Well, thanks... I can't believe the score... I put some effort in this pic, on the skin texture, color blending, background... Maybe people didn't see where the source image was???

Thanks for your support
Big is beautiful, I'll have to remember that
I use a Wacom Bamboo tablet, why???

I noticed the tapered edges of your hair smudges and it looked liek a tablet. I use a mouse. I have a tablet but have never used it.

The way you probably saw that chop is that you took a lot of time to cut out her hair, fix her skin imperfections, make the background etc. And that's pretty much how I saw it. But I imagine that some won't take the time to analyze a chop in that manner before voting. I tend to over-analyze ever chop and every detail haha.

I find it very difficult now to use a mouse with Photoshop, I really appreciate my tablet. It gives more precision to everything I do, I even use it to select the tools (and to play some games )