News: Photoshop Speed Art - Dragon Smaug

here is a video i captured while i created an image inspired from the Hobbit book written by JJR Tolkien

News: Standing apart from day 1 till today

News: Standing Apart

News: The Native American Last Super

News: Playin' with Colors; I Call It Blue Sunday

I used, I think 4 images for this one. They were mostly partial works begun for making masks. I tinted them using others filters in different ranges and then sandwiched them together as transparencies. From there I worked the colors and transparencies together to get close to my desired effect. After that I hand colored some areas of some of the layers to finish it off.

News: See the Famous Burning Monk in Shocking Color

In 1963 a Vietnamese Buddhist monk named Lâm Van Tuc burned himself to death on a busy Saigon road in protest of the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Ðình Di?m administration. Malcolm Browne's photo and journalist David Halberstam's account of the event circulated the world, winning both of them a Pulitzer Prize.

News: Humans In Muppet Skin

What if you skinned a muppet and wore it as a mask? In the virtual 2D world of the internet, it might work a little something like this: photos of muppets + photos of human eyes x Photoshop = weirdest Tumblog ever, muppetswithpeopleeyes.tumblr.com by Mike Lacher.

News: 2010's Most Embarrassing Photoshop Boo-Boos

Photoshop Disasters presents their top 20 monstrosities of 2010. Wow. Take a lesson. Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram doctors the above photo to put President Hosni Mubarak at the head of the procession. (Read more)

News: What Did Playboy Do Before the Days of Photoshop? (Slightly NSFW)

An auction at Christies showcases decades of heavily marked up Playboys, both pre and post the advent of the magical, human "perfecting" tool known as Photoshop. The edits are so heavy, it shows how such an idealized human being simply doesn't exist. See the whole NSFW collection over at Jezebel.

News: What if You Had Photoshop Superpowers?

If I had Photoshop superpowers, I'd be constantly striving to make the world more beautiful. I'd be fixing, cloning, and leveling up the saturation of all the colors around me... Below, "I have PSD" by Hyperakt and friends.

News: Hot and Steamy CG Babes (Sorry Boys, That Means She's Not Real)

Hubba hubba. DP Shots has compiled a collection of 40 CG images of steamy girl artworks. Some of the girls look so real, you think you could touch them. Except you can't. Sorry.

News: Photoshop Magic Brings Van Gogh to Life

Art nerds rejoice. With the aid of Photoshop, the folks at Artcyclopedia have doctored Van Gogh's paintings to give the effect of a three dimensional model (the same effect used in tilt-shift photography).

News: Punk Isn't Dead (Well, Not Yet Anyway)

A recently closed Worth1000 contest, Senior Rebellion, showcases "old folks that won't make you get off their lawn". Good ol' Photoshop magic at work.

News: The Most "Authentic" Sci-Fi Airshow Ever

The provenance of this Sci Fi Airshow is unquestionable. With decades of experience interpreting science fiction from a written to a visual medium, Bill George is the perfect tour guide for this fantastical, photoshopped exhibit. Assembling the collective imagination of multiple authors into one Airshow is a rare treat.

News: Photoshop Breeds Hot Model Chameleons

Photographer Zoren Gold and graphic artist Minori Murakami collaborated to create these eerie digital collages of chameleon-like models. From the looks of it, the two artists combined multiple digital photographs, using Photoshop masks and blend modes. Nicely done. The third image down is particularly spooky (in a great way).

Photoshop News

How To: Change Skin Tone in Photoshop

How To: Use a luminosity mask in Photoshop

How To: Make your photos look like they were taken with a great camera

How To: Use x-ray techniques in Photoshop to show naked skin through clothing (NSFW)

How To: Change a person's sex in an image editing program