For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to design some dream iPad apps. Some of these are legit and feasible, others are pipe dreams and the rest are flat-out insane. More »
Adobe this week demonstrated a new trick called “Content-Aware Fill” in a future version of Photoshop, an effect that uses a complex mathematical algorithm to automagically fill in areas when users remove undesired content. In short: Mindblowing. Check it out yourself in the video above. If you’re short on time, skip to the 2:50 mark for the most impressive stuff.
Sneak peek of Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop [Adobe]
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For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to turn today’s user-friendly gadgets into cold, utilitarian Soviet-era relics. It’s probably for the best that these don’t actually exist.
First Place—Bobo the Teddy
Second Place—Paul Vasco
Third Place—Goodie to You Dot Com
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to inject some tech or sci-fi elements into this year’s crop of Oscar movies. Man, I want to see all of these so badly. Tons of amazing entries this week.
First Place—Randy Crouton
Second Place—Scott Campagnolo
Third Place—Gustavo Maciel
ChatRoulette, for the unaware, is the insane new site that randomly connects two videochatters together. It’s mostly used by gross dudes masturbating and stoned college kids. But here are some examples of how it could be so much more.
First Place—Neal Rosenblat
Second Place—Thrillcox
Third Place—Balazs Denes Kovacs
Twenty years ago today, Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released. And it changed the world as we saw it. Because it literally edited our vision.
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Photoshop is the invisible hand that touches everything around us. From advertising and commercials to the front page of magazines and political propaganda; going through motion pictures and art, Photoshop is everywhere, pushing the limits of reality, and morphing the world around us to fit what companies want us to believe, buy, and enjoy.
Back in 1987, when Tom and John Knoll created it, nothing could have predicted the deep impact this tool would have in our lives. At that time, there was photo manipulation, but it was reserved to a knowledgeable few, using airbrushes—which required a lot of expertise—and the first Quantel paint boxes—which required lots of money and training.
Photoshop—running on the first color Macs, accelerated by graphic cards by Radius and RasterOps—democratized all this. Image editing became accepted as a tool, and as the power of the machines increased, everything started to become possible for everyone. Like the first industrial oil paintings democratized art in the 19th century—with Cezanne, Monet, Gauguin, and VanGogh quickly taking advantage of the new cheap medium—Photoshop became the new inexpensive way to create new realities and alter the world surrounding us.
When Photoshop 3.0 introduced layers, things got even more dramatic. Together with tools like clone stamping and warping, Adobe’s image studio became the beautiful monster that it is today, capable of creating the most stunning works of art, and the most twisted works of marketing.
Happy 20th Anniversary, Photoshop. Here’s a toast for the next 20 wonderful and terrifying years.
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to come up with more derivative services Google had in its pipeline. And here’s hoping Googmodo becomes a reality; I want to eat at the Google Cafeteria!
First Place—Zacqary Adam Green
Second Place—Cliff De Roode
Third Place—Eaton Jonah
Have you heard the exciting news?! Comcast is rebranding as Xfinity! We decided to help them out by calling on our lovely readers to create the first Xfinity ads, and I think they did a bang-up job.
First Place—Jeffer Mitchell
Second Place—Alexander Deluca
Third Place—Die Hard Dan
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to make some improvements to Apple’s iPad. Some of these entries are definite improvements. Others? Uh, not so much.
First Place—Ron Cassel
Second Place—Jay Goebel
Third Place—Ken Grey
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