Ok, that's a wordy title for a simple task - editing a photo that has been composited, and still needs work. In this post, fellow boardie monteb posted a beautiful poser render that he had composited into a photo of a gorge in France. Nice work, BTW.

However, being the nitpicker that I am, I saw a couple things that could be a little better:

1. The girl needs to be lit by a harsher light source. Since the sharp edge of her self-shadow indicates she is lit by the same source as the rest of the scene, her skin should be nearly as washed out as the rocks behind her.
2. She's not casting a shadow. Again, since she's casting a shadow on herself, she should cast a shadow on the rocks in the water.
3. She's not disturbing the water. The water around her feet looks too placid - it should be more heavily distorted by water ripples curling around her feet.

So I went in with our favorite program, and tried to do just that, and I think, for the most part, I was successful. There's only three layers of actual photo manipulation, and another for my little "modified by deadguy" logo. Tell me what you think.