there is obviously a family living there already. ;-D

May wanna check your masking where the living room meets the cave. Like the gold chair, the fruit on the table, the desk on the right etc.

Congratulations on 3rd seestah.

A close race. This was my fave.

Congrats on your win. You are a winner!!

Congrats on 3rd.

Nice turtle camel Z.

This was my fave. Good win Fruity.

Nice chop

Great story!!

WHERE IS HE RISING TO?

congrats George55

Congrats on 2nd skyangel

You are winning a lot of contests lately Zizounai!!

This was really good filantrop

Kongrits lolu good work.

Congrats skyangel. I knew this would win.

Wonderful video!! Funny thing is that I saw that video some time ago but completely forgot everything he said. It may have come in handy to fix your issue. We have both learned form this and that's a good thing.

I understand the issue with layer effects showing where you don't want them to show. It can be tough. Without seeing your PSD it would be hard for me to say how to fix it. Maybe put another layer of the stone that doesn't have the layers effects on top of the one that does, and then mask that in only where that dark stuff was?

I don't know how you made your mask, but perhaps you made it by masking the stone into the hand? Maybe masking or copy/pasting another hand ON TOP of the stone would have worked better instead of masking the stone?

Anyways your cloning looks awesome. It's more smooth by getting rid of the wobbly look of your old mask. Looks clean. I reckon sometimes a hammer and chisel is needed in Photoshop rather than some nifty technique.

I wont be that much longer. My nephew is visiting and I am doing an MSpaint contest.

cool owl

This is way cool. Love the clocks!! And the theme too. My only suggestions are that there are dark outlines on her fingers on the hand to our right. Also I am not sure about that much yellow tint on the girl's face. Besides that, this chop has a lot of "WOW!!" and impact even at first glance.

Winning is nice for sure, but being satisfied with your work is even more important. Your biggest competition is yourself. I am taking a break from Photoshopping for a while.

How did you get someone to dress like that?

I thought this one would win. It was my favorite.

Congrats on 2rd place Majkman

Congrats Zizounai. good work.

Image is small and has jpg artifacts in it. Even using the hi-res.

Good score. Congrats seestah Z!!

Congrats wyndham. Townhouses in a field of grass.

good use of the source.

I am not an expert in Displacement Maps but maybe there isn't enough contrast in the boys face. If you have the time you may want to try a copy of the boy's face with levels, curves, or contrast applied and try the Displacement Map on that copy. Or you could duplicate they boy once again and set the top layer on a Hard Light Layer, Multiply, (or otherwise) to bring out more contrast. Then flatten those two layers and try again. I don't know if any of this will work, but you may want to try.

Those globs of paint look so cool.

Beautiful image. BWR approved!

I name him Cleetus. That one source is a nasty wound!!

Really cool scene. The 2nd soldier with the gun on his shoulder has some weird distortion (transformation) on him. Otherwise a cool idea. Looks so much nicer in hi-res.

Thanks Z. I am happy for you. You got a pretty high score too! Good trick with the Color Range. I didn't think about that. Very impressive!!

This was my fave.

Good work. Congrats.

WOW!! 1st and 2nd!!

Congrats lolu! You're a winner!! Time for a big party.

Wonderful job. You are the Queen of this contest. What technique did you use to cut out the top porcupine?

Definitely scary!!

This is a good chop. That hyena head is so awesome!! I love it. Wish it hada bit more nighttime look to it.

If those Porcupine balloons run into each other, do they pop?

What are "roundballers packs"?

I see giant marshmallows.

We all watch your Chops and then we take your sources. You have such good taste.
I had a Photoshop the other day that used one of your previous sources.

1 and 2,
good for you.

^ I wrote you a poem.

^ coward. :p

You edited your post haha. I don't know why this was rated so low. I really liked it. And honestly, she's not bad looking for a short tailed girl.