good luck

GL

LOL sorry for the title humor

Iceland, April 2010?

The idea is nice, but you should be able to increase the job more. Tips:
The lava running down the hill: Add some filter, shadow, bewel/emboss, blur and strech so it blend into the mountain. Play around and you´ll find it to be "not so drawn".
The restaurant: Add some ashes to the building, it looks way to clean when the rest of the enviroment is covered.
The road: Straighen it.

Nice idea

Sunzet, I didn't emboss or bevel the lava because it made it look like blood, but I did change the layer to "screen." I added more ashes to the pizza hut and added people walking. I did not straighten the "road" because it is supposed to be a footpath---it is in the middle of nowhere. Thanks for your suggestions. I was tired last night when doing it.

I like the idea but I would have liked to have the PizzaHut a bit closer so you could see it. I also wouldn't have desaturated the red on the restaurant because it is hard to tell what it is until you go to full view. With the lava what I would've done is create a new layer fill it with black, set the layer blend mode to color dodge. With a red soft brush set to an opacity of about 6% paint over the lava. Good luck.

Good idea....Best of luck

great idea, author, gl

nice

Oh atlast... I knew you would be coming here joker and looks like you were with scarecrow... now I will put you back in Arkham.. and you know y I'm going to take you there.. because.. I AM BATMAN.. :P hehe..

a hybrid scarejokercrow!!! beware iqurabat!

Pretty freaky, the hair looks a little high on the sides, maybe if he had ears ? great job anyway, good luck

His head's inside the shell, hence no ears...

great find of the evil clown, really makes the whole picture, great as the main focus of the work

I'm agree with Barnacle

looks like a cross between penny wise and beetlejuice.. nice work author , maybe try and soften the hair lineabove the eyes thats my thoughts.

Hehe neat idea, good chop

@ Reap: It's not a hairline, it's the edge of the shell his head is in.

ah !! how i get ya !! my bad !! i understand it moe now !

nice work !

so even you started wearing masks.. joker.. a nutshell mask.. competition.. very funny.. :P hehe.. sorry author I couldn't resist speaking all this.. @ricky: thanks.. I like the name iqurabat.. sounds to me like a relative of annabat.. lolz..

Very nice -- I can see why some are afraid of clowns LOL

could use lots of blending work in the head area, and the lack of work on the body takes away from the image , maybe try to remove her body alltogether

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i hold my vote

Author, you came to rock us!
Many things come in my mind: Freaky Show, It, Saw, The Funhouse... Batman... Kiss...

muy bien

woot!!! Beetle Juice love it

Great work author

I am exited....

you mean 'excited' hereisanoop?

Great job author...he is fabulously scary...good luck

Nice 1!

very well done author , like this a lot

Nice blend.

of course this is a top list entry.. congrats in advance from me.. even if it misses, which I don't want it to, its still going to be in MY top list.. or 'wanted' list

congrats!

Congrats

Congrats

well done bob

Congrats Bob. Very nicely done.

congrats

congrats man

Congrats!

nice composition but SBS?

Very nice...as I said with many entries here: "doesn't look like a hoax photo but very nice."

awesome.. (source not working.. I think only for me) I think some lights coming from the centre of ufo will be very nice...

hereisanoop....if you read the title ... you'll see looks like a hoax photo!!! indeed, just only after title, but is really hard to be on theme!!!...))...thx for the comm and suggestion!

It's not hard to be on theme: check out "Rooftop Sighting," "The Visitor," "Crop Circling," and "Breaking News." Still, the picture is an awesome sci-fi scene.
Just check out the latest entry "And then I looked up." Great example of a picture that looks as if it was taken by an average guy, of a UFO that seems pretty real.

EDIT: AHA! Knew it was you! I think your PS skills are pretty awesome alone...

gamemastertips....the entry...Breaking News....realy.... isn't in theme....!!!...if that entry is in theme ... then either could be, or it doesn't matter ..

Breaking News, along with others, follows the theme that "even in high-res, you should not be able to tell whether the picture is real or fake." Obviously, the over-dramatic lighting makes this look too fake for a hoax photo. I know, alot of people have forgotten about this rule by now. There's no doubt that this is still a great entry, but it could be more on theme in a more photo-esque scene. You did an awesome job on the UFO, btw.

looks good

Good title great picture

Nice piece of art! You used some nice pics.... And who cares about the line "even in high-res, you should not be able to tell whether the picture is real or fake." .... Start adding 500 different little stipulations to the theme that are personal preferences and you just end up stunning creativity - imo.

Braska...that was the point of this contest. Lots of people can make a really stunning, dramatic, sci-fi scene, but can you also do it while making it look like a hoax photo? This contest isn't called "UFO" it's called "UFO hoax." Ignoring that rule makes the contest too easy. And it's just the one rule, not "500 different little stipulations."

yes, that was a VERY obvious exaggeration when I said 500, was trying to make a point. Saying "your image HAS to be at least 1600 X 1200", the photo has to look extremely life-like, also a "daylight scene is recommended". My 'point' is that it stuns creativity, I fully understand the 'point' of the contest. And why couldn't someone of taken the photo above? Looks good to me, they snapped the shot, tweaked it a little in Photoshop and posted it on flickr, right? And its a nite scene!? Vote lower? naaaa. Outstanding image.

Okay, I see your point, Braska. I suppose it's a matter of opinion what looks realistic or not. We're conditioned to believe that these things are fake, so we consider this "unrealistic." Why? Why can't it be realistic? Yes, once again, great entry.

Fabulous work...very very well done author...high marks from me...

One might argue that producing something awesome while limited by onerous contraints shows true creativity.

awesome work ! great ufo !

cool

Good work.

congrats for your first and second!

Congrats for your first place, Genuine!

Congrats, awesome work

Congratulations both of the top two spots!

thx all for your comm...and grats!!!

Congratulations for 1st

congrats for first and second nice job on both

congrats for first and second nice job on both

congrats

Great job, congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats