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perhaps a little bit too subtle, a ghost is a great idea for a smoke apparition though, surprised one doesn't see more.

thanks for the great comments everyone, feeling warm and fuzzy :)

its you again LOL, wow, you claim 2 of the top entries in a good field. awesome!

To be honest, i think this is a better chop than your robot one. they're both well worth 2nd and 3rd, i'd just switch em around :)

man, i just noticed i think i've now denied you your first gold twice now in the last few days. SORRY! it will come making chops like this! sheepish gratz on the silver.

great work

you coulda knocked the hue a little more orange and it would have been a good Frog Thing from fantastic four!

not to say i don't love the raspberry thing too! i do.

love the FS too!

in some dictionary's, if you look up "freaky", this is the definition. i'm liking it a lot, but i'm also needing a hug in a therapy way too. :P

love the idea!

but ultimately too subtle for me, i could barely make the frog out.

sweet!

well i hope you're the one who gets most action when you go to the club/bar/pub :P

if i saw that in the jungle it would scare the crap out of me.... hell, i might need to change my shorts now just looking at the pic, good work! LOL

you must have had a difficult choice entering this in this contest or the "monster attack" one, suits both just as well!

LOL!!!! half of me wants to save him, half of me wants to shake the glass.

ewww, not a before breakfast image! LOL, good one.

really like this. not just because its good chopping, but also because its madder than a bag of hammers.

this is a cool chop, composition and concept are good. my critique would be just technical, the edges you cut could be a bit better. they're quite nice and even, but theres a halo around them and they're a little too sharp. sharp and even is a good thing, but you can then easily improve cut outs (asuming your using masks!) by first putting a slight guassian blur on the mask, and then opening a levels adjustment on the mask (not the layer, the mask) and playing with the input levels till the edge fidelity comes back, but smoother than it started out. hope you understand and that helps.

very cool!

Actually they can be saved up to 350K. Save for web is the way to go though.

As for the chop, ewwwwww...I hope mennufer doesn't see this. She may be very upset. :P[/quote]

sorry, to be clear i meant in terms of this particular image's size, not in terms of worth1000 regulations :)
i have no authoritaaaaaah on that, Jurors noze best!

ewwwwwwwwww! ewwwwww! ewwwww!

btw, learn "save for web", image like this ought to be no more than about 100kb.

comment: spend more time ;)

it has no integration between elements at all besides story. probably would have been better to just focus on the apple because that looks chopped quite well... while everything else is a bit collagey (?) and the apple ends up too small to count for much.

the cheese seems to be floating a bit over the board, but the cheese/skull/rat compo contains high quantities of awesomeness!

the cheese seems to be floating a bit over the board, but the cheese/skull/rat compo contains high quantities of awesomeness!

the cheese seems to be floating a bit over the board, but the cheese/skull/rat compo contains high quantities of awesomeness!

might have benefited from a better looking background. but the critter fruit looks way cool to me!