"Preoccupied with her own history, Otsuka’s digitally manipulated photographs exemplify her understated artistry and elegantly articulated histrionics. Images of Otsuka as an adult are craftily combined with snaps of the artist as a child, pinched from the family photo album. The resultant composite snapshots are both glaringly literal and astoundingly subtle musings on the contemporary relevance of the self-portrait."

allows the GIMP to use Photoshop filters...

steps to making a more visually interesting image.

"there’s no doubt that it is remarkably powerful. For example, when you put out a fake, like the Kerry/Fonda one.[2] And even like this missile one. You start putting it out there and saying, “Oh look, this picture? It’s a fake. This picture? It’s a fake.” But you know what people remember? They don’t remember, “It’s a fake.” They remember the picture. And there are psychology studies, when you tell people that information is incorrect, they forget that it is incorrect. They only remember the misinformation. They forget the tag associated with it. "We should remember that the power of photographs comes not only from their ability to copy reality, but also to alter reality. Photographs can be used — to borrow Heartfield’s phrase — as weapons. They can be used to warn us about the dangers of impending war. They can also be used to ratchet up the blind forces of rage and unreason that drag us into conflict."

includes algorithmic techniques applied to camera fingerprinting and analyzing specular highlights

"Sometimes an idea is so awesomely stupid, it passes through a conceptual looking-glass and becomes stupidly awesome." (via: woot) Icanhasmanbabies?

good steps for mimicking catch lights in post-production

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How to bump vector art up a notch

Clever!

toshop it's possible to eliminate them if you wish. Try changing the Curves adjustment layer's blending mode to Color and the image will combine the color shifts with the image's original luminosity.

Curves adjustment of RGB and gray images. Full support of 8 and 16 bits color depth.

What Photoshop techniques can be applied in photojournalism?

"applying a consistent blurred perspective effect" useful for making screenshots appear more interesting with GIMP the key is Tools -> Transform Tools -> Perspective

a visual node-based editor allowing you to create your own filters – textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, frames

Make a Channel mixer adjustment layer and set the Red channel to Red 0%, Green 50%, Blue 50%. Mask out everything but the pupil.

somewhat irritating narration, but good info

Color was achieved primarily by creating a grandient map layer, adjusting the "range" slider, making the layer 50% transparent and throwing on a 100% sepia filter. I then added a "filter : distort : lense correction : vignette"

How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

before and after photoshop examples

Using Gradient Maps to Tint Photos

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An easy tutorial for creating invisible people.

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional

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What tricks separate a Photoshop/Illustrator newbie from a master?

The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, s