Photo Manipulation (Photoshop)

I've loved Photoshop since the first version. I'm a proud owner of Photoshop CS2, and I think every serious photographer should own a copy. Not only has photoshop become the "digital darkroom", enabling photographers to do all the traditional work associated with a dark room, but it's a creative suite as well.

Photoshop has changed the way we view traditional photos. No longer can you "believe your eyes". With a camera and an imagination, the sky is the limit. Photo manipulation is one of my favorite things to do. The things I use photoshop for are: photo restoration, removing scratches and repairing water damage, fixing digital photos for light balance, color, composition, and cropping, doing a mock up of home restoration and remodeling as part of a bid for work. There are actually far too many uses to mention here. Then there's photo manipulation - just messing with photos for fun and amusement, putting people in places they never were, and making fun and interesting collages. Here are a few examples:

This is an early photo collage. It was done with one of the first digital cameras on the market, the Nikon Coolpix. I found the picture of the moon and the earth from NASA. In all this is made up of six photos. My wife and I are wearing the same pair of glasses and took turns taking photos for this.



The Supper at Emmaus, by Caravaggio in 1601. I did this for my brother, who is a teacher at Ozark Mt. Bible College in Joplin, Mo. I wish artists had more access to high-resolution images of famous historical artwork. I think it would spawn a lot of creativity if the powers that be would loosen the leash on copyright restrictions.



This one is obvious, and I'm sure the copyright police will come after me for it. It was our Christmas card in 2004. I bought the 2005 Shrek Calendar and scanned one of the photos, then added the rest of us. This is made up of one scan and 5 photos. The kids adored it, as did friends and family.



Can you tell which girl was originally in the photo, and which one was added? I took this picture at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.



This is my rendition of Ronin's "The Thinker", but it's me. I posed for the photo and then modified it too look like a statue. A much more realistic one could be made. I did this as a "concept photoshop rendering", and as an excercise. The 10,000 yen Bill has a different face on it than the original. The colors in the face were remapped to be as close as possible to that of the currency.


Of course I can do photo manipulation for hire as described on the Product Fulfillment & Commisions page.

Look here in my General Photo Gallery for more Photoshop manipulations I've done.