Beginner photo manips.

Hey there just looking for some critique on some of my very first photo manips. The first two are outcomes off of tuts that I found and the third one is just me mostly messing around with layers. Oh yea, sorry about stretching the forum to hell...didn't realize how big they are.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5600/eyewallcopy.jpg
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2162/fadesmokegirl.jpg
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7...nipulation.jpg

Not bad for a beginner. I like the last one best but it needs to be all solid not faded out otherwise it looks realllllly fake.