Inspiration: The Art of Photoshop by community

nice feature….very well put forth! – ty

Ah this is great :) Thanks for sharing these wonderful images with a wide audience Nat.

wow awesome!!

Here are a couple of my own!
I have been using Photoshop for about a year now. The learning curve might seems discouraging sometimes, but it is well worth it! (i hope the images aren’t too big)

Thanks Nat for sharing this with everyone.

Beautiful work shown above. And great looking references. Thank you for all of that work!

I still have my first floppy disks of PHOTOSHOP 1.0. and have been using it or Elements full time for the last 20 years, in publishing, graphic design, web applications, and artworks on RedBubble.

I stopped the upgrades after Photoshop 3, however, and switched to Photoshop Elements 1.0 (“PS/E”), which was essentially the same as Photoshop 3.0, but without CMYK support or brush support.

One day, talking to Robin (robpixaday), I realized that I’d been using PS/E 1.0 for probably the last 15 years and was due for an upgrade (duh!). So over the last few months I’ve used the latest version for the Mac. You know what, it is the same software (except with brush support and some tools deleted), with a makeover. In fact PS and its lighter PS/E have changed very little since the beginning. Obviously created with a great deal of thought from the start.

I created a popular series of, mostly, video tutorials on using software such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Gimp, since they are similar. These are geared to the “novice” level (not a total beginner). Here is that address, on RedBubble:

Photoshop/Elements Tutorial Series – Digital Art process

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It is more favorited than my top-favorited art. The series includes basics like the PS/E layout palette, erasing and blending, repairing, de-pixelating low res images, working with animal hair, drop shadows, and creating virtual rooms to showcase your art in a believable setting. More to come….

Thank you.

—Frannie

I would like to share one of my friend’s work here…an amazing photoshop artist Cornelia
Check out her works!!!

Oh, good idea, Nathalie, and beautiful work!

Here are two of my recent ones:

^{Alice Still Lives Here
by F.A.Moore}

(Most tutorials were created from the “Alice…” piece, in the process of creation.)

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Here’s another completely different:

^{Balancing Act
by F.A. Moore}

…featuring an Abstract created with software and an image of Balancing Act within the image, within the image, within the image, about 7 levels deep.

I don’t use Photoshop.

I am hoping you can do another feature about those who do their photo editing with FREE software, both the free-as-in-freedom kind (like The GIMP)) and the free-as-in-beer kind (like IrfanView, XnView, the countless free plugins, and much, much more), and about that software itself.

Here’s my latest PSE3: What the Fortune Teller Saw.
It’s been wonderful to learn…thanks to you and all the RedBubble artists who share their knowledge, most recently, Frannie (F.A.Moore).

BTW…I’m trying to learn Inkscape and would LOVE info on that!

My first version of Photoshop was 2.5. My computer had a whole 4 mbs of ram. I was absolutely astonished by how I could erase black specs from scans of documents – and I think that is all I used this version to do! But I could tell it was magic, as it still is today..

My first version of PhotoShop was 5.0 . I have been working with it now for about 7 years now.I am one of the first 12 hosts of groups on RB where I started and named the group

PixElations : The Art of PhotoShop and later the invite group only at the time

PhotoShop Masters

I have been lucky enough to have my work featured numerous times by many groups on RB and in PhotoShop Creative Magazine aswell as Advanced PhotoShop magazine.

The work by fellow RB members never fails to astound me and inspire me.I wish that what people do with PhotoShop on here inspires them to spend a little more time learning it, as it does have a steeper learning curve then other programs but in the end its well worth it.

Presently I am working on some PhotoShop tutorials and a Book on PhotoShop featuring the best of Redbubble’s PhotoShop Masters

Randy

What a remarkable piece of software, thanks for all the links Nat :-)

When I first saw photoshop being used in our Design Office about 8 years ago, I played around with it and thought “what a ridiculously hard and over the top programme just to change the look or colour of a photo”. How those words have come back to haunt me. Over the past five years, since becoming obsessed with photography, I know speak fluent “Photoshop”! Not a day goes by when it is not opened on my computer. As Randy says above, steep learning curve – definitely, but worth every minute. Here’s a couple of my most popular shots from RB using photoshop.

I use Elements 8 but for years was using version 2.0 I’m not sure I need full editing for what I do at this point. I do a little texture work and a little blending of photos right now.

Happy Birthday Photoshop! What a wonderful programme, I absolutely love it, & would be lost without it!
As Host of the Photo Manipulators & Grunge Art Gallery groups I see so much outstanding Photoshop artwork right here in RB, it’s truly inspiring.
Thanks for all the links Nat, there’s some fantastic stuff there, plenty to keep us going for a long time. I’ll be sure to add them to our Forums :)

Whoa synchronicity! I’ve been frustrating myself with Seashore, an open-source photoshop emulator, and I’ve just recently amassed enough dosh to buy the real deal. Time to go shopping, and thanks for all the links!

I ve been using it for some time now from version 7 to cs4 I also use lightroom I think ps is great as I do mostly black and white or mono work I might occasionally use layers to add texture and some doging and burning all of which are techniques I used in the darkroom years ago.

Photoshop is amazing! Love it

here is the original:

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I bought Photoshop 3 back in 1996 and have enjoyed creating images using it ever since. Self-taught and still learning Photoshop even after 14 years of practice. Happy to call myself a Photoshop fan.
Gallery

I love it
Thanks for sharing this Photoshop is such a creative tool for those of us that cannot paint and draw

I am self taught also and use Elements 6 I have had to figure it all out for myself trial and error and with some help from the excellent tutorials I have read still learning and still craving to learn more

by no means to the standard of some of the ather artists here on RB but immensly satisfying that I have made it this far.

Kym

thank you adobe!!
here’s my fav that would be hard to reproduce
i know, i did one in a wet lab and it took me over 100 tries (which is 100 sheets of paper, tons of chemicals) and about 32 hours to get a 3-image composite done to perfection…
this is my first adobe composite called walk of faith

Wow, this is fabulous!! Thanks for sharing. . . I think I will post this at our forum at Altered by Design
♥Rhonda

The software is pure genius and there are some simply fantastic creations made with it! To those that think using photoshop isn’t art! Let me ask you, can you do it???

Here is my latest contribution via the medium of Photoshop =)

really grateful for you to have shared this with us…
it’s a program that until about 2 years ago had strayed away from using for wanting to keep my images as they were, & then I just let go… & this is shown in a lot my current works…
!reading between the lines!:http://ih2.redbubble.net/work.4657038.1.mtd,37...
!thrown into a fairytale!:http://ih0.redbubble.net/work.4601874.1.mtd,37...

btw… a great array of works all above, it’s really amazing the doors that have opened up for us creative souls & also a big thank you to Photoshop for making all this possible… Happy 20th!!

whoops… that didn’t work :(
oh well, the links to those images I wanted to share are here:
reading between the lines
thrown into a fairytale

fingers crossed & apologies for above with the links/ images.

Hey thats the day before my brother was born…

Elements is too limited and very inferior to Paintshop Pro. Photoshop proper is so far out of my financial reach, I might as well aim for a Ferrari. Unfortunately, most groups that are Photoshop centric exclude those who can’t afford it.

Photoshop is my right arm in working on my photos. I am presently using CS3, and started with CS2 which I still have in another computer. I have learned many things – just by using it and remember when I first started if only I knew what the tools bar meant, what do they mean, what do they do – now I know. Here is an example of a couple of my photos that were worked in Photoshop, the first two in CS2

My Precious
This one was done in PSCS2 – an OOB or Out of Bounds image

Coming Through, Coming Throug
and I’m having so much fun applying textures like this one, in PSCS3

Bald Eagle Textured
I love Photoshop, I couldn’t do without it
I hope the links work :-)

In PhotoShop’s earliest forms it was called Display and then Imagepro when it was bundled with a scanner it was called BarneyScan XP

The history of PhotoShop is very interesting check out this link here

" PhotoShop History ":http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/feature...

I LOVE PHOTOSHOP!! and every time I meet bubblers it seems to turn into an I love PS session. The very first time I did a tee shirt for a speed t challenge I had an 11 year old telling me what to do in PS….the result was this which won the challenge!
I was working in photoshop 7 at the time though I believe we have books here for something earlier…yes look!

I don’t think I ever did anything in PS 3 but in PS 7 this would have been an early one

but I really started to have silly fun when upgrading my computer meant I needed CS4

Thanks rb for being a place where we can play photoshop and show our creations! PS has been a great thing for me to get to know

Thank you so much for this!!
I’ve been messing about (clumsily I might add) with Photoshop since 1994 but it’s just in the last couple of years where I’ve truly come to appreciate and embrace it’s magic powers…so now of course, I keep updating and adding to my “toys”. The tutorials available to us in Redbubble are absolutely FANTASTIC..Indeed, I’m forever grateful for the inspiration and to all who share their wisdom and techniques!!
Photoshop is my playground where my imagination run can run wild and I can spend many long and happy hours.
This is one of my recent personal favourites….created in CS4

Wow…i can’t even remember when I first used photoshop. I think it was from 4 onwards?
Back then I didn’t even know what a layer was….

CS4 Now and couldn’t be happier.

I think we would need a university degree to understand everything in Photoshop, but I do use it almost every day in some way or other .
Here is one of my most popular

Wow! All these works of art are very inspiring! I’ve been using PSElements 5 for a couple of years now and recently upgraded to PSElements 7. It is awesome! I’ll be looking at all these tutorials later. :-))

Great post!! I’m a complete photoshop ADDICT – these works are INSPIRING!!! ( :

What great examples and comments! I play with CS4 and used to use it some at work. I admire those who use layers and textures. Takes a lot of creativity. I just strive for in-camera shots, and hope some day to be struck by a bolt of creativity. Go, Nat!

Hey, perhaps with the help of your research and article. Thanks, Nat. Thank you, RedBubble.

Photoshop, and photomanipulation via Photoshop, has given me the avenue to really be able to illustrate my imagination. Almost my entire portfolio is an homage to what this great software allows the creative mind to do. The sky is no longer the limit; with Photoshop, the only limit is the artist’s imagination!

This is one of my recent creations and personal faves.

At heart, I am a storyteller. It is what I do through my music, and it is ultimately what I do through my images. Photoshop allows me to tell a much fuller, much more personal, story, and it lets me show the world things that I wouldn’t be able to do simply with in-camera work.

happy birthday photoshop!

All the Splash Screens up to CS2 are HERE

I’ve used Photoshop since version 5. I first used it to create graphics for web design and have used it (and still do) for photo and document restoration, correcting photographs and digital art. I have 3 version on my computer – CS2, CS3 and CS4.

Other useful links.

Photoshopusertv.com
PlanetPhotoshop
Pixel Perfect
Layers Magazine
Photoshop Killer Tips

Just what I needed. Thank you.

Ah… I was there in 1990, in advertising agency. In those days poor macs weren’t enough powerful to really create useful stuff, but that situation didn’t last long. 1994 I scanned and tuned a photo and sent it to a newspaper via phonelines…

Currently using PS 7.0 – to me there really isn’t so much useful features in those more recent versions; “the logic” of Photoshop fits with my mind, as I studied professional photography in late 80’s – it’s like camera and darkroom turned into digital – I just Love it! :D

And it is an amazing tool to create stuff from “blank canvas” also…

I am an IT Specialist (in another life…) and have taught a lot of people how to use a lot of software, mostly engineering related (Autocad, Microstation, etc), and Elements 7 kicks my butt! For Photoshop I don’t think the word should be curve, more like a steep climb with someone throwing rocks at you along the way.

Anyway, here are a couple of my personal favorites from my portfolio:

Thanks, Adobe!!

Thanks, also, for the great shots in the article. I’ve also enjoyed seeing new faces and their works in these comments. RBers do great work!

I am honored thank you

ahh… Photoshop 1.0
Those were the days

Wow, honoured to be included here, thanks heaps!

These are my two favourite manipulations:

Thanks so much Red Bubble for the link to the 30 Beautiful Photoshop Text Tutorials. I tried out a few of them and this is the one I am happiest with – the “Shadow Text” effect. I consider myself a basic-intermediate user and really enjoyed this particular tutorial. I highly recommend it if you want to pick up some new skills.

Thanks Nat – loads of interesting links to explore!
It’s quite funny how we are creatures of habit! Even though I use CS3, my first tool for processing is usually an antique version (2003 I think) of PaintShop Pro 8. Only because I find it much faster. There is no denying that CS3 is much more feature rich, and the actual algorithms even for the same functions, are much much more accurate in Photoshop. But I have all my favorite tools in one button bar in PSP (levels, curves, crop, color balance, saturation, contrast) and I can very quickly play around with a shot in JPG to see if it’s worth bothering with. I find the layers interface and the straightening tools also slightly more intuitive in PSP. So my typical workflow will first be done in PSP using JPG. Sometimes that’s just enough – why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?. Other times, If I think that the piece is worth the extra effort, I will treat that as my “study” piece and start again in CS3, from RAW and work it out “properly”. George

P.S. Isn’t it also a testament to Photoshop’s success the fact that it has be come a verb? just like Hoover or Google? A picture is not edited it’s Photoshopped. Regardless of which tool was actually used! :-)

“Kym Howard 1 day ago
I love it
Thanks for sharing this Photoshop is such a creative tool for those of us that cannot paint and draw”

That just about sums up why a lot of people have issues with it. As an illustrator I use Photoshop to enhance an image, but most of the drawing is done in the real world and scanned in. I do love playing about in Photoshop, and use it for many things, but would never rely solely on it to create an image. Where my work re-appropriates imagery from A-ha’s Take On Me video, I’ve heard people say “Oh I could do that in Photoshop” when all they’ve done is shove a few filters on. I actually do draw my images and scan them in. The filters in this case aren’t as effective. If any photo editing software actually could create a filter that gives the same drawn effect as the Take On Me video, I’d be disappointed, because it’s beauty lies in the effort that went into creating it, and sheer old school TALENT :-)

Spectacular collection!!! They’re all amazing! xx

I am impressed once more, wonderful creative worlds of imagination created with Photoshop!!!
But… not everybody can spend more than 1000 € for a software…and I’m sure that Gimp or some other software can procreate outstanding works just the same.
(I have the great luck that I can buy the low-cost-version because of my profession.)

I’m absolutely fascinated by what can be acheived in Photoshop. I’ve only used it to colour in tees using the bucket tool lol. This is an amazing post with great art. It makes me want to learn more :)) xx

Wow, I’m so pleased to see one of my photos in the collection above. Thanks so much! I love Photoshop and doubt I could ever get sick of it. It’s such a rich program, and I’m still a beginner. Thanks very much for this feature—I can’t wait to check out the tips and tutorials!

I am completely in love with photoshop!

I have just bought PSCS4 and I have to tell you I love this program! It’s not as intimidating as I thought it would be and I am reading and reading and reading (right now Real World Camera Raw with Adobe PSCS4) and learning so much. After working with Elements for a few years I found the jump to the full program smooth. I have much to learn yet but welcoming the challenge. I have just started working with layers and textures this is one of the first pieces I’m done and like. Got to love PS!

Debra