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Skeletor and Evil-Lyn – Easy Photoshop Tips for Difficult Compositions

Skeletor and Evil-Lyn

This weekend I saw that Netflix added He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (all 130 episodes!), so I watched the first, The Cosmic Comet. There’s a scene in which Skeletor and Evil-Lyn scheme away, with Skeletor’s face filling the left side of the frame with Evil-Lyn visible over his shoulder. Thinking that it would be a good picture to recreate with the Masters of the Universe Classics Skeletor and Evil-Lyn, I tried – but could not. With the extreme closeup of Skeletor, I couldn’t set up my camera to keep both his face and Evil-Lyn in focus.

No problem! With Photoshop, I knew I could combine the elements I wanted from a few different pictures to get the composition I wanted. Best of all, it’s easy. Here’s what I did – you can use similar techniques to put together images that you normally couldn’t with a single shot from an ordinary camera.

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Playmates Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The fabulous green foursome is back! Playmates has returned from obscurity with their bread and butter, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is something many were not sure would ever happen. Given the relatively lackluster performance of Playmates last big lines, Terminator Salvation and Star Trek, we wondered if Playmates was about to head the way of Kay*Bee and disappear forever. But fortunately for us, they did not.

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DC Universe Classics Cosmic Odyssey

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I’ve often joked that Mattel and the Four Horsemen created the DC Universe Classics line so they could make every character from the epic comic from Jim Starlin and Mike Mignola that is Cosmic Odyssey – but seeing all these figures together, spanning the entire life to-date of this toy line, you have to admit that I may be onto something. The very first wave of the line gave us Batman, Etrigan, and Orion. That’s THREE out of the five figures in the first wave, all from Cosmic Odyssey!

And in the very first year of the DC subscription, the club exclusive figure is Metron – the New God whose quest for knowledge about the Anti-Life equation serve as the catalyst for the events in Cosmic Odyssey. Admit it – you think I’m right!

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Try These Four Simple Tips for More Interesting Action Figures Pictures

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Most of the pictures I take of my action figure collection are for reviews. For those types of pictures, one of the primary goals is to capture the figure as clearly as possible. That often means a generic composition, bright and even lighting, and a vanilla background. But when I’m taking pictures for fun, like if I just find something cool and want to capture it, or if I’m shooting something for a Best Of article, all that (boring) stuff can go out the window.

Here’s the four simple things I try to remind myself so I can take more interesting pictures.

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