Nice ideea! GL

Congrats

Congrats for 2nd

Great idea and nice execution author...agree about distortion of the girl...U still can work on this author, there is enough time for fix...best of luck

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Clowns are soooo scary... and the symbol clapping monkey is another thing my parents put in my bedroom to traumatize me when I was little... great work author, I may have to see that specialist again... lol... I'm kidding..... or I'm I? lol

Congrats for 2nd

Congrats for 2nd

Congratulations!

congrats!

Good mood, but the figure is distorted.

love the haunting feel.. good luck!!

beautiful entry..good luck

beautiful entry..good luck

nice one..good luck

I don't know why but I always adore the saturated colours which gives that surreal feeling to the artwork like in this one. Loved it! good luck

Very pretty scene

Really nice take on this theme. Like how you distorted the earth image to match the shape of the actual balloon. I'd like this even more I think if Saturn wasn't monochrome. This works too...though!

EDIT: Author your explanation makes perfect sense. Thanks for sharing. I like the way it is now too. Upon looking again...I think the way it is now lends more of an attraction...because it ISN'T typical. Nice job!

Hahahahahaha!!
Well done author!

Very creative literal take on the theme (which would be emphasized if the title were "World Balloon". I like the calm, restful mood evoked by the muted color palette.

While greater depth is a good objective as a general rule, I like the uncluttered simplicity of Step 10 which I think already shows a lot of depth starting with the front-plane clouds in the lower right corner and then going diagonally back to the balloon floating over the cloud "plain" in front of the cloud "mountains" in front of Saturn in the far distance.

Good job!
Just one suggestion: Step 10 looks better without the white streak across the balloon. GL author!

You've created a masterpiece in just using the source picture. WOW! Very interesting. Best of luck.

Love it now.

Very creative idea. Lovely job.

quite fun author, excellent job (If you want.. you could repeat the flower and add just a wee bit of drop shadow and place it on top of itself several times to give it a bit more thickness)

It's super fine just the way it is, but a bit more thickness to the bloom might give the image a tad more punch, it looks a bit thin at the moment compared to the thickness of the butterfly, but of course that is just IMHO... GOOD LUCK and GOOD JOB!!

Author, you have plenty of time to do the color correction and resubmit!

cool work author...and yes high resolution looks way better...best of luck

Very cool...... nice job.

I don't know how to vote for you. I don't have the glasses to see how well it came out. =(

Nicely done, good SBS!

very beautiful!

lol! that is sooooooooooooooo funny! 100%

Been waiting for this one!!! Great work author

Nice work. I might color match the smaller island some more. GL author.

Ohhhhhh, I thought I was needing bi-focal glasses. Thanks for telling what you did.

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LOLOLOL..at first I was like WTF? and then I realized what you did and laughed and laughed.. really cool thinking author.. very out of the box LOL good luck

Looks better in hi-res! Too much light on manta ray... Mountains and temples need more light... IMHO