Celebrities Before and After Photoshop
This is an interesting look at celebrities photos before and after photoshop. These can give you a feel of what it takes for a person to look beautiful at all times. No wonder we, ordinary people, are left with a great deal of pressure of looking our best at all times, a high goal that is impossible to reach. Impossible even for our God-like role-models.
HDR Face Portraits – Interesting Version of Ourselves
August 9, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Lifestyle
Author of this photos had the idea of doing wide angle, unflattering portraits for a while now. It’s an interesting way to see a version of yourself. These are characters that we all have inside and some of us only see them in the bathroom mirror when you’re alone and the door is locked. To get in close and see every pore and hair, every little imperfection is a wonderful thing. People are not perfect and I’m grateful to those who are willing to share that with me.
Either way these photos will not be like they are without Photoshop effects. Here are description about used effect. High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography is a digital technique that lightens underexposed areas and darkens overexposed areas of your image. Using HDR photography techniques allows the viewer to see the image as if they are seeing it with the naked eye – with even lighting all over the portrait. Let’s check out some stunning HDR funny face portraits. According to photographer, he uses Lens – Sigma 10-20mm, Adobe Photoshop using the LucisArt 3 ED plugin for the simulated HDR look. Cross Processing and Bleach Pass done with Tiffen DFX plugin.
Hybrid Animals made using “Photoshop Breeding”
A hybrid is the combination of two or more different things, aimed at achieving a particular objective or goal. In different contexts this may refer to:
* In mythology and iconography: o Hybrid (mythology), a creature combining body parts of two or more species
* In biology: o Hybrid (biology), the offspring resulting from cross-breeding of different plants or animals
* In “Photoshop breeding“:Â everything what you want and what you can imagine to combine is possible!
66 Amazing “Dreaminism” SciFi and Fantasy Images by Vitaly S Alexius
May 28, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Featured
Vitaly S. Alexius is a young freelance illustrator & photographer. He may be young but he does his artwork in a manner which shows great care a great deal of patience. When you see his amazing SciFi and Fantasy Graphic Images you will probably be astonished.
Over the past years he grew to a elusive artists with great eye for details. Vitaly Crafts his artwork with great vigilance and righteousness using pencil, oil paints and Photoshop. He is famous for his unique style which he justifiably called “Dreaminism”. See this enourmous collection of 66 selected awesome surreal images from his works.
16 Famous Photoshopped Images Throughout History
March 29, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Odd World
President Abraham Lincoln, circa 1860
This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. Putting the date of this image into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1881.
Stalin, circa 1930
Stalin routinely air-brushed his enemies out of photographs. In this photograph a commissar was removed from the original photograph after falling out of favor with Stalin.
Benito Mussolini, 1942
In order to create a more heroic portrait of himself, Benito Mussolini had the horse handler removed from the original photograph.
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Original Photo
U.S. Olympic hockey team, 1960
In 1960 the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia to win its first Olympic gold medal in hockey. The official team photo was doctored to include the faces of Bill Cleary (front row, third from the left), Bob Cleary (middle row, far left) and John Mayasich (top row, far left), who were not present for the team photo. These players were superimposed onto the bodies of players Bob Dupuis, Larry Alm and Herb Brooks, respectively.
Fidel Castro, 1968
When in the summer of 1968 Fidel Castro (right) approves of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Carlos Franqui (middle) cuts off relations with the regime and goes into exile in Italy. His image was removed from photographs. Franqui wrote about his feeling of being erased:
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The German Chancellor, September 1971
The German Chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt (far left), meets with Leonid Brezhnev (far right), First Secretary of the Communist Party. The two smoke and drink, and it is reported that the atmosphere is cordial and that they are drunk. The German press publishes a photograph that shows the champagne bottles on the table. The Soviet press, however, removed the bottles from the original photograph.
- Altered in the News Paper
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Oprah Winfrey, August 1989
The cover of TV Guide displayed this picture of daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. This picture was created by splicing the head of Winfrey onto the body of actress Ann-Margret, taken from a 1979 publicity shot. The composite was created without permission of Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by Ann-Margret’s fashion designer, who recognized the dress.
Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, February 1994
This digital composite of Olympic ice skaters Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan appeared on the cover of New York Newsday. The picture showed the rivals practicing together, shortly after an attack on Kerrigan by an associate of Harding’s husband. The picture caption reads: “Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, appear to skate together in this New York Newsday composite illustration. Tomorrow, they’ll really take to the ice together.”
Terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt, November 1997
After 58 tourists were killed in a terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor Egypt, the Swiss tabloid Blick digitally altered a puddle of water to appear as blood flowing from the temple.
Playing With Money: Defacing Presidents and Funny Modifications
Having fun with money seems to be a hobby of many people out there. I guess nobody ever told them not to play with money. On the other hand, since there is a wide range of money notes and currencies that you may find here messed up and made creative use of, I guess that is a common feature to a lot of people out there, to play with money, by defacing presidents, modification it in a creative way or writing creative jokes on them.
Although, you would have to admit that some inspired ideas are really worth realized no matter the cost. I know that I would gladly exchange my money to some of these dollar bills no matter what the exchange rate was.
The Most Fantastic Computer Graphics Landscapes
July 8, 2009 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Featured
Computer graphics are getting more advanced every day and is on course to become as real as regular pictures, only better. It gets getting really hard to say what is real picture and what is computer graphics these days. Probably the easiest parameter on witch you can judge is that 3d graphics can contain the images of the impossible and unrealistically beautiful worlds. In their effort to create images of fantastic beauty, computer graphic artists can come up with some magical results, that are guaranteed to make you wanna learn photoshop and 3dmax.
Prepare your eyes on best of the best awesome 3D digital landscapes created by amateur and professional 3D artists.
Worlds Collide
Name: Ognian Bonev
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop
