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[EDIT} Fading Colors
Team Canon fill for the 2021 SteveTony Games ( stevetonygames )
Work Type: Edit
Universe: 616
Bingo Square: No Powers
Challenge: Color of the Year

In this page from Iron Man #303, Steve is telling Tony that his super serum is failing. In fact, not only is he losing his enhanced abilities, but also his health, and he'll soon fall into a coma.

I approached this edit by using Photoshop's magic wand tool to select the various colored areas from the original page (including the blacks and the whites). Each selection became a mask on a color fill layer set to one of the six colors from the Pantone palette. Then I had to manually fill in/correct some areas that didn't select nicely. And finally, I used an adjustment layer to turn the blacks to one of the palette colors as well. I couldn't quite get all the blacks out - maybe could do so spending a lot more time to refine edges of selections and so on, but I did this fairly quickly, and had never done something quite like this before, so all in all, I consider it a successful experiment to fulfill the challenge. I picked the Pantone "Aviary" palette because it had colors relatively close to several of the colors in the original page, and I color-replaced with the closest colors available. However, upon reflection, I think it would also have been fun to try switching up the colors, or using a palette less related to the colors in the original. Maybe I'll try something similar sometime to both refine the technique and also get a little more adventurous with the effect of it.

Here are the edit, the Pantone palette swatch set, and the original page: