Before/After Series - Iron Man Argonath

I always thought that the way Iron Man does his "Talk to the hand" stance looked hauntingly familiar 

For your consideration...

Mash-up of the Argonath from Lord of the Rings and Iron Man & War Machine.

Before (2 images)

After

(Its even big enough for wallpaper...You're welcome)

Methods:

Various blending modes

Pattern/texture overlays

Lighting/shadows

Cloning/rebuilding background

Before/After Series - Captain Moroni and the Title of Liberty

Original

(image by Arnold Friberg)

 

After

Before/After Series - Nemo

Anyone who has an iPhone would recognize this image: 

But when combined with my all-time favorite Disney/Pixar movie...You get this!

Before/After Series - A Single Leaf

I designed the cover of the upcoming novel, A Single Leaf.


               Original Image:                                                                                      Modified Image:

Final Book Cover:

I also helped set up a blog to promote awareness of the book.  You can view it Here.

Editing Elements: 

• Cutting elements out 
• Replacing background
• Color adjustment

Before/After Series - Color

This is a stock photo that a client, LIFE as it COULD be, wanted to use.  The problem: Their color scheme called for yellow, not pink.

Original image:

Final Image:

Before/After Series - Photo Editing

This is a picture of my wife's grandparent; they are on the ends.  Apparently pictures of the two of them together are fairly hard to come by... So I was tasked with making one...

 

Before

 After