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Beautiful and original! I like it! My only "critique" would be the heat blur. I think you should use the blur tool to smoothe the edges abit.

Yup, what An-225 said is true, but other than that this is a great looking edit !  Nice job 8-).

- Kevin; D

personaly to soften the edges i would of made the heatblur on a new layer (copy and paste the selection you watned to blur and put it on top)  apply my blur effects and use a realy soft erasor with a large diameter.

but good attempt none the less

Well with real heat haze, you don't get a particularly blurred 'edge' on it. It's quite a sharp change between the distorted area and the unaffected area.

Like so:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1091321/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1009013/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1154491/L/

So I believe this pic is pretty true to life.

Well with real heat haze, you don't get a particularly blurred 'edge' on it. It's quite a sharp change between the distorted area and the unaffected area.

Like so:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1091321/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1009013/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1154491/L/

So I believe this pic is pretty true to life.

It seems that when a Harrier hovers close to the ground the heat blur isn't concentrated beneath the exhausts.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1018110/M/