Just a bit of fun with photoshop

[Dryad]

Here is what the original picture looked like:

Here is what I did afterwards:

 

Artist Credit Goes To: Rocul (on Deviantart.com)

:)

[cyber dragon fusion]

totally sweet like it good work ^.^

[Slash]

Not much change but it still looks good ^_^

[Kurtis]

Yeah not much change, made it smaller, added some shine and got rid of the backround. Still looks nice though.

[Bloodrun]

well what you did, is you stretched the picture out, so that you can eliminate the black box, and make it look like an actually background

 

nice job ^_^

[Dryad]

@ Bloodrun: Pretty much. It was much "Trial & Error" to get the background right, seeing as how:

A) I don't have the tools the original artist used on the background

& B) I couldn't just whip up a background that fitted the rest of the "Blank-spaced" background.

 

Steps I did do (Including the ones I not proud of):

1) Saved the picture

2) Minimized the white background (With Cut + Paste, several times)

3) Clone-stamped several different parts of the original background but didn't quite work to copy what the artist did originally (Not proud of)

4) Copied one small area and made it into the background (Sky, anyway)

5) Lightning Effects (Directional) along with adjusting the the sky color so its a more sky blue

6) (Several tries of) Lens Flare to make it seem more like a sunny day

7) Finishing touches (fixing spots that were accidentally clone stamped on or a black border line piece)

8 ) Done

 

Thanks for comments :)