no sunny day

For: croatia beach contest

early in the morning

For: pirates contest

woman

check out the SBS for details

For: paper flowers contest

the prince never comes

For: loneliness contest

bulldog & bug under pineapple

masking is the major action in creating this entry and the most exciting thing to finish it is doing color adjustment to collaborate the different colors of the different sources,....some free transforming and scaling are also the main action in this photo manip,.....BTW I want to name it The bulldo...

For: wordplays contest

birdie

right after reading the amazing tut by George55 at http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1965/How-To-Create-Beautiful-Birds-And-Flowers.html, I was tempted to put it into practice,...but it was too bad to me that the smudge tool on my comp. didnt work well so I tried to find another way, was tha...

For: rose thorns contest

the cave

more than 10 sources were used to complete this pic, thanks for the source providers like the ones I mention here : garwee http://www.sxc.hu/profile/garwee , http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1024188, Obsidian Dawn http://www.brusheezy.com/Brushes/1473-Bird-Photoshop-Brushes

For: underground world contest

the tour

lil bit confused to decide whether it is for ' joke' or 'friend or foe' contest,....yeah,...now here it is,.....whatever....!

For: friend or foe contest

the cart

For: compact animals contest

high and dry

For: color and shape contest

glam

things that matter in creating this pic are a lot of masking,..and thanks for the stock providers sharing great pics,......one of them is michaelow http://www.sxc.hu/profile/michaelaw

For: cat face contest

both fish

photoshop is like magic,.......you know what I mean, dont you? Thanks to katikut for the lovely brushes...

For: suspension bridge contest

fisherman's friends

For: blue dolphin contest

getting old never growing up

this pic is not as complicated as it looks, meaning that it is easy to create. Mostly it was done using transform tool, masking, and some lighting effect (filter>render>lighting) to render the texture I created previously by going to channels and create a new channel for the texture. after th...

For: heart contest

let me be alone

For: single tree contest

golden city

yups...this pic was mostly done by transforming a cropped source to create a hotel look like building and some color adjustment was also applied for sure,...the SBS will be the illustration of the way to make it,...

For: duplicate frenzy contest

nocturnal visit

as a photoshop newbie, this kind of manips is something I like most. this pic requires no high skill in doing manips, this is done in very basic way of manipulating like masking, blending, cropping, some layer adjustment and burn or dodge tool action...most of all, it is not so time consuming,..the ...

For: open field contest

photoshop formula

For: chemistry contest

into the blue

For: undergrowth contest

silent witness

For: white wine contest

good morning Nocturns

no special things on this pix, all done with the basic techniques in doing some manips on pictures. One of many tuts dealing with this kind of photo manips can be found at http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/create-a-beautiful-and-dramatic-scene-with-photo-manipulations-basix/

For: rocks near sea contest