Okay now where to start with this picture...

Firstly I set my graphics to high in SL and took a picture or the landscape in a jungle in game. Uploading it into GIMP I edited the contrast, cropped it and enhanced the colour curves a little to make the green stand out more.

Next I took a picture of my avatar in my studio and cropped it to get rid of the background. I did alot of smoothing, some shading, adjusted brightness at contrast, added a little bit of soft glow and plonked her in the water (smudging around the base).

To create the reflection i copied the bottom of the pictur, rotated and flipped, and made semitransparent before smudging to give a rippled effect.

Lastly i copied part of the fern to make the shadow across her chest as the light is coming from behind it, inverted the selection and coloured it in grey.

Only been at this 2 months so i think its nae bad :D

Candii xx