My all time favorite Photoshop activity is modifying photographs.  Just about every picture on this site had been modified in some way (brightening, sharpening, removing dates, etc.).  You can even remove or add people, and do all sorts of cool stuff

 

My friend Naomi is a bit of a Mustang fan. When she was over one evening we found a picture of a mustang in front of a house and I showed her how you could change pictures to suit your needs.  The picture that will come up by clicking on the thumbnail is an animation showing the building of the picture (after the house was removed from behind the car), and then scrolls through different color options that I was playing with (Naomi wanted to see the car in purple which is what started the whole thing).  :)
I am a bit of a Beatles fan, and have always liked the cover for Abby Road. I scanned in the album, cut out the Beatles themselves, and modified the background of the album.  This was basically a test of some of the features of Photoshop and the various plug-ins that I have.  I broke the album up into a grid, and modified each "cell" individually.
If you have looked at the future cars section of my site, then you will probably recognize the car in the picture to the left.  I believe that this picture is from the original Bricklin dealership brochure (but don't quote me on that). I was basically playing around with getting a photograph to look like a man made painting.  Turned out pretty cool, I think.
Although not strictly my own creation, I really like this picture.  This was an exercise in a Photoshop book that I have. The "god" is a statue in New York (or some place like that). Take that, add in some clouds, and make the rest from scratch, and you get the picture on the right,
I just couldn't resist. I was working at "The Summit Consulting Group" in Denver when I saw this cartoon in the local paper.  I had to modify it slightly, and it was a PERFECT fit!  (It's a Frank & Earnest cartoon). I didn't change any of the cartoon text, just the graphic on the wall :)
Like most of my creations, this one came up at about 3:00 in the morning.  I couldn't sleep, and was playing around with the stock photography that came with Photoshop.  The pic to the right is a compilation of several of the stock pictures from Adobe, and the application of several filters.
Can't take full credit for this one either, it's another exercise example from the Photoshop book.  It was a lot of fun putting all of the pieced together and getting it to look like the water was coming out of the TV.

 

 

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