Ok, so I am doing something a little odd .... mainly just to play around and try to get to grips with all sorts of layers, blends, masks etc .....

I took a snap of me and then was trying to turn myself into an animal (clearly a tiger) in the jungle .....

I have been copying, pasting, painting, layering, all sorts .... I've actually really struggled and been getting impatient - but here is my final outcome ...

Does anyone have any advice on good ways to do this? Or if you fancy having a go yourself I've included the before and after! Well ... I couldn't make the files small enough to post, so .....

Before - http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=618129258&size=l

After - http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=618129208&size=l

James

Looks like you are doing quite well, James. :-)

You have zero shame

ant: hehe...

nicely done! go on! experiment, have fun! the results will show!

gerry

i think it looks very good...much better than i thought i was gonna see just by reading what it was lol.....maybe the sharp teeth need to be worked on....they seem a little bright...but maybe it's just my monitor....anyway...it's a thumbs up from me....i'm sure ur having a fun time with it.
ash

It looks cool to me and.... well... shamelessly done :P

One thing that caught my eye was the odd ammount of shadow bleeding off your (viewers) left arm. Dunno if that's a shoddy cutout or something you painted on the body and forgot to mask out, but that looked off. Otherwise it looked like you had some fun with it :)