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HELP ME.. I think I'm falling.... in love again.. (my bad Joni Mitchel impression.. hehehe) great job author!!!!!

I really like how you included lots of traffic to show that the pavement art is fake. However, I think the pavement art misses the point. As Mr. Mueller states in the FAQ at the linked Website, "every anamorphic street painting only makes sense from one specific spot." And I would think that here that spot would be the driver's seat of the up-bound car just below the center of the image. Since we're flying well above that, we should see a distorted image. In any event, your canyon source image is not what one would see prior to driving off a cliff for that Thelma-and-Louise moment; it's the view of someone standing at the edge and looking down into the canyon.

I think i could fall here np. Good job Author

good idea.....

Nice!

something doesn't seem quite real enough about it for me to be scared driving on it....maybe the center crack needs to be darker? not sure

nice idea

Nice work and good luck!

Interesting concept. Blended very well.

great blend! but you didn't transform any pavement...just place people over lake.

Yeah.. that's all I did ricky.. no thought or work, unless you count taking time to drive to the golf course and finding a group of golfers all in the right balancing position and then proceeding to another part of the golf course to get the lake shot and thinking how I could blend them while driving to work... yeah.. I just placed them on the lake, no work involved (hehehe)

I think ricky777 is questioning relevance to theme, not what you accomplished -- although I do feel the shadows look rather fake (don't vary even though the poses do [see the shadows in your golfers photo]).

Nice blend.... but not exactly in the Edgar Mueller theme........ still like it...

different is good

good , blur edges on ape a bit and the apes could be blended with road better IMHO good luck

thanks. blurred it

nice....

Wait, why would the apes be blended with the road? I thought that the apes were on the road looking at the cave painted on the road. Like when you see people walking across the drawings and it looks like they should be falling in. If that's not what you meant, that's fine. I just think that it would make a better image.

he might be referring to the road on the upper part. it's yellowish in color so I tinted the ape w/ a little yellow light.

i was refer to upper part but i am new for this artists flair.
Big ape looks better so as always take everyones critique with a grain of salt and do what you like too you Author

Nice job!

GL

Good idea and it worked out nicely. Well done.

what a great technique you share in your sbs, thanks! I like that you took a current source to use for this, nice work.

nice work

Fantastic choice of image for the street considering the water already on the street! But I guess I'm stating the obvious!

Good imagination, nicely done!! GL

I think your blending still needs a lot of work

Yes, agreed. For starters, sharpen (not with the sharpen tool, but as in make flat) the edge of the drawing--not so feathered, or it looks too unreal. Also, the pelican is crosses out of the logical boundary for the chalk art so it would have to be real, not part of the drawing. If this is the case, then the pelican looks a bit cartoonish. Also, author, don't forget to list your sources.

I don't use sources, accept if a source is offered, the original photos are in the sbs (never did anything like this before so I really don't know what "Blending needs a lot of work" means, I blended til my fingers fell off LOL.. I really thought the drawing should like a drawing.. but I really liked the way the Pelican sculpture is floating on the image... but I could be wrong.. .. but this is my first attempt at something like this.. so it really was a learning experience

Okay, I see, then. Pardon my complain re the sources.

I don't think that was a complaint Games, I think that so many entries have sources that you just assumed this one was the same (and I've NEVER been the same.. though I do have to admit this was a bit weird for me to do.. I'm so used trying to make the two pictures match that having them look like a realistic chalk drawing on a urban environment is very confusing... I even added a paint filter on top of the water and in PS7 it looks fine, but the result after upload looks totally different.. hehehe. but it's good to learn new things (I had to try something

Good effort

blending needs a lot of work means.... here the edges are too much feathered, that it looks unreal... u can have a reference of the same from clicking the link of edgar mueller's works given in the theme.... Gl

well I tried moving the bird around.. didn't look right... I made the edges harder by doubling .. then it looked too much like a photo laid into the picture.. sigh, I'm just going to leave it as is, I can't work on it any more, but thanks for all the help (this will go done as a stumper)

EDIT (I succumb to try harder.. see below )

What? How does one achieve level 8+ without knowing how to blend the edges better?

Instead of trying to blend the edges better, I would use the pen tool to draw a border around the inside of the natural edge of the drawing to make it appear to be inside of the street rather than on top of it. Look at this image and see if you can see what I mean: http://eviluncle.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/edgar-mueller-1.jpg

@downoffthedragon, ouch!

okay, I STRENGTHENED the edge

Author i like your work very much,but to be better demands a bit more work.Its better to cover the edges with water and other things,with that u will get better blending and whole image will get more realistic look.And would be better if u create couple blending layers.For example with this colors it would be cool to add one dark blue overlay layer,then one dark brown color layer and dark green soft light layer,and maybe,just maybe one golden color layer.With that u will get better blending effect and image will be more realistic...Good luck

thanks erathion, I abandoned the waterfall and changed it into the ocean.. figured everyone wanted the image to go to the edge.. (I didn't use a paint filter (it was hard to resist)... I wish I could source images, but I've done so well without them I don't want the temptation hehehe..

THE ORIGINAL ENTRY IS IN THE SBS (That's what all the comments are about before the ocean change)

This has been a wonderful as well as confusing learning experience... making something look real and fake at the same time was very weird to me..

I also have to admit I gave up on this entry but after all the help and all the new things I learned I'm very happy I tried again.. thanks so much for all the constructive criticisms.. (I even got help from other choppers in PM and that's a really nice way to learn

Now looks fantastic...pelican shadow is great...good luck author

thanks erathion.. and everyone.. you were all a big help

Good Luck with this entry

Author, when I say you always surprise me, I'm not kidding! Incredible... Nice, I wouldn't do better!