Okay, I'm not sure what to do with this now..., hmmmmm. Options

[theerinkal]

Here's my original image.

I completely cut the image from the background and pasted it on a new background.
I made the cloud, sky, sun with help from this tutorial.

This is what I came up with:

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What should I do?
Start from scratch? Change the text? I've got NO idea.

[AncientWhisper]

I'm not going to be too discouraging. :]

I think you need to look into brushing, using textures... like, don't be afraid of touching the main image. Don't be afraid to brush over.

The sky looks okay, and the clouds do not look too bad but they don't really look like clouds. ^_^;;; Neither does the sun.

Why don't you try using gradients, textures, more shapes, and not just trying to make the image into another image. Like add a look and feel to it. Make it grudgy, dreamy etc.

As for the image, it looks like it was extracted with the magic wand tool, hence the edges of the girl is pixelly. You should try learning pen tool if you can. The pen tool can go long ways with designing.

[theerinkal]

I'm not going to be too discouraging. :]

I think you need to look into brushing, using textures... like, don't be afraid of touching the main image. Don't be afraid to brush over.

The sky looks okay, and the clouds do not look too bad but they don't really look like clouds. ^_^;;; Neither does the sun.

Why don't you try using gradients, textures, more shapes, and not just trying to make the image into another image. Like add a look and feel to it. Make it grudgy, dreamy etc.

As for the image, it looks like it was extracted with the magic wand tool, hence the edges of the girl is pixelly. You should try learning pen tool if you can. The pen tool can go long ways with designing.

I used the pen tool. It's probably all pixelly because I wasn't as close to the image as I should've been.