Thank you Lolu

I'm just a mean green mother from outer space and I'm bad!
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
So get off my back! Get off my face
'Cause I'm mean and green and I am bad!

Thank you LunaC

Thanks Hanabi 😘

ah c'mon people, I think it is obvious what Miss Z means. Nit picking on details isn't necessary. One has to admit that it is quite frustrating to see someone taking an "image" from a professional artist, changing the color of the sky and then promoting it as his/her own work. I have lost quite a few contests due to this behavior in the past. Just be reasonable when picking your sources, put some effort in your chops and everyone will be happy.

No the pot doesn't link anymore. It was fixed with very ugly (but effective) glue, so I painted the glue with gold.

Why do you think it should have been eliminated? The aliens used were figurines not other peoples manipulations. I think it's wise to ask if we are unsure. Ultimately the end result looked nothing like the source photos anyway. It's different if someone just does a copy and paste of someone elses work but as you said yourself, unmanipulated figurines are fine as long as we actually manipuate them to make them look different in the end.

Yes indeed Skyangel, you're right. I gave a very high vote to this winning entry by the way, but yesterday K's writings made me doubt.

Waste your time... here we are... Why try to be creative and learn when you can effortlessly get already made stuff? this is all about life philosophy and what you want yours to be like. It goes as well with food, kits, being served instead of doing... not my choice.

When you do this you steal somebody's art. It is not fair to other respectful choppers, you cannot have any pride from doing that. Creating a fairy, a dragon or a gnome from the unmanipulated photo of a figurine, for example, is quite different and in this case the result depends on your skill and the time you are ready to spend on it, not just a copy and paste. And yes, if there were serious mods here, last Photoshop contest winner's chop would have been eliminated from the contest if it had used manipulated photos... but only figurine photos were used.

It is a wasp!

Staaan, you added this last time : "you can not use any other digital photo manipulations as your source. The source images should be untouched photographs."
I think it was a good idea, which should appear in every Photoshop contest 😉