Selfportraits

By Dirk Metzmacher

On her website, Rebekka Gudleifs presents fascinating pictures in the categories of self-portraits, people, scenery, flora, fauna, water and film. The atmosphere of these pictures is difficult to describe, but they are certainly somehow melancholic.

No Comments / Published on Januar 6, 2009

Discover the hidden picture

By Dirk Metzmacher

This picture seems to be quite boring, but there is a second picture hiding inside. As you do not open all windows of your Photoshop application and as you do not look up the solution at Ironic Sans, it will certainly take you some time to discover the second picture. A very special idea which takes some time to discover.

Although the moment of surprise does no longer exist, Josh Millard picked up this topic and even surpassed the original. The following picture is not really, but nearly, the histogram.

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Big breasts

By Dirk Metzmacher

I’m sure that everyone has already looked for a tutorial about how to draw big breasts. As this tutorial requires to carefully draw delicate lines, it is nothing for a rough macho. A contribution to the topic paintings & drawings which should not be taken too seriously.

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Water surface

By Dirk Metzmacher

The workshop Displacement Water describes how to reflect a part of a photo and to use a displacement map in order to create photorealistic water. And this works well, as you can see here.

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Digital Painting

By Dirk Metzmacher

The website of the famous visual artist Yanick Dusseault, who already created matte paintings and production art in major movies such as Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean, demonstrates that a normal photo of a town with lively streets and a river can be turned into an apocalyptic scenery.

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Underwater

By Dirk Metzmacher

The following underwater scene has entirely been created with the help of Photoshop. The talented illustrators among us will now certainly smile wearily, but for me it’s a great pleasure to see how the most different filters can be combined in order to create such a result out of an empty document.

No Comments / Published on Januar 6, 2009