Wow, very simple and powerful, and I don't mean simple to make, great work.

great entry....

your work tells a story

Thank you all! (:

fantastic work author...well done

real nice

5th place!
Thank you guys!!!

well i thought this entry was good
it should have got a higher place...

Well I'm happy with what I have (:

How sad they look! Good effort though, very good.

A high res image & SBS would help...

Hmm, I agree with both. I'd like to see the processes, and the details...

Great using of burn tool...good luck author

Lacking a high res and sbs, I can't give the kind of vote I would like to. GL though.

very sad feeling ....................

well done . looks very realistic

nice effect

pretty good blend. GL!

this would be very good if you lowered the brides opacity to make her look transparent like a ghost...just a thought

Thanks for the comment, i originally had the oipacity turned down, and i had fog in the image, but the finished thing didn;t looks right to me, where her head was it was too bright and detail was lost very quickly. Thanks for the comment!

I believe the light direction of the lady is opposite of the source image. Try a horizontal flip of her and I think it will work better. I like the different tone of your work.

good work! but after reading the descritpion, i have a few questions... you have only one outside source, but yet made 5 groups with up to a hundred adjustment layers in total!!! i just don't get it! are there even 20 kinds of adjustment layers (minus the brightness and contrast) ?? please explain!

Right elficho i suppose i should explain xD My base group is the actual image that i created, i then duplicated the group and merge it, then i apply adjustment layers to that and group it, and i repeat the process top create some kind of stacking.. my workflow is kind of all over the place and myr ecent discovery of the Group layers has really made me a little bit too cautious. There aren't 20 adjustment layers (minus B/C) but i stack two or more of the same ones in one group as well, but yeah, i hope that's valid enough to not make me look crazy. Thanks!!

author, you're borderline crazy well, your comment made me laugh, don't know why.. EDIT: oh, it's you! good work again, i'm a fan

Haha! Thanks!!

Opposite light sources...

i kinda lik the image is ok

One of my moms' coworkers got married in a graveyard. I saw the pictures. Some of it was nice. Some of it was creepy. And some of it was just plain crazy (she had a bunch of Barbie dolls in attendence.)

I like this look

Very nice idea and mood, great job

Nice mood, but if you look, the shadow on the woman is on the right, whereas it's on the left of the stones...

If you look at the original image, there's a dark spot where i placed the bride, i didn;t actually add a shadow myself, it just got darkened up as i added adjustments.

Is she lookig for her housband? Very nice..

Well... thank you for thanking me, but I think you meant laulei I didn't said anything about light sources I really like the atmosphere Good luck!

Ahh! Sorry Laulei, i didn't give you the credit, my mind was elsewhere. Thanks to everyone who commented!

Congrats Matteo!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!

congrats

Congrats!!

Thanks!

Great one, looks like a bag Creative ^^

hehehehe... I hear ya on the erasing.. takes FOREVER!!! LOL.. great result though.. good luck

Clever take on the image! Maybe try softening the shadow between the string and the fruit, it looks a little strong. Good luck!

Watch some tutorials about "masking with channels" for example in this case I think you can mask with the "LAB COLOR MODE" (not perfect but most of the work is done. Better than manually it's a pain

nice

"metallic effect"... hrm... doesn't look very metallic... but cool. agree shadows are a bit harsh.

Like it. Really nice job, Author.

cool

reminds me of those pod things in Alien good luck author!!! very cool

Nice job Author

awesome

nice feel

Some great entries here including this one!!

Great work

A baroque embroidery, beautiful, good luck.

Very nice, the final effect looks great. Good luck!

Thanks for all comments and votes