| collosus
 DPerceful  2004/7/22 19:39
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this is a quick manip i did of collosus using a method i came up with. it is nothing more than multiple dodging and burning of an image and coloring via color balance to create the effect. i hardened the face with some lines and set the layermode to overlay. if you would like to see how the process plays out you can look at my tutorial at
http://www.comics2film.com/StoryFrame.php?f_id=8718&f_sec=11
dan |
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| Colleen Wing: Hoochies 4 Hire
SCTreeguy 2006/9/5 2:43
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| Coal Tiger - Part 3 of approx 12...
QuantumFX 2004/8/14 11:35
3064 4
| 3 down, only Freebooter, Thunderstrike, Bluestreak, Darkdevil, Crimson Curse, J2, Stinger, and American Dream to go. |
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| Cloak and Dagger
MadChao 2011/2/20 9:17
2863 4
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| Cloak and Dagger
daswook 2011/9/11 13:38
2299 1
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| Cloak and Dagger
daswook 2010/1/6 2:59
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Cloak: A servant of the darkness that hungers within our souls.
Dagger: A mistress of the light of hope that resides within our hearts.
No two people could ever have been so different, yet needed each other more. |
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| Cloak & Dagger
SCTreeguy 2007/2/11 4:33
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I still need help with my edges!!!
I've been using 'Quick Mask' combined with the 'Pen Tool' and then I try using the 'Blur Tool' and/or a small feather radius on my selection edges. As you can see the result is fair, but far from realistic or life-like. Any tips or suggested tutorials? |
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| Cloak & Dagger
Wolverine1607 2005/11/4 15:30
3979 6
| I thought I'd try doing some white clothing this time so I picked Cloak and Dagger to do. Take a look and let me know what you think! Thanks! |
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| Clea
daswook 2011/9/11 13:37
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| Civil War: Who's Side are you on?
daswook 2011/10/1 23:50
2501 1
This took me over 40 hours to make . It was a lot of hard work but fun as hell at the same time. I hope you all like it. 
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| Christina Aguilera is ... Spiral!
matrixblur 2006/12/27 22:33
7689 23
Edited: Added a background more suited to the character.
Spiral is one of my all-time favorite characters.
Before joining Heromorph, I never considered things like "casting" & "frankensteining" when doing photomanips. Silly I guess, since the great part of this medium is that there are no rules. So when it came to doing Spiral, it occured to me Christina Aguilera would be perfect, even if I could not find a picture of her in the perfect pose. |
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| Chaparanga
MadChao 2011/3/4 2:38
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| CHAMBER
robzero 2004/10/18 8:15
3548 6
| this is a female version of the x-men's chamber. this is my first manip so i kept it simple. i added the x on her neck, some make up, the cracks on the face and some lighting on the face. hope u like! |
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| Challenge: Super Skrull Strikes!
Kev_Incal 2006/12/3 21:56
3957 12
| The second Challenge of the Artists has been posted. Art Notes in the first post... |
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| Challenge: Absorbing Man vs Thor
effektdmentality 2007/1/7 11:53
4218 7
This was for dperceful's first challenge in the Challenge of the Artists tournament, Absorbing Man vs the mighty Thor. Here's the rather long-winded notes:
For my first foray into the Challenge, I wanted to have a battle scene of Absorbing Man and Thor, where thor was ambushed, with maybe the other Avengers coming to help.. For quite a few days, I was torn between whther I should manip it or draw it by hand, but ultimately I chose manipping. I used Photoshop CS primarily, and close to 120 or so layers in total. First, I drew out a thumbnail of the battle, which I then threw into PS. Keeping it as a guide, I started searching for base pics, and I happened across a bodybuilding site with a ton of poses by just googling "bodybuilder poses"
I found a back pose that was perfect for Absorbing Man, so I took it, repositioned the arms a little, and erased the legs. The pants are from a medical scrubs online catalog with a sand texture added on top, and the boots are Lugz from an urban footwear website. I made the ball and chain from scratch, using liquefy to warp the chain. Next, I found brick and metal diamond plate images on the web, and overlayed them onto the arms and ball. I used liquefy to warp the guy's face as well, and the clone tool to strech and shape his head into Absorbing Man's egg-shaped dome. Some dodging/burning to fix shadows/highlights was added as a finishing touch.
Next came Thor. From the same site, I found two separate poses, one for the upper body and one for the legs. With a little franking I was able to shape the pose into the one shown. I copied the body layer and desaturated it for the costume, erasing parts I didn't need, like the arms. I separated the costume layer into the pants and top, using hue/saturation and color balancing to color them. The helmet, belt, and boots were created from scratch. A Dolph Lundgren screencap from the "He-Man" movie provided the head, and a redhead from a hair styling website provided the hair. The helmet wings and hammer are from the Thor hammer prop set. I made the shoulder parts of the cape from scratch, and the cape itself was from a medieval costume site, recolored from green to red. I also copied a portion of the cape to make it look like Thor was holding it in his left hand. Again, used D/B to fix and enhance the contrast. Some lightning from a weather photography site, with a little blue outer glow, finished off Thor.
Lastly, the brick wall and background. I started off with the NYC background. I took a picture of Times Square from the net. Next, I used dperceful's destruction tutorial link in the Artist Help thread of C2F's DCG forums to take some chunks out of some buildings, though it's been mostly covered by the brick wall and characters. I added tiny pictures of other Avengers on the roof of a building on the left, Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron man, Wasp, and Vision. Threw all that onto a Filter-render-clouds background.
The brick wall and flying debris was last. I found a brick wall desktop background on the web, and skewed/perspective'd it to look like it's going away from the viewer. I then cut out a random hole in the wall. I recopied the layer and moved it underneath and to the right, to give the brick wall some thickness, using the clone tool and D/B to rework the wall. Filled the hole's empty space with black, and rendered some brown/white clouds to create dust. Next, I modeled some crude bricks in Blender, some 3d modelling freeware I found out about in high school. I took a picture of maybe 5-6 all flying at the camera, then moved the pic into PS and duplicated it a bunch. Lastly, added some motion blur to make it look like the bricks were flying. Added my signature as some graffiti and that finished off the background. 12ish hours and 120+ layers. |
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| catching her breath...
Billy 2005/8/21 16:20
4423 13
| here's my first attempt at spiral...hope you like her...let me know what you all think....enjoy... |
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| catch a black cat
BatMic 2004/8/22 14:36
6360 12
| i was doing another manip of BC but it wasn't working out so i switched to this one. tried some different lighting effects to get a feeling of her being caught in the act. |
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| Carol Danvers
DAGhoul 2007/3/2 7:06
3804 7
| The Avenger's hottest AirForce soldier is back in action! |
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| Carmen Electra is... "Electro"...
se7endaze 2007/5/31 1:05
3333 7
No pun intended... lol 
A Cross Gender work of a Spidey-Villain for "Spidey Month"... Enjoy! Spidey time
See you on the flipside... |
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| Captain Marvel
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:43
4959 5
| The original one for Marvel anyway. |
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| Captain Britain
JMPerkins 2011/8/26 15:51
6414 5
| Did this one today. Couldn't think of a good name for it. |
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| Captain Britain
LocalHero 2003/10/20 13:57
3536 5
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| Captain America, Vagabond, Free Spirit and Diamondback
BRaZZZil 2005/10/1 19:56
4748 8
| Ok, know I know, not this very cool, very am not inspired, but saying of these two Vagabond and Free Spirit somebody knows where comics they already had appeared? I am lost! I made two heroines who I not know if he exists? :) |
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| Captain America
SilverFangs 2008/9/14 7:30
11392 26
Captain America Ultimate. Model: Stacy Keibler  |
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| Captain America
movmad 2008/11/27 13:02
3092 4
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| Captain America
Orlock 2005/4/20 17:19
3198 12
| My fourth Hero Manip since picking up this highly addictive hobby. Let me know what you think, feedback helps! |
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| CAPTAIN AMERICA
XAVIX 2005/9/28 23:27
6252 18
| She is not hot.............she is burning!!! |
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| Captain America
DarqueImages 2003/8/26 22:29
4183 3
| ...just a reminder...AMERICA kicks arse! |
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| Captain America
hero454 2006/4/17 11:10
7352 23
"Storming an Axis fortress alone, Capt. America's enemies are inexplicably distracted by the patriotic uniform..."
Sincere thanks to all replies. I agree: shield looked out of place; added shadows and reflections to tie it together. |
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| Captain America
LocalHero 2004/10/18 8:15
4220 5
| Oldie. Peta Wilson.Same base photo as for my Invisible Woman.. |
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