How delicate it is... superb!

congrats on the 1st place

this picture has a very nice feel to it and the bird looks very elegant with its long and whimsicle tail feathers you have done very well author the best of luck to you

Fantastic work , author. Your entries are getting better and better, Well done

You have done great job . Take stem from source and make some branches and some sort of soft background will make it more beautiful. Thanks for giving me honour. Good luck to you.

good effort nice result,........
I once tried to create this kind, but using motion blur instead of smudge tool,.....good luck...
how about adding some twigs on which the bird should stand ?

Congratulation for this fabulous work...

Congratulations, for 1st place

Congratulations for the 1st. place!

Congrats, lovely work

Congrats for your first place!

congrats on 1st!!!

Congratulations on the first place, you deserved it (:

neat

Great!

Very cool creation,only thing that i don't like is flower at the right side of the image,strokes of the smudge tool are to obvious there,rest of the image is great...good luck author

Like the old-looking effect you did

nice chop Author, good luck

great image! i really love the feel of it! good luck on a great entry!

very nice work ,good luck

Very beautiful entry!

very very nice work author...gl

very good entry.
and I have to agree with ponti55 that its a quite clever use of the source.

Wonderful Image

In sources, texture2 = clouds

Great use of source.. well done author

Right now the piece is kind of dull. I would increase the contrast of the scenery to make it more attracting to the viewer. Like add more shadows on the cliff and mountains. But good luck!

give it time. everyone gets worried about the amount of votes, but until the end of the voting time, you won't see what those votes actually mean. Really, its the quality of the vote, not the quantity of votes placed.
Good Luck on your entry even though...and be patient. you'll notice a huge turn around in voting over the weekend. :P

Congrats

Very Nice author! Creative!

With or without hair, congratulations for the 1st. place!

Congrats, nice work

Congrats

Nice!

Very creative and nicely done!!! Excellent SBS! Good luck!

hi author for hair more options there in cs3
1. use extract
2. magic ereser tool
3. use blending modes
4. as usual pentool
5. use channels

I LOVE IT =)

Well, as a teleporting machine, it doesn't need to be hairy. Just use pen tool for selection and cut off unwanted parts!

dunno what kind of ps ur using autor, but the newest ps cs5 has an option to refine the edges so u can do the hair. Just cut out the images with the pentool or lasso tool, go to the option bar and u see the option "refine edges". That will do the trick

Good idea. Use the pen tool or lasso tool to extract images for better results.

the cut is bad, but the idea is very good.

This entry = winner.

However, there are a couple of issues you could fix, like the hair. If you use a small smudge brush or simply paint on thin strands of hair, the model won't look so "cut out".

A Skunk-O-Dolphin?.. very pretty... and different

Great job!

Good job!

*headache*
Nice though.

Nice picture,

nice!!! GL!

Really beautiful.

just remove the tree,...! that's it all!