I really like overall image except background

I disagree.. every element ties together beautifully. Wonderful image author

very well arranged compo......nice,...

Beautiful colors and you put the image together. GL

nicely done

Love this ... I am jealous! Seriously. The whole concept is wonderful. Just on the edge of surreall

thank you all for such wonderful comments. I was so stumped with what to do with this image, but was really pleased with the outcome of my playing around. I am happy you guys like it too.

And arca, I meant to give you +5 on your comment but my phone browser is a little touchy and took the wrong thumb, my apologies. But thank you all the same dear friend I am flattered you liked it so much.

Looks very Alice in Wonderlandish hehe. Very nicely done

very nice image author with some great crazy elements...GL

Hey Jade... Nice work... congrats

congrats for the win!

Congratulations!

Congratulations madame

Beautiful... Congrats, Jade!

Hay congrats!

congrat!

thanks everyone!!! i really appreciate it!

congratulations!!!

congratulations!!!

Nice done,

Just Change the sky with real star image and pink light is not looking that good with composition.

Best of luck!

i like it ,sweet work

AdhirAnimator :
thank for opinion and i will fix it..

hazem :
thanks brother..

Its looking nice than before

very nice construction author...love the lighting on the main objects...GL

thanks erathion

Very nice, but reflection of the lamp in the water is always directed toward the viewer.

Very nice job!

Superficially extemely appealing BUT: The two-element water reflection doesn't have either of its elements match up with the single light source in the background. And the lopped-off top of that light source (apparently in the heavens) is kind of weird. In any event, the background light doesn't explain why the the foreground elements are lit from the front upper left (without any water reflection let alone creating any shadows BTW). The minimal use of the contest source strikes me as an inconvenient afterthought at best.

thanks DanLundberg ,
I improve my best...

Beautiful image... good work.... good luck author.

So cute! Great photos to combine with the source to create this.

Congrats! It a well deserving placement.

Congratulations for 2nd place!

Congratulations!

Congrats for 2nd place...

Congratulations on your 2nd place

Nice arrangement... good blendings... good luck.

Oh very pretty colors! Beautiful creation, author!

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Congratulations

Fantastic idea author and great execution...well done

I think you did a good job, even using liquify and burn/dodge tools.... good luck.

Very interesting imagination that you saw fish bones from an old chair! Creative, and well done.

Bad source link. Also an incomprehensible SBS and way CBR.

The guide wasn't intended to be a tutorial but only the proof that the work is made by me and not stolen from internet.
I can't imagine what CBR means....

CBR = chopped beyond recognition ....some of my works were called CBR,... it is just ok, nothing wrong with cbr because there is sbs to show how to make it,......

and this is good work, I like the feel conveyed in this pic....

I like it! It reminds me of the Nightmare before Christmas.

Too dull with no color. Agree with CMYK. It's so chopped beyond recognition, you could have used anything to make the image. Not a good use of the source image.

BUT... if you place that chair on top of the hill, in the bakcground, and just distort it a bit to blend your style, the source will be recognizable, and this would be a cool entry,imo. Don't forget to add it a (loong) shadow.

About colours.. you could do some blue highlights here and there, but it's your choice.

Great CBR author...love the concept, mood and final product...well done

Great imagination here

Some times, CBR entries are better than using the source image and just copying and pasting stuff around to make it look nice. Creativity counts, even distorted images from source images are nice to see. You did a good work, and I wish you good luck author.