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Final Product, Text, Sharpening and Accent Added.
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Raw Photo, background extracted.
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ColorGraded [This is actually very strong]
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Watercolor Masking
This was a fun project to play with accenting colors and minimalistic principles. In a way, it just came from playing around and seeing how far I could take the water color concepts that I played with on my previous project. The phrasing Xmen Lead the Way is a play on words from the Army Rangers motto, Rangers Lead The Way [too much COD lol] The Rangers/Marines are America's first line of combative defense, and in comics, the Xmen are humanity's first line of defense, thus the title.