The girl is unhappy as the swan has flown away.

(I also thought I'd try turning a black and white background into a colour one)

hope you like it.

*edit*

I took the comments on board and made a slightly different version.

the swan is more defined and less motion blured.

The girl has more darkness/shadow and the light coming threw the trees making brighter gaps in the shadow.

please let me know what you think.

thanks for all the imput so far.

Only one source was used.

A lot of images with the same idea it seems.. but as I finished this one already, gonna submit it anyways - took a lot of work.

I cleaned the tree picture and removed the girl from the sunset image. Made several pairs of wings with slight adjustment with rotation/perspective tools. Made an invert for white wings. Made the black wings a bit transparent with masking.

Made a new foot/leg and pants for the flying boy with pattern tool and coloured the pants with gradient map tool.

Used duplicate layers to alter sunset image colours and enchanced them by hand (more red, etc..)

Finally added a bit unrealistic but fun shadow/halo wing effect for the silhouette man.

* update **

Added a shadow for the bushes also, as Langstrum suggested.

Im hoping this is ok... my eyes are closing and I really need feedback as I can't seem to do any more.

Help would be lovely with this contest, I tried really hard to make my hair look a bit more real and the dress.
I played with shadowing, help there if needed :)


Thanks to
Demordian@sxc.hu
Amukherjee@sxc.hu
Lucy-stock@DA for the tattoo image

To the mods, I will send private email to photographer of hands as my name on sxc is as the one on here :)