Beautiful Grunge Textures
Textures!!! I love textures to spice up my images or use as backgrounds and I think it was high time I put some new ones online for you to enjoy, download and – most importantly – use in your art.
Details: Cosmic Gate
Inspiration This time, inspiration came in the form of new stock images shot in Sicily. I saw that big entrance with its intricate features and knew I wanted to make it the star of a manip. It was complete coincidence that the flowers were also shot in the same city, Trapani. But I think those [...]
Sicily stole my heart
To say I can recommend Sicily might be the understatement of the year. I absolutely fell in love with the island and hope to return next year
Lightroom Basics – save your vacation pictures
I’m sure everyone has that “oh sh**” moment once in a while, the one where you get home after a trip thinking you took the greatest pics of all time, just to discover that some setting or other was completely out there and the pics are now hardly more than scraps. Or are they? Here […]
Video Tutorial: Adding Make-Up in Photoshop
After the positive reactions to Portrait of a Girl, I wanted to share a trick I picked up while creating the image: how to add make up and keep the shiny highlights intact. Originally, I wanted to use the screen recording I did while creatng the image. But when I watched it I saw that […]
Photomanips for Beginners pt1 – what is a photomanipulation?
There are many different names floating around the internet for what I could be called a photomanipulation. I’ve heard: composings, composites, blends, edits, manips, photomanips, matte landscape / painting, retouch and probably quite some other expressions I have forgotten again. Sometimes these terms can be used interchangeably, sometimes people will quite forcefully insist on what […]
How to choose stock for photomanipulations
There are many types of stock photography, just as many as there are stock users. What works for one type of use may be only semi-useful for others. Especially when it comes to stock for photomanipulations, different “rules” apply than for editorial use. This article aims to show you the difference so you can choose […]
Details: Portrait of a Girl
Inspiration I've been following Rebecca Saray's work on facebook for a while now and I am always super stunned by the way she deals with light and post-production. But she doesn't rely solely on Photoshop for her effects. One of the things that makes her work stand out, is that her models usually have some [...]
Pizza for Breakfast
Yesterday, we made some pizza for dinner, but since I did not want to make my boyfriend wait around while I tested this or that angle, I was set on *not* taking pictures. Well, it didn't quite work out, you see ^^; The way we do pizza is small, individual ones, baked on a fire-stone [...]
Free Stock: Schloss Linderhof
Schloss Linderhof (Linderhof Palace) is a small castle built by king Ludwig II of Bavaria (the same one who conceived of Schloss Neuschwanstein, the real-life cinderella’s castle). We spent the long weekend of the 1st of May (a bank holiday in a lot of European countries) in Southern Bavaria among palaces and mountains. Very beautiful! […]