Great job in putting everything together and texturing the tower... Really truly awesome!

Very creative idea,,,Well done!

Excellent! Very creative too. Best of luck to you.

Incredible image.. wow..

How about some source links?

cmyk i guess you missed it ? its already posted

Well done!!

BRAVO!!!

well done

Great work! well done!

Very very good job! The lightning is great and the flying pieces give the special touch. But maybe you can have a look at the upper part of the stair, where the stair meets the lighthouse. It seems like you forgot to erase some parts there. It looks like the upper part of the stair is there again with lowered opacity. Maybe you can fix that. Good luck!

Cool.

Looks great author i can't really say any more than that

Congrats for your first place, MrHack!

congrats on the 1st

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats, really nice work

Congrats

Congrats!!

Congrat MrHack

The vase was created very nicely. Good luck!

nice!

great piece of work

I cannot go back now and add an sbs so i hope my explanation here will be sufficient.

I used the pen tool to cut out the top of the mosaic picture to create the grassy leaves. I then duplicated the layers and transformed them to make some smaller and some larger to give a fuller effect. I then played with the hue/saturation and the colour balance to make them green and to make each of the layers a slighlty different shade of green. I then used beve, and emboss to give them some depth and some inner shadow. in order to create the top of the vase i used one of these layers and removed the top leaves, just leaving the bottom portion and desaturated it to make it black and whit

To make the main vase body (peacock body) I used the pen tool to cut out the central part of the mosaic. I originally made this blue, then used the paint bucket tool to fill some of the small circles with blue. I then decided i prefered to have it in black and white and desaturated it to match the top of the vase. I then used the paint bucket tool to fill some of the areas on the face with white and make it stand out. I then used the eraser to make the beak area slim and less rounded, more beak like.

For the dark leaves behind the lillies i used the pen tool to cut out the wing like parts on the mosaic (central, left and right on the original) I cut one out then flipped it to make the left and right leaves. I then duplicated it and cut it in half, duplicated then merged the 2 layers to make an even lookig leaf for the center. I then used hue/saturation and colour balance to make them green.

For the lillies i enlarged one of the green leaves, warped them to give them a wrap around effect. I then drew in the yellow bits using the brush tool. I created the stems using the brush tool, then lowered the opacity to merge the lilly and the stem. I used bevel and emboss and outer shadow if i remember correctly. After making two lillies i duplicated them flipped them and added them to the 2 other areas. I duplicated a single lilly to add an extra one to the central bunch. Lastly i added a simple central gradient background to the image.

its a pity you can't add sbs, being them tha rules.... goodluck anyway.

Congrats for your second place!

congrats for the 2nd

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats

Congrats!!

congratulation scampie...

Very nice start for this contest.. there is a strange dot matrix in the High Res, but if you planned it that's cool.. good LUCK

EDIT: cool!!! I just wanted to make sure you wanted it there (you can't see it in the low res) great work

nice use of source!!!!

I used that dot matrix to fill the black background a little bit. Thanks anyway

Very nice!

Pretty good work, although a displacement map on the head & neck would have produced better results and the area around the butt crack is vague...

I really like it.. something hauntingly eerie about it.

nice job!

Nice chop!! GL

Great use of source Author. Good luck,

different which is good author definately a fav in this contest

Congrats for your third place!

congrats on the 3rd

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats

Congrats!!

congrat for the 3rd

Very creative idea. The thread could be a bit thinner, to match the size of the thread in the image. It must have taken a long time to make, everyone should view the high res.

Perfect score from me... the work is spellbinding (and now go take a nap author)

Very clever, maybe you should add some more shadow on the stitches. Good luck.

i tried to make it thinner the thread but it wasnt very nice so was the needle thats why i left it at that size, i did the shadow but it looks better in hres...thanks ppl very much

Ooh, very nice! A lovely image!

Oh my god... My mother makes things like that, but with cross stitches and not even she would have that patience. Author, how long did you need, to draw all these tiny lines? What a work! The high res looks really really great! Very good job! Good luck

beautiful and time consuming i bet

Congrats

the gates are really bright and look flat against the background.

Congrats