Awesome Photoshop

The Commodore Amiga was one of the most graphically-capable PCs of the 1980s. Stuart Brown of Ahoy dives deep into one of the greatest pieces of digital art from the era – a gloriously colorful cheeseburger designed by Commodore’s Art Director Jack Haeger. Sadly, the original file wasn’t saved, so Ahoy reproduced it from scratch.

Do you like the artful, monochrome look of engravings like the illustrated portraits on currency? Texturelabs shows us how to achieve that exact look by creating a custom wavy texture, using the Oil Paint filter, and a few other tricks inside of Adobe Photoshop.

This bargain-priced series of online courses will set you up for success with Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, and InDesign CC, the world’s most popular tools for graphic design and illustration, along with Spark, Adobe’s tool for creating social media posts.

Artist and programmer Cyril Diagne shows of a slick tech demo of an augmented reality app that can snap pictures of real world objects and drop then directly into Adobe Photoshop. Simply point, click, and aim your phone where you want to paste the object. Source code available here.

3dDecors‘ compact USB keyboard adds a series of dedicated buttons and controls for working with Photoshop. While it’s not nearly as slick as the Loupedeck Creative Tool, it costs substantially less, offers quick access to frequently used tools, and has two control knobs which can be used to adjust slider values.

Adobe shows off a slick new feature coming soon to Photoshop. The Object Selection tool uses machine learning tech to automatically identify objects, people, and animals to quickly select and separate them from backgrounds. We can’t tell you how many hours this would have saved us over the years.

Digital illustrator Robson Lami likes to take cartoon characters and reimagine them as if they were living, breathing people. He’s taken on Rick Sanchez, Popeye, Woody, the Powerpuff Girls, Sonic the Hedgehog and many more, and they’re almost always incredibly creepy.

Studio Cult’s Photoshop Picture Frame lets designers and other Photoshop users bring their oft-used program to the real world. The frame is made of zinc alloy and has a 3D construction. Each pledge for the frame also comes with a free Photoshop enamel pin.

In 2019, Adobe will bring a full version of Photoshop CC to the iPad. Aside from the convenience of mobile image editing and creation, the app will launch with a cloud version of PSD files, letting you continue your work from a desktop PC to your iPad and back.

The music video for Spoon’s latest single takes place entirely inside of the interface for Adobe Photoshop. But rather than retouching lead singer Britt Daniel to spruce up his look, things go totally off the rails.

We’ve been using graphic design tools like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for years, but we still suck at using the pen tool. If you find it as challenging as we do, check out this online game, which will turn you into a curve-drawing master in no time.

Dmitry Chabanov and fellow graffiti artists who joined Stenograffia 2017 painted an anamorphic illusion on an abandoned car and the structure beside it, using the checkered background typically used in photo editing applications to indicate transparency.

Imgur user Kiyoi decided to see what the world might look like if animals had evolved like humans – with eyes on the front of their heads. Not only would they be more susceptible to predators approaching from the sides, they’d just look plain stupid.

(PG-13: Language) Always on the Internet? Send your loved ones these postcards so they’ll know what they’re missing. Reading Frenzy makes these officially licensed 4″x 6″ postcards based on the work of the sublime comedy photo blog LiarTownUSA.

Jeff Wysaski aka Pleated Jeans loves to leave fake signs that look legit from afar. His newest signs for Target shoppers feature Star Wars vacuum cleaners, a falcon giveaway and more.

Photoshop Fix gives you the most commonly used image correction tools on your iPhone or iPad for free. You can heal, clone, patch, change an area’s color or lighting, as well as adjust facial features with its smart liquify tool. Android version coming soon.

(PG-13 Language) Last Week Tonight took a brief break, but if you’re used to having John Oliver depress and horrify you every Monday, here’s the host with some of the images that they made for the show but were ultimately shelved.

A photoblog that highlights Kindle ebooks with hilariously awful titles and even worse covers, from the world’s most unscientific scifi cover to the best title and art combo that we’ve ever seen. We can die now.

“Oh my god…there are no features!” Since Photoshop turned 25 this year, CreativeLive showed how far the program has come by having photographers and other longtime users – including one from Adobe – try Photoshop 1.0.

Add some pizazz to your school paper or newsletter with these Unfinished Business stock photos, featuring Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson. 20th Century Fox teamed up with Getty Images to create the awful photographs.

The new Adobe Brush app lets you make custom brushes out of anything you can take a picture of: a line, a pattern or even your face. You can then save and use your brushes on Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and Photoshop Sketch.

Al Pacino as Wolverine. Sammy Davis Jr. as Mr. Pink. Pam Grier as Ellen Ripley. Illustrator Peter Stults likes to make posters of today’s movies as if they were released decades ago. More on Peter’s Behance page.

This single purpose Tumblr takes a page from the back of Wired to envision how modern technologies and changes in social behavior might affect the warning signs we see in everyday places. We were promised jet packs.