Photo manipulation is one of the most creative artforms to come out of the digital age. Here we showcase ten masters of this technique and 48 examples of their stunning artwork, blending real photos with synthetic elements for a surreal result.
1. Karol Kolodzinski
Karol Kolodzinski is a freelance graphic designer who specializes in new media design. His style has earned him some big name clients such as Coca Cola, Ikea, and more. Sound impressive? What if I told you he was only a 20 year old college student in Poland?
2. Jonathan Foerster
Jonathan has been into art from an early age. As a child, he mimicked has father's actions at the drawing table. Today he is, among other things, a traditional artist, digital artist, and active online gamer. He's 25 and currently lives in Indiana.
3. Craig Shields
Talk about one talented graphic artist. Craig is not only a master of photo manipulation, but he also has the ability to master a variety of styles. While many artists tend to follow a particular style, Craig's portfolio is filled with a variety of work from photo manipulation to digital illustration.
4. Justin Maller
Justin is a 25 year old graphic designer who currently lives in Melbourne, Australia. Aside from his personal work, he is also the creative director at depthCORE where he helps do a little bit of everything. You have probably seen some of his work floating around a number of the graphic design blogs.
5. Chris Haines
Here is another amazing digital artist of a very young age. At 19 Chris can probably man-handle Photoshop and Cinema better than most of us. He is no stranger to the online art community. Since the age of 13 he has been making rounds from one online art community to another, finding inspiration and learning new skills along the way.
6. Cristiano Siqueira
Cristiano is a freelancer from Brazil who took the typical route to freelancing by going to college for communication design and then spent a few years in the corporate world. He worked as a graphic design and packaging designer before he went into illustration full-time for himself.
7. Alberto Seveso
If you have spent any time browsing graphic design blogs looking for design inspiration, you have undoubtedly seen some of Alberto's work. Much of his work has created a number of trends in the design community. His portfolio is one the shouldn't be missed.
8. Jerico Santander
I have been a fan of Jerico's portfolio on Behance for a while now. His work is creative, bright, and just plain fun. Jerico is another one of those top photo manipulation artists whose work is constantly floating around the design community websites. Most notably, you may have seen his work on Desktopography. If you want to know what a good photo manipulation portfolio looks like, this is it.
9. Eduardo Rodrigues
Eduardo Rodrigues is a 20 year old artist from Barcelos, Portugal. He is interested in all things design, but tends to focus on digital art and photo manipulation. He is extremely active in the online art communities of Deviant Art and Behance. To connect with him, check out his portfolio link above.
10. David Waters
David Waters is currently studying graphic design at the university of Idaho. While he loves computer art, he is learning about more traditional methods of art and how to use theme in his creative process. David is constantly on the look out for other creatives to work with and learn from so that he can push his design skill to their full potential.
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( ADD YOURS )Kendall December 18th
ooooo, the first image reminds me of something from the city of lost children. great collection!
( )nivaConcepts December 18th
Brilliant list. Thank you!
( )Trond December 18th
Wow, great collection!
( )Aloke Pillai December 18th
Amazing stuff!
( )Mabuc December 18th
That is Fantastic, I like it. They are awesome
( )insic December 18th
It Blows my mind! Great Stuff. Amazing works.
( )adunaylobot@yahoo.com May 29th
HI insic
( )Michelle December 18th
They are so creative <3!
( )Chris Banach December 18th
sorry, but the whole psychedelic images are not my cup of tea. too busy. i prefer art when it’s subtle. that’s just me though.
( )Jhay December 18th
Sick! I like them all.
( )DKumar M. December 18th
Absolutely Awesome post !! Some of them is really Amazing works of art !!
Thanks
( )JustinVG December 18th
So good.
( )himangshu December 18th
creative …esp that ‘Gulliver’ one(Chris HAines) very mysterious …also Alberto seveso Works… THANKS
( )anjhero December 18th
AWESOME-O
( )Qbrushes December 18th
Amazing works of art!
( )Nathan December 18th
Whoh, great stuff indeed!
( )Jigga December 18th
Amazing. OMG!!! This just blew my mind !!!
BTW, if anyone knows what texture Alberto Seveso is using for his creations do not hesitate to let me/us know..
( )Gyvulius December 18th
totaly awsome, quality, vision, omg i like it
( )Ben Reid December 18th
Great collection.
Gives me lots of ideas!
( )Martin Haobam December 18th
Some more fractal art would have been nice
( )minisite design December 18th
just one word! AMAZING…
( )reezluv December 18th
awesome collection..just wondering..when will I can be like them..:P
( )Lee Milthorpe December 18th
Woah, really, really stunning artwork there! I’m always amazed to see what people can do with a little photo manipulation!
( )Mr Kuzio December 18th
I love Alberto Seveso design
( )Ariful Alam Khan December 18th
Fantastic
( )eyetuts December 18th
awesome,great,fantastic….MORE THAN EVERYTING
( )gogipatiala December 18th
simply ….great …..no words to say……can we get there technique of working some day……!
( )Mat December 18th
So, are we going to get any tutorials on making any of those?
( )Andreas Nieckele December 18th
Amazing!
( )Orey December 18th
This is an awesome collection. Really great artists. Awe-inspiring.
( )Ewan December 18th
Wow! Unbelievable!!! There is no word in the English language to describe how utterly fantastic this collection is. I’m left flabbergasted.
( )afrix December 18th
Perffect News one of the best ones
http://afrix99.deviantart.com/
( )EdpeppeRs December 18th
amazing works! damn! it’s so fantastic!
omg! i’m stunned!
love them all! great stuffs!
9 one, “Eduardo Rodrigues” has the same name as me… i was like: “o.O”
euah
was funny for the 1st impression..
peace out!
( )aleso December 18th
this is realy amazing!!!!!!!!
http://www.3dand2dmag.wordpress.com
( )Yuuzaa December 18th
I think this is one of the best amazing technique….:) Thank’s for sharing.
( )anon December 18th
What kind of a post is this? Alot of these aren’t even photo-manipulations! Editors on this site really need to get a clue.
( )Eric Shafer December 19th
This is stunning.
( )Lawrence77 December 19th
Really mind blowing….
Lawrence 
( )Start Your Own Website December 19th
This is a really great article! Awesome work by these people…
( )devlim.com December 19th
OMG, all really amazing
( )T.Robert December 19th
IMPRESSIVE!
( )Brynn December 19th
Great stuff! … Just wondering though. Can they all REALLY be classified as “Photo manips”? The artists involved have done a great job, though and I would like to dream that one day I’ll be remotely close to their level.
( )botino December 19th
the kid is a genius!
( )BMcCarrie December 19th
Mind blowing? Good stuff but I wouldn’t say “Mind Blowing”.
( )silentium December 19th
mind blowing, too much great imput !!
( )Mathew Ballard December 19th
This is by far some of the best work that I have ever seen.
( )Tobi_as December 19th
Wow! These pictures are awesome.
( )My favorite works are from Eduardo Rodrigues and Jerico Santander.
Bryan Grajales December 19th
I Like them…
what can I say…..
Good Job…
( )r4ge December 19th
lol, i agree with anon. Alot of these have nothing to do with photomanipulation. =P And stunning? Mind blowing? yea it’s good but not enough to make me stunned.
( )jess v December 19th
looks like they were all done by the same artist. unoriginal. boring.
( )theBish December 19th
I agree, good work (on behalf of the artists and the author, who took the time to find these,) but far too many people on here just copy/paste the same response into every article that is posted on here, in addition to NETTUTS. Start having some appreciation for the time that goes into finding these works, as well as the individual pieces of art. Think a little bit out of the box and post something deeper than “amazing”, “mind blowing” or “brilliant” try to think about or embrace the emotions that come from looking at these inspiring pieces of work and put something special into your post.
( )kReEsTaL December 19th
Nice picks, even though it’s not my cup of tea. The only thing that bugs me is that you only featured men… Isn’t there any female photomanipulators that could blow your mind, too?
( )Oli December 19th
beautiful…simply beautiful
( )Mat December 19th
So, yea, are we going to get any information on making these, or not?
( )Rishi Luchun December 19th
these are really cool! great pieces of work
( )Umesh Kashyap December 19th
no comments……..
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I can’t say anithing its amazing amazing work
keep it up guys
nice work
( )best of luck
Matus December 19th
the snail is fantastic
( )Christian Gehrke December 19th
I could sit a look at art like this all day long. Very fun stuff. Great collection.
( )Gago December 20th
this is why we love what we do.
( )Takumi86 December 20th
Holy… what a great art.. and its only happen here in PSDTuts!
( )Ignatz Horowitz December 20th
If you like this kinda stuff…meh. Some are pretty good, but others…I’d seen better on stuff I used to read back in the 60s-70s. And that stuff took REAL talent, not just clicking a mouse. Just proof that art is subjective.
( )til01 December 20th
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/
( )this guy is great also!
Brom December 20th
Mind blowing indeed, in the “oh I think I have to puke soon”-sense. This is the worst excuse for photo manipulation I have ever seen. Advanced “new-age” bullshit art. The thing about Photoshop experts is that that’s all they are – Photoshop experts. When it comes to ideas they are just empty. Sorry, but it’s got to be said. There are loads of better examples of intelligent, creative and fantastic Photoshop art out on the internet, but this collection here is not one of them.
( )Adam April 27th
Are you looking at the same article that I am? These designers and artists are amazing! Their ideas are no different then traditional artists work except that it is a new generation and a new style. I would like to see you YOU try this.
( )Dan Long December 20th
These are some insanely talented people. Great inspiration for all!
( )Silent Type December 20th
and now i will kill myself, talent-less hack that I am.
( )Sunny December 20th
Where are the great women graphic designers?! I would have liked to see at least one featured with this gaggle of guys.
( )eamejia December 20th
great selection
( )ScentOfBlood December 20th
Simply awesome.
( )Iron Egor December 20th
i wanna a tattoo now
( )reuber1 December 20th
I’m with Mat on this…how about a tutorial, that isn’t a blasted PLUS tutorial, on how to do these.
( )seth December 20th
brilliant.
( )OllieJ December 20th
I just want to know how long it takes these guys to do these pieces cause I honestly don’t think I have the time to probe the inner recesses of my subconscious in order to envision some of these pieces.
( )And unfortunately, I have far too many responsibilities that nullify the option of using an psychoactive drugs. (And I’m not accusing any of these artists of drug-use so please don’t take it there.)
I’m just extremely curious as to how their minds work.
Zuluu December 20th
That’s classic XXI century work!
I would like to adv for free on my blog.
( )If interested please let me know.
bl4nk December 20th
amazing people, great works and a lot of great inspiration for all!
( )Thanks a lot!
kırma eleme December 20th
oo, very creative lists.
( )Bob December 21st
Seems you guys have turned into depthcore groupies… wish people would get off the depthcore tip. they are not the only good artist doing design these days. stop kissing as for some shitty designers.
( )GooNSlayeR December 21st
This guy is a maniac P+P
( )bratn December 21st
gr8 stuff. Would be nice to work for ikea or coca cola. people who thinks that is only good are noobs for sure : )
( )Mr_LeE December 21st
Great list mate.. I love how digital photo manipulation is getting more popular now
( )reuber1 December 22nd
My prior comment is still awaiting moderation? Why?
( )Zenia December 22nd
Fantastic list! These photo manipulations are simply amazing…
( )MC BOZMAN December 22nd
Oya Clogg!!!! Amazing work. Alberto Seveso’s especially.
( )pooj December 22nd
amazing work!
( )Paris Vega December 22nd
mind = blown
( )Ema_Malk December 22nd
BRILLIANT, THIS TELLS YOU HOW MUCH THE HUMAN MIND CAN BE CREATIVE.
THANKS
( )Daniel December 22nd
This might be one of the better posts of 2008!!!
( )Merk December 23rd
Terrific work.
The term ‘photo manipulation’ always plays down the artistry of this type of work to me; like the creators have just taken a photo, and tweaked it a bit and put their name to it. Some of these areally aren’t photo manips. Sure, they may contain photographic elements, but they’re full blown digital artworks.
( )King December 23rd
tuff like ice
( )Dean December 23rd
11 years, and i give up. All i got pursuing PS Art like this was bad posture, very painful joints, with absolutely ** all to show for any of it.
Art is just to expensive, on your body,soul,life,social life,spirit
No one cares, no one ever acknowledges it’s greatness, they look at it go “ooo wow”……. end.
( )Eric Shafer December 23rd
Tracked back to from here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/web-picks-2-2/
( )rizzy December 23rd
This post is SUPER AWESOME WOW
( )http://twitter.com/rizzy81
SirGuile December 23rd
Too morbidly jealous to put in a good word about the achievements of another, instead I must infer what I prefer to see.
Lacking creativity, I must use my only means of self satisfying expression; destroy another’s creation and salvage my misshaped ego.
All said and done, I will justify it as preference and further infer my superiority.
It is an act of a fool, beset by untoward emotions since childhood, until the end of my days.
~SirGuile
I wish I was that talented. Honestly.
( )TekkerZ December 23rd
Wow, all these images are AWESOME, i want to make stuff like this
( )Mediaguy December 23rd
They are alright….but mind blowing i don’t think so…..Do people what GOOGLE does this day?
( )Sol Invictus December 23rd
This stuff is seriously the bees knees.
( )nFormas Design December 24th
Nice post!
Amazing!
( )jesse December 24th
these are all photoshopped! i can tell cuz of the pixels!
( )320bpmraver December 24th
WoW You have a gigant Fantasie, i find it is a greatful Art!
( )Social Bookmark December 24th
Really Amazing post i have ever seen!
cool stuff dude keep it up..
( )dc123 December 24th
Wowwwwwwww
What a grt collection…. i had never seen this type of collection.. really a grt collection frm grt artist…
Thnks man for this …
Dc123
( )Peter Mark Ellis December 24th
Amazing digital work here! Very inspiring!!!
( )Jeyush December 24th
Absolutely superb!!!
( )Hardy December 26th
You have to see Ben’s Goossen’s Surreal Art – Simply Mind Boggling!!!
http://admanspicks.blogspot.com/2008/12/ben-goossens-surrealistic-digital-art.html
( )Tardicus December 26th
Cool Beans!
( )RockstarTemplate.com December 26th
Awesome Work , Great going . Love your blog
( )JordanPerez December 27th
ON THAT REQUIEM IMAGE(WHICH IS REALLY TIGHT) ANYONE HAPPENS TO KNOW THE FONT NAME, OR HAS IT?I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT, THANKS IN ADVANCE
( )optifex December 27th
The photo manipulation by Justin Maller is originally from a photograph by a famous undersea photographer featured in National Geographic which I did a painting of in high school. It lends itself to a number of different mediums.
( )Mick December 28th
hahaha, I recognized some minor pictures/objects used in some of the pics that I have used in some of my stuff. Neat! Love this stuff… if only I could be so good.
( )Eligo December 29th
I got introduced to Cristiano Siqueira’s artwork on DeviantArt. This man is an absolute perfection. It’s quite amazing what these guys are doing. I love to create wallpapers and related stuff and I’m learning alot from them.
( )editology December 29th
inspirational…. thanks for breaking down all of the walls and letting the light in….
( )fungusman December 30th
I only wish I had the talent and the creativity that is displayed here. This is great.
( )Globalstomp December 31st
Stupendous, facinating………
( )Mugendi December 31st
Wow!
( )I’d like to see some of these designs animated
DSP December 31st
Same as when I was in art school 30 years ago and during my art career…the guys get all the press.
( )Laurent January 1st
Very nice, thank’s for your selection
( )Авадон January 2nd
Amazing!!! Спасибо за такие великолепные работы!!!
( )Awesome!!! Thanks for such magnificent works!!!
Rod Meier January 3rd
Very good photos! I like it!
( )Aman January 3rd
This is something Highly Creative Show by Photoshoppers!
It’s a Real time to think OUT OF THE BOX by being INSIDE the BOX. Whoever made all these efforts are HATS ON!
Keep posting regularly like these images show.
( )Srikanth January 4th
Absolutely Marvelous. Imagination unlimited….
( )Dan January 4th
Wow! Very interesting….great technology creates a beautiful creations.
( )Ivan Nikolic January 4th
Nice collection!
( )Dude Man January 5th
Awesome I wish I could even begin to comprehend how they do those effects
( )jack January 5th
amazing pictures! i love it
( )Jason January 6th
can you put these pics as ur profile pic… (copyright and all that stuf)??
( )azsdd January 6th
can u nt put these pix as ur profile pic due to copy right????
( )Michael January 6th
Good, very good.
( )Rich January 6th
Cool stuff!
( )sajin January 7th
its very nice……….
( )chimo January 9th
awesome….fantastic,,,,
( )Frankie January 11th
WOW!! Great Selection!
( )Mblakrak January 15th
Good !! Masterpieces
( )I may copy file PSD or other, simply for study
Maree Antoinette January 19th
This is amazing stuff! my fave is David waters, Jerico Santander and Chris Haines.
( )Its amazing and something to really aspire too.
Melissa January 20th
Great Work Love All. Keep Doing THis
( )Avatars January 21st
super nice photo collection, thnaks for sharing, i
( )Daniel February 5th
WOW! Just amazing.
( )Melanie February 6th
WOW this is my favorite stumbleupon page yet WOW is all I can say~ awesome
( )Chloers Vaugh February 7th
wow seems 2 good to be true the fact that people made these is almost unbelievable, must of been really time consuming.
( )monxx February 7th
WILD IMAGINATIONS..GREAT
( )someone February 7th
THAT WAS PIMP
( )Utah Directory February 13th
A very entertaining post! Brilliant works of art!
( )MirazTutorials February 15th
I personally love all the manipulations that show a 3 dimensional effect as well being creative and colourful
( )Junaid March 6th
Awesome…
( )endrju March 9th
you forgot about some goog artist sure better than Eduardo Rodrigues imo
( )for example hejz.com or polel.eu
yankee March 15th
Wow! all of the pictures are very amazing!Thanks for getting to watch!
( )Gary G. March 21st
Except for a few exceptions, the graphic design (wouldn’t call it art) displayed here no is technically brilliant but uninspiring. No emotion, just choatic collages. As if perturbed minds were were trying to evacuate neurotic build-up. Sort of (sorry,) esthetic, colorful vomit.
( )Jim Pankey March 21st
Fantastic works!
( )Speshal April 1st
Has anyone here heard of Winfred Hawkins?? amazing stuff just like this
( )paul scott rayner April 3rd
there is some very cretive art here. very inspiring. my own work is of this nature and is in my photo gallery at myspace.uk. my address is http://www.myspace.com/paulscottrayner
( )Dipankar Bordoloi April 18th
These are Speechless!!!
Ridiculously amazing!
( )MSC May 6th
yea these are quite interesting and truly reflect what human imagination can actually bring into life. I wonder the future of art is going to be associated with more and more digitalization … well great — at least this can bring a hope of some free stock photography
( )Ridhima May 11th
i LOVEEEEE the last picture!
all he others are rather amazing as well!
( )darpit May 15th
nice I like it
( )Fuad Ahasan Chowdhury May 30th
It’s amazingly nice.. brilliant.
Cheers
( )Fuad
priyanka May 30th
its really cool and amazing stuff………..
i love it.
( )NISHA SINGH June 20th
Diving into the mind of an artist… its a great way to learn and expand one’s own mind!!
( )Illustrateur July 13th
You can find other works from Jerico on his french representative website : http://www.creasenso.fr/book/jerico_s/
( )Humza July 26th
These artists are wonderful!. And most of them are on deviantArt as well. Also most of their art is found on depthCore too.
( )Their art is certainly marvellous
AVIRON July 29th
AWESOME CREATIVITY,,I EVER SEEN
( )Art student 09 August 4th
wow this is amazing stuff dude its really helped me with my art coursework and i got quite a few inspiring ideas thanks alot!!!!!!!
( )sarah December 9th
wow,really nice and great
( )congratulation dude,you collect wonderful collections.
regards
sarah
brian December 14th
AMAZING
( )image manipulation December 28th
Really very creative.
( )Amazing!!!
Thanks.
Liked it.
John1929 December 30th
Very nice site! is it yours too
( )Desi Karcheva January 26th
Wow, it’s amazing….I’m chocked..
( )