Dear User 5992:
Congratulations on winning the H8H Photoshop contest: "Celebrity Fantasies" with the highest score ever on Worth!
YOU'RE WELCOME.
Naturally I'm being sarcastic.
I'm a little more then miffed at your failure to credit me for your win, much less thank me at all for the hours and hours of pm exchanges it took to get you where you ended up.
To put things nicely, your original image was.. to say the least... hideous. That's to put things NICELY. If it wasn't for ME you would have been disqualified for... oh... a HOST of reasons.
NORMAL people ask for one critique and leave it at that, but no, you had to send me messages every 30 seconds asking for how to do this, how to tweak that, what tutorial can help you do this. It was annoying enough for the first 20 messages, but 86? I do have a life and a job you know!
But no, I thought, oh you're just a beginner and I will sacrifice my time to help someone who needs the help. I put up with your constant questions, I spend hours searching the internet looking for tutorials to help you. I endured your nit-picking about individual pixels that just didn't "look right".
And look at the result! I might as well have made the entire thing myself and entered it! God knows ever last tweak you made was on MY advice. That spectacular backlighting? MINE. The idea on the feathers? MINE. The entire background? MINE! Even the suggestions on masking the image so it didn't look like a 3-year old cut it out of a magazine... MINE!!!
And did I get one single thanks? NO! Not even a mention in your post that *I* was responsible in some way for your success! YOU took ALL of the credit, even going so far as to add a comment stating that you "thank all 107 users for acknowledging all of my hard work on this image".
Next time you want a critique - ASK SOMEONE ELSE! I spent a total of 8.6 HOURS making your image as perfect as it ended up, and your lack of gratitude is such that to express my fury in the words I would like would surely get me banned from Worth for gross violation of the FAQ.
With no sincerity whatsoever,
Takeoffcoocoo