Tree of Life

The children are supposed to be merging into the picture to go and play with the other children. I basically just used the burn and dodge tool to get a greener grass. I changed the hue to the blue, made a copy of the layer and deleted the grass part so the green shows through. I made the wall...

For: tree in mist contest

Where am I?

I used the flood filter from flaming pear. I cropped some of the tree and then mirrored it. I created a lighting affect to come down from the right top to match the light on the woman. I added some fog with a simple white brush and then did a gaussian blur. After all that, I combined all the laye...

For: tree in mist contest

Aftermath

This was a whole lot of blending with the background and each individual crack. I used crack brushes for the walls and the outside of the main tear, but I did the tear from scratch using liquid tool to make it look like the earth came up a bit. I used the texture option and a lot of burning to get t...

For: sicily contest

Great View

The flood was made by a filter from the Flaming Pear which I've had for many years and don't remember where I got it from. The rest was through tweaking shadows, contrast, burn brush. If you want to nicely merge the edges of one image with another, always create a mask and then go over the edges wit...

For: sicily contest

Engraved

For: silhouette dancers contest

Rack 'em

Was not as easy as I thought, especially because I wanted to make it look as realistic as possible.

For: all binary contest

flower of hope

I originally wanted to enter the branches contest, but realized it was for 10+ level...lol. So I added the skeleton and flower. I think I like this one better actually. I made the moss with a brush using dynamic and scattered properties, then blurred the result.

For: rudbeckia hirta contest