Sherwood Forest Fairy Composite

Yesterday I added a post about the Sherwood Forest Faire.  Today, I decided to take four of the images I captured of the fairies and make a composite in a forest setting.  The two background images of the forest are stock images.  The four fairies are images I captures at…

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Sherwood Forest Faire

The Sherwood Forest Faire opened yesterday at their beautiful setting in McDade, Texas just 35 miles East of Austin.  While a 2 hour drive for me from San Antonio, this is one of my favorite events each year, and I will probably try to go back at least once during it’s…

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A Pirate’s Dream – Photoshop Composite

I’ve been practicing several Photoshop techniques building posters, blending images with textures and adding special effects.  I decided to bring several of these design techniques together into one composite that I named, “A Pirate’s Dream”. As I don’t have access to models or a studio, I used images that I…

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Darth Vader Poster

The second of my Star Wars creations – Darth Vader.  I had originally planned to put several of the villains together, but thought I would have a poster for each.  I did have a couple other images of Darth Vader that I cut out, but I really couldn’t figure out…

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Boba Fett Finished Poster

Finally after a week of building elements such as planets and galaxies, cutting subjects out of images with the pen tool,  extracting fire and explosion from their background with a channel selection in Photoshop, and merging multiple images from my own library, I have a finished poster. I didn’t count…

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Boba Fett the Bounty Hunter

I started my first Star Wars series and have finished just the top scene of the Boba Fett poster.  Overall I hope to complete about 4 or 5 posters with the various images that I captured of the characters.  The first one will be the famous bounty hunter Boba Fett…

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