Try to fix the edge of the wood next to the eye...it looks too jagged.

There's a couple of steps at the end I just didn't have time to finish, which included 3 layers that I added. Two of the layers were of plain white, a top and a bottom, reduced in opacity. The top, at 14% set to Screen and the bottom set to 25% Normal. The final step was to add a photo-filter with a layer mask to highlight the sky and bring the monster out to the front a little.

Congrats thefinalcut. You technically tied for 3rd.

That is true... congratulations....

Creepy, like it

Coraline? hehehe

Nice, spooky... good Job.

Congratulations for second....

Congrats!

Congrats!!

Congrats!!!

Congratz, I think this one deserved 1st place

Congrats for second!

Great approach Though the title reminds me of one of the specials at the Ming Kong Restaurant in the neighborhood. LOL.

I like the blending of the head to the face of the statues... It works well. GL.

I see from your SBS a lot of work was done but I think the final image is too dark to appreciate the details (and I'm using a 27" high res monitor). You could brighten it up a bit and still maintain the drama.

Well Spaceranger, I did lighten this. LOL, you wouldn't believe how many versions I have. I lost a lot of stone detail dropping it into my photo. I also had tombstones that I spent a long time shading for the environment, and then i lost my link and spent over an hour trying to search it. I finally said %$#@ it. I really like my torches, but they required extensive highlight changes on the building trim, so I nixed that too. I can't say it hasn't been fun!

This looks much better than the original dark version. But the moon is gone, I don't know if that was intentional or not

Yeah. I like this image better, the lighting looks good. Good luck!

Sooper Moody! Love it

You did a good job.... congratulations for 4th....