Author, please read the contest guidelines: Since no outside sources are allowed a step by step is required. That means posting your original photo.

Step one is the original.

Sorry thats just the way my camera took it. Sorry also that I didn't make fireworks but I like sutle changes with photos.

Looks like the orange truck is out of scale, otherwise everything else is great!

Very interesting image just a few things to clean up, just above the truck there is a corner of the barrel image, just to the right of the blue can there is a odd circle

Would be interesting to see 'high res'.

very nice feel

Thanks madamemonty for catching those. You have a goood eye. Also I put in the high resolution shot. Thanks also CMYK46 but don't think I am good enough to change the truck now.

another thing you could maybe fix is the orange colorcast on the water you don't have to remove it just desaturate it a litle it will make it fit with the whole stormy weather feel

You've still missed one corner of the barrel image, it's just above the tree line

floods stink....yeah yeah...floods stink -- your picture doesn't though

I tried what you said slayyou hope I got close thanks. I got it agin madamemonty. This will make me check more closely the next time thanks.

I like it, but some of the objects' colours don't match with the rest of the image, but i know it's too late to change. Good luck!

Congrats for your first place, Norman!

Congrats, really nice job

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats Norman!

Congrats!

Congrats!

congratulations on your win

looks like a good rebuild..........but you had an opportunity here to alter the lighting and shadows, so why didn't you?

Wow, but it needs some extra work

I'd add a vignette and bring up saturation a little bit since it's kinda washed out. Also, the coat of the boy on left is not very good. gl!

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.

so, what are you saying?

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

Thanks all for comments. I was not trying to be magical just was givening my self more of a challange than just color and removing specks.

ok, I see your point, but it is still a color conversion, and not a bad one at that.....

Did you actually tear this image into 4 pieces to make for more of a challenge? Just curious.

I wonder that too... I also wonder why did you show some teared parts upside down.... Looks more 'dramatic' that way... :P Well, if it was really teared like that before the restoration then you did a great job making it look like it wasn't. No sign of it at all

I took the parts that were scan for me by a source and worked with what I had

very nice

here is the source for this photo .
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-4304098-young-woman-with-rose.php

This photo was a contest image from PST, at the time it was from sxc.

very nicely done author..

Spooky, ghosts and bats are to come soon

Lovely work author! best of luck!