Community Photo Manipulation Thread--Post your photo manipulations

We had some photo manipulations in the community sketchbook thread. However, I thought having its own thread would encourage more of them. They can be fun to put together.

You can combine multiple photos and use blending, painting, etc. to make them work together. It can be realistic like a matte painting, or a total transformation to make it more painterly.

Make sure stock images are legal for that purpose. Here are a couple stock sites you can check out.

https://pixabay.com/
https://unsplash.com/
Wikimedia Commons

If you are wanting to try out the process you can use Photoshop, or similar programs. Here are a couple of free ones:

Krita
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program


My understanding is that Krita now has an Android version as well, but haven't tried it.

This was practice at changing a daytime scene to a night scene.
Images used:
Pixabay-daytime scene with cabin
pixabay-night sky




Pixabay - Flute, Recorder
Pixabay - Squirrel
Pixabay - hat




Pixabay - Goat
Pixabay - Surfer




Pixabay - Robin
Pixabay - Aviator
Pixabay - Glasses





Couldn't find the source images for this one. But it was on Pixabay.

This was a manipulation of two photos, a guy who posted on a now defunct stock site and a wikicommons image of thorns that I painted some more on and merged the lighting, etc.



Pixabay - Castle
Pixabay - Cowboy,
Pixabay - Geese





Pixabay - Car, Burning, Wreck
Pixabay - building
Pixabay - Swan
Pixabay - cozy fire

Not sure if I can track down the various image sources for this. The beam device was a photo of my tv antenna. The sky and other elements were taken from various stock images.

JohnEmmett said:

Emmett

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I like that effect. And the rain and lightning are a nice touch.

Unwelcome Visitor


Pixabay-bear
Unsplash-snow scene
Pixabay-night sky

This was a fun project. I was showing my son how to do some of the techniques and he helped select the photos and the desired look.

JohnEmmett said:

The Garden of Eden is the biblical "garden of God"

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I like the soft look of this. Does it use vector or pen tool?