Funny idea . SBS looks good, maybe here and there you can make the masks a bit more smooth. Good luck!

Now the eyes match...that was a key element. Much better.

One day at a time and we all start somewhere, good luck author Using the Dodge and Burn tools are very hard, and have a bazillion settings, but it's very nice to see the effort

My comment was indeed meant as a joke. Sorry if you were offended.

Author, although challenging and certainly old, perhaps your chosen source is too lined and too gritty-looking to effectively convert the face to a younger age without over-processing it beyond human appearance. The overly-illustrative quality of your work is too jarring to be against the real photo, split-screen style. In addition to benefiting from skin textures with shadows and light, the drawn character should (but does not even) retain the original eye color, and the entire drawing raised up a few pixels to provide more symmetry with the physical features on the photo side. Although I say basically the same thing as CMYK46, hope you are not as sensitive to this comment.

good job CMYK

25 years earlier he was a cartoon...?

Red on red loses depth, and the white rectangle from the window behind the car interferes with the car's roof line.

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The R is not easy to read... Looks like a mushroom.
But they all do look delicious!

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The background ellipse is not working for me. The different spacing between each letter is also disturbing.

I do like the cookie-letter idea, however. Maybe a more-compact logo with overlapping letters on varying baselines would be more compelling.

I look forward to seeing the revised version! Full color would set off the gold nicely. Check out some gold statues on Google Image Search to help you out.

I much prefer the full figure cropping as in step 10 in your SBS. It's a much better composition than what you have now although I would desaturate the sepia tone it's a bit too strong IMHO. I like the base you created but the statue is monochromatic and doesn't match. Having a background that is also monochromatic but in blue doesn't work too well I feel. A normal full color piece would work better IMO. Be cautious over doing filter work, you may not need as much as you have used.

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Congrats magicalfruittuts nicely done

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Ahem...try a fish.

The rabbit looks fake. Try a fish.

You did a good job restoring the dress but maybe you should put it more in perspective and use the warp tool to give it a more natural flow. Towards the right site it starts looking cloned more and more.
I also feel taking the background out wasn't a good idea, the boy and girl seem to float now and the mask lines surrounding are harsh. Adding a slight shadow will solve the floating and using a small soft blur brush on a new top layer (select use all layers) then going over the mask lines will blend the object better with the background.
There's still enough time to make adjustments

The only color i see is the dress on the lil one. Sorry

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I think the issue is the clock. From our perspective, we shouldn't be able to see more of the top-left rim than the bottom-right rim.

Rotate the shoes about 30 degrees counter clockwise to get the perspective right and you'll have a good image.

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The contest theme is "The End of the World"...my comment actually was helpful. The theme isn't "Blow up a ball park". And we're all trying to improve our skills, but we're trying to do it on theme. You have plenty of time to revise & resubmit. You might also want to come up with a title for your image.

So you blew up a ball park...it's not exactly the end of the world, ya know?
(It wasn't even done that well).

Isn't this just a picture of Wrigley Field every year at play-off time?

Blur the pixelated edges and you'll have a good image. GL author.

Mostly better now, but not quite.

Good concept, but slightly misaligned.

Now the shadow is even more wrong. The light is from upper left. Please use the shadows on the house as reference for the light source.

Wrong shadow on bike. The shadows on the wall provide the correct light source.

Nice idea! The bowl wouldn't be casting a shadow backwards though.

LOL! Nice play on words. Well done.

Pretty funny idea author

Awww, cute!

Please fix link 3.

cooooool .....

Your idea may work better when you have a real extreme sharp image of a bee, so it's more obvious that you focus on that. Right now it looks a bit too cut out imo. Good luck!

I'm sorry author....But I think her hair is too big than her head.
You must turn down the scale of it.

Good idea & good source finds.

nice work but adjust the perspective of the window. try by fliping it

Not bad, but look at the lighting on the source pic & adjust your shadows accordingly. You might consider reducing the amount of empty space around the figure, too.

great idea!