congrats!

Congrats!!

Congrats Skogan.. Keep your entries coming

Congrats!

Great work author !

Great concept, well done author!

Good 'fire works' excellent chop author

Excellent work, author! I only wish this was available on a higher resolution!

Nice take on the source, what's left of it LOL.. great job

great! Light source is a bit erratic, varying from each subject but a lovely image no less.

Congrats !!

Thank you very much author

Congrats, Keep it up

Nice work, congrats!

Congratulations....

He's Smiling now GREAT!

I think the froggy is so cute

Looking good, author! Best of lucks!

Wow, great job! I can't say anything that wasn't already mentioned, but when I first saw it I thought you had made it into a candle. Well done.

Very funny and well executed..
edit: Your entires are well executed and the quality is top notch. Most of the members here would like to learn new tricks techniques etc. Will be very nice if we could see sbs of such beautiful entries...

Fun image!

Good imagination. I love this image.

It's Winzling's pet Frog!!! or is it Winzlinnge? Never Ending Story's racing snail! Love how the frog is looking up at the Butterfly (Lunch) hehehe

Beautiful. I have tried many times to melt things in Photoshop but all my results were more than awful

I love the lighting too. Good work.

You know, I heard about a woman who swam across the English Channel three times, and when an interviewer asked her why she did it, she said, "I wanted to do something that was never done before."...

Stupid Woman! If she wanted to do something that has never been done before, she could have vacuumed my apartment.

(I stole that from Rita Rudner... shhhh! don't tell anyone.

Now who's going to clean up that mess?... hehehe, excellent

Well crafted image.., excellent lighting and very realistic output. Good luck author

Terrific work, he doesn't look very happy at all ... Love the lighting and thank you for such an excellent SBS

Fabulous job!! Good Luck to you!!

This is the kind of work that kept us going in the beginning , and the quality of work that will inspire us in the future. The magic here is the lighting, the idea is simplistic genius. Great piece.

Great melting work !

Great work on the lighting. Very believable image, and thorough SBS.

Congrats!

Congrats on the first place

Congrats!

Congrats

Congrats !

1st place congrats.

Congrats on first

Congratulations nice work...

Congrats! Nicely done!

Congrats Skogan

Very dramatic and fantastic. See the edges of boots are smooth and the balloon is sharper, That's the mismatch I felt. By the way I can see the flags waving with the wind then why shluldnt it affect the smoke?
Never mind, That wont stop me from giving you a high marks. Good luck author

Perfect author! Just as it should be. Nice work as well!

Super Nifty Reminds me of Around the World in 80 days

You do have some problems with the source links you've posted. The sources from deviantArt are okay. The sources from wikimedia should be okay but you used the download page links. You must use the link that shows the image and the usage terms for the image.

Source 2 doesn't show the specific image, you must link to the page with the image used and it must show usage terms as well. If it's in public domain the link should show that. Sources 6, 7, and 8 are also download links, these don't show us the terms of usage. You have to replace the links and show the pages with the image and the usage terms.

Source 9 doesn't show any image again you must use the link showing the image and the usage terms.

You should make these corrections as soon as possible. The contest moderator will allow you some time since I posted this comment to help you but if you don't fix the links soon you will get a warning and your entry will be removed until you make the explained corrections.

I like the blending you made. Cool image.

Think we all struggle at some point and get blind to a lot of obvious things. I'm notorious for making at least 3 adjustments after I put my entries up

Love what you did here, but maybe it is a bit to much saturated? The whole image has a nice pastel-like color feeling, except for the balloon. Maybe you can fix that?

Anyway: to me the best entry so far in this contest!