Staaan? Have you left the building? Drowning in work? ;-)
It is a beautiful heartwarming story Olga. You meet some fascinating people and have some wonderful life experiences.
I have taken worse ones, believe me. At least you can still see this is the ocean. When you break every rule in the book, all you get is a black underexposed shot which can't be salvaged.
Unless you want to photograph interesting shadows which enhance your subject. Looks great to me.
Thanks R-R but the snowflake was deliberately made with a glassy transparent look because it is supposed to be opaque ice so if I make it darker behind it, or take away the clouds, it looks like a shadow again and I lose the transparent effect. So I will leave it as it is now. I gave it a slight cyan outer glow. That will have to do. Thank you for your help and great tips and suggestions. Keep them coming. I appreciate them.
This looks definitely hand painted. It's obviously not a filter effect. Do you have a stylus and wacom tablet or did you do it with the mouse? It is a great cartoon likeness of yourself. You could use it as an avatar.
Thank you very much for the suggestions R-R. I did what you said and it does look better.
It's in my description. There are a few others as well to turn a photo into a charicature.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=photo+to+charicature
Some use the new face aware liquify which only works on later versions of adobe photoshop. However, all the face warping can be done with earlier editions but it just takes longer.
Staaan, I submitted a poem with a photo into the writing section three days ago and it still has not been approved. Is there a reason for this or is it another bug? Do I need to resubmit or what?
The rules say you need to explain how you did it.... So how did you do it?
" It is required in this contest to explain how you created your cartoon, what application you used and what sources you used (In the description of your entry). Otherwise, the entry may get disqualified."
Did she have face paint on or did you paint the dots and tears on her face in photoshop?
I would clone out the distracting lines on the left side of the background.
When that happens, its generally because you accidentally used the selection tool and something is selected. Make sure you click "deselect" before you go into liquify. It has happened to me before too. If the tiniest spot is selected you might not even realize it because it might be only a few pixels.
It means it turns it into a plain layer which is not a smart object. Take a look at this video.
It will explain the difference to you. You must have accidentally clicked rasterize because smart objects don't automatically rasterize when you duplicate them. If it happens again you can simply convert the layer back to a smart object before you work on it.
Congrats on 3rd place Lolu. You did a lot of very creative warping of the source and I love the cute face you made on the robot.
Congratulations on second R-R. I knew it would end up in the top 3.
Congratulations on a well deserved win Chalty. It is very unique and something I would never have thought of.
bronze award to 
