Cleverly Photoshopped Print Ads

Cleverly Photoshopped Print Ads

on Mar 1st 2012 with 28 comments

There are a lot of print advertisements out there, but only a few stand out from the rest. In this article, we will present you with a selection of cleverly Photoshopped print ads that we really enjoyed. Let’s take a look!

Batelco Directory: Hotel

This piece puts a whole new spin on the idea of a page curl. It does a fantastic job of pealing away the city in a realistic way.

Carrying Too Much Weight?

The advertisement does an excellent job of converting a man’s belly fat into a handbag. The texture of the bag is really well done and the hair is a nice touch. The only note that we might make is that men don’t really use handbags. So who is the target audience here?

Big Fat Sound

We really like how well the wax harp turned out in this piece. The melting wax looks very realistic. The artist really paid attention to detail. Notice the reflection in the mirror, a detail that many designers might have missed.

Desertification Destroys 6,000 Species Every Year

We’ve seen quite a few disintegration effects in the past. This piece does a particularly good job turning the elephant into sand; as it is harder to make really fine particles look realistic.

The True Brew of Halloween

In this piece, we really enjoyed how the pumpkin vines grow on to the glass.

Listerine: Burger

Burgers always catch our eye but this one doesn’t look very appetizing. This piece does a great job showing all the things we put into our mouth during the day. Notice how most of the objects aren’t even food. Yuk.

Old Spice: Matterhorn

Everyone loves the Old Spice guy. This piece does a really good job mixing photos and digital illustration/painting.

Take a Five Minute Holiday

This fun and simple photo manipulation does a great job of blending all these photos into one composition. It almost looks real.

There’s Always a Stain Waiting to Happen

While this coffee cup might not be that easy to drink out of, the shape of it really helps to portray how that coffee might end up looking once you’ve spilled it on the table.

BCAA Travel Insurance: Snowglobe

This Illustration does a great job producing this snow globe.

Hungry for Fresh Ideas

In this piece it’s hard to say how much of this is a photo and how much is digital painting.

LG Mobile: Circus

This piece does a really nice job of combining all the photos into one seamless composition.

Manpower Experis: Hammer

The designer who put this artwork together did a really good job of attaching that hammer head onto that man’s body.

 
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  • Caleb Herring

    This is awesome! Thanks for sharing!!! Oh, and I’m first….

  • http://www.google.fr/ buzzinho

    Nice stuff! Specially the first and the eleventh !

  • http://www.4d-studios.co.uk Kathrine

    Well I must say all these designs are awe inspiring…
    Stupendous.

    Thanks for sharing this creativity.

  • Việt Designer

    Superb

  • http://www.blog-fuel.com John

    Great collection and inspiring. However, you have forced me to sit here now, all day, playing in photoshop.

  • http://cargocollective.com/ant1 Antoine

    Just AWESOME =D But all is not done with photoshop, there are many elements in 3D !

    • Cosmic Hawke

      @Antoine
      Just like there are many elements used that were created with a camera.

  • http://prodigalconcepts.com/ rod rodriguez

    I just love the “Hungry for Ideas” campaign… great round-up nonetheless!

  • wendy

    HOW DO THEY DO THAT!! :O
    very very amazed!

  • suhail

    amazing man pls post some morr

  • Ams

    Love the work! – Thank you for sharing! Looking out for the tutorials :-)

  • http://onlinexpo.blogspot.com Shajedul

    That is amazing. In this tutorial i attracted in Elephant drawing or whatever it’s so cool. Not the elephant all the graphics work looks like real. Thank you very much for sharing this cool new tutorial.

  • http://www.zmgcreative.com JasonG

    Amazing, amazing, stuff! Makes me realize how much more work I need to do on improving my own skills. Thanks for sharing!

  • http://dan-rajan.co.uk Dan Rajan

    The images are well selected, however I can’t say the same for the author. The quality of written communication in this article is appalling, providing a very weak description of what one can already see in the images itself. You would have been better off with a simple gallery…
    I’m not convinced any, and yes, I mean any, of the comments above are genuine, I can’t believe that skilled photoshop designers would comment with such poor grammar, punctuation and spelling.
    Grant Friedman, the author, I’m sure, is quite happy to provide poor content and still receive money for doing so; this is a real shame, since I’ve come to expect a higher quality from PSDtuts+, and they should deal with this particular author soon.

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
      Author

      Thanks for the feedback Dan. I appreciate your opinion.

  • Furry Canary

    Amazing. No, not the pictures, although I’m sure they’re splendid. I’m talking about the ‘article’, which is wonderful for several reasons:

    1. Because it appears to have been written for the blind. eg. ‘In this piece, we really enjoyed how the pumpkin vines grow on to the glass.’

    2. Because it elevates stating the obvious to an art form. eg. ‘Notice how most of the objects aren’t even food.’ Well spotted.

    3. Because it inadvertently damns with faint praise. eg. ‘The melting wax looks almost realistic.’

    4. Most of all though, because not a single word adds anything remotely of value, anything above and beyond what one might get from, you know, actually just looking at the picture. eg. ‘Notice how most of the objects aren’t even food.’

    My favourite line? ‘This Illustration does a great job producing this snow globe.’ Translation: ‘Look at this.’ It’s like erecting a sign that reads ‘Please do not throw stones at this sign’. Truly brilliant.

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
      Author

      I sense a bit of sarcasm in your comment. I appreciate your opinion and will try to include a bit more detail the next time around.

    • http://www.parasuniversal.com Parasuniversal.com

      Lolllll. I hardly read those bits and if I were you… after noticing how pointless they are… just stop reading them. I think a part of you enjoyed it. I know after reading your comment I scrolled back up and enjoyed them myself. ‘Look at this’ and ‘don’t throw stones at this sign’… legend.

  • http://www.seven27creative.com Brian Jones

    Fantastic and very inspiring – thank you for the share! I have to agree with John on this one – my creative juices are flowing and I’ll be manipulating pixels for the rest of the day :)

  • http://www.downwithdesign.com Gareth Hardy

    Superb collection. Love the Listerine burger!

  • http://www.amonda.de amonda

    Nice List great work!

  • LMW1

    Nice work! Now how about some tuts that explain “how” to accomplish this level of detail and work?

    Nice to look at – but “teach” us how to do it.

    Respectfully,
    LMW1

  • Joel

    Amazing!

  • http://www.everybodyelse.etsy.com Melody

    It’s not a handbag, it’s a duffel bag. The ad is targeting men.

  • http://www.webtemplates-creare.com/ Paul Weston

    Thought this was a great collection and one that had some very inspiring and creative work. As a designer I like to look at a wide variety of work for my inspiration because I am always wanting to push my creative thinking and how I approach my designs. I love all the examples you have put together but really like carrying too much weight add. I love the concept and the attention to detail with how the add looks and the techniques used. This is an article I will keep going back to and one that has really my creative thinking going.

  • May Moe Oo

    ♥ dis….

  • http://creativeduck@blogspot.com Mikey

    I think you should do a bit more research on these ads too, the harp is not wax.
    What does wax have to do with ‘fat’? It’s lard/butter :)

    Also, for the newbies here, the majority of the ad’s ‘creativity’ comes from the art director/copywriter who come up with the initial campaign idea. Then the designer/retoucher (in-house or freelance) helps make the art happen and puts their magic wand into the details.

    Creating an ad is quite a complex journey and requires a lot of teamwork.
    For more ad inspiration, try http://www.adsoftheworld.com – all the ads above are on this database too.

  • http://www.dinkcreative.co.uk Ruaridh

    “Carrying too much weight” – clever! good idea!