Kick ass artist and possibly the greatest cover artist working in comics today, James Jean showed Graphics.com how to create a killer cover. For some reason it never occurred to me that he could be creating such amazing pieces of art using Photoshop, and I learned a few things from just this one little article. I’ve already got this little lesson bookmarked for further study.

“After I’ve finished coloring the image, I love to experiment with Curves and Color Balance to radically change the color scheme. The challenge is to maintain the integrity of the image since these techniques are ‘destructive’ and truncate the Histogram. After I’ve tweaked the image to achieve something interesting, I keep working on top of it, painting and scanning in textures to refine the image,”

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