Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial | Miniature Faking | T This tutorial will walk you through how to create a tilt-shift image in Photoshop. It has been produced using Photoshop CS2 on a PC. Once you finish your tilt-shift image, make sure you upload your image for everyone to see. You should also check our our gear page to find all of the latest gear you need to create tilt-shift images. Gear PageSubmit Your Images Step 1: Photo Selection When choosing a photograph for the tilt-shift effect, bear in mind that you want to give the impression of a miniature model. For this tilt-shift photography Photoshop tutorial, we are using a picture of Times Square during a typical day: Even before the tilt-shift effect has been applied, it’s not too hard to imagine the scene as if it were a model. To find an appropriate image, we suggest you browse through the flickr tilt-shift fakes pool. Step 2. Open the image in Photoshop and enter Quick Mask Mode by pressing Q on the keyboard, or select the Quick Mask icon as shown in the Tool Palette below: Step 3.
15 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped Welcome to the fifth installment in our never-ending quest to bring you the craziest, realest images on the web (see Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four). We know some of you folks out there are going to scream "Fake" no matter what anyway, but we figured we'd stress one more time that these images are, unfortunately, completely real. On the Set of 2 Ark, 2 Furious: Noah's Revenge Everyone's reaction to this one can be summed up as, "What's the big deal? That is in fact one photo, of the The Pasha Bulker, a ship that famously ran aground in 2007 within spitting distance of that little Australian community there. It's the Tasmanian Devil, Get in the Car This spontaneous tornado photo looks like the kind of CGI you see in made-for-TV movies. Mom, Dad, I'd Like You to Meet my New Girlfriend This is one of those in the "not just fake but a bad fake" category, looking like something from some magazine ad selling ... bear insurance or something. Prostitution in the Deep-Sea World
6 Ridiculous Sex Myths (That Are Actually True) The only thing more awesome than an urban legend turning out to be true is if that same legend involves some sort of nefarious sex or groin related hilarity. Luckily, all of these qualify. The Legend: "Dude, I can totally tell he's gay! Look at his fingers!" This sounds like one of those playground urban myths that adolescent males use as an excuse to punch each other. Yeah, right. The Truth: Incredibly, this is a real thing. Apparently if you have a longer ring finger, it means you got more testosterone as a fetus and are more likely to be hyperactive, aggressive and disgusted by anything featuring Hugh Grant. A longer index finger, on the other hand, means more estrogen, making you more neurotic and sensitive. Actually, no. So... how far into this entry did you get before you stopped to look at your fingers? The Dong Stuck in a Pool Filter So you're swimming around the pool and you pass by the humming filter, sucking debris out of the water. "I bet I'll never have to touch some dude's dong."
Dirk’s Photo Blog » Tutorial: Create Your Own Planets There are those special moments in the life of a photographer that suddenly change your view on your hobby (or profession). Here are some of the more notable for me: getting my first analog SLR (Nikon N2000/F301 in 1988) getting my first digital camera (Kodak DC120 in 1997) Discovering a software that could stitch together photos into a seamless panorama (MGI PhotoVista 2.0 in 2002) Discovering the rather simple instructions on “How to create your own planets” To make a long story short: The “Polar Panorama Effect” is one of my favourite ways to process photos into unique pieces of art. Here are two samples for you to get an idea: Planet “San Michele, Venice”: Planet “Manhattan NYC”: In this article I will share my experiences with this technique, scribble together some things I found out and I will add a couple of links to help you get more out of it. Selecting a Panorama or Photo for Your Planet When selecting a photo to start with you should keep the following things in mind: What’s next?
17 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped As we've demonstrated many times before, sometimes the truth is stranger than Photoshop. For those of you still unconvinced, we present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, and isn't. In case you missed them, here's Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five. And now... God's Dropped Kleenex There appears to now be a whole genre of sculpture based entirely on making people scream bullshit when they see a photo of it. See? God Accidentally Clicked the "Desaturate" Button This too-out-of-place-to-be-true Santa is actually just a woman in costume and makeup (if you look close, you can see where some rubbed off around her neck). Source The greyscale Santa herself actually showed up in our forums to explain how she did it. OK, if that isn't a terrible Photoshop crop job, then it's time to play a game of, "Giant Head Sculpture or Tiny Cars?" It's the second one. No, it's not a time lapse photo. Well, sort of.
7 Sex Tips from Cosmo That Will Put You in the Hospital | Cracke You've walked innocently past issues of Cosmopolitan magazine a thousand times, every time you've checked out at a grocery store. If you glanced at the covers then you know it's all about sex, and helping girls bring out the sexual animal in their man. Not that kind. But littered amongst their mildly kinky and often impractical advice ("wear a wet t-shirt to bed!") you get horrifying tips that border on genital mutilation. Think we're kidding? Bite the Family Jewels From: Cosmo's website. Here's something mankind has known about intercourse since the very, very first sexual act was performed: If in describing the act, the words "bite" and "scrotum" appear in the same sentence, something went catastrophically wrong. To put this in context, when kangaroos fight each other, they use the claws on their hind legs to tear at their opponent's scrotum. And by the way, when dealing with teeth and that area of the body, the modifier "softly" doesn't do anything to make this better. Bullshit.
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17 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 6) As we've demonstrated many times before, sometimes the truth is stranger than Photoshop. For those of you still unconvinced, we present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, and isn't. In case you missed them, here's Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five and the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous editions. And now... "What, So It's Just Two Photos Cropped Togeth- HOLY SHIT!" This photo isn't terrifying as long as you think it's just the bottom half of one postcard glued to the top half of another one. It's the Marina Bay Sands Skypark, and it's 55 stories (and 600 feet) above street level. These pictures aren't from some sci-fi movie, and they're not some wishful thinking mockup from one of those bullshit futuristic issues of Popular Science. Are you thinking what we're thinking? Look, Honey, He Impaled Himself on the Utility Pole! Dammit, Guys, I Just Painted that River Vases?
6 Depraved Sexual Fetishes That Are Older Than You Think | Crack Bizarre sexual fetishes are a staple of the human psyche--most everyone has them, and with the arrival of Internet porn, all the walls came crumbling down. Suddenly, everyone everywhere could share their sick, nasty fantasies with the entire world, safe under a veil of anonymity. But the Internet by no means invented these things. As it turns out, they've been around way longer than that stain in your Honda. Tentacle Rape - Late 18th Century We love to mock "tentacle porn," and Japan for inventing it. The modern tentacle rape genre was created by Toshio Maeda, whose manga Urotsukidoji "created what might be called the modern paradigm of tentacle porn," which we suppose in Japan is actually seen as an accomplishment rather than grounds for a sexual assault conviction. Bet they regret that. For men, the fetish appeals to those who enjoy seeing women humiliated and subjugated by something that isn't even human. Autoerotic Asphyxiation - 17th Century "Ghost Boner" was already taken.
Infographic of the Day: Which Burger Chains Dominate the U.S. La America is littered with fast food restaurants. But which ones dominate in each region? You might be surprised. WeatherSealed analyzed location data for eight of the country's major burger chains, and mapped the results--with a twist: Each individual restaurant location has equal power. The entity that controls each point casts the most aggregate burger force upon it, as calculated by the inverse-square law--kind of like a chart outlining the gravitational wells of galactic star clusters, but in an alternate, fast food universe. That simply means that the graph above shows relative density of each chain. And that, you could argue, is an indicator of relative brand strength: McDonald's doesn't have to have four stores in a single block, because people will come to the one that they do have. Read More: Infographic of the Day: McDonald's Heat Wave [Via Chart Porn]
17 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 7) As we've demonstrated many times before, sometimes the truth is stranger than Photoshop. For those of you still unconvinced, we present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, but isn't. In case you missed them, here's Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous editions and Part Six. And now ... #17. To Join This Fraternity, You Must Swallow a Goldfish Whole... This goldfish looks like it's a crappy rubber movie prop. #16. These weird clouds are called rolling clouds and sometimes precede thunderstorms and a lot of soiled pants from anyone on the ground who's never seen one before. If wacky conspiracy nuts go crazy over airplane contrails, we can't wait to see them talk about the weather-control technology cloud highways that the government is using to send messages into space. #15. Who says models portray an unattainable standard for women? #14. #13. #9.
6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True) | Crack Everybody knows that people in the past were insane. They wore funny hats, used words like "wherefore," and don't get us started on the pants. But some of the historic anecdotes we love repeating again and again simply aren't true. As convenient as it may be to think of our ancestors as murder-happy torture enthusiasts, they were crazy, but they weren't that crazy. Gun Fights in the Violent Wild West The Insanity: A gloriously mustached man sits at a card game in an old saloon, surrounded by cowboys and surprisingly fresh-faced prostitutes. The cowboys and prostitutes go back to their drinks, well-accustomed to this sort of random violence, as the man nonchalantly twirls his pistol and says: "Guess he couldn't read my poker face." A typical western saloon, moments before everyone in the room shot each other. A hundred years of Westerns have taught us that this is how you lived and died in the Wild West. But in Reality... How many murders do you suppose these old western towns saw a year?
50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography - Smashing Magaz 16 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped As we established in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series: Sometimes, real life is stranger than Photoshop. This is the third edition in our chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout "FAKE!" the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were ... The Predator Checks a Map This undoctored photo is part of an art project--and possibly also an awesome assassination scheme--where they meticulously paint clothing to match the surroundings. We can't imagine how much time they must have put into creating photos that, after all that effort, will be dismissed as Photoshop by nearly every single viewer. The Scene of the Most Hardcore LARP in the World This looks more like a painting than Photoshop, but it's actually an enormous, elaborate set from the opera Ein Maskenball with a scene depicting Death reading from the book of life. Have you seen Quantum of Solace? Man, why couldn't they have shown Bond chasing bad guys through that?