to the left. The blades of grass are in the foreground and they would be over the figure. Mask work is essential to a good chop, many use the pen tool for this but however you prefer doing it you should use layer mask for this. Layer mask allows you to restore edges you cut into by mistake so you can go back and forth to tweak the silo. Study the shadows in the model source photo as a guide to creating your shadows. The overall look is good, the devil is in the details.

Edit: I see you've changed things, you reversed the girl but now you have angular knife sharp edges.

i like how you made the grass and trees a smaller land line cute image author, goodluck

very cute author, the only thing i would suggest is watching your cutting and your lighting. Theres a few sharp edges on the mushrooms near the baby and a bit of the original photo left on your two girls. But thats the easiest thing to learn well done and goodluck i like it

Strange...I tried them twice before commenting...they work just fine now. GL author.

Links 1 & 3 don't work.

nice idea, however she look very dry considering how hard the rain is coming down

This is much better IMO. I like how the cool green/blue/neutral palette of all the background elements makes the warm orange/yellow fish stand out more. I also think the title revision with the new exterior view that's under water creates a more coherent story (or tale, if you will ).

I really like the color scheme of this image. Very pleasing. Nice job!

This is much better than the previous one.

I agree with DanLundberg on the wallpaper. The color/pattern of the wallpaper is taking the focus away from the fish. Its completely up to you if you wanna keep it as it is.

liked it more when the hairs were blue. But still beautyfull

It would be cool to put your changes you have made since submitting in your sbs so we can see your wonderful progress.

I like it very much!! there is a nice contrast between the model (with orange tones) and the fish (with cold tones), nice artwork!

Very intriguing in its flatness and its juxtaposition of the terrestrial with the aquatic, but I don't think this meets the theme requirement that fish be the focal point. Moving the middle fish to the right over her face more and amping up the saturation of all three fish might shift her to the background (which shift could be accentuated by blurring her some). A young woman looking into her aquarium would seem to fit your title.

Dramatic but overwhelming because I don't know what I should be focusing on. And I don't get why the green fish is in a bubble (which I would think would distort the view of the background more)..

Surrealism is a good approach for this theme. I'm not sure what tale the fish is telling, however. IMO eliminating the distracting wallpaper so the windows and baseboard are just suspended in space would be more surrealistic and would give a lot more attention to your dramatic background photo (which has erroneous lightning reflections in the water but those should not be visible here). I think the fish that is supposed to be the focus would then stand out a lot more. Even if the window pair were centered, I would consider deleting the right one and moving the left one so it's centered on the Rule of Thirds' left vertical line. The table and chair have different perspectives than the floor. The scale of the chair is odd given that it's in front (not way behind) the table. Nothing seems to be casting shadows. [Surrealistic does not mean totally unrealistic.]

That is 100% better author, as for email, we are all here to learn but at same time this is a contest site goodluck with your works

Every time I come back she gets better and better

nice job on the improvements -- looks very nice --good luck

if you take your smudge tool, drop the strength to 30 and have a soft edge brush...it would blend the blue makeup nicely. I like the cahanges you have made, much softer.

like the idea.

Masking of the fish needs some work as there are bit and pieces of the background showing (I assume you are not using the eraser to to cut out the fish) And the makeup around the eyes look a bit stuck on. Try a different blending mode for the layer with the makeup and maybe a bit more work could go into drawing the layer a well as they do not really match

The fish are not very noticable on the grey hair. Im also not sure if the grey hair is meant to be a sharp cut or if all hair was meant to be grey?

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