nice chop but the blur doesn't really work for me...gl..

Author I think you should give the hydrant the same blur as the dog, they are about at the same depth in the image. Another tip for the dogs hair: they look a bit hard edged... maybe try if this works: open a new layer on top, select a small blur brush (3 or 4 pixels) then check "select all layers" on top in PS and go over the edges of the hair. You'll see they'll blend much nicer that way, it's worth the time you put in it.

But it's up to you, it's your image.

Thanks Toothpick134 for the suggestion.
I think you are mentioning hydrant cause the car with road and footpath without blur grabs away attention from dog. I tried hydrant mouth without blur, the prespective wr2 dog goes bizarre. Moreover that mouth becomes too prominent.

Suggestions are most welcome.

Don't blur the hydrant, blur the dog just a bit.

Thanks robvdn for a good suggestion on dog hair. I did changes using select-modify- contract and inversed it, then gave it a blur. It blended nice as you suggested. Toothpick134 intended depth correction, yet perspective remained same, out of match with hydrant. I tried to give hydrant's shadow on dog, then dog no longer looked the hero of image. Enlarged hydrant and perspective changed for worse.
Changed shadow angle of hydrant and dog using soft brush, then car source image had to be changed because of its shadow angle. As CMYK46 suggested, I tried to keep hydrant as it is and blurred the dog a bit, it seemed the dog is looking at somewhere else and not at hydrant. also the hydrant becomes too prominent. Thanks CMYK46.

I couldn't find a good background better than this car at such angle as hydrants used to be adjacent to road and regrets, couldn't find a better angled dog smelling intelligently.
Finally, I think, oopps, was it wrong compilation (

dog hair edges have green color no need that, beter same background color.
[only edges]

Idea is nice and images fits together but u could make it even better...Blur is still to big IMHO, and u should work on that a bit more...As for the dog,use small smudge brush ,strength around 80 to create basic fur on hard edges part...be free and loos your hand when u do that...then u will get the best result. After basic fur play a bit with the size of the brush to make fur even more realistic. Now is good but with few adjustments this could be very very good entry...best of luck

I am with CMYK on this one

If it was up to me I would scrap the background and use the original background of the dog. I would expand the background a bit horizontally and finish the base of the hydrant and place it in the background. Making sure to match the depth of field to the surrounding area where the hydrant is placed. Good luck!

Thanks Chalty for the suggestion. I appreciate that.

@robvdn. I saw and realized, then decided.Thank you very much, I done the changes as you suggested.
@Toothpick134, hope the reduced blur confirms your comment. Thanks for pointing it out first.
@CMYK46, you suggested an altenative, thinking I may accept any one. Thanks. I did changes with first and for me, it came out nice. Thanks CMYK46.
@Sanjugs, Thanks for the minute observation on hair. I did the work as you and robvdn suggested. Hope the changes are satisfactory.
Hi! erathion, thanks very much for your ideas. Best was your 80 with smudge. robvdn, I think it is about version.
@Mario, Thankss for pointing out.
@Chalty669, Thanks. I wanted to put my hydrant on roadside. So I didn't try the grass.

Instead of just chopping off the hydrant in mid air, have it coming out of a cloud, or maybe put it on the ground disk.

looks like a doggy heaven

yes i should do that,hydrant look like hang in air.thanks for the comments

NICE IDEA ,BLUR THE BACKROUND A BITT AND COLOUR MATCH WILL GIVE IT A MORE REALISTIC EFFECT.

I did blur that back a bit, Changed the colors some. Look better?

Good idea, but the top rim of the hydrant isn't very well defined, and your background would look better if you rotated it 90 degrees so the bricks looked normal. This way it's distracting. GL author.

Almost went *blub* again.. But I promised I would not do that again.. So I agree with @CMYK46, the background might look better when flipped. But then again, it's freedom of creativity.. GL author!

What a cool idea!

Smart idea, it would have looked far better with more time invested by:
-arranging the composition so it would be a simmetrical perspective vs the assimmetrical statue.
-Insisting on highlights of the sculpture like the light was comming from above, vs a general light from the left.
- columns having a base.
- color pallete including complementaries : blue vs orange statue, or red vs green columns.
I'm sure you already know all these, that's why i wish you had more time.

I see you edited the color, nice

Nice work.. Good luck..

nice work...gl

Nice! GL!

my fave is the one in third row all the way on the right =)

super cool colorful work...gl author

Amazing!