Thanks James,

The top file is straight from the camera. The rest are manipulated to various degrees. I'll pull up the RAW files on one or two of them and do a "conversion only" post. tomorrow.

"Torment" was just a crop, rotate, burn and then use the smudge tool to add some fangs.

The "Skull" in the skull and bones looks exactly as it did from the camera save for a levels adjustment, and copying it into a new file. The "bones" were pulled from another image. Basically, I had a "piece of smoke" that looked like one end of the bone and I duplicated it a few times, rotated it and blended it together to form the whole thing.

The Wizard, is very close to as shot. I did a levels adjustment and some dodge & burn along what looked like folds in a wizard's robe to me.

This one (tell me what you think it is, opinions vary) has not ben manipulated other than levels and a crop.



This one came from two images. One looked like a throne and the other some sort of wild alien warrior king thing. I combined them and ran them through some filters like glowing edges and a few others I don't remember at the moment.