bjaockx Comments placed and received

I love queen! Creepy looking black sausage.... Looks more like long dong tea if you know what I mean... ;j

Next time i would leave the text out of the image and put it all in the entry's description box, if you want to give a little narrative to set up your image. all the text in your image does is take away from your image. neat idea, Good luck!

looks much better now... and i just noticed the tail end of another bird you placed to the left of the image... i liek the idea of a squadron of these, why not group some together in the distance behind her? great stuff!

they actually could be a little darker. however you will want to go back through your objects and cut them out using the pen tool, and not the wand, or lasso tool which appears to be what you used. This will give your objects cleaner lines and not leave so much spotting, or extra unwanted background left on your objects, as i can see on all three. great idea and fun work. keep practicing! good luck!

the problem with the tree is that it is the only thing that looks pasted on... all the rest of the image looks great! a little more work on the tree is needed. i suggest you try to match the color of the tree t the rest of the image. you can do this by going to IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > MATCH COLOR. Make sure you have your tree layer selected, duplicate it, than do the match color. Match the color to the main background image, by selecting it form the drop boxes at the bottom of the dialog box that comes up. using the sliders adjust the settings till the tree matches the rest a little more.

CMYK said both things i noticed... use the pen tool to cut out your objects like the train. i realize you mirrored the train to match the curve of the wave, so the front plate could have been selected and mirrored back to be readable, or blacked out entirely to not have the distraction. great first attempt, keep practicing!

seems like a poor choice of an image for the rider... i would think that you could have found a person riding a horse or other animal that would give you a better stance for the rider... neat image and interesting concept. good luck!

professional quality work. not sure if the rules have anything about using commissioned work... hope not, cuz this is great.

I like the idea, and the mood set with the figure being very shadowed... however, this is probably just personal opinion, but why would the mountains be a target for a h-bomb? wouldn't a city scene being off in the valley make more sense? i mean, why blow up rocks and trees, when there are buildings and people to vaporize? ;] great work, good luck!!

I like the work done for your main figure, but could not figure out what part of the image was the "Boom", It feels like the mushroom cloud is too much of a regular cloud and not so much as cloud of destruction as it is intended to be... if it were my image i would leave the mood set with the blue, but add in some red/orance coloring around the cloud and on it's horizon... this would bring your eyes to the back a little more and give more shape to the doom being formed... great image over all!

also where is the source for the goose you used to make the wings? you very obviously cut them out form that image in your sbs, but there is no source link for it. definitely need the source link for it. but lots of practice is needed in your image still. like CMYK mentioned the wings, but also the shadow of the girl was the one form the original image, which looks poorly transferred over. it is usually best to make your own new shadow than use an existing one... good luck and have fun!

like the idea a lot. her mouth looks very pasted on compared t the rest of the work... i am sure that you selected the mouth out and only effected the rest of her face, but this gives it a different look, that almost takes your attention away from the rest of the great work on lighting such a disfigured face. On a personal note, i am not a fan of the added noise. it looks sharp and very unnatural under any circumstances. Great work, good luck!

the muted colors can be fine for the image, but as CMYK mentioned it loses depth with the lack of color. You can add the depth back in by shading your more distant objects as well as making them less in focus, this will bring your eyes to the more clear focal point and create the illusion of depth in the back. Good Luck!

i really like this image, but viewing the hi-res throws me off a little due to the 2 separate focal points you have in the image. The legs in the foreground, and then the dancers hand in the background. Since these are not in the same line of depth, they would not both be able to be in the same focus. really great work over all! GL!

Great work author! High marks.

great image!

if you're making changes... a little bit of rain splatter off her right side (since rain is falling that direction), and the top of her head... keep it light, but clear and visible in the high res. Nice image over all.

Also, the rope is not in her left hand... It is behind it. Mask that hand below the fingers to have the rope thside her hand at the bottom.

there needs to be more separation between the background and the objects. i can bring the slippers together, but they still look flat compared to the blank background, and their soft lighting... great idea though!!

perfect example of this contest, and how to do it with only blending layers. great work!