Very creative idea, I do have a couple of suggestion for improvements......The two men and the bench are to sharp compared to the source. The shadows are to small and not dark enough IMO and facing in the wrong direction, if you refer back to the original source (stone border) you will see what direction your shadow should be......it’s a great effort keep up the good work!

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thanks Warlock. i will work on the things you said.

edit: Warlock, I changed the shade of the shadows and made them half as big as the guys (the shadows of the rocks are about half the rock) and i applied the images of the guys so they look a bit more like they should be there.

Very nice work author...i have few nit picks do...first thing,elephant have to be a bit bigger,and u will achieve better blending if u use some color layers.With color like this my recommendation would be dark brown color layer with low opacity and maybe blue-gray soft light or color layer with very low opacity...just an idea...good luck

erathion, didnt get home in time to do any work on this. but i am using almost exactly the layers just like you say! i have a brown layer (leaning toward red just a hair) and a blue grayish layer. the elephant is just an optical illusion, i actually looked it up and did the math based on the original rocks at the dirt road and based on the step in the elephant image. then i used that to size the men using vanishing points.