20 Extraordinary Photo Manipulations
Written 5 years ago by Lee Milthorpe
The art of photo manipulation is the process of making changes to your photographs, usually in a way that takes them away from reality. Photo manipulations are used everywhere, but can mainly be seen in advertising, where companies try to capture the public’s attention with manipulated scenes featuring their latest products.
In this showcase, we take a look at the work of two photo manipulation artists with very different styles, but both as awesome as each other!
Surreal Manipulations by Erik Johansson
Swedish photo retouching expert, Erik Johansson turns his own photographs into surreal works of art with a little photo manipulation.
Strange Creatures by Tebe Interesno
This talented Russian artist takes photographs away from the norm by adding strange little characters and objects to the scenes.
Final Question
As a photographer, is photo manipulation a skill that you are interested in learning, or is it something you are already doing? It’s definitely something that I would like to work at but I’ll be the first to admit that at the moment, I’m pretty useless at it!
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nice. I like the correlation of reality and the fantastic figure in the last set. It looks seemless.
*the only one that needs work is the b/w photo of the man punching himself in the “face”.
definitely a skill worth knowing.
I do want to learn how to do this. Quite badly.
I recently realized how many of my ideas about photography are really more of photo-manipulation ideas.
This is amazing. And what about lessons how to do something like these.
These are amazing. Do you have tutorials on how these were done?
I’m no photo manipulation expert so I couldn’t write a great tutorial on the genre, but there are a few tutorials out there that could be useful to you.
The best one I’ve come across is this one from Psdtuts:
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/creating-a-touching-story-scene-in-photoshop/
In particular I like the road turning into a cape on the boy and the broken ceramic hands manipulations.
Lee, thanks for the link to the tutorial, I’ll give that a try this afternoon.
Great… I’d shared it on my Facebook
photoshop???
Im fairly sure I saw a tut on the road dragging on but after searching the net for a while I couldnt find it :(
Amazing pictures, I wonder how is it done?
I would love to learn how to do photo manipulation! sometimes it just adds so much more to the photo and it can also make the photo more entertaining and thought provoking to look at. I’m pretty bad too, but in the future, I would really love to sit down and spend some time learning it.
Very impressive. I can look at these pictures for a long time.
I like photo manipulation. Thank your for these examples :)
I especially like the knife one… I tend to like the creepy photomanipulations like these ones
http://flobelebelebobele.deviantart.com/art/Need-a-Dentist-364502571
http://learnphotoediting.net/photomanipulation_alien.html
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