The Siren

This is beautiful work. That soft, even smooth skin texture is something that I am still striving to achieve. Very pleasing. The only things I can comment on, and it is a matter of personal preference is that I feel that a soft drop shadow on the flowers would anchor it to her face and give it a bit of depth. Another thing I do to 100% of my photo-manipulations (again, personal taste) is to add a vignette to the work once finished to increase the focus on the main theme and not have bright fringes compete with the composition.

The easiest manner I find to achieve a vignette is to click on Filter, Correct Camera Distortion (once the filter opens I click off the grid view at the bottom) then set the center of the vignette effect where I want it and then almost always I set the vignette to -100% and Voila! a vignette.

A more convoluted manner to make a vignette, but it gives you more control on the fading of the vignette, is to open a new layer fill it with 50% black (grey) and set the mode to overlay. Then choose the rectangular marquee tool and set the feather to 250px . Make your selection with marquee tool on you work, make sure that the foreground color is black and click alt delete. This should give you a vignette around your work that you can make lighter by fading the layer.

Like I said, its a matter of personal preference and you can experiment with it to see how it works for you <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title=" (Smile)"/>

PS I've been waiting to see more of your work too <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title=" (Smile)"/>