Thank you for the link Frankie, but I realized I had a photo of mine I could possibly doctor...well I'm working on it!!

Teddy....I was thinking something more along the lines of this. This was a quickie wall job which took about 5 seconds to do just to show an example of what I was thinking.

Okay, so here is where I am at now.

You can upload it to MediaFire...thats what I use when I need to send a huge file...and its free.

That looks good to me!

Here's where I'm at with a new background. Suggestions please. I opted for different trees, one of the brushes Po sent my way.

I'm not sure of the creepy tree though. If I can change the color to a darkish brown it might work better. As it is it blends too much into the background.

Thats kinda cute for a lite halloween image...my advice is to add some squiggly trails coming off the house.Make it more see thru and blur some of the harsher edges.The distortion effect is actually effective tho maybe a bit too strong...it does have a sort of Tim Burton feel to the house.The idea of a house not only being haunted but also being the ghost is a cute idea.

Add some glows to ghost and house maybe?(can never go wrong with blue tinted glows haha)(maybe orange yellow glows around the windows and door)

The biggest problem is the background...its too real for the subject in my opinion.

I would seperate the trees from the sky and cartoon them up to match the rest of the subjects.

The entire image is compositionally awkward...the house is dead center and using up too much room...increase the size of the background and move thing around a little...give it some breathing room.

And...what?...no full moon in a ghost picture? hehe

Now you have a brown halo on the tree. The tutorial will tell you how to avoid this. Another thought would be to use a nice cloud brush behind your tree to give it definition. Clouds look more realistic if you do two or three layers and invert the bottom layer. At this time of year the ground cover should really be more brownish than green. You also will need some adjustments along the tree bottoms on the right.

Frankie I like the mist you added on the bottom. I think it's ready to go. I don't look at where will my icons go or how they'll look because that's what they made Fences for. I would definitely wear this as a wall or as a great Halloween LogOn. I know that you have windows live, maybe post it to your sky drive, that is if you need a place, to avoid registering at media fire. I look forward to seeing this on the boards. I find your brushwork here captivating.   

Uvah...I'm gonna be straight with you...I dont,in my opinion,see any amount of improvements fixing that composition.

First your hampering your self starting from a 1280x1024 image ratio.(5x4)Which was common on earlier laptops but is declining rapidly.

Start BIG and work your way down on the final by reduction and cropping.I often make a 2560x1600 image and judiciosly scale and crop til I reach 1024 x768.With a lot of rezzes in between.(and different aspect ratios)My monitor is a 1920x1200 but my tv is 1920x1080 but no need to make 2 images for those 2 aspect ratios...just set the wall to center and it will display slightly cropped on the tv.

This means you dont need TWO sets of widescreen walls...tho by my own logic,you wouldnt need any 4x3 walls either,only 5x4's.The reason this isnt really so is because 1280x1024 was the only 5x4 ratio that I can thing of that was common.All others were 4x3(the largest being 1600x1200 mostly)

So my long winded post is...work BIG and in widescreen...even if you monitor isnt.(I mean the image,not actually changing your monitors rez to something wrong)haha.

Just to be fair...here is a comp I was working on for fun.I wouldnt upload it for 2 reasons...I cant remember where I got all the original images(even tho I shopped them so much nobody would ever mistake them for the originals) and its still too rough in some places.

Yes it looks pretty cool but I wanted awesome and I just wasnt quite there with it so I shoved it on a backburner to maybe revisit someday.

Its main problems are right in the center where the 3 roads meet...its just too obvious they were shopped together poorly.There are also some bad cloning going on at the sides of the center road.

While I was proud of the rock sculpturing I painted in by hand...the stone lion faces dont look as good as the faces above.Used the same techniques but it just didnt work there.They need reworking.

The car has a bit of forced perspective on it but its a surreal image so I figured I might get away with it.

The angels sword looks awkwardly placed but I liked the fire I added to it.

Theres more but thats the worst of it.

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By working larger than you need you give the project room to breathe and it gives you cropping options...so it dosnt all look like a tv show.

Filmmakers frame their comps different for movies than they do for tv. Film isnt afraid to back off and leave some space around the sides.You can always crop closer in and because you started bigger than you needed you wont lose quality.

When I make walls for blinds,they are mostly very close to the size they will be when final...but when I am making art I go way bigger than I need for final.Like over 3000 pixels wide.