Originally Posted by
Slave
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What lewk should have said is as follows:
You are creating flow, but your depth is off, when you have too much of your effects/bg blurred you are infact passing off just lack of detail minus the focal, you want the focal ofc to catch the eye, but you should as well try to blend in the effects better so as to show her in the placement. Such as only bluring lightly some effects and leaving others that are closer to her in full, or just dabbing areas.
Your have a good collection of colours here but they all seem very high, as if you might have all your effects on line dodge/screen etc. I would suggest either toning them down some or get a new layer on top of your finished product, fill it with gray then take your burn/ dodge tools and on low opacity start giving depth/shadow to special areas such as under her, to the left of her etc.
There is no clear rule to art and or text, but text leading away from the focal will distract the viewers eye and in fact pull the eyes attention away from the most important part, your focal, if having a hard time with text just leave it out, or try and find more natural placement, such as the rule of thirds.
Hope I helped explain some :D
Lewk for a CnCer I am disappointed, if going to give such negative feedback be sure to explain why, ppl won't learn if they do not understand how/why something might be wrong/off.
I hope to see better CnC from you in the future.