Light
by pinegan

Comment:
Bello. I envy your Italianness :-)

Driad
by Greetmir

Comment:
Shame. It's a great subject/shot, but it looks as though there's a little movement blur there as well as the soft focus. BTW, as I understand it, dryads are tree spirits, so that to call it a tree dryad is just a touch tautological, maybe.

I think you've done about as much as can be done, and well. I wanted to try something for the blurred/fuzzy lines. Don't know if it helped or could help...

I found a tutorial/guide here which makes a line drawing out of a picture. It doesn't, really, but you have to try it and see. I thought maybe if you could try that :
*duplicate background layer
*desaturate new layer
*duplicate new layer
*invert new layer
*set blending mode to 'color dodge'
*select Blur/Gaussian blur in the filter menu
*play with the slider and watch the line drawing appear

I did all that and increased the contrast a little, before combining the visible layers (i.e. the new ones, the background layer has to be invisible) and then brought back the background layer and chose 'multiply' for the adjusted layer(s)
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Did it help? You could always mask out parts of it if you decide where the lines need to be made more definite.

Thirsty Dog
by jaysonmc

Comment:
Hey, you got a ribbon :-)

Well done for that and obviously for entering 'after your own heart'.

The idea, as I understand it, that you express of wanting to assemble pictorial elements to use the picture as a sort of semi-abstract canvas, is noble but bloody difficult to carry through. I think this may be one of the reasons why the dpc template - and for that matter a lot of other 'arty' pictures - tend to be uber-simple with textureless backgrounds and only one or two things or pictorial elements. They belong on the walls of similarly arranged appartments that make you want to hold your head in your hands and scream like Edvard Munch.

In the case of this I think there's a bit of an empty space above the dog's head in the top left quadrant. The whole thing gravitates to the brown right side. If you've cropped out more green and washout on the left you could try leaving it in and introducing some straight, vertical (abstract) thing to anchor the side. I'm mostly talking out of my arse here, really, but I've heard that sort of thing often enough and who knows? maybe if we think about it an epiphany may come.

There's a brown ribbon in my portfolio if you want it :-)

Alice in Where?
by Ter

Comment:
What a lovely picture! You'll probably be crucified by the voters though. Never mind, eh.

Hunting
by pointandshoot

Comment:
Very painterly, very portrait.

The Fade of Day
by Trumpeteer4

Comment:
No great fan of all the glowy snowy stuff, but you've taken advantage of the new rules, good.

Follow Me Boys
by JuliBoc

Comment:
The whole picture all fits very well together.

Blues Solo in A-minor
by thegrandwazoo

Comment:
Lovely portrait. I think maybe (as a picture and maybe more than just a challenge response) the left hand could do with being either rhythmically cloned or having some motion blur.

Run, run, run, run...
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Great sense of movement - less great picture quality (over saturated and/or contrasted). You got great energy into the sequence though.

A Lapse In Time
by Ivory

Comment:
To the point :-)