congrats on your 3rd place!

Congrats - great job!

Bigtime patience! I may have used a mask, tho, just in case tweaks were needed. Reminds me of this building: http://www.longaberger.com/homeOfficeHistory.aspx .

Amazingly creative chop, author! Love the creatures.

Great quote, fun chop! Love the blonde hair and eyelashes.

Love their head feathers, what a cute image. Makes you wonder if animals really play games.

Really cool montage.

Nice job on the tut, cool effect with the cat!

Duuuuuuuuuuuuude!!!!! Funny as........anything! Although, I think that leaving the 'most wanted' sign would be most appropriate! LMAO!!!
I noe hoo dat iz.

Nice work on spidey and hopper, love the landing lights on the antennae.

Hornet Unlimited Deployment - roger, fire at will!
Nice view from this cockpit, author.

LOL, those suckers are in my yard! or they were, I told them to head for the hills, guess they did - with your help, and ate some Wheaties along the way! Nice chop, author.

Very nice tribute, author.

Congrats!

Good blend and nice use of source, very appropriate!

Total wildness, author!

Quite an interesting technique - almost looks like he's starting to 'beam up'.

i agree with freejay, but really well done effect!

Great idea for this! Good work.

Wow, great job creating this character, good quote to go along with it.

Yup, decent job opening the shirt. Could use a tiny shadow under the cups - it looked fake on the original, too, tho. Funny chop!

Good advice - I would be very afraid of that new species!
Is that grouper Ulysses? Looks like a cousin of the one at the Seaquarium.

Great retouch!

Ghost filter?? LOL
Edward ScissorHands plays ball! Interesting creature.

What a conincidentally great name for the font. Very nicely put together, good use of techniques with source.

Excellent work and right on theme!

Nice work, good combination of images.

Beautiful creation, author!

Very cool fractal! Neat idea.

Beautiful! Agree wtih scratzilla1.

Gives new meaning to the phrase 'Will you join me in a cup of tea?'

Nicely done ad, and funny copywriting on the article!

Love it, they're adorable!

Although the bevel and emboss (and the triangle) in the sky above the arches doesn't really make sense to me, I do like the design between the arches - it adds a touch of eeriness to the nicely desaturated temple and rain effect.

So creative, love the little one being held onto by its mom (or dad?).

Very nice cleanup job, and I love the color intensification!

Bad virus or little mini disco balls! Looks very chemistry-like. Great design, author!

Great job on the craft - I got ta GIT me one o' these! Nice integration with the clouds, nice eerie sky.

Stealth 'roo - very interesting way you 'zipped' him open and made him a little bot.

Very cute, love those tailpipes!

Topsy-turvy op-room, very cute bots, reminds me of Wall-E!

Cool chop, interesting mast system!
(I'm old enough to remember what an E-ticket is, too.)

Nice idea, a shame that the pxl logo is so bitmapped around the edges, unless that was your intention. Otherwise, nicely displaced, and I do like the elements on the belt.

Where's the Dragan effect in this? Sorry, not seeing it even in hi-res. There are several tuts out there, though some are better than others. Many ways to achieve the contest effect, author.

Nicely done! Good use of additional elements, adds some interest.

Not much of an sbs when there's no commentary and just a single gif step.

EEEeeeeewwwwwww, get the spray! Any spray, whatever's handy. This Floridian hates them! So creative, tho, author, nice work!

Nice job, author, is there any explanation for how you achieved the effect?

Edit: Very nicely done, and good commentary in sbs. Sounds a lot like one of the tuts I found with all those merge downs!

This is beautiful work, author, and a different way to achieve the effect. Kudos.

I beg your pardon, MossyB, but a couple of the tutorials that I looked at certainly DO have options for changing the coloring, via variations. Anyway, ever hear of 'artistic license'??