very nice concept and excecution...., welldone and very nice to see ur entry....

Hay its nice concept...

Bit curious why she is smiling?

wow great work! and nice description too

according to me mother is symbol of forbearance and all things in this world are her children…. She doesn’t get angry to her children …… and also she is in safe hands now…. !!!

nice

great imagination & fantastic work !

I LOVE Hindu stories.

great idea.. GL

WOW!!! Great job on this. Def a fav for me!

Fantastic concept author with great execution...i just wonder on this one...because u use woman as a main object, why is her head empty....LOL...just a joke...

Probably would have worked better with a sad face, but that's just my opinion.

I like this except for where there are masking artifacts on the top part of the top hand.

congrats ... well done

Congrats

Congrats!!

Thanks u for the comments and congrats friends......

Thanks for the comments greymval !! See this entry carefully & tell me about color scheme.
As the contest rule.
Yes I have much time to explore more, but if you have time to watch this entry again, suggest me how to create the entry with pure black (no gray tones).
I am waiting................

You have done very well in keeping with the theme of the contest!

Agree with Arca - red, black and white - and a great technique to show the colors. Wish there was an sbs, but I'm sure the technique is easy, noise and contrast, right in the ps program. Great job, author.

I'll remove my comments , they are not doing any favour to any of us.
I'm glad that ppl like this how it is. Good luck!

Hi - at hi res you can see that there is still 1/background to be cut away between the rif=ders plat and her neck 2/ at the back of the sadle there is still background. 3/ There is too much blurring & softness around the figure. if you are using Photoshop you need to adjust the selection >MENU>Select>refine edges.
Good luck its a nice composition.

Hi Oriel - thanks for you comment - I made some changes, hope you like it this time

@ Ray, think you need to go look at the source image mate lol

lol keiley hahaha
@ray happens...

@author i love this one but i think the BG too need to be color-rich (don`t know d appropriate term..not used to photoshope ) like the girl n the horsemen source imho..
nevertheless pretty cool
gl

cmmon fellas don`t behave jerk... thmsup RAY ..have fun.. y so serious??
that was a cool mistake

Smooth photo manip

Smooth photo manip

Smooth photo manip

Landscape is beautiful and quiet colors

simple but effective, well done!

Thank you

very nice work author...good luck

Thank erathion

very cool work

simple & nice

Nice job adding the piercings to the baby, but the hair needs serious work.

I agree on the hair, but love the tatoo!! GL

Working on trying to fix the hair.

Tattoo and piercings are very well done (only a crazy mother could do that with her baby!...) Hair "movement" needs to follow shell directions, to look more convincent.

I agree with the others on hair and tattoos, but great idea, and nice overall work.

Made some adjustments to the hair, as best I could.

whatta...........?

Nice idea -- the leaves look stuck on without any shape. Try a displacement map and or try different blending modes or combinations of blending modes for the leaf layers.

@ dekwid,,,, i take that as a compliment.... @ alan thanks alot! ill start working on that now!

nice image, however we can't use illustrations in our work. See if you can find the brushes

i didnt see anything that we cant use illustrations in our work...
ive gone through all FAQ and guidlines and nothing sais we cannot use illustrations in our photoshop contests. as long as its not copyrighted or previously manipulated in some way then its allowed

plus since ive been a member since wayyy back when , when this site was photoshoptalent.com ive ALWAYS seen illustrations used, and i still see them being used today

Nice! It needs some slight shadows too...

The author is right, you are allowed to use illustrations in your entries.
See for this also: http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/photoshop/#5.7

thats fine, im just a little surprised then because I still remember a peice of work I made for this site and it was removed because they said I used an illustration.......... Guess the mod was being a bit picky that day!

thanks for the tips, ill start working on it now

try curving the necklace part so it fits around her neck and use different shades of green