Photography
Amazing 3D Portrait Almost Real: Really Breathtaking
On 23, May 2010 | 132 Comments | In Blog, Inspirations, Photography | By grapikom
Computer graphics are continuously turning the digital art into reality and I always wonder to what extent it will go. You may find 3D CG characters and portraits that looks very real and it gives very incredible feeling that how can human characteristic be mimicked by computer graphics. This 3D art is too realistic to be mistaken as actual photographs. You won’t believe it? Let’s take a look at these CG portraits. You will surely be mesmerized and get motivated to create your own. I hope that you enjoy these amazing portraits as much as I did!
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Gorgeous HDR Photos that Will Really Inspire your Photography
On 24, Mar 2010 | No Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. In graphics HDR imaging is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows. This is usually achieved by modifying photos with image processing software for tone-mapping. And the results can be really incredible; in fact, many artists and designers come up with some pretty fancy results.
This post covers 35 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures. Some of them might look surreal, too colorful, even magic or fake, but they are not — keep in mind that they’ve all been developed out of usual photos, and not a single image is an illustration.
Absolutely Fresh Photo Manipulations From Deviantart
On 24, Mar 2010 | 65 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
On my recent walks through the amazing artwork on DeviantArt, I came across some pretty awesome photo manipulations. I have compiled a list of the best ones submitted in DeviantArt. Enjoy these and get inspired!
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Fresh Photo Manipulations To Tease Your Imagination
On 24, Mar 2010 | 5 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
I felt like some photo manipulation inspiration today. It has been a while since I put up fresh manips. They are always fun to browse and give your imagination a good exercise. No, I still haven’t dabbled in any photo-manipulations of my own. I am just apprehensive and I know they take a while to complete, maybe I’ll make that my new year resolution. Meanwhile enjoy these, I do love the giraffe aping a chimpanzee the most, I really wonder how they did that!
Trees Walker by animationstudios
Tomorrow After Yesterday by beautifulreal
You can’t beat it by Black Ban
Smoking Bubbles By Samya Photography
Liquid Serpent by Mario Escobar
Art re-vision by Carlos Sanchez
61 Even More Awesome Photo Manips To Stare At In Wonder
On 24, Mar 2010 | 8 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
A couple of months ago, I had sat and compiled a photo manipulation roundup over a good many hours. The compilation was lost and one thing led to another and I never got around to doing that post. It was a happy fate of chance when I came across the links I had saved at the time in an obscure text file on my computer. These fantastic photo-manipulations were handpicked from various sites for the best kind of inspiration. As I have divulged before, I have never done a photo-manipulation, but there is something about them that draws me to them. I love looking at great photomanips and seriously admire anyone who can make them as fantastic as the ones here.
Amazing post production and photo manipulation by Platinum FMD
On 24, Mar 2010 | 25 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
Platinum FMD is a Brazilian image manipulation studio which uses combination of photography, illustration, 3D and CGI to make “the impossible become reality”
Breathtaking Infrared Photographs with recommended Readings & Gears
On 08, Jan 2010 | 4 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
There is nothing quite like Infrared Photography. Maybe you’ve run across an IR photo before on the web, and if you have, you’re familiar with it’s almost surreal appearance.
This post highlights 101 of the most stunning infrared photographs on the web, and also suggests reading materials and equipment photographers should look through for taking infrared photos of their own.
Breathtaking Infrared Photographs
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Infrared Photography Tutorials
Getting Started with Infrared Photography
Infrared photography looks like nothing else. I’m sure you’ve seen some IR photos around the web, but maybe you don’t know how to achieve this special effect? Look no further, here’s a guide on what to think about when choosing your object, how to shoot and what to do in post-production.
Comprehensive Digital Camera Infrared Photography Guide
This is one of the most complete Infrared Photography Guides the internet has to offer. If you are looking to take this subject seriously, this is a must read.
Infrared Photography Startup Guide
Some nice advice for shooting landscapes using Infrared Photography. Nice overview of what you will need, how it is done, and how to start taking your own infrared photographs.
Recommended Equipment
If you’re really taking Infrared Photography seriously, it may be time to upgrade your gear. In case you’re not aware, you’re Digital Camera probably has a built in infrared-blocking filter that automatically prevents you from taking Infrared Photographs by default. Therefore, you’ll need a few things to get started.
The most common way for shooting in Infrared is with a good Infrared Filter, and usually using an older model camera (As cameras continue to develop, they are created to intentionally block out more IR light). While newer modesl can still take IR photographs, the exposure time will typically need to be longer to get the same results without a modified camera.
You’ll also need a nice, steady tripod for taking long exposure shots. Most Infrared Photography shots are long exposures with unmodified equipment, so this is a necessity.
Recommended Infrared Filters:
Recommended Tripods:
- Slik Tripod with 3-Way Panhead ($25)
- Velbon El Carmagne 530 Carbon Fiber Tripod with Pan Head and Case ($264)
- Manfrotto 055MF3 3-Section MagFiber Tripod without Head ($356)
- Slik Professional Universal Deluxe Tripod with 3-Way Panhead and Panoramic Photo Guide ($125)
- Sunpak 620-092 9002DX Tripod with 3-Way Quick-Release Pan Head ($35)
Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids Tutorials
On 30, Dec 2009 | 77 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
If you like Hockney, you’ll love this. Do you ever look up at the sky, a towering office building, or an expansive landscape and wish your photos could capture everything you can see with your eyes? We do.
Our pal Mareen does this neat thing she calls panography. Taking dozens of photos of a scene, she assembles a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you’re not looking through a viewfinder.
Call it super wide-angle panorama or call it panography, we think it’s awesome.
Read on to learn how you can make one yourself!
Panographies are wide-angle pictures composed of several individual photos manually stitched together. When these component photos are assembled, they give the impression one would get standing in one place, looking around and unconsciously putting the pictures together in one’s head.
Before we get started, here are a few samples so you know what you’re shooting for:
(Click any image to see it larger.)
Step 1: Setup
Go out into the world and find something interesting to shoot. Once you’ve found something, pick your point of view and make sure you can see everything you want to shoot without moving from your position.
Manually set the white balance, focus, f-stop, and shutter speed on your camera. This ensures that it doesn’t light meter every shot and your photos aren’t all differently exposed. If you want your panography to consist of many individual photos, zoom in a bit. If it’s your first try, you may want to stay zoomed out so you’ll have fewer shots to assemble at the end.
NOTE: The more photos you take, the more RAM your computer will need to make the panography. Also, some cameras don’t give you the option of manually setting the f-stop and shutter speed. Sometimes one of your preset modes (for example, landscape mode) will keep your settings relatively uniform. Give it a try… if all else fails, automatic mode still works, the effect is just a little different.
Step 2: Take your shots
Point and shoot. Don’t move from your position, but do move your lens in all directions. Try tilting your camera to different angles to soften the straight panorama look. And keep in mind that the more your shots overlap, the easier it’ll be to assemble your panography later.
Make sure you cover every spot with at least one picture. We tend to only photograph the interesting spots, like lines and busy areas, and oftentimes forget to get the plain areas. Leave a shot out and you’ll be left with a hole in your final piece with no way to fill it!
Step 3: Prepare your files
Unload your camera and, using Photoshop, resize your photographs (try width or height of 800 pixels). It’s tedious to do this manually for each photo; so to expedite the process, record the resizing and saving of one photo as a new Photoshop Action. Then go to File > Automate > Batch to select the new action and apply it to your entire folder of panography photos.
NOTE: If you want to save the originals, don’t forget to duplicate your folder before you resize.
Step 4: Prepare your Canvas
Create a fairly large new RGB canvas to work on. If it turns out the canvas is too small, you can always add some space later (Image > Canvas). Copy the new 800px versions of your images into your canvas–5 to 10 images at a time ought to be manageable.
Step 5: Assemble your Panography
Set the opacity of each photo to about 50%. Using the Transform function (Ctrl/Apple+T), start rotating each photo to fit the ones next to it. Be careful to make sure you’re rotating (you should see a curved arrow tool when you’re near a corner) and not skewing the photographs. Now go photo by photo and assemble your panography like a puzzle. It will take a while to get it right, so be sure to save your work as you go along.
Step 6: Finalize your panography
When you’re finished assembling the photos together, make final color, contrast, and levels adjustments. Go to the layer palette and add a new adjustment layer of any kind by clicking the round black/white symbol.
To share your panography or post it online, just combine all the layers (Shift+Ctrl/Apple+E), and resize your image. Be sure to save this file separately instead of overwriting the original, which you’ll want to keep in case you want to make changes later.
Congratulations! You just made your very first panography!
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How to Make Skin Beautiful using Photoshop
On 30, Dec 2009 | 15 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
Let me start this tutorial by stating the obvious, not everyone has beautiful skin. To compound this problem we have skin eruptions, uneven tan, freckles, unwanted highlights, large pores, etc. In addition, today’s cameras and lenses magnify every imperfection and freeze it for all to see. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the best light so to speak. I will start at the point where you have completed your basic processing and have an image with the correct exposure value and white balance.
Overview
This subject will be covered in steps as follows:
- Removing or softening major flaws in the skin
- Touching up undesired reflections and highlights
- Apply a Gaussian blur to the skin to soften and blend it.
- Spot sharpening
Note for MAC users: Substitute the Option key for the Alt key when specified in the tutorial.
Removing or softening flaws
There are many ways to remove flaws from the skin; however, I like to use the clone tool. I do not use the clone tool to remove and replace the skin but rather in a special way that will allow me to work slowly to hide the flaw or blemish on the skin. The beautiful young lady pictured here is typical of teenagers in that hormones may cause zits or other eruptions on their skin that are unsightly. As a photographer it is our job to lessen that and make the model look their best. You will note on the neck of this young lady a rather large skin eruption. This is not a normal mark and one that I am sure she wishes were not there.
On the tool bar on the left hand side of the workspace is the clone tool. Click on this tool. Now go to the mode setting at the top and select a soft brush that is near to or smaller than the blemish. Move to the right and click on mode, setting it to lighten. Move to the right and set the opacity to around 12% and the flow rate to 100% or less. You are now ready to begin hiding the blemish. Find a good patch of skin near the blemish, position your brush on it, hold down the ALT key and click your mouse once. Now begin to soften the blemish by doing a click and hold while going over and over the blemish. You will note that it begins to lighten. Continue until the blemish is gone. In the center of the blemish it is lighter than the surrounding skin. Set mode to darken, ALT click on the good skin and repeat the process above to darken this lighter area. The blemish is now gone as shown in the image. You might also note that I have lightened some of her permanent moles and fixed other light or dark areas using the same technique described above. I generally do not totally remove permanent moles on a models face.
Touching up undesirable highlights and reflections
The end of nose is a particularly onerous place for reflections and burned out highlights as you will note on the model above. Removing them is just as simple as removing a blemish. The difference is that you set the clone tool mode to darken. Select a patch of skin with the appropriate color and do an ALT click. Now go over the highlight until it looks good to you. Be careful not to go too far a field from the highlight itself as you can make the nose look flat in that area instead of rounded as it normally is. If you make a mistake, it is simple to go back a step in the history palette and redo that step. Don’t hesitate to switch between darken and lighten if need be. At this stage do not worry if everything is not perfect as the Gaussian blur will take care of minor imperfections in your work.
Apply a Gaussian blur to the skin to soften and blend it
Much of the information in this part of the tutorial was gleaned from Scott Kelby’s great book entitled The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, which I recommend highly to everyone new to Photoshop.
I will attempt to keep the “how to” part of this tutorial as detailed as possible so that those new to Photoshop will be able to follow along. This is an advanced technique so stay with me. First thing to do is to open the picture that you want to apply the Gaussian blur to. Create 2 additional layers of this image in the Layer’s pallet. An easy way to do this is to hold down the Ctrl key and click on the J key twice. You should now see three layers of the image. Hide layer 1 copy by clicking on the Eye icon next to it in the layers pallet. Highlight the middle layer by clicking on it and your layers pallet should now look like this:
In the drop down box on the Layer’s pallet change the blend mode from Normal to Darken. Next go to the menu at the top of the screen and click filter/blur/Gaussian blur and then apply a 35 pixel blur to the image. Don’t worry that your image looks bad at this stage.
On the Layers pallet, click on the little Eye icon beside the middle layer to hide this layer and then click on the top layer to make it active. Now change the blend mode from Darken to Lighten by clicking on Lighten in the drop down box. Next run a 50 pixel blur on this top layer (Filter/blur/Gaussian Blur).
After you have applied the blur, click on the middle layer to make it the active layer and then lower the opacity to 30%. Hide the background layer from view by clicking on the Eye icon beside it and then create a new layer by clicking on the New Layer Icon at the bottom of the Layers pallet. This icon is on the bottom right just next to the little garbage can. When the new layer is created click and drag this layer to the top of the stack as shown.
Next, hold down the Alt Key and with your mouse go to the top and click (hold) on Layers and while holding the mouse button down go to the bottom and release the mouse button over Merge Visible as shown here.
This creates a flattened version of your document in the new layer. In the layers pallet, make the background layer visible with the Eye icon and hide the two middle layers by removing the Eye icon from them. Make sure the top layer is the active layer and then lower the opacity to 37%. This is a subjective adjustment and you should set it at the point that your image has the right amount of blur to suit your taste. All that is left now is the removal of the Gaussian blur from the hair, eyes, eyebrows, lips, jewelry, clothing and anything else that you don’t want blurred.
Click on the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layer pallet (third from the left). Insure that your foreground color is set to black. You can change the background/foreground easily by clicking on the small x while watching it change on the leftmost tool pallet. Select a soft edged brush from the tool pallet and paint over everything that you do not want blur on (eyes, mouth, hair, etc.). Generally this is everything except the skin. Change the size of the brush so that it is easy for you to do that without getting over into the skin. Your layers pallet will now look like this.
At this point you may flatten the layers and discard the unused layers (Layers/Flatten Image). If you feel a little touch up for the brightness of the image is needed, do that with levels or Brightness/Contrast.
Spot Sharpening
Select the spot sharpener from the tool pallet on the left hand side of your screen and quickly go over the eyes, mouth, and anything else that you want sharpened.
Applying a final sharpening is up to you but in any event do not over sharpen. Watch the eyelashes and hair especially so as not to create artifacts or halo’s. Here is the final product:
Don’t be intimidated by this tutorial, once you run through it a few times it is quite easy. One last caution, it is better to error on the side of too little blur than too much. It is easy to make the skin look plastic and unnatural. The goal is to accomplish the softening but yet not have it noticed. If you remove all traces of texture to the skin you will have failed for most types of portraits.
Francesco Mugnai's Photostream Inspiration
On 30, Dec 2009 | One Comment | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
He is Florentine. He’s a web designer, graphic designer, art director, network administrator, blogger, technology evangelist. He has a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Multimedia. Currently he teaches digital graphic techniques in a renowned Italian institute of Art and Design in Florence, where he also work as web manager. He’s featured in several european magazines like Computer Arts, Advanced Photoshop and Web Designer Magazine. And…few days after the opening of this web-garden he wants to say thanks to CssMania, Webcreme, SmashingMagazine, CssBased, Designflavr, Onepagelove, Bestcssgallery, Cssfreshblend, CSSclip, CSSstar, Sharebrain, CSSleak, CSSimpress, Irie, Dlounge, Designineurope, Fantasticss, Spyline, Plasticpilots, Csszone, Commandshift3, Cssscoop, Stylesinspiration, Designcharts, Csstea, Gravento, Ccs-design-yorkshire,…
The Magic Box |
Space Circles |
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I recently made two free icons for all of you mac lover (for private use only). |
Another personal work. Just Photoshop. I tried to merge my style with that of James |
The Sky Was Blue |
iLoveGrey |
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A wordpress theme mockup. I love minimalist websites with large “typographic” |
A wordpress theme mockup. |
Jump |
All Howl’s Eve |
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Photoshop CS3 + Cinema 4D @ Francescomugnai.com |
An exercise…just for the hell of it |
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3D Explosion? |
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Just a simple excercise. I decided to release this template for free. |
Design by Francesco Mugnai |
Creating a new mind |
J-CMYK |
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Design by Francescomugnai.com ©2008 |
Design by Francescomugnai.com ©2008 |
Colors in B&W |
Bare Skin |
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Design by Francescomugnai.com ©2008 |
An illustration for the portfolio. Just a nice picture and Photoshop |
A girl, many colors &…Photoshop |
Colors of Rock |
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Photoshop CS3 + Custom Brushes + Colors |
Another example of good mix of Photoshop and Xara3D. Credits: bittbox for the texture |
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Original Picture by L’Etrusco Design
70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
On 30, Dec 2009 | 219 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results.
Of course, beauty-retouching is a quite deceptive art. The masters of Photoshop create illusions which are hard to tell apart — unless you have both a genuine photo and the final result in Photoshop and can directly compare them. In fact, every day we consume perfectly retouched stars and models online and offline which just look different in the real life.
Still, it is not the reason to avoid learning advanced Photoshop techniques for beauty-retouching and study examples of how it is done in practice. The list below presents both image-tutorials as well as video-tutorials. Most examples have a before-vs.-after-comparison and you can follow the modifications with Photoshop step-by-step.
You may want to take a look at the further Photoshop tutorials selections we’ve presented earlier:
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Best OfAdobe Photoshop Video Tutorials: Best OfAdobe Photoshop Tutorials: Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects
Skin
Beautiful Skin
Not everyone has beautiful skin but you can make it better – at least in your photographs.
Smooth skin
How to make a skin like the ones you see in magazines like Playboy.
Beauty Retouching
Beauty retouching is one of the most demanding parts of photo manipulation. The main trick for your results to be astonishing is patience.
Remove Freckles
Reduce slight freckles naturally without using the Healing Brush. In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to subtract freckles using a layer.
Perfect Skin
How you can get rid of all the acne and pimples and blemishes and scars on your face. 
Skin looking smooth
During the course of this Photoshop Lunacore shows you how to make skin look smooth.
Makeup makeover
How to remove hair in front of someone’s face, retouch skin and apply makeup using Photoshop.
Dark skin – bright skin
This tutorial shows you how to make a dark skin bright(er).
A chapter of Beauty Retouching
A free sample chapter of “Skin”, a Photoshop Retouching Book by Lee Varis about Beauty Retouching.
Hair
Changing Hair Color
How to change hair color.
Shining hair
Creating shining hair like shown in shampoo ads.
Removing Hair Roots
A fairly straight-forward method for removing hair roots that takes mere seconds to accomplish.
Color hair locks
Changing hair color in just few minutes.
Body (breasts, bum, figure, etc.)
Trimming weight
Trimming weight off with the Liquify tool.
Digital Nip Tuck
Photoshop is probably the cheapest alternative to plastic surgery possible.
Digital Nose Job
Simple and easy photo editing technique to give someone a digital nose job.
Spare Tires
In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).
Smaller Nose
This tutorial will walk you through the steps for reducing the size of a nose in a photograph using Photoshop.
Bigger Bustline
Learn to make a bustline look huge and comically big.
Eyes, mouth and teeth
Enhancing Iris Color
It is said that the eyes are windows into the soul. This tutorial details a simple yet powerful technique for altering eye color using basic Photoshop tools.
Red Eye Tool
This photoshop tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop CS2’s Red Eye tool in a non-destructive way.
Whitening Teeth & Eyes
Some methods to make natural elements white or whiter.
Make eyelashes thicker
Learn how to make eyelashes thicker.
Apply Eye Make-up
This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can add eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara to any model easily.
Eyebrow Piercing
This tutorial shows you how to add an eyebrow piercing to a photo.
Photoshop dentist
Everybody can be a good dentist – with Photoshop.
Whitening Teeth
Another way to make whiter teeth with Adjustment Layer.
Galleries
Celebrities Before and After
Shows some photos of celebrities before and after beauty retouching.
Greg Apodaca
Rolling the mouse over most of the images of this digital portfolio will display the original scan before it was retouched.
Touch of Glamour
Photo Retouching and Enhancement for Pageant, Model and Glamour Photography – Rollover effect also here.
Amy Dresser
Portfolio of a full-time retoucher and illustrator.
Retouche
Norm Nason is a senior graphic designer and fine artist.
The art of retouching
Glenn Feron was born, then found art and was born again.
Digitalpablo
Portfolio of Pablo J. Castillo.
Digital Retouche
A German professional retoucher.
Artist 2 Design
Experience retouching thousands of actors headshots over the years has taught Shawn the art of what to retouch and what not to.
Digital Retouching Services
From very basic blemish clean ups to full out magazine quality beauty skin retouching.
Retouchme
Creative high-end beauty, fashion and product retouching.
Retouche Demo
Nice flash demonstration how to retouche a photo.
Video-Tutorials
A Perfect Lie In Photoshop
Cameron Rad turn a beautiful woman into a perfect one. “I went through about 40 different makeover techniques, until i found what i thought was the best balance for this photo.” A good “flawless” skin method.
Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff makeover.
Breast Enlarge
This tutorial shows you how to enlarge a breast.
Smart Filters
Using smart filters to soften the skin of your subject gives you the ability to retouch your image while maintaining flexibility.
Basic Beauty
Learn the absolute basics of beauty retouching in Photoshop.
Beauty Saloon
Skin retouching with Photoshop.
Model Beauty
Speed revision of a model beauty.
Natural to Synthetic
Extremly makeover of a photo of Amy Lee from Evanescence.
Gossip Girl
Leighton Meester super glam.
Body makeover
Makeover to illustrate what photoshop can do.
Magic
The fast way to loosing weight.
Pretty
A little time and effort can do a lot.
Extreme
A really nice Photoshop Makeover.
Pretty face
Another Makeover.
Evolution
An evolution of a model.
Proof
Proof that you can in fact create top beauty images with a point and shoot camera.
Model Job
Great digital makeup in photoshop.
The Perfect Lie
High-speed Photoshop transformation.
Complete Workflow
Pure perfection
Spin raw beauty into pure perfection. Very detailed tutorial.
Beautify a Face
This extensive Photoshop tutorial will show you how to beautify a face.
Ultimate Makeup
A series of steps to improve skin tones, modify shadow and light patterns to increase the impact, and enhance the eyes and hair to create a striking portrait.
Artistic Retouch
Phoenix Hair Effect
With some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photos with this flaming hair tutorial.
More beauty
Longer Nails
You would like a woman’s nails to be longer? Here we go…
Eliminate Cellulite
In this tutorial you can learn how to eliminate a person’s cellulite.
Nail manipulation
Manipulating nails by increasing length and changing shade.
Airbrush retouching
See what`s possible with Photoshop`s airbrush tool.
Retouching for Beginners
This tutorial shows a couple of simple techniques you can use to enhance your portraits.
Photoshop Beauty
Some ways to improve your photos with the help of using Photoshop.
Tone Down Highlights
Sometimes the only thing that keeps a good portrait from being a great portrait is a little too much shine on the skin.
Looking good
Great Techniques for Photoshop Beauty Retouching.
New look
Whatever a model looks like, we can give her a totaly new, beautiful look.
Glamour Style
Suzette Troche-Stapp is one of the most sought-after photographer/digital artists today.
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105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel
On 30, Dec 2009 | 3 Comments | In Blog, Photography | By grapikom
Oh, I am really marveling those photo manipulation works with people and countless amazing, colorful effects! Somehow I don’t think I have seen many tutorials out there teaching really how to come up with something so beautiful like that. Right, but that’s understandable, you will find many separate effect tutorials, but you really should learn to put it all together – but don’t worry effect and photo manipulation tutorial roundup will be featured in next article!
You must be thinking – man..105 artworks, is this guy completely crazy? Well, I must admit I went crazy, but I couldn’t not feature those works here, you must see how amazing this art is if you haven’t seen something like that before! At least I have crazy inspiration now to put something like this together myself – how about you?
1. Drangue by barrena
2. Photo manipulation by GerCasey
3. Young Rocker by kybel
4. Cosmos. by TOYBOX-plaza
5. Right Round by Saibz
6. Volumize by GrungeTV
7. Pouring Paint by Dean-Site
8. You Forget it in People by RobShields
9. Saint by poisonvectors
10. Good day by poisonvectors
11. Lady Di by svpermchine
12. Lustre.v2 by sk8terpunk10
13. Silent Movie by Saibz
14. Ma Babe Vol. 2 by hicky2
15. Glow Dancer by iluud
16. My Heart Still Burns by AimhaDesign
17. Kick Up by Resetblue
18. Antimatter by zocafx
19. Juste la Dance by zocafx
20. Cartoonoportation by myaki-ru
21. Mr. Skeched Pants by MethMan
22. ShineOn by craZy18gurl
23. B A L L E T by nheonheo
24. Yeah by szc
25. Butterfly by poisonvectors
26. cutHERE. by Espador
27. Fresh by h2ogd
28. Muse by kuschelirmel
29. Displacement study by rosalindharrison
30. Karate lessons by anthony-g
31. .chill. by chadsharpe
32. Sensation by AirDesign06
33. After School Special by Espador
34. Pulsar by poisonvectors
35. FERVOUR by videa
36. MECHANICS by mkore
37. Like A Star by Phektion
38. Lost in colour by anthony-g
30. Ma Babe Vol. 4 by hicky2
40. Candy by poisonvectors
41. Design collage by wilson-naraku
42. Dancing Lotus by d4m
43. SOUL of the CITY by FreshIsrael
44. Break.IT by Espador
45. Forever Heavy by RobShields
46. Growing Oil by kaethor
47. GHOST.88 by Espador
48. Incredible v2.0 by Script0s
49. Illusion by Frelon
50. Present yourself vol.2 by queedo
51. Liquify by mnmlst
52. United Colors by kaneda99
53. It’s My Own Cheating Heart by RobShields
54. Mecano by poisonvectors
55. Francis by poisonvectors
56. KARLA by poisonvectors
57. A new start by poisonvectors
58. Blue and Pink by sunsE
59. Stay alive by inphi
60. Passio by videa
61. Of the room by kaethor
62. Natural Growth by motive8
63. To Heaven by DouglasEltz
64. Move It by craZy18gurl
65. Colour Me Brightly by ryman
66. My.Chaos. by Espador
67. Dragon Within by inphi
68. Programata Magazine by JaxeNL
69. Hummingbird by D-e-v-i
70. Ev2ke by starfantazy
71. Tony Jaa by MomentumGFX
72. Blink. by Espador
73. Rapture by craZy18gurl
74. Fantasy boy by rosalindharrison
75. Behind Verdis Thoughts by Mantrastic
76. Lisa by moonmomma
77. Cenetric Jerene by Mantrastic
78. Colorful nature sounds by Cimoetz
79. Believe by suprsonic
80. Krump It by craZy18gurl
81. Twinkle by starfantazy
82. Contra Band by starfantazy
83. Rainbow Goddess by ih8m0r0nz
84. Come Alive by d4m
85. Vibe by inphi
86. Fear the Music by wirestyle
87. Fired Up by FrozenStarRo
88. Splash by atmosphair3
89. Burst by wirestyle
90. Overdose Art by JaxeNL
91. Feel the music by wirestyle
92. Hang Em High by FreshIsrael
93. Heart Of A Dragon by videa
94. Flower Power by m4gik
95. Purple Lighting by barrena
96. bb by poisonvectors
97. Sounds fake by poisonvectors
98. FMGT II by svpermchine
99. FMGT III - by svpermchine
100. iPod-Play Your Music by svpermchine
101. Hammer by poisonvectors
