Nice, very nice merg

I was gonna stick a flying dragon in the background too, but the peices refused to cooperate with each other well enough.

Cool picture, that plane looks really realistic and fits with the background almost perfectly, the textures look good too.

took a surprising amount of convincing to get it to look right.

but here the trick I figured out.

desaturate both layers by about half,

merge them,

created a new layer and fill it with a common colour in both of the previous layer.

turn down the opacity for the new layer

finally, merge all together.

Just throw in a little blurr/smudge after the engines to look like exhaust/heat - maybe a little jet stream airbrushed for good measure

Cool :)

Nice

weeee beautiful jet man *smiles and gives a thumbs up*

Very well done, looks like a real photo.

the background is a real photo >.o

Looks amazing.

That was a week well spent in my opinion. The model merges well with the background and the heat trails behind the engines is a nice touch.

Is it a straight black paint job on the plane, or is it some sort of a black/grey camoflage? I'm finding it difficult to tell.

I'm going to have to draw a variant of this when I get back from camping next week. It's too damn cool not to.

the heat trails are actually sratched on in photomanip, rather than 3D render.

And the texture is a subtle grey camo although some areas are use a uniform black metal texture.

Oh yes and glad to be of inspiration to ya.

Alright. Thanks.

I figured the heat trails were in the manipulation; how would you render it otherwise? ;)

there's a way, It involves using refractive particals I think, 3D game engines use it.

Soo very sick! Awesoem pic

Friggin' awesome!

It goes almost seamlessly with the photograph, nicely done.

Sukhoi Su-27 is my fave fighter of all time....x3