This Looks Shopped » Tutorials & Quizes http://thislooksshopped.com History in the faking. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:32:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 When your content that became aware becomes spoofed… http://thislooksshopped.com/2010/03/31/when-your-content-that-became-aware-becomes-spoofed/ http://thislooksshopped.com/2010/03/31/when-your-content-that-became-aware-becomes-spoofed/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:35:42 +0000 Mick http://thislooksshopped.com/?p=1187

A few days ago I posted a demo video featuring the new content aware filter that will be available in Photoshop Cs5. Well, the spoof videos are beginning to roll out now, and this one fills me with LOLz…

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Adobe released a video for one of the new features of Photoshop CS5 – the “content aware” fill. This will make faking images even easier (and a lot more difficult to spot). Pretty amazing stuff!

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Happy 20th anniversary to Photoshop!

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the invention of Photoshop. To celebrate, Giovanni Antico made a video with Photoshop 1.0.7 and posted it on Vimeo. Love it!

]]> http://thislooksshopped.com/2010/02/26/happy-20th-anniversary-to-photoshop/feed/ 0 This is how your grandparents were Photoshopped… http://thislooksshopped.com/2010/01/27/this-is-how-your-grandparents-were-photoshopped/ http://thislooksshopped.com/2010/01/27/this-is-how-your-grandparents-were-photoshopped/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:00:44 +0000 Mick http://thislooksshopped.com/?p=889

Yesterday I got all old lady cranky pants on you about how the way things used to be. Well, today I continue with the fist shaking and yelling at you to get off my lawn…

I wrote a post a couple months back for those of you who are looking for guides on how to use Photoshop. Today I’d like to write about an “old school” photo retouching guide that makes for interesting reading and is free for you to download. This is a guide that shows you how your grandparents were Shopped.

Figures 8, 9 & 10 showing the removal of wrinkles; taken from the book The art of retouching and Improving negatives and prints by Robert Johnson and Arthur Hammond (©1941 – 14th edition)

I stumbled across this little literary gem a few days back and my eyes have been devouring it ever since. I think it is perfect reading for photographers and designers who want to learn the history of their craft; as well as for those people who are just curious how photos were retouched prior to the invention of Photoshop (which just celebrated its 20th anniversary). With today’s advanced image editing technology people are able to do things like add cigarettes into photos, but even without that modern technology people were still able to remove cigarettes from photos…

Figures 5 & 6 showing the removal of wrinkles, facial blemishes, cigarette and finger; taken from the book The art of retouching and Improving negatives and prints by Robert Johnson and Arthur Hammond (©1941 – 14th edition)

As mentioned in both captions, the book is The art of retouching and Improving negatives and prints, and it is available for download free from the internet archive in multiple file formats. Yes, you can download a book about photo retouching written in 1941 and read it on your Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Isn’t the internet awesome?

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Artist Peter Ammentorp Lund saw James Cameron’s movie AVATAR and was inspired to create an avatar of himself. He spent a couple hours working in Photoshop on it, and created a high speed video of the process which he called The Birth of an AVATAR…

Birth of an AVATAR from Peter Ammentorp Lund on Vimeo.

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