MetaFilter posts tagged with Photoshop

Design Do's and Don'ts

netbros — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:16:27 -0800

The Design Cubicle articles focus on design tips and resources on all subjects of design; ranging from print, web, logo, branding, advertising and marketing. Popular articles include 10 Common Typography Mistakes and understanding the importance of good type skills; and 12 Common Photoshop Mistakes and Malpractice. The strategies behind designing a successful and memorable logo involve a process which progresses through various stages of listening, research, development, feedback and changes. 11 Steps of a Successful Logo Design Process.

You aliens get off my lawn!

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:56:15 -0800

Cute aliens invading grandpa's postcards.

Can You Name Them All?

sambosambo — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:36:14 -0800

Meme Scenery - Only someone familiar with the original memes would sense something's amiss, like the set of a play waiting for the actors to stumble into history.

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold a Rainbow In the Sky — Wordsworth

netbros — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:33:56 -0800

It's always great excitement to see a rainbow. If you're lucky enough to have your camera with you, even better. But there's more to it than just being in the right place at the right time. How to Photograph a Rainbow gives us some pointers so our pictures can look like these. As a last resort, if you have a great photo opportunity but no rainbow: Add A Realistic Rainbow To A Photo In Photoshop.

Definitely not for the birds...the Aviary online media manipulation suite

Kickstart70 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:14:26 -0800

Worth1000 arguably the best place for photoshops on the web, has released their newest creative effort...an online set of image (and eventually audio and video) tools called Aviary (a review here). And look at what it can do (when I looked, there was a three-mouthed monkey - that's definitely awesome)!

Wet and dreamy and impossibly beautiful

maudlin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:02:22 -0800

"What you're looking for as a retoucher is a broom, something that covers your tracks, some way of obscuring where you've been. The first thing [most] people take out is bloodshot eyes. That's the last thing I take out—the last thing I'd, like, just wipe, because that just makes it look retouched." -- from Jesse Epstein's video op-ed for the NY Times, based on her film Wet Dreams and False Images ("I know that's not airbrushed. I could put a million dollars that's not airbrushed."), one of three related short documentaries on physical perfection. "Each head has to be identical to the other head, so we don't want anybody putting sandpaper to the head." -- from 34 x 25 x 36. Via the latest installment of Shakesville's Impossibly Beautiful series. (Previous posts on retouching.)

They're coming to life

plaidhatter — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:54:28 -0800

I for one welcome our new untooned overlords. especially

That's a lot of parallel universes.

zardoz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:22:19 -0800

Movie posters that are just one letter off.

That would make a good band name.

flatluigi — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:17:26 -0800

Wikipedia Names Your Band. (flickr pool) _{For reference:

1. Your band's name is the first random article from Wikipedia
2. Your album's title is the last few words of the last random quotation from QuotationsPage.
3. Your album's cover is the third image on Flickr's Explore the Last Seven Days.
4. Photoshop and mix to your taste.}

Photoshop Tutorials

netbros — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:00:23 -0800

Looking to boost your mad Photoshop skillz? Here's a trio of sites that offer the latest in PS tips and tricks. Best Photoshop Tutorials has vectors, icons, and free brushes. PShero works with effects and shapes, and Photoshop Girl features photograph enhancement. That should get you started.

SumoPaint -- Photoshop in your browser

spiderskull — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:56:28 -0800

SumoPaint is an impressive little flash applet that mimics Photoshop in your browser, complete with layers and filters. See it in action.

Rethinking The Marquee Tool

mannequito — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:04:43 -0800

Inspired by NYC's Poster Boy and the hilarity of online celebrity photoshop disasters, Berlin's culture jamming F.T.W. crew recently organized a hit on Britney, Christina and Leona in an underground U-Bahn station. Note from the group's flickr sets that they were also recently responsible for a project based on John Carpenter's They Live.

Tips for Tech Users, Designers, Bloggers

netbros — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:07:55 -0800

Hongkiat.com is a treasure trove from a Malaysian designer, developer that features Photoshop tutorials, icons, Wordpress tips and tricks, tools for everything from sound to Flickr, inspirations, graphics and templates, stunning wallpapers including for Windows 7, Leopard, and iPhone, and finally a library of how-to's to make your everyday internet simpler.

Face Detection detects Faces. Faces are people. People Like You!

blue_beetle — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:55:57 -0800

PhotoFunia: take a portrait, upload it, and see the magic.

The case of the disappearing Toff

MrMerlot — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:36:52 -0800

The Bullingdon Club is an elite ~~drinking~~ dining club for members of Oxford University in England. Its alumni include the London Mayor, Boris Johnson; the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron and the shadow Chancellor, George Osborne - in other words the three most powerful Tories in the UK. Photographs of the club are already extremely rare, but recently it surfaced that one of the two in wide circulation, might have been doctored. Incidentally, a previous image of the Club featuring David Cameron and Boris Johnson has recently been withdrawn from circulation.

Bulbous Beings

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:02:02 -0800

"The common point of all my characters is that they aren’t nice, [they’re] either nasty or mean. They all have a personality with good and bad sides." Olivier Bucheron creates striking alien and robot meanies. Zamak.... (some images mildly nsfw)

"Photography lost its innocence many years ago."

amyms — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:20:08 -0800

Photo Tampering Through History. A regularly-updated collection, from 1860 to present, of examples of photo manipulation. Sometimes the changes are made for historical revisionism, sometimes for political maneuvering, and sometimes it's just a "wtf?" The page is part of a larger body of work by Dartmouth's Hany Farid, who has some other interesting goodies online. [Warning for the Pepsi Blue detectives: In some of his pages, he's shilling for his consulting services]

whole lotta uploading.

sgt.serenity — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:25:00 -0800

Who needs Photoshop when you can have Pixlr ? I have no idea if this works ( surely it takes a long time to upload images ), but it at least looks interesting - an open source competitor to photoshop would be welcome.

Why Adolf, what bloodshot eyes you have ...

WCityMike — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:18:08 -0800

Meet Adolf Hitler. Godwin! Look right into Stalin's eyes. 350 people from the dictator's country, Photoshopped together to create eerily alive photographs. (via kottke, via conscientious) I think the thing that creeps me out the most is that evidently none of them are wearing shirts.

Artifacts from the Future

Rhaomi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:42:42 -0800

For years, Wired magazine has tapped a bevy of designers and artists in the tech field to craft detailed visions of futuristic objects for a monthly showcase at the close of each issue. Now, after hinting as much in the July edition, it is clear that that the tradition of FOUND has been brought to an end. What better way to say goodbye to this whimsical feature than by taking a look back at the full archived run of the series? (Note: Although FOUND has been a regular feature of Wired for many years, the magazine's website only began including it in its online archives in November 2004. Previous editions of FOUND are not indexed on wired.com, and are virtually impossible to find elsewhere online.) MM.YY - Artifact Title (Future year) 11.04 - Election Day (2012) 12.04 - Barf Bag (2047) 01.05 - House Call (near future) 02.05 - Taste Tester (2009) 03.05 - Insurance Form (2069) 04.05 - Horoscope (2056) 05.05 - Bumper Sticker (2012) 06.05 - Antivirus (2022) 07.05 - Nightstand (2017) 08.05 - Crossword (2019) [solution] 09.05 - Space Elevator (2032) 10.05 - Sharper Image (2012) 11.05 - Diaper (2024) 12.05 - Christmas Morning (2016) 01.06 - Mood Ring (2009) 02.06 - Love Tester (2015) 03.06 - MTA Route Map (2067) 04.06 - Tax Day (2021) 05.06 - Operation (2027) 06.06 - Bookstore (2021) [side view] 07.06 - Contact Lens (2020) 08.06 - Diet Cola (2019) 09.06 - Report Card (2018) 10.06 - Bluetooth (2019) 11.06 - Organ Farming (2015) 12.06 - Christmas Shopping (2017) 01.07 - Crayons (2013) 02.07 - Speeding Ticket (2054) 03.07 - Medicine Cabinet (2013) 04.07 - Bug Spray (ca. 2050) 05.07 - Reunion (2052) 06.07 - Fido Fusion (2016) 07.07 - Comic Book (2021) 08.07 - Fruit Stand (ca. 2020) 09.07 - Birthday (2079) 10.07 - Halloween (2015) 11.07 - Waste Management (ca. 2025) 12.07 - Responsibeer (2012) 01.08 - Windshield (2013) 02.08 - Tatoo (near future) 03.08 - Home Shopping (ca. 2016) 04.08 - Risk (2027) 05.08 - Smithsonian (2096) 06.08 - Wine Spectrometer (ca. 2020) 07.08 - "The Final Found" (2018) Top FOUND contributors include: Chris Baker - senior editor, Wired Laura Moorehead - contributing editor, Wired Sean Hamilton Alexander - designer Joshua Davis - web designer Patrick Di Justo - contributing editor, Wired

Iranian Photoshoping Skills

gman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:50:25 -0800

In response to Israel's show of might, Iran tested long range missiles capable of hitting Israel and other U.S. targets in the region. Was the image AFP used photoshopped?

Next Up, Let's Work on Coulter's Adam's Apple ...

WCityMike — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:58:40 -0800

FOX News gets a little goofy with their copy of Photoshop and caricatures two columnists. Will the NYT respond? No, Times Culture Editor Sam Sifton says, "it is fighting with a pig, everyone gets dirty and the pig likes it." (Which is actually a response in and of itself, so I presume the pig-fighting's begun.)

The Fabled Pyramid

EatTheWeak — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:06:44 -0800

Jesse van Dijk paints fantasy and science-fiction scenes. Some of these paintings include a little shot of narrative about the astonishing imagined worlds they depict. His work has appeared in a mediocre PSP game and won a Gnoman Workshop challenge. Mr. van Dijik does his thing with Photoshop, and this is how he does it.

Man, I really hated getting killed by The Farting Sluggoth

Pronoiac — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:33:19 -0800

A stash of charmingly goofy adventure book covers from Christopher "MGK" Bird. Previously on Mefi for his Marvel Comics Civil War remix (which moved), a stack of Atari 2600 games, political prognostication, & uncovering plagiarism.

What If: Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Lee & Hitler had lived?

MikeonTV — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:13:54 -0800

Artist Andrzej Dragan shows us what Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Lee & Hitler if they were alive today by photoshopping famous images!