deshone  01/30/05 @454

very good job and this is photo manip !! +9

tetbautista  01/30/05 @462

good one Brett.

Fogge  01/30/05 @514

Very impressive done! +7

ARTOONATOR  01/30/05 @530

As for the manipulation: well done!

h311fire  01/30/05 @559

Wow....I wish I could manipulate it like dat

wittykitty  01/30/05 @624

WOW! +10. That is some skill.

arbaon  01/30/05 @668

Really well done, I like what you've done here +10

Absolute-naut  01/30/05 @673

perfect work man +9

Wysiwyg  01/30/05 @682

WOW! I didn't really expect this kind of response..I know the photo is a tad blurry, but the original was given to me in Powerpoint. I really thought I would get some flame for the fact that this isn't the traditional photo manip posted here....thanks everyone. I also know I've been out of the loop for about a week and owe MANY of you a critique or two....I've been bookmarking works like crazy or writing your names down so I'll be catching up in the next few days. Thanks again for the support!

skulpturro  01/30/05 @726

E-marts was right; unfortunately most of us are too shy to post before and after pics. Thanks for blazing the trail, and nice work in the fabrication of a rather large percentage of the photo!! Max Points!!

Kurlowski  01/30/05 @795

Nice work Brett. Very innovative! I cant even tell it was manipulated! My max for you! 9/9 Stay safe over there!

skarpowicz  01/30/05 @830

Not too bad... sweetie. You're getting some mad skill over there!!!

Wysiwyg  01/30/05 @906

HOLY CRAP SARAH!!! WHEN DID YOU GET AN ACCOUNT!!!! HEY EVERYONE IT"S MY WIFE!!! I'll be home in a few months

kittyKat  01/30/05 @967

Very NICE now can you do me a BIG favor??? Photo manipulate the whole war thing and make it all go away??? pretty please with sugar on top??? I wish I could chop half of the men and woman who have lost their life's during this whole mess but I cant any ways very good photo minip HOOHRA! MP HELLO skarpowicz BRETTS WIFE

silentstudio  01/31/05 @123

great work with the manipulation!

DigitalDust  01/31/05 @365

Well done, soldier! Imperceptible manip. Great dupe of the car for the far right replacing the hummer - a composite of the one next to it and the front end of the car to the far left, I'm assuming? Wouldn't it be great to disappear that quick in real life and get your butt back home?!!

eremita  01/31/05 @371

Great Use of tecnique! Sorry Im so late... Impressive...

hady  01/31/05 @678

great one

Wysiwyg  01/31/05 @718

You are correct DD!! Good eye!

Chopper  01/31/05 @734

Another day without a mex-i-can-a...

omni  01/31/05 @746

omg its perfect!!

emarts  01/31/05 @759

I'm glad my comments didn't fall on deaf ears. I like what you did on this image, although the details are a bit hard to see at this resolution. I can really appreciate the work that goes into something like this as I get requests to remove things all the time. But many clients don't realize that when you remove something, you have to replace it too. I once had an image of a man sitting behind a desk with a whole bunch of products in front of him. The agency asked me to remove like half the products. I had to basically rebuild the body and arms of the man. But the client thought it was a simple operation. Anyway, I think you did a believable job on this and without mentioning the manipulations, hardly anyone would know. And to me, that's where the satisfaction is. One small crit, if I may. The reflection of the truck on the right (where you removed the military vehicle) looks a bit incomplete. As if the truck's front end got chopped off. Very minor though.

thienbao  01/31/05 @762

Amazing!! it's flawless.

nomaD42  01/31/05 @800

Brett, this is a very convincing manip. Great job man, you sure you didn't do it backwards? Paste the humvees and soldiers into a normal quiet street somewhere? Too bad that's not the way the real war is, photomanips, as opposed to real people. Get your butt home, so we have a real designers competition.

Cinnamon  01/31/05 @852

Great technical work!

curlyhair  01/31/05 @960

I've never done a photomanipulation,but I can see the contrst and i think that it is great photomanipulation(such a long word!) 9/9

Furitsu  02/01/05 @365

Ah, invisibles are some of the most difficult photomanips to achieve and you did great, Wysiwyg! I've been doing them for more than 10 years now and it's a challenge every single time. I can see some cloning/healing artifacts here and there. At times I have found it really usefull to combine cloning/healing with masking and airbrushing, and then later on using grain/noise to create a homogenous whole. Hey, I think you left the front of a truck intact, behind the tree left of center? Still, quite good!

Raphael  02/01/05 @383

Someone's been playing too much Command & Conquer methinks. good work

Arthony  02/01/05 @414

I respect the will to try something different. Seamless manip too

CityRose  02/01/05 @459

WOW. Okay, I don't know much about photomanip, but I know enough to know how much effort would have gone into this. Seriously, if you had posted the 3rd picture as a photo, I wouldn't have been able to tell that you'd done anything to it at all. Well done. As for the billboard- I always flip out when I see something that an artist here has done (comics, novel jackets, game covers, etc)- I just wish I could have seen your billboard in real life! I would have gone beserk! Well done Brett- good to see you aren't being paid for nothing. Lol

CityRose  02/01/05 @461

LOL HIYA SARAH!!! Hahaha, that's the sweetest thing ever.

Dax  02/01/05 @690

Very, very well done!!!

Kyena  02/01/05 @707

wow - manips always make me wonder what is actually still real..pretty scary thought too..

Andy--Jones  02/01/05 @713

Tres bon. Very clever concept there soldier. Seems to have more meaning because its on a crossroads!? Don't ask me why, but it does to me anyway.Keep up the work.

Hxkraft  02/01/05 @840

that's a great idea Once i had to remove all the people from a stunning image I had, but never posted work in progress

OkorO  02/02/05 @005

How long did this took you?. nice.

Wysiwyg  02/02/05 @671

Wow, thank you everyone for the crits/comments/ and compliments. I had no intention of this getting this much attention, especially a short stint at #1 in PhotoManip as it's not an 'artsy' composition, but instead a demostration of technique. Okoro~this took about 2 hours. As for any hidden meaning, nope nada zero zip zilch nil none....

EideticImage  02/05/05 @632

If you would have just posted the third one,I would have been completely oblivious to the fact that there were so many other people in that picture.Great Job

Almost-Human  02/05/05 @635

Top work, What hasnt been said isnt worth saying.. top work 9+

Phryneas  02/05/05 @668

Technically... great job although I whink Furitsu is correct, you missed somethin... politically... makes me a bit sad but I won't start that now and here..

Kaduflyer  02/05/05 @786

I bet if you'd just posted the 3rd pic in the photography section no one woulda spotted it for what it really is....impressive. You should do another and run a GFX competition: 'Spot the Soldier'...we all get ten chances to place an x where we think the soldiers were standing.

tomkoff  02/05/05 @842

great work brett

soulja  02/05/05 @855

hmm, technically good but i can't see much art in this... it looks not like a big deal to me. i think everyone who knows photoshop a little bit could also do it...

Furitsu  02/05/05 @891

Soulja wrote: "hmm, technically good but i can't see much art in this... it looks not like a big deal to me. i think everyone who knows photoshop a little bit could also do it..." Sure, and everyone who knows a little Painter can paint like Anry or Enayla. Invisibles take a lot of time, skill and effort to do right. But hey, try it yourself and post, okay?

Inabottle  02/06/05 @315

This is an amazing manipulation, and who says a photograph never lie... what you have done is a great manipulation, beacuse you cant tell that isnt the original. And thats what manipulation is about...

Wysiwyg  02/06/05 @337

Thanks  Furitsu for saying that.  soulja, I clearly put in the description (and later in the comments) that this was not meant to be a photomanip art composition, which dominates this site (and most others). This was meant to be a celebration of the 'technical' and 'commercial' aspects of photomanip. I also state in the comments above the shock that I have that this is being so successful in terms of comments and votes. I had no idea this would break the top 20 let alone hit #1. Thanks again everyone for your support. I hope that this will pave the way for more technical manips in the future (perhaps a Photomanipulation/Technical catagory.)

soulja  02/06/05 @826

Furitsu wrote: "Sure, and everyone who knows a little Painter can paint like Anry or Enayla." no, because not evereyone is talented in art, but everybody can learn using the stamp and the heal tool.. sure, i could do it, but it would be boring to me thats why i won't do it. wysiwyg, sorry if i missed that this was not meant to be an art composition. i didn't read every post before i posted. i just thought it was meant to be art because of the name of this community. and as i said, i think it's technically good, or let me say perfect. i don't want to offend or something, i just want to be honest.

Wysiwyg  02/06/05 @842

no worries

Medrano  02/07/05 @709

amazing +10

cupcake  02/07/05 @729

Great Job +9

NicoleZetty  02/07/05 @798

nice work

Davz  02/11/05 @704

phone the cia ^^ amazin ! gratz

reilanchan  02/12/05 @617

Wow. You did a great job I'm really not able to see on pic 3 what's missing. It' all looks natural

Madanapale  02/15/05 @281

Great Work Brett...that just look like my country 15 years ago...top marks +10/10

eowyn  02/16/05 @611

sorry for being so late Brett...awesome...I love this 10+

maytree  02/17/05 @465

great work, i never seen something like that before

scandiaca  02/18/05 @673

Of course this is art! Very good job, actually one of the most interesting pieces in this category.

Beckett  02/20/05 @971

that is great, how exactly do you do that?

Morre  02/22/05 @973

I thought I had already commented on this one... anyway, great piece. It's very impressing, although I find the three-step-layout rather disorienting, perhaps you could skip step 1, step 2 sort of shows the original anyway. If you want it, perhaps you could link to it instead. Keep up the good work!

monstru  02/27/05 @825

Amazing! I look at photo #3 and find something that looks a little suspicious, but when I check in photo#2 I realize those parts where already in the original image, this really is a job very well done.

glen  03/13/05 @822

wow, really great work not for the originality but the whole work in it. keep it!

flowjoe  03/22/05 @420

Impressive stuff as allways

Maximilian  03/25/05 @840

I still can't believe it//// +9

zimm  07/04/05 @940

excellent work on this, very impressive.....the clone patch tool is a wonder tool isn't it...... i noticed that you added an extra car in the background where the far left humvee was, .........i don't see this car in the original....it kind of looks like the one in the right foreground, but it isn't, is it? only thing that really stands out as this being a manip is that where the humvee is in the street in the background middle , the waves and the reflection don't match it's dissapearance, and that the right corner of the one car seems to be cut off..... otherwise, excellent usage of these tools, especially for a 2 hour job

Luke19  07/13/05 @943

tight!!! unique style!

speakfree07  07/27/05 @738

yeah, the source photos arent the best BUT your work is well done, very clean, good job

Peal  12/21/05 @172

awesome job, I like the concept!!!

Barbied0ll  12/21/05 @722

wow this is awesome! looks so realistic!! great manipulation! good job

Glacius  01/21/06 @277

damn dude that some amazing manipulation there 100% real i cant fault it at all im VERY stunned GREAT work glaC

Cigaro  01/21/06 @746

whoa this is perfect....no need to say that its perfect

X-plorer  02/13/06 @666

Maybe it has been said before allready but I only have one crit, and that is that its a little blurry which makes it a little easier to edit. But it is still a very nice piece of work.

ZedoCaixao  02/22/06 @272

man what a great job!!!!!!!!!!! 7/7

yosep071085  03/01/06 @748

How long did u do this fantastic manipulation?

moserArtist  03/04/06 @322

Fantastic illustration and execution on this photo manip work! You are very good!

DreamShadow  03/05/06 @921

impressive very good work! top marks from me

Gods-Mistake  04/07/06 @960

That's awesome! Damn, I can't believe that you removed the whole car and it still seems as if it's no manip!

Diane  04/08/06 @803

Wow, excellent work! I can't tell that things have been removed! +10

Juulesa  05/04/06 @590

Great work, I really enjoy this. =) I'm not sure if it's been mentioned (didn't read through the other comments) but I noticed one of the guys in the middle lost his arm. At least, I think so.. Alas, well done!

dark-girl  05/07/06 @946

i will just silently put my max and leave ok?

smartdesyr  05/14/06 @383

gr8 work... technically perfect i am afraid u are practicing this photomanip alot at the US army +7

Crazyreaper  06/03/06 @408

love it very clever, might have a go at something like that myself, if you dont mind

utkad  06/28/06 @589

wow that's rally coll are you super hyper secret agent?

arjun  07/12/06 @176

I can still see part of the closest Humvee where it touches the front right wheel of the pick-up truck. It's appears as an orange-ish line. But other than that, I know this kind of work is hard. Kool stuff.

SudnDeath  07/13/06 @827

great job - cant tell they where ever there +10

XeriuX  01/15/07 @861

brilliant, no other comment 7/7

sdavis75  04/05/07 @042

I've looked at this several times, yet somehow never left a comment. Anyway, this is impressive. You've demonstrated here great patience and an extraordinary attention to detail. Well done. +10

ceogar  08/05/07 @880

really really nice

navin  10/20/07 @217

AMAZING WORK!!! +1000