Good entry

Well done. Great win!

congrats on 1st!

Beautiful lightning!

Don't get me wrong, I do love your entry. Think it is really well made!

Personally, I always use this plugin to make some all over color changes which, IMHO in the process also, help blending the sources together.

Love what you did here, but there's some sources which (color / saturation wise) jump out (like the stone where the BBQ is standing on). There's a plugin set by Nik software (owned by Google) which is free.
https://www.google.com/nikcollection/ The 'Color FX pro' is a great help to set mood to your image AND it helps blending those sources which stand out a bit.
When you download this plugin do download everything, because it is (still) free. This plugin has been sold to a French company last week and no clue if it stays free or not.

A request to help the mods:
if you make changes please use the red flag option to tell the mods what you changed so they do not have to recheck all the sources.

I like the story telling in a chop, it's something I do for myself also and it helps evolving your piece.

Congrats on winning!

Congrats on winning!

Love it!

Great job!
You could add the final steps as an animated gif in the final step. Not necessary, just a suggestion

I love the small ones
great shot, as usual

Good one

You might want to try some color adjustments on the overall image, a good plugin for that is the Google Nik collection (it's free). The Color Efex Pro filter is great for that purpose.
Using that will bring your sources better together and it helps you to set a mood in your image.

Nice job

Subtle

Would love to catch a ride on it

love the blue color in the background, it's a nice contrast to the yellow

Congrats Mark

Maybe go visit the Wizard of Oz?

I think your work might really come to life if you add a little shadow (from elephant) on the table. I've searched for the real 'elephant in the room' but couldn't find it.

Good find on the sources of the room and girl, love them!

Great job author, shadows do not bother me at all. On the contrary they work OK for me. Shadows can't be perfect since we work with different sources.

Only minor thing you could improve IMHO is the saturated areas on the book, should be a few minutes work.

Otherwise: great entry

Boo!
Well done, good to see another angle on the source.

Let me, as a mod, respond to this and clarify.

You are right that we allow small alterations like you mentioned. However this does not include cloning, the healing brush and so on which make alterations on parts of the entry AKA selective editing. One can not remove parts of an entry and replace it with something else.

In our Pxleyes Guide, which you can find here: http://www.pxleyes.com/courses/pxleyes-guide/ it states on page 12:
"As a general rule, you are allowed to all adjustments which act on the whole picture and on exactly one picture (a.k.a. non selective editing)."
Rule 6.4 makes some exceptions on that but it does not include selective editing.

Hopefully this clears some questions you might have on our rules

Congrats on winning this contest and winning a copy of Filter Forge 6 Pro!

Stupid question... what is this?

Congrats on 1st place

Congrats on 1st

It's your work author and I like it if people are stubborn enough not to listen to other views. No need for you to defend yourself to me, I'm just an observer and can only offer you my vision, how I would do it.

A great way to make water drops is to get background of the drop on a single layer, select that area and then filter > distort > pinch it. Add some dodge and burn and you're basically done.

Well done
Maybe the stripe over the car is a bit to bright. Making it darker would make it a better unity with the stripe on the road.

I think pulling the airplane out of the tiny planet will make the image more believable. It's not part of the tiny planet.

Blurring the cracks towards the higher area might help you, use a bigger blur brush with an opacity 8 and blur more often towards the higher parts.

Agree with Ernie on the puppet warp and maybe try to blend the man in a bit better. Otherwise good take on the source

I won't start about the links which are not working... damn now I did it also!

Nice illusion you've created here

The white lines are not really straight at the top and bottom, maybe you could fix it.

It's hard to get the background through the glass, you did a great job here. Maybe a little distortion from that background would be nice

Well done and great source find!

I like you played with the perspective

The high res looks way better then this small image (so look before you vote ). Maybe blur the moon a bit, it is compared to the rooster very sharp.

I like it
There's a bit of dark / unfinished areas around the shoes, maybe you could fix that

Well done
Maybe you could make the bear on the right a bit darker? IMHO it jumps out now.

Great job, the mood / color is really nice.

LOL I thought the same!

The filter you've used works for me.
There's just some left over pixels, specially between the 1st and 2nd cow, which are a bit disturbing.

I love the mood you accomplished, the blue is very nice. Making it Halloween themed is great also, would have never thought about that!
Normally the white edges around the girls would have annoyed the hell out of me but here it, surprisingly, does not. It works!
Only thing: why the grainy moon?

I like this a lot, very nice! Just see a problem with the blending of the colors.

Secret tip: there's a filter called 'Color FX pro' by Nik software (owned by Google). It's free and comes with other good filters. Just Google 'Nik software'.
If you'd take the final image and run it through Color FX pro you can bring the colors more together and make it more 1 image.
You might want to give t a try

Good idea

The problem IMHO is the original source with the tattoo. That image is not really clear to start with. That art filter you used was no good idea IMHO it made it even more unclear with fading the edges inwards. You could have made the original image bigger and fade outwards, leaving the body which holds the tattoo more intact, maybe even expand on it by adding for instance an arm.
Please don't take what I'm saying too harsh, you're mentally still to attached to the image. This happens to all of us. Take another look at this image and the comments in 6 months or so and you'll see what I, and others, are saying and you might see what we mean

The blending is well done, no critique there just a

Well done, maybe a touch of color or integration of the tattoo into the background (like into a fence or so) would have been what I should do.

Maybe the rose out of the tattoo could be more clearly, maybe some highlights?
The mood change from the source to this image is great though, that blue is awesome