Nice job Z!!!

Congrats my friend.

Check out some tutorials on how to turn a person into a statue. Good luck.

This is just nature. Predators eat prey. John will be recycled, and the circle of life will continue.

Those white "rounded rectangles" on the film should be masked out to be made see-through.

Nice job. Damn now I forgot what idea this one gave me.

A disturbing frog man. Congrats lolu.

I really liked this one. I rated it very high. Thought you might win this contest. Perhaps you should have.

Now this is cool. A skate park in the woods. The girl is a bit flat IMO (no contrast).

This is pretty cool. I love the way you made the rays of light coming in from the end. It may be just a tad hot (too bright) in the center "source" of the light. Also the line where the water meets the trees is perhaps too straight. Water had ripples or a soft edge at its "horizon". I ABSOLUTELY adore how you made the water!!! You have to teach me your method. It looks so real. Not so sure about the lens flares. Maybe blur them and/or lower the opacity, but that's up to you. It's not my chop so I can't experiment with it and see how that would affect it. Great work author.

Cool idea. Just a thought, and it may not even work, but maybe try one of the "Distort" filters behind the ghost? When light travels through something see-through, it can bend and distort. It won't distort as much if the see-through thing is flat, but your ghost is round and should cause distortion.

These may not be the best examples but you can see the distortion behind these wine glasses.

http://s8319.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/WP_001791.jpg
https://thewinewankers.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/rlr_bem_090917glass.jpg
https://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/glass.jpg

You may not want to take the time to do this, but in my opinion little things like this make the Chop better.

OMG I haven't laughed that hard in several days. That last sentence was a great "punch line" to the whole story.

You blurred it more than I thought was necessary, but you know what? It looks really awesome now. It adds a depth of field to his head that is pretty darned tasty.

fix da lip like has been suggested.

Bruce Jenner.

If you can maybe blur the edges just a tad. It had that "hard cutout" look to it.

Epic mustaches.

Would make a fin background.

great idea but IMO he needs a chin.

Disturbing. I reckon that's a good thing when you can have the viewers feel an emotion.

Pretty funny. Gave me an idea for a future chop.

I really like this. Looks like you use a tablet. Very nice work. I am impressed.

Congrats Drivenslush. A caterpillar compass clock worm.

Surfing FTW. Congrats on your 3rd.

WEEE!! Congrats on 2nd

Congrats on 2nd. Close race and a fine job. FYI, your score was 63.67% and they rounded it up to 63.7%. You can see your real score here http://www.pxleyes.com/profile/SinginDarkSwan/portfolio/

It's neither. It's just how the source photo was. I'm just sensitive to stuff like that is all.

I can see that. Men get grumpy when they are hungry.

Extra points for the SBS.

Maybe that cat uses steroids?

Boy's face is too light. Also the man's body has an "HDR Look" to it, so maybe try to match the boy's face to the body. The boy's face is too "soft" for the body.

Holy Copy/Paste!!

Congrats on your 3rd. Well done.

Good job on 2nd place!

Nice work Z!!

Congrats buzzy.

Congrats George55. That's a trippy chop.

Nice job my sister. You are on a roll. You go girl!!

You see, the lady rhinos don't like sharp horns on the babies when they are giving birth. It's a bit uncomfortable for them.

Looks like you can smoke that stuff. LOL.

He looks so peaceful in your source image but he looks spooky in your chop. Haha.

OMG gotta love them surf chops. (BWR = Big Wave Rider)

That wave is in Java Indonesia BTW.

IDK why this is the first thing I thought of http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6a00d8341c652b53ef0120a7f4ac0d970b-800wi_3486.jpg

That depth of field is freaking me out and making me dizzy. l'd suggest some shadowing under the water. Your source image didn't have any because the bulb was clear.

Congrats on 3rd place Drivenslush. My brother liked this one too.

Congrats seestah Z. I showed this one to my brother and he laughed.

This is a good chop. What really bothers me is your .jpg compression has too much noise even in the hi-res version. Your entry can be up to 5 megabytes and your image is only 135 kilobytes. There may be a reason why you did it, but 1100X800 pixels is really small in size. They can be up to 3500 X 3500.

He is so darned annoying!!

Good rebuild of the drummer monkey. Good use of external sources for the singers.

Just saying she looks too much like a dude. Is it good or bad to be a Star Trek Nerd? I'm more into Blade Runner (1 and 2), Naked Lunch, Dark City, Sunshine, type Sci-fi.

She needs... woman parts... 2 of em... breasts ok?