I like it a lot and it seems to be the case with Chicken also here. The scratched/old looking effect on the picture fits it nicely because to me it loks a little old west. But good job I enjoyed seeing this one, 9/10.
Showe me the original image. Hearing all you did was soften it up a bit, which takes literally 30 seconds to do, it's a terrible thing to post. Anyone could learn how to soften up an image a little in a few minutes.
So if you show me the original image, I may change my mind, but I doubt it.
Try to get into heads and things for a start I'd say.
Making heads, you will learn about a lot of things you can do using the tools and the filters. Also, to widen your knowledge of all the things you can do to images, I recommend trying actually making signatures, avatars, banners and so on. (gfx.)
Next time though, really, show some very noticable changes and things on the image with an effect applied maybe that you've actually made from scratch, because there is nothing to give CnC to here.
It's easy to (I'm just guessing here) duplicate the image, lower the opacity and blur it or add a glow and perhaps lighten it up a little.
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