A Girl.. walking in a skimpy dress on Gargoyle Road... in the middle of the night.. this reminds me of that black comedian who used to say they should just rename all Horror films as "Attack of the Stupid White People".... .. If you are looking to buy a house and when you enter it and it says in a super scary low voice "GET OUT" you don't move in.. but stupid white people will move in.. so I guess you get a movie out of the deal.. LOL A black family would say, "Lovely house... But we can't stay..." sometimes they leave skid marks LOL

Very lovely moody piece.. very professional.. NOW GET THAT STUPID WHITE GIRL HOME.. before she gets her self killed... (at least she's not in skimpy white underwear running through the forest with a blood stained killer WALKING after her just waiting for her to sprain her ankle....

GOOD LUCK.. and GREAT JOB.. very beautiful and instant fav

You never know who is the hunter and who is the hunted. And the skimpy dress, what better bait for a hunter trying to draw it's prey into a trap. That poor, unwary traveler skulking around behind her may just find stalking to be a dangerous passtime

spoken like a girlie girl author.. LOL.. (I've roomed with Lesbians.. and I'll tell, they scare the crap out of me) LOL

to true.. you can be the biggest MALE monster, but nothing beats the pissed off female..

BIG SMOOCH.. hehehe (you little devil you)

Extra points for the consistent lighting! Good on ya,for not making it so damn dark you can't make out what you're looking at! Really nice job on the side of her waist. Great work!

Superb work author...really really great scene...with lighting like this overall look gives nice mystical mood...well done

SBS is done! Whew! Sorry for the delay but thought I would run out of time and was not sure I would be able to get more than the GIF done.

Wonderful concept with perfect excecution... Love it.. Great job... And @deae slushy...

Thank you for the wonderful comments and the favs ... personal thanks coming as soon as voting is closed

WOW, incredible work, author! Good job on all the different lighting details. Your sbs would make a great tutorial!

Scenic beauty is great......... Nice execution.....Great Work........G/L Author.

nice second place congrats

Well deserved. Beautiful work, Arca!!

Congrats arca!

congratulations...

Congrats!!

congratulations...

Congratulations!

Congrats on a beautiful second place

Fabulous.

nice one.. but it would be better if it was darkened it a bit.. IMO..

Looks good! (Would be nice to mention the rain tutorial).

Thanks CMYK! I didn't follow a tutorial for the rain but I can sure explain how I did it. I made a new layer filled it with 50% gray. Added noise and then did a motion blur on it. Set the layer mode to screen and then adjusted the levels to my liking. I then duplicated the layer and transformed it to make different layers or distances between the rain. For the drips, I painted with a white brush where I wanted them and then used the smudge tool to transform it the way I wanted. Then I added a bevel from the layer options, and adjusted the opacity. For the splashes of water I made a custom brush and clicked for each little splash. I hope this clears up some of the things I did, if I have time I will make a tutorial on how to do rain with pictures and descriptions.

Very cool. GL

Clever use of source!

This is the tutorial I meant: http://www.planetphotoshop.com/rain-drops.html

Thats funny CMYK! I saw you post this tutorial on another entry a little earlier. I immediately went and watched the whole video. It goes to show how many different ways there are to do things in photoshop. I did learn some new things in the video, thanks for sharing.

great one!
I would personally lose the ring - it's distracting in this context. Anyway, high mark from me.

I like where you went with this but I feel the head needs a touch more colour adjustment to blend into the stock image you used... and I agree the ring is a little distracting and could be used elsewhere in the image, but it's up to you!?!... good luck though

Thanks hymerion and JamesD for the comments. I didn't like the ring either, but I wasn't 100% sure.

that's much better... GL!

Pretty nice blending

I'm surprised to find your entry.so low. Too bad, it was really good.

i think the gargoyle should be a bit darker... otherwise very nice... original....

The gargoyle is a lot sharper than the source you may want to blur it a touch & also add some shadows

Shadows are missing, and the perspective is off. Good luck though, you never know what';; happen

whoah! i love that gargoyle is menacing and cool at the same time! the greeness of it really adds a cool efffect to the overall image! great work here author very unique

I'll have to admit.. the source pic on this one is extremely peculiar in how the color was separated by the camera.. very strange

is your source from a stock photo site??? you need to link to the original image where it has the original artist details so we can see that it is allowed to be used... goodluck.

Cool!

then you might need to show the site... did you actually take the picture or did you just take it from another site before hand, cause im sure ive seen it somewhere.

Author (wonderful image .. absolutely AWESOME) please RED FLAG this entry yourself.. explain where you got the image to a MOD so this doesn't it get pulled.. it's much safer that way. (the source you used looks altered and that's against the rules if you don't explain the image) it would be a shame to see all this wonderful work go to waste on a stupid technicality.. good LUCK!!!

Veryyyy good

very nice!

now you need to show proof of purchase or you cant use it.

cool... realistic too...

wow really cool

there ya go.. all fixed

Nice moody scene.....edges need a little work you may be getting some ambient light from the moon as well

Gargoyle source is pre-manipulated, I also want this source for my entry but I can't, as manipulated images are not allowed. Nice mood

im not sure how you will go, but i think both your sources are pre manipulated....

i agree, but it looks nice

i like this.. it looks great..