James Fridman Takes Photoshop Requests Way Too Literally
If you ask designer James Fridman to “make my skin look smoother” or to “remove my uncle” from a picture, the results might surprise you. The designer is known for taking Photoshop requests WAY too...
View ArticleDana Keller Adds Lifelike Color to Black & White Photos
Dana Keller is breathing life into historic black and white images. There’s always an element of detachment between old photos and reality, but with the help of Photoshop, Keller is bringing colorful...
View ArticleFigures from Classic Paintings Jump into Contemporary Life
The works you saw in art history class can seem rather distant. Nude angels dancing through Romanesque buildings, or despondent figures in flowing robes don’t have much in common with modern life. But...
View Article26 Incredible Resources Every Designer Should Know
How do you create good design? The difference between success and failure is often as simple as having the right resources. We’ve rounded up 26 of our favorites, from Photoshop plugins, to UI elements,...
View ArticleWhat Are the Most Common Tools Designers Use?
Designers have more tools at their disposal than ever before, with more and more available as technology and publishing platforms evolve. Naturally, industry standards like Photoshop and Adobe...
View ArticlePhotoshop Wiz Dad Places His Adorable Daughters Into Crazy Adventures
IT director by day, Photographer/Photoshop Wizard Extraordinaire by night, John Wilhelm brings his imagination to life with the help of his 3 adorable daughters. At 5.5 years old, Lou is the big sister...
View ArticleAwesome Album Art Shows An Out of Body Meditation Experience
Through the practice of meditation, especially in sensory deprivation tanks, people can achieve psychedelic, out of body experiences. Australian artist Lewis Smart depicts this in a unique bird’s eye...
View Article“Make Me Beautiful.” That’s What Esther Honig Said When She Sent Her Picture...
“Make me beautiful.” That’s the simple instructions Esther Honig sent with her un-altered portrait to Photoshop enthusiasts around the world. What the Kansas City-based freelance journalist received...
View ArticleHow to Accurately Fix White Balance in Photoshop Using a 50% Gray Point
There are a number of ways to get proper white balance in your photos, but many of them are fiddly, and ultimately less than accurate. This fantastic tutorial speeds you through an exceptional...
View ArticleIt’s a Sad World After All: A Post-Apocalyptic Vision of Disney World
There are few places more creepy than an abandoned amusement park, and “the happiest place on earth” is no exception. DeviantArt artist eledoremassis02 has captured Orlando’s Disney World and...
View ArticleThe Easy Way (and the Hard Way) to Make a GIF from a Video
Animated GIFs have been around since CompuServe introduced them in 1987. Since then they’ve been used for everything from MySpace glitter graphics (uggg…), to sweet dance clips, and some really refined...
View ArticleHilariously Subversive Products and Signs Placed to Entertain Random Customers
For months Jeff Wysaski has been covertly placing fake installations into everyday society. He is the creator of the subversive product remixing project, tumblr site, and sometimes fake company,...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Remove the People from Classic Paintings?
Our eyes have a special place for the human face and figure. In almost any image we see, that’s where our eyes go first. But what if those eye-catching humans were removed? Spanish artist José Manuel...
View ArticleStunning Images of Maasai Warriors by Lee Howell
A still thriving pastoral tribe in Southeast Africa, the Maasai people inhabit southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania, typically speaking the languages of both countries. The nomadic warriors have been...
View ArticleWhy Did This Woman Use Photoshop to Convince Her Family She Went on a Trip To...
Most people that plan a trip to South East Asia… actually go. But not Zilla van den Born. She skipped out on all the travel to create a highly provocative school project that’s making waves around the...
View ArticleHello Kitty Takes Over The Wardrobe Of The Avengers
Did you ever wonder what superheroes might look like if elementary school girls could design their costumes? Three Tumblr users who go by the names Dreamstore, Legolas, and Nerdwegian have combined...
View ArticleHere’s A Double Take: Photographer Merges Two Faces Into One Unreal Portrait
These incredible portraits are quite literally “two-faced.” Croatian photographer Ino Zeljak’s uncanny series Metamorfoza merges the faces of two different people to create impossible yet remarkably...
View ArticleWatch Out Monsters… These Kids Fight Back
So there’s a monster in the closet? Under the bed? No big deal… at least for the kids in French photographer/digital retoucher Laure Fauvel’s series ‘Terreurs.’ The children in her images are fighting...
View ArticlePhotoshop Wiz Dad Places His Adorable Daughters Into Crazy Adventures
IT director by day, Photographer/Photoshop Wizard Extraordinaire by night, John Wilhelm brings his imagination to life with the help of his 3 adorable daughters. At 5.5 years old, Lou is the big sister...
View ArticleAwesome Album Art Shows An Out of Body Meditation Experience
Through the practice of meditation, especially in sensory deprivation tanks, people can achieve psychedelic, out of body experiences. Australian artist Lewis Smart depicts this in a unique bird’s eye...
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