Play your part

Woodgrain background has been colorized. Burnt music sheet was placed over background on soft light mode. Music sheet duplicated three times, colorized and warped into shapes. Source cello was cut into abstract pieces and arranged as seen. Each cello layer has a stoke effect and drop shadow. Bow w...

For: cello contest

Pied Piper

Extra sources: Ape. https://pxhere.com/da/photo/1092821 Tortoise. https://pixabay.com/en/turtle-tortoise-reptile-2815540/ Macaw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ara_ararauna_Luc_Viatour.jpg Bird1. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1053729 Bird2. http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Lake-Balaton-Bird-Na...

For: tutorial fun 2 contest

Asintmah

The Earth and Nature goddess.

For: badenixe contest

Crash Landing

For: aircraft contest

Down the Rabbit Hole

Extra sources: Smoke brush. https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/58094-free-smoke-photoshop-brushes Cyclone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Gafilo#/media/File:Gafilo_2004-03-06_0655Z.jpg Cyclone was distorted using twirl filter. The background is made from the checkerboard pattern and twirled ...

For: tutorial fun 2 contest

It's on the table.

House filtered with oil paint filter. Other items cut out, resized and placed on table using different blend modes and I changed a few colors.

For: random items 2 contest

Framed drawing

The pencil drawing effect was done by desaturating the picture, duplicating it, change the top layer to color dodge mode. Invert and blur the top layer about 6-10 pixels according to your liking. Merge the layers and adjust the levels to make the blacks darker. I also used the cross hatch brush str...

For: random items 2 contest

Ghosts and demons

Don't go near the bed or the evil spirits will get you.

For: scared at night contest

Hologram Phone

Future communication technology.

For: call me contest

Arachnophobia

It causes insomnia because you are fearful that giant spiders might decide to spin a web over the top of you if you go to sleep. Hiding your head under the pillow might help.

For: scared at night contest

Snail crossing.

Expect long delays. Image was created by cloning out the bus, adding the snail, adjusting colors and contrast, using some artistic photoshop filters and making a frame using "modify border" and some painting with the chalk brush.

For: supersized things 2 contest

Graffiti Wall

For: single eye contest

Scruffy

Cute furry cuddly bear named Scruffy. Made totally from source image. Please see SBS.

For: girl in fur contest

Church Domes

This was done using brightness/contrast adjustments, screen mode layers, curves, levels, color overlay for blue sky, lots of masking of various areas, some dodge and burn. I haven't made an SBS because I changed and deleted too many layers before I got an end result with which I was happy.

For: night to day contest

Watercolor portrait

The tutorial for this effect can be found on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRs6enx9DDE

For: girl in fur contest

Denim Dragon

For: sneaker contest

Chocolicious

Yummy chocolate frog delight.

For: frog prince contest

F is for frog

A blackboard drawing for young school children.

For: frog prince contest

Stork Ballet

The stork was cut out in sections and each section was rotated and transformed to fit the model pose. The wings were cut from sources 2 & 3 to make the wings that cover the arms. The merged image was copied and flipped vertically, then blended on multiply mode to create the reflection. Another m...

For: stork contest

Angry Bull Robot

Blowing steam from its nose and kicking up a bit of dust. Extra sources:....Cloud brushes... https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/2187-24-clouds Powder brushes... https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/58926-20-powder-ps-brushes-abr-vol-4 Smoke brushes... https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/57866-20-smoke-ps...

For: steampunk robots etc contest

Kill the Bee

Beware of dangerous giant bees.

For: giants contest

Water Ballet

Dancing on the water.

For: water drop contest

Colourful Teaset.

You are invited to a rainbow tea party. Bring rainbow coloured cakes.

For: rainbowfied 2 contest

Transformer

It transforms into a robot. The background was painted in photoshop. The robot is made from parts of the source image which have been cut, duplicated, transformed, warped and rotated in various directions.

For: sleeping giant contest