Very nice work, author. And tho I like the final color choice, I think I prefer step 6 colors - tough choice.

good work author really great

Great job

The sea dragon is beautiful

Congratulations

Congrats!!

congrats!

Nice Job Congrats

VERY nice composition, the visual flow is quite entertaining!
My only critique, is that the moonlight needs to be more consistently bright overall. The distance of the Earth to the moon means that the illumination is pretty much equal, like sunlight - not brighter on the horizon, fading to darker towards the viewer...This means the mermaid, the rocks, the ship, and all of the water need to pretty much be the same value.

Otherwise, this is really good work!

too dark

Nice work author...gl

You should intensify the lights.

Nice but it may be little to dark

ok i lighted up the image a bit and add a new layer en filled it with a light blue color set it to linear light and lowered the opacity to make the colors more equal, hope its ok now and thx for for the comments

nice hair....

Great work author! I love it

Now that's a Mermaid great job

its a very gorgeous image author, colours are great

goodluck.

Stunning green haired water creature

very very nice work author...she is lovely...well done

the mermaid is great. But I don't think that the sketching style of the mermaid is matching with the realistic background of the source.

I like this a lot.

beautiful......

Lovely creation.....G/L Author.

Congrats for 3rd

Congrats...

Congratulations!

Thank you all!

Nice chop! And kudos to using your own stock photos! My only nitpick would be maybe the edges around the starfish you turned into a bra. They just seem a little hard. Other than that, well done!

Make a blue overlay over the model, so it blends better. ( create new layer of solid color - blue- right click on it create clipping mask so it only affects the model, Mode: Overlay Opacity-20%- more or less) You could make 2 clipping layers one blue on green so that you have a turquaz overlaying your model.
Your background also has some noise that should be present on the model, so you could either lower her opacity -95-98% or add a noise over.
There's also a masking problem on her hip, use some clone stamp to cover over her human skin :P

Thank you very much for the suggestions I'll start working on them right away.

Nice looks good ..gl.

Water is always hard to work with...This image have a great concept author and u could turn it in fabulous entry...I would like to give u few advices because i had similar problems when i created my underwater entry's...For better blending,solid color layers with different blend modes are always good thing to do. Val gave u advice to use blue overlay layer,and that is good thing to do. I would gave u advice to use dark blue overlay layer,with opacity set between 20-40%. Also in this case u have to make whole scene a bit slighter and for that dark brown layer with color blend mode and goldish layer also in color mode will done the work. Play with opacity of course. And now magic stars,add on top of these layers,dark green soft light layer,play with opacity and u will get crazy blue-green water color,and goldish layer will gave some nice mood.And finally u could add on top of these,blue/gray layer,blend mode set to color,with a low opacity max10%. And thats it,great underwater scene. And u could create some bubbles behind the purple thing to achieve better depth...Sorry for this novel author...

erathion.. if you make us have to do a report on your comment.. you will receive a severe beating.... (oh.. very nice chop by the way author... giggle snort) smooches erathion.. just kidding!!!

author.. you should be very proud of all the work you have done... I'm exhausted after looking through your sbs ... GOOD LUCK

His comment was very helpful an I hope I was able to create the mood and feeling the were helping me achieve. I'm glad you appreciate the work because it was a very lengthy process. Either way I was very pleased with the end result

Now, who wouldn't help a hot naked chick lying on the ocean's floor . Glad you like the end result.

You'd be a fool not to help

Yes! that looks much better! One of the best entries! GL author!

Congratulations!

Congrats...

Congrats for 3rd, cool

I see that no-one comments so i would have to ask if do you need any feedback on how to improve, or you already know but can't really since you've lost the psd or smth?
Anyways, here's my opinion:
1. Background is blurry, a more clear source would do better.
2. Her right hand could use some change of hue to look more blended in the water.
3. Those are soap bubbles, water bubbles look more like this : http://www.elrst.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/water-bubbles.jpg
I know someone who just liquefied the soap B.-s and they looked good.

cool entry author...gl