nice composition... some of the execution needs work though. The pool table is abruptly cut off at the top. I can tell that you were attempting to have the image fade out by that point, but it didn't quite make it. I can still see a very hard line at the top, and it slices right through the middle of the corner pocket of the pool table. just crop your image to this line and you should be good. Keep practicing with your lighting and fading...

I can't see a line, other than the angular line at the far right corner of the table. I'm on a small monitor at the moment, so I'll look when I get home. My biggest reservation during work was that the quality of the pool table source photo was shaky, so I left the finished product at low resolution, which I rarely do, because when I see low res. I usually suspect it's being used to cover up sub-par craftsmanship. Thanks for your constructive comment and suggestion!

right above the top pocket the picture gets cut off and above that its pitch black ill make you a sample.

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7109/cutoffi.jpg

on my sample, the red line shows excactly where the picture is cut off. everythign above the red line is black

Amazing. I had to change the brightness of the picture to see what you were talking about. The scary thing is whether its my eyes or is my monitor that bad? Anyway, it is now cropped. Thank you both.

I dont know if this is of any help to you :
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
http://ludens.cl/photo/montest.html
http://peripherals.about.com/od/monitorsdisplayscreens/a/TestMonitor.htm

Great site links Eladine, thank you!