Storm & Other Edited Photos by TheNinthWave

I whited out the eyes, overlayed an X-Men logo, and chose a different background using gimp.

Woot!

Here's the story of a lovely lady...

I loved Brady Bunch reruns growing up. The movies are even better

Kill Bill

Fleetwood Mac all together -

Captain Janeway -

Technically it is edited, but I didn't do too much. Just had to get rid of that temple top it looked too much like a crown on top of the character's head. It's Elphaba from Wicked.

[Caribou]

If you'd moved the hat up a few milimetres, it would have hidden the top of the building without having to edit the picture.

Thanks for the tip, I'm still new at this.

[Caribou]

I used to edit almost all my old pictures, but as I've learned more tricks I've found that it's often unnecessary. My first attempt at Obi-Wan from The Phantom Menace was edited by cutting-and-pasting in MS Paint:



Then I had another go a couple of years later and found that I could make a much more realistic likeness without any editing at all:



There are literally hundreds of useful little tricks that you can pick up - for example, with your Storm picture you could make the X logo using text and a circular earring, and white-out her eyes using little white beards or something like that. Obviously the logo wouldn't look quite as neat as it does here, and you wanted to use a different background - but it's something to bear in mind if you're entering contests where editing isn't allowed. It's mostly a matter of experimenting and trial-and-error. And having lots of patience helps.

Yeah, I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Check out my Carrie in my unedited folder, I think that's the one I'm most proud of. Here is The Borg. I used a different background, and greyscaled the preset outfit.

B'elanna Torres