40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

Jan 9th in Web Roundups by Danny Outlaw

Even people who hate ads won't be able to hate these: they're beautiful, clever, hilarious, unique and uber-cool, all with the help of a little program called Adobe Photoshop.

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Author: Danny Outlaw

Danny Outlaw runs the Outlaw Design Blog.

1. DC Shoes Ad

2. Lee Pipes

3. Dexter TV Series

4. Neonic Evolution Limited CCTV

5. Dirty Jobs TV Series

6. Adidas

7. CWS Washroom Solutions

8. Roygalan

9. Keen's Curry Powder

10. Lifebuoy Handwash

11. WIRES Wildlife Rescue NSW

12. M&M's - Personalized M&M's

13. Zen People

14. Nike Shoe Ads

15. Event Brand

16. Nike Paris

17. Dunkin Donuts

18. PS3: Living Print

19. Ashtanga Yoga Center

20. Megalan Speed Mouse

21. Pepsi H2OH

22. Nike ID

23. Tiger Beer

24. Realistic Decorated Wine Desperados

25. Flickr Art Directors Club

26. Jazz Fest Poster

27. SONY

28. Affect Media

29. Fackingen Mineral Water

30. Music Channel

31. Pirelli Tires

32. PSP

33. WMF Knives

34. Honda

35. Tabasco

36. Volkswagon

37. Opel Astra

38. All Star Parlour

39. Renault

40. KUAT


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    Steve Mullen January 9th

    Some really nice ones in here! Very inspirational. Thanks for the post.

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    YoZ January 9th

    nice works out there

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    Trond January 9th

    A lot of inspiration here!
    thanks!:)

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    Buzzness January 9th

    Just Brilliant!!!!!!

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    Smit January 9th

    wow some of these are really amazing

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    Adam January 9th

    Pretty good!

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    DC January 9th

    Very Nice, especially liked the De-Mask the truth one.

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    badreddine January 9th

    can i get a tuts for this inphotoshop

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    Carlos January 9th

    thxs, amesing recopilation!!!!

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    justhati January 9th

    No. 29. Fackingen Mineral Water is written wrong, it’s actually called Fachingen Mineral Water =)
    Anyway, nice designs and thanks for the compilation.

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    dennis January 9th

    nike have the nicest artists…

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    Omer January 9th

    some jawdropping works :)

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    Owain January 9th

    Absolutely awesome!

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    Behzad Saeedi January 9th

    Thanks! Great collection !

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    Bill Biwer January 9th

    Very nice collection. I wonder how long some of these took to create.

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    ThaClown January 9th

    I live the tabasco ad!! Anybody know how to get a high ress??

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    soulreaver1986 January 9th

    Could anyone please to post a tut how to make an awesome work like the “Pepsi H2OH” print ads . Pleasee, anyone ?

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    Bryan Le January 9th

    Great article with loads of inspiration. Thanks!

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    onebilliondpi January 9th

    I doubt this is all purely photoshop work. I see a lotta vector and 3D here …

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    matheleo January 9th

    You misspelled Volkswagen :D

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    dmsys January 9th

    VolkswagEn. mit “E”.

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    Alex Mitchell January 9th

    Fantastic selection of inspirational ads.
    I really like AffectMedia, I think because it reminds me a little of Asia’s World City, Hong Kong identity and the Yoga Center advert and Pirelli Tires.. and them all.

    Thanks for sharing!

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    Andreas Nieckele January 9th

    nice!

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    pica-ae January 9th

    omg, some are really creepy :-)

    others are kinda old, but that doesn’t lower the quality anyhow

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    Hans Christian Dürr January 9th

    Nice collection indeed!

    But it’s Fachingen not Fackingen on #29 ;)

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    Constantin Potorac January 9th

    Amazing pieces

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    Thomson Chemmanoor January 9th

    Great collection. Some of the ads are so inspirational. My fav is Pirelli Tires because of the slogan and the ad good analogy.

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    sean steezy January 9th

    nice to see a skateboard company on the list… this is an awesome collection, thank you! This is the kind of stuff that made me want to get into graphic design in the first place. I could definitely see some tutorials inspired by these effects… when it comes to pritn, every detail comes out, you gotta be really good, ain’t no web resolution on paper.

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    415s January 9th

    Nice collection. But:
    #36. You spell it “Volkswagen”. Not “Volkswagon” ;)

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    loswl January 9th

    Excellent set of Ads, some of them display what we have been learning here on PSDTUTS :O)

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    afrix January 9th

    This is great collection of Ads!! i think this is the best thing what i see on psdtuts.com :)

    http://afrix99.deviantart.com/

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    Tom Ross January 9th

    Awesome works here, I love the creativity of ad design.

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    brookaaay January 9th

    these artworks are awesome!!

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    Naved Ahmed January 9th

    very nice and inspiring collection thanks for sharing :)

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    geir b nystad January 9th

    Love the one by Si Scott #16

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    Rachelle January 9th

    I love the playstation 3 ads in #18. They are just beautifully done and so fluid!

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    Sineload January 9th

    Wonderful work

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    Eric January 9th

    The Pepsi H2OH ad is a complete rip of an ad done for Norwegian bottled water company, Voss. Literally a copy paste job. Hence I doubt very much that is an actual ad for pepsi… Either way, stolen work shouldn’t be complimented, although it was a nice implementation.

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    macias January 9th

    a - ma - zing ideas and artcraft !

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    Dave K January 9th

    Some of these look a lot more rendered than Photoshopped.

    Also Pirelli has been using that fist & tires thing for decades, I’m fairly sure they started doing that a while before Photoshop even existed.

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    Pike9 January 9th

    AMAZING Stuff!!!

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    Saro January 9th

    Very nice!

    You should check out the artwork of http://www.adhemas.com too!

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    Tomus January 9th

    21. pepsi h2o O_O never seen anysting like that before… i haven’t got a clue how to create that water woman…
    I would really like to know how to do that.

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    Kylio January 9th

    Love the DC Shoes ad, the colours, complexity, realling stunning. Any tuts on how to achieve this?

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    Aman January 9th

    wow! I just love this collection! very inspirational! Would like to see some as a tutorial!
    by the way, when u scroll down to the button of the page, the evato TUTS+ logo the plus sign looks like the flag of switzerland. maybe u wanna change that… :-D

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    Adam January 9th

    I’m usually very skeptical of the lists of “40 this” “40 that” on PSDTUT’s, but this is a great piece of inspiration!
    Thanks!

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    Alexei January 9th

    For me, most of these look really similar to each other and thus quite unoriginal. The list shows some nice graphic skills, though. And Si Scott’s designs are always great to watch.

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    Roy V. January 9th

    some really good concept & execution displayed here. good stuff!

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    Mason Sklut January 9th

    I really liked the Nike shoe (14) and the CCTV (4) ones.

    Great color for 14, and amazing Photoshopping skills for 4.

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    wye January 9th

    no. 31. wooouw

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    Qbrushes January 9th

    lol @ the dexter poster

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  52. Wow! Really cool ads here. I like the PS3 ads as well as the Nike.

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    Darryl January 9th

    so much inspiration on this post, awesome!

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    Seraphim Collective January 9th

    These are some great ads! I’ve always loved that Pirelli one.

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    sajan v mani January 9th

    wow!!!!amazing

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    Umar January 9th

    The guys who made this should have been credited in each post…it just says the campaign project

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    Patrik January 9th

    This was just awesome. Very creative.

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    Nick Paul January 9th

    Megalan’s mouse is quite awesome

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    PeterMarkEllis January 9th

    Nice compilation here! Kudos!

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    Bendsen January 9th

    neat indeed !

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    insic January 9th

    all ads look awesome. impressive

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    Giacomo January 9th

    Hey! I think you mean Wolkswagen! (Instead of Volkswagon!)

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    Starboy January 9th

    Wow, thank you for featuring some of my works :D Although i can see the Fachingen project is a bit unfinished :D please see the final version!

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    Jazz January 9th

    Brilliant collection.

    :)

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    Ariful Alam Khan January 9th

    All are great.

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    Adrian Rodriguez January 9th

    Ok, some of those are just amazing.

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    Watcher January 9th

    Amazing prints!!!

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    crypta January 9th

    all are amazing!

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    Ben Blogged January 9th

    great work

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    WAR January 9th

    Beautiful Collection of design inspiration.

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    dave smith January 9th

    i found this on my tinterweb travels.. looks good

    http://kpstudios.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/adio2.jpg

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    Vages January 10th

    Wolkswagen, not “-wagon”… Wir fahr’n, fahr’n, fahr’n auf die Autobahn.

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    Robert January 10th

    Wow! Super talented individual! The Volkswagen ad was pretty cool.

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    Mat January 10th

    Well, if I ever go to print, it’s good to know that all I need to learn about is drawing hundreds of thin, colored lines.

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    Justin January 10th

    Would love to see some tutorials on ads like these.

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    William January 10th

    great collection! tons of inspiration, thanks!

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    Jam January 10th

    Brilliant Ads! I liked the Open Bar one with the gorilla; Priceless!!

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    Anders January 10th

    Inspirational but yes, loads of 3D.

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    Matt Hodder January 10th

    One of the better inspiration posts!

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    Jhay January 10th

    Honda.. Use original parts! That made me laugh LOL

    Great post PSDTUTS! TFS

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    maryam January 10th

    Some art very smart…

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    MWUK January 10th

    The current British ITV adverts for The FA Cup (Football/Soccer) copetition are pretty good. They add every day people such as Firemen and Mechanics to football Matches

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    EViL-Bites January 10th

    Some wonderful and truly inspiring examples.

    P.S. Can these posts please include links to the originals

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    Sergio January 11th

    I wonder how they make the NIKE effects, and The Play Station as well. could anyone explain what programs they use and if you have any website as reference, I really love them!!! Amazing Images!

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    Robbe Dewilde January 11th

    This post is really inspiring! Thx!

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    facebook January 11th

    a lot of these are illustrator works more than photoshop, just throwing that out there.

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    Lawrence77 January 11th

    Nobody knows that all are created by ME…. :P

    How Danny Outlaw find these all….

    :D LawrencE :D

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    Ramón January 11th

    Great. Thanks!

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    Navdeep January 12th

    Amazing stuff

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    Sage January 12th

    I’ve been reading PSDTUTS for a while and have learned a ton from this site! I just finished a piece a few weeks ago where I was trying to create a “water person” kinda like in the Pepsi ad (http://flickr.com/photos/31424621@N07/3144968495/) I used parts of the tutorial from this site and part experimentation!

    Thanks PSDTUTS!

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    Frog January 12th

    That dirty jobs poster is amazing. Real time has been spent on it’s creation without a doubt

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    Eme January 12th

    Great selection, guys!

    I literally laughed out loud when I saw the WFM knives ad.

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    Alan Valek January 12th

    Wow, there’s some good stuff up there.

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    Amanda January 12th

    Hey.. I hate to break it to you that most of these are vectors… nice ones- and probably aided with PS… but vectors all the same.

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    bob January 13th

    DC shoe ad is weak.

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    Nippy January 13th

    The M&M ad is my fav…love the simplicity of it

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    Joris January 13th

    Beautiful! This is not all “thanks to photoshop” though — you can tell there’s heavy use of 3d software packets and vector packets in the examples above, as well as other digital painting/photo editing software. Nice list!

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    albaro January 13th

    muy buenos trabajos

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    EBEN MENSAH January 13th

    MY GOD…AM ACTUALLY DROOLING ON MA PC………U’VE GOT SOME REAL TALENT………….BIG UPS 2 U

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    Billy Ye January 13th

    The MMS ad of the keyboard is fantastic.

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    zedde January 14th

    I realy liked the cat, nike, and honda adds. but all of them is great works.

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    jay January 15th

    mic pics..

    I also want to start photoshopping pics., but don’t know what program I should use. Can someone give me a tip where I can download the correct program.

    Thanks

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    projectautomatika January 15th

    nice designs. very inspiring!

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    Fresno January 15th

    yawn. When are you going to realise the ‘people surrounded by coloured lights’ look of the PS3 ads etc is so over?

    I stopped coming to this site 3 months ago as it is all I saw here.
    I assure you, if you came for a design job interview with me with a portfolio of that, you would be out on your backside in seconds.

    Unoriginal. Hackneyed. Boring

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    guido January 15th

    Oh, it´s absolutley amazing.

    http://www.icositetrahedron.com

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    Pritesh Gajjar January 16th

    Mind Blowing, Fantastic……….

    http://www.priteshgajjar.com

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    Brian Richards January 16th

    I’ve gotta say, I think the Dirt Jobs ad is probably my favorite (I’m a sucker for type treatments on photos)

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    bobby January 16th

    They were all exceptionally great and amazing. Terrific work!

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    poopski January 16th

    some of these are great. but I dont like this new “black background with a bunch of swirles and shit.” fad. Any graphic designer that takes pride in their work doesn’t gravitate toward these generic gimmicks.

    there’s my rant

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    Jake January 17th

    I don’t see nothing brilliant with the poster for Dexter. It’s a simple blood splatter. Doesn’t deserve to be there with all those others which would’ve taken so much effort and time to make. Just becasue you like the series doesn’t mean everything about it is good.

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    Gabi January 17th

    good inspiration!

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    mic January 17th

    How many of these were REALLY done in Photoshop? Pretty sure not much of them.

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    younas January 17th

    i am gona made man. never saw these kind of work in photoshop. Awsome man. greate

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    Matt Spire January 17th

    That’s some serious talent. I can’t believe how seamless and perfect some of these are.

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    Robert January 17th

    Wow, those are really amazing!

    Makes me as a young photoshop designer feel really inferior.

    I also found this today:
    http://www.iambored.co.za/photohopfakes

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    Robert January 17th

    Sorry, the url is http://www.iambored.co.za/photoshopfakes.

    My S key seems to get stuck.

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    de2009 January 17th

    the m&m ad is awesome

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    pscs4 January 17th

    Really cool artwork!!!

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    cwylie0 January 18th

    it’s intresting that many of these great designs are not complex in subject matter, just detail.

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    Sarbjit Singh Grewal January 20th

    Very nice and creative great

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    Mike January 20th

    hah i dont know who placed me amongst these indeed brilliant photomanips but im flattered [26.]

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    Sarena January 20th

    i am amazed! i hope i will learn how to do all that… im currently working on a banner for a friend, he wants a light show effect with glowsticks, i have the gowsticks but i dont know how to do the rest… i see some techniques on here that are exactly what i need… ahh so close

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    Shaji Bhaskar January 21st

    Amazing graphics!!!!

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    Loc Dawg January 21st

    Dat wuz da shizz, yo. Fuggin’ mint. Peace.

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    Dan January 21st

    Great stuff. BTW, you misspelled Volkswagen in #36.

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    Paul January 21st

    I think every comment possible has been made, but i agree with a few people. Photoshop wasn’t the be-all end-all of these works. I think maybe calling them the “top 40 CG rendered images” would be more appropriate. Good collection though.

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    nono January 22nd

    great work indeed!

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    marin smith January 23rd

    brilliant pictures, absolutely excellent fine photoshopped……Hats off!

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    Tienda Erotica January 23rd

    great works !!

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    henry January 23rd

    thas’t great men .. good job :D

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    Ivan Manolov January 23rd

    Thanks for the feature!!!

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    Shireen Motaghedi January 26th

    I’m amazed at the artwork. But I love the simple Tabasco ad, also love the product.

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    jimijimson January 27th

    fackingen :D ahahahaha

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    STILTEC January 30th

    Awesome

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    himani February 2nd

    fantastic.:) art wrk it vry creative

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    Ryan February 2nd

    I love the Nike shoe ads…

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    Joel A. Glovier February 2nd

    Amazing work. I want to learn to have these SKILLZ!!

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    anirudh February 4th

    terrific work ! :)

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    HaSSaNy February 9th

    Unreasonable … very niceeeeee

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    jan February 9th

    looks ok

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    webinkerz February 9th

    This is definitely an inspiration!

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    ben February 10th

    Awesome !

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    Syed Zeeshan Ali February 12th

    amazing, good job

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    9Z February 14th

    awesome

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    vj February 14th

    how can i download them??

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    change February 19th

    Great Design

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    J Dub February 19th

    Artistically speaking, some of those were awesome, but I wonder how many of them actually do what advertising is supposed to do, i.e. sell something. I might take a double look at the art but I wouldn’t purchase any of those products based on those advertisments and I wonder how many are actually generating a decent ROI, should the goal of them have been to actually sell products.

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    AJ February 19th

    Not sure that Dexter is “brilliantly photoshopped.” Airbrushed to be cleaned up, sure, but do we know that fake blood wasn’t just splattered on the actor and then photographed?

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    johnny rodriguez February 19th

    these are awesome, so inspiring

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    sergi February 19th

    those are fantastic.

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    Jaime M February 21st

    Very inspirational!!

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    Neeraj N February 23rd

    Si Scott’s No 16 is fabulous combination of hand and tool.

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    Angela Dyrdek February 27th

    My favorite is the DC Shoes ad….great graphics……gotta love DC’s ;)

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    Brad Chmielewski March 1st

    Great set, love the Nike ID ones but that DC one is hot!

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    brajesh upadhyay March 2nd

    Nice work, good creative

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    brajesh upadhyay March 2nd

    Nice creative

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    GK March 2nd

    The Nike one is hand drawn by Si Scott (except the shirt obviously)

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    blah March 3rd

    eh. They all look the same after a short while…

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    poonam March 6th

    frankly..the ideas ddnt click to me..but the work done in photoshop is amazing!!!!

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    sadhu March 9th

    best……………

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    marv March 12th

    Pirelli is stunning. Simple, balanced and powerful.

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    Roberto Blake March 22nd

    These are some really grate examples of the Power of Photoshop at work. Thanks for the post!

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    Rudi March 31st

    What an awesome works …
    amazing man

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    dani April 1st

    most amazing is the tyre one

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    shahrukh April 10th

    hmmm wow all ads cool works mindbeloying….

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    Kovi April 24th

    very good

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    Kovi April 24th

    it is very good

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    Nora Reed May 7th

    These are pretty interesting. I guess since technology advances so much, so does the strength of advertising. Ad agencies need to keep on their toes to keep up with it, but they have been doing a great job so far, at least in my opinion.

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    RiFaldiLLA May 12th

    Thanks for sharing,,they are so amazing….. they are created in such the best damn advertising…I wish I could design some print ads as well… such these collections.

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    Victoria Web May 14th

    Some amazing enviably inspiring work. They all have brilliantly well thought out concepts but have been developed and executed beautifully.

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    Mohsin May 22nd

    All the print ads here are very good and very very creative , but pls add some campaigns like Absolut Vodka , it is superb too
    these all print ads campaign are inspirational but some of them i like most specially Life buoy hand wash one , keep it up

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    Martine May 26th

    Nice collection! I like the tiger beer best - can somebody to that with a pic of my cello? Ough, that would be so awesome! ;-)

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    ento June 8th

    amazing

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    Rob Wallace June 12th

    I guess there is more to do with .abr’s than make lightening come out of the sky, huh….

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    haffis June 23rd

    good one

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