Yellow flame would stand out better, but not bad.

i agree with CMYK46

Yep, I'm the same oppinion: change the flame color to a natural ton, because it's a beautiful work...

Yeeeess... you're right, i didn't think that..

very nice work...gl author

I like the abstract approach and use of colors. Good luck!

pretty abstract indeed, agree with waz, but this result could have been achieved with almost any other source image...

nice work, love the background- after I saw the step by step it made me wish you hadn't stretched the bird quite so much

Not bad, but flip the flag part...

Thanks for the comments. I did try to flip the flag, but it just looked off somehow. I tried a few different "stretches" of the bird. The less elongated ones didn't really give a Phoenix feel...just a big bird on a building. I'll keep at it though.

This is a wicked cool but you warped the original source I can barely tell how you used it. But this is still wicked cool nonetheless

Thanks jawshoewhah. Actually, the source image is the only part I didn't warp. I even masked out the bird face in the final step so that you could see the source. It's been changed into a "firey brightness" (hopefully), but in the Hi-Res you should be able to clearly see the source image. But I agree. It's wicked cool. Didn't think I was going to be able to get it to turn out the way I envisioned, but it did.

creative use of source. fantastic outcome

Thanks you scratzilla1 for the wonderful comment.

Fix the masking around the flame/girl and this will be great!

Thanks a lot 4 ur suggestion woodztockr will fix it...

nice idea and well executed

Looks very good, her head looks a bit small, good luck.

shes HOT!!!!

very nice

Good job! How about burning the leaf a bit. GL

Yes, burn the leaf...and why leave the transparency grid showing?

I had to add in the transparency grid - for this iomage I rather liked the silver/gray metalic effect