Author, my hat is off to you...this is a wonderful image! Not just well chopped, but you've captured a fabulous little boy moment...I love this image. My only suggestion would be to make the grass greener. High vote from me.

very nice work and idea.. the only suggestion i have is play a lil more with the brightness contrast and check the kids hair.. perhaps my tutorial puss in boot is helpfull for you also theres some lines from cut out on the arm that holds the stick it seems with a soft blur brush you might be able to soften these..

nice! deffinately a top 3 entry! but try lowering the saturation on the grass and bringing up the lightness... it will make it more natural looking over all... looks pretty sunny, but the grass still looks shaded...

Author.. wonderful job..but add the source for the birds so you don't get in trouble.. great feeling in this.. good luck (just covering for ya... GREAT JOB)

edit ; WHEW.. thank god for the source save.. GREAT JOB

Nice work, sweet image! The outlining around the head seems as if it should be softer...imo.

thanks for your comments and suggestions. will be making the changes sometime tomorrow.

this is such a great idea! It would be perfect if the grass was a bit greener and the boy's outline was cleaned up a bit. Good!

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It looks very nice, but the boy holding the stick has a black outline from the previous source around his head and arm. Remove that and your entry will be more or less perfect! Good luck!

beautiful work!! the color tones are awesome!!

made the revision, removed the lines and lightened the grass. thanks for the suggestions!

Nice sources

I think real grass would be more effective, but still nicely done.

love it great blending and you have captured a kodak moment with this one Great job

Aaaah... This is SO lovely! You did really a wonderful job! Good luck

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats for your well deserved first place!

congrats

Congrats, this is beautiful

thank you all!

Congrats!

congrats

Congrats Yahidith!!

Congrats! Well deserved 1st place!

congrats for first.

thanks, this was a treat to make! reminds me of my nephew, that handsome devil!

Great image, wondeful use of a very difficult source to work with. Good luck!

Nice image, but there are a lot more colors in the source pic...

I know there were more colors but i wanted it to be green... guess yellow/brown laves wouldn't fit much anyway.

the EMERALD leaves maiden... (throwing rocks instead of kisses.. hehehehe WINK)

she is stitched together beautifully

I like it! very nice.

very intersting!

good image!

Wow I love this looks like tons went in to it love it Great work and I love those little bubbles by the leaves Beautiful piece

great image

Nice job! I like the abundance of green. Especially the lips!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats for your second place, Akassa!

congrats

Congrats!

congrats

Looks very real and perfect for no external sources o.o I wanna see the sbs but it's not opening dunno why

hmmm.. it's opening for me Akassa... hmmmmm? I'll red flag and have a mod check it out

Looks very ncie

It's working fine now, very nice work! And nice photograph too.

Very good work.... having to get your own pic to match.... awesome job!

Very nice work!

ver awesome

super realistic, I really like this !!

good job! i liked!

blending needs work. bring up the saturation on the 'other' water...

Nice blending looks nice an natural

very nice image, great blending; works well

great blend it was a surprise its u

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Great blend. Really nice job!

looks very natural to me... liek its always been that way

Good job

Great blend! Looks so realistic!

Good blend.

Very good blending! And it looks good, even without a gator in there Good luck!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats for your third place, Ernest!

congrats

Congrats!

congrats friend

congrats on 3rd place.... i still disagree that this was blended well, but remember this: work that is done well goes un noticed. if this was blended well, you wouldnt be able to see that it was blended at all. i can clearly see the line where this was blended, not to mention the color isnt matching. its good work, but it could use some improving...

congrats for 3rd.

Apart from small blending inaccuracies on her hair, this is as good as perfect! So very beautiful, ahhhh.

I think you should work a bit more on the reflection, and also on the water line between the mountain and the lake.

Reflection needs work, edges on figure are too sharp...good color work.

fanatastic result....

I would soften the outline on the top of her head just a bit. She is a bit bright for the rest of the picture--BUT I love the feel of this picture!

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looking at this relaxes me.. nice work!!

nice image

the contrasts n brightness of the used pictures are not completely blending in together very well, also the color on her is kinda greenish while the color on the white castle wall is mroe bleuish. her cutout is a bit sharp u can fix this with a soft blur brush over the edges and after the contrast changes it may look better aswell , what a beautiful sky source btw

Beautiful image wonderful blending

I love the colours and the mood! Very good job Good luck!

Looks like something they'd serve on that TV show Bizarre Foods .. hehehe..very well done.. the swirl effect is wonderful (though I've never had to CHEW my tea before LOL) very pretty though

very nice idea--the tea leaves don't really look like they are in the water though. The leaves on the front look too real--maybe use an effect on it such as "Virtual Painter: Pastel" I love the steam!

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Very cleverly done.. i love this!

Certainly not bad. You may want to change the color of the floor a bit (or maybe desaturate some), so that there's some more contrast between the floor and cup. Good luck!

very good, but the leaves look like they're floating on steam..

Nice

its u!!!! i didnt expect it was u LOL great work as usual

Great Work I love what you have done with this

Looks very good! I really like the green leaves in front of the cup Good luck!