FanGirl Alert!

Yet another digitally manipulated "stock" photo (from an artist on DeviantArt who has kindly posted gobs of stock photos for use with credit) of our favorite Potions Master. Personally I think this one is the best-rendered one I've done yet. This is image #3, of which series there may end up being 5 in total. Haven't decided yet if I'm going to bother with the last 2, but who knows. It's a nice cheap escape from making jewlery so it depends on the next time I need a break. :P



"Severus"

If the image seems a bit "rough", it's because of a brush texture I used which is really only beneficial to the viewer if the picture is printed out quite large or viewed at its original size (2400x3096). For comparison, the image shown here is only about 750x1000. The original stock photo was so grainy and overexposed (as were all of them) that using some sort of Photoshop filter to mask it was unavoidable.

So... what did I manipulate? In all the Snape Stock pics I had to change the nose (lengthen and narrow), narrow the entire face slightly, clean up the skin texture, desaturate just about everything, increase the contrast, darken the background, shorten the hair at the shoulder and lengthen the greasy strands next to the face, clean up the centre part in the hair, enhance the starkness of the eyes, and in this case also add the appearance of a white shirt peeking out from the cuffs of his coat. It was a lot of work, actually.


Many gracious thanks to Cobweb-stock for this brilliant stock image of himself (originally photographed by Lockstock).

Prints for sale on DeviantArt here, as well as on Zazzle (along with a crapload of other amusing Snape-themed stuff) here.


The other "Snape Stock" posts can be seen by clicking here.