Comprehensive families of copulas including the three basic copulas (at least as limit cases) are useful tools to model countermonotonicity, independence, and comonotonicity of pairs of random variables on the same probability space. In this contribution, we study how the transition from a (basic) copula to a copula modeling a different dependence behavior can be realized by means of ordinal sums based on one of the three basic copulas, perturbing one of the three basic copulas (considering some appropriate parameterized transformations) and truncating the results using the Fréchet-Hoeffding bounds. We provide results and examples showing the flexibility and the restrictions for obtaining new copulas or comprehensive families and illustrate the development of their dependence parameters.