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Ugh, I started working on this a few days ago I got most of it done then but I had to stop cause of work. I finished it today was having a couple problems with the light and getting the grass to look right.

I am a little sad when I was going to upload this image I went and browsed down and seen someone had the same concept as far as the front of the castle goes. /Cry\ I worked really hard on this getting the texturing right and everything so I am uploading it anyways. Sorry

I used the image meadow, created by hilleke thanks for the free image hilleke.

everything else, the texturing the clouds were done by me with brushes and motion blurs.

I tried my best to create transparent water, but its not perfect. Windows , border and texture for wall taken from source.

I have attempted to give this rock formation the shape of a human hear with the ventricals and what not...you may not see it but it is there.I thought the castle reminded me of the lyrics to a sing about building a castle in a persons heart..
Some images are from Computer arts magazine and were free to download and use the vectors (clouds and such) are made by me.
thanks to kitsos at SXC.Hu for the waterfall!

I was going for a realistic blend of the two photos hope you enjoy. The Mini putt course picture is my own and the shadows were made from a the brush tool.

I used two layer masks for the water and the sky. I used a soft brush with low opacity to create the night time effect on the castle. I used various star brushes for the sky, both in white and blue. I used various grass brushes for around the mote, also in different colors. The sky layer mask also cuts into the trees so you can see the night sky through them. I removed the water spout on the closest wall. I also added a reflection to the water. I did this by creating a new layer and flipping it vertically. Then I did a warp transform on it. I got the water image from Hilleke. It was originally a statue of a boy squatting by a small pool of water. I stretched the water way down and placed it in the mask for the mote..... Okay, I changed a few things. I added star reflection, tree reflection, leaves and adjusted the input levels to make it appear more like night.