Retro Super Hero: Batman

Retro Super Hero: Green Lantern

Next in line in the DC Universe Figure... Green Lantern.

Retro Super Hero: Superman

First in a series of figures :)

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Pin Up Effect

Using one of my favorite characters on TV (Joan from MadMen) I created a vintage pin up style effect from the following image:

Here is the after (Check out her hair and dress for the smoothed out, painted effect):

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Dragan Effect

I stumbled across the bizarre photography work of Andrzej Dragan some time ago. Recently I found a tutorial that attempted to simulate his technique. I deviated a bit from the tutorial in order to generate the background for the portrait.

Here is the before

and the after

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Vintage Sports Card

This was a fun way to create a retro sports card. I used a photo I took at a Serra Football game. I wish I would have had a picture of our stands to use instead of the generic one I found.

Football Grunge

I really like the original picture so I tweaked with it again. I found some really cool old paper textures, tweaked with the color balance, high pass, texturizer and sharpening. Fun stuff.