Great work, guys! I'm so glad more people are entering this.
I have just a couple of comments you can chose to ignore if you want. Everyone helped me so much by being constructive so I'm hoping to do the same. And most of this feedback will depend on which program/s you're using to edit your images...anyway, hope it helps.
Sian: Darkfall: The composition is fine, but the image is a little dull. Try tweaking the contrast, and perhaps adding more mist/light?
Darksong: The castle has been jaggedly cut around the top - take a bit of time on that layer to make it look neater (I can see blue sky between the bricks, and the clouds behind are grey). Details, details :P and again, I would tweak the contrast again, to make the colours, particularly the roofs, more striking. Try get rid of the orange square down the bottom, too. Keltor has an indigo-tinted sky and red sun, so the colours can be heightened a little to suit an alien world's lighting.
Darkbane: Your second Darkbane cliff is much more realistic - I'd definitely go for that. I think it's my favourite out of the three! Try to ditch the green square in the bottom right corner of Darkbane, though.
Also, some advice about text: try using some Anti-aliasing on your "Book # of the Legendsong" text, to make it smoother. I have a tutorial on anti-aliasing here if you're interested:
~Link~If you're worried about it blending into the background for Darksong/bane, then try putting a slight stroke (border) around your text, in a brighter colour (that is close to the background image's colour). I would also have a play with your title text - black text is fine, font is fine but I would toy with putting a shadow or something beyond it, to give the title and author some more depth.
Arwen:Composition is good, colour depth is nice, but your text detracts a little from the piece.
- Isobelle is lost in the arrow. I'd suggest one of three things - either:
-- put the arrow down the left side, instead of horizontal, so it's not cutting into Isobelle.
-- put a drop-shadow or stroke/border around Isobelle (tweak the opacity, it can be slightly transparent.
-- make the arrow layer a little less opaque (reduce the whole layer's opacity to eg. 50%, and see if it makes Isobelle stand out a little more). Actually this might also work with the border suggestion. Anyway have a play with it.
The white dots around Darkfall are a little distracting, too. I tend to find when I get images like that, that would be a pain to sit there and hand-delete every single white pixel on (or even magic wanding it can be a waste of time) - it helps to put an internal shadow on the layer. This will give your text a neater edge and 'magically' get rid of those white pixels that you don't want to spend too much time removing. It goes well with drop-shadows (on the same side as the internal shadow)...have a play and see what results you get.
Glynna (I assume it's Glynna, with blonde hair? Correct me if I'm wrong) is a little too hand-cut-out, as well. Around her coat, I'd try using a selection tool to define your own smoother/rounder edge, and then blur it a bit, so the left-most line doesn't look so straight. You could try the tricksy inner shadow (or inner glow works just as well) on her layer, to make the pixels around her hair blend and not look as blocky.
Lastly - and this is a
really picky little thing, but I thought I should mention it - there's lamp posts in your cathedral image, and a flag. The flag could stay but I'd try to paint out the lamp posts, or substitute them by overlaying them with flame-like lanterns.
I hope this helps a bit guys and like I said at the beginning, I just hope this is constructive and am just trying to offer as much help as I received when I put my entries up :)