By Vurdlak on April 30, 2009, with 121 Comments
So, have you manage to test our latest Vista gadget? Has it pulled the newest image without problems (the one you see on your right)? Keep sending your comments, please!
Today I prepared few interesting pictures, that claim not to be photoshopped. You see bundles of stunning pictures floating around the net these days, showing incredible photoshop techniques. These ones today show creativity from a whole different angle. Although I have placed them under the title of “Not Photoshopped”, to be sincere I’m not completely sure all of them weren’t manipulated at some point. Its up to you to take a closer look, and tell if you agree with me. Please don’t forget to inform me about the gadget you tested, so I can announce the new version more widely, supposedly it is working fine now. If it for some reason failed to load the newest illusion, and leaves your gadget blank – than I suppose its back to the ol’ drawing board for me.
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i see no reson ehy those would need to be photoshoped
I don’t think they look too phtoshopped… maybe 1 or 2…
Btw, just wanted to compliment you on the discrete ads… Hardly noticeable at all
Oh and for tradition’s sake, woo, first comment…
None of these are photoshopped. I’ve seen these several times on TV.
the grapes and the little kid r cute =)
xxx
cool! :)
I actually think they all might be real (:
Nope. These look real.
The tomato one reminds me of Atlas Shrugged.
I like reading the comments, so could you please OK them, and post them quicker??? Mr. Monitor.. [O-O]
i dont get the tomato one…
i suppose these could be done without being photoshopped but im not sure if i believe these are real…
One of the best yet
what’s so special about the 3rd one? there are a bunch of green grapes, and that red tomato (??)..
I can almost guarantee that the tomato and the ice cream cone aren’t photoshopped, but I can’t say for the others. They’re all beautiful and interesting though.
These are beautiful pictures – I like them all.
The picture of the glass looks fake to me. If you look closely to the background behind the glass. Behind the rim the stripes are not distorted. Also pay attention to the shadow cast by the glass, the bottom portion gives off a solid shadow but the rim casts a different shadow. It is hard to see the shadow casts by the rim at first, look closely at the 10th white strip from the bottom and you should see what I am talking about.
wow.. the last one’s really beautiful!
and the tomato one is really funny xD like a green man is trying to hold the tomato on it’s back ^^
Really awesome pictures! ^^
Sometimes, my nutsac itches.
All I can see thats happened with most of them is that they have just been taken in the right place at the right time. Positioning will have played a big part as well but the glass of water illusion is definatly photoshopped no way would a glass of water bend the light to that extremity. The cornet one is pretty easy to do at the right place and time the tomato just needs to be tweaked by hand to look as it does the water droplet was taken by a high speed camra again at the right place and time. I’m not overly sure either way with the fish one. Keep up the great work vurdlak :)
I’ve just thought how the glass of water would be done without photoshop all that needs to be done is have a piece of paper with the lines going sideways taped to the back of the glass. Its the old-fashioned version of photoshop. :)
I really like the drop of water.
Hello ^^
I liked these images, I don’t think they’re photoshopped :o
They are to simple to be modified.
My favorite one is the cloud ice cream one, because I think I’m going to take a photo of myself doing the same xD
About the new gadget, its working fine for me although I’m using it on Windows Vista (x32)and Windows 7 (x64) Beta.
Thumbs Up :D
Mmmmmm, water mushroom…
idont get the fruit one
Who cares if it’s photoshopped or not. It’s funny. The others are great or not. Forget nit-picking. Enjoy the moment.
these are sooooo beyond cool lol omg i got 1st comment…
First, your Vista gadget works great; I’m running 64 bit, and it came through swimmingly. Second, love the illusion(s), Photoshoped or otherwise. Haven’t checked out your other site yet, but I’m a bit of an amateur mage meself. Finally, since my last final is Monday, I felt your school pain. Still feeling my own.
these images are feesable. fish – direction from photographer to move fish until in the correct position. The glass is possible, I am not sure about refraction through round objects containing water, sorry!. The 3rd one is very feesable, I have taken similar fun photos of my son with no problems. the tomato is also possibly real, the shape isn’t too obvious and it wouldn’t be that hard to find in a multipack. the droplet is what you get when you use a very short capture speed. Harold Edgerton invented this technique, using strobe lighting and very short exposure we are able to see things we couldn’t normally. He used this invention to prove horses have all their legs off the floor at one point during a canter. We have also used it to see apples being shot, cards being shot, balloons hit with pins etc.
A very interesting set of images. ty V
as a photoshopper, and someone of logic, these dont look photoshopped :D
The one with the grapes is funny and i think the last one is photoshoped
I like the ‘atlas tomato’ one, very nice
Just one question… what’s ‘Vista’?
the last one is pretty! This is happening everytime when it rains! I saw it on discovery how the take a picture of something like this
The last one is awesome!
im not sure the glass with stripes picture is not photoshopped. Things, like a straw in a glass, can look “bent” when seen through water because water refracts it (or something like that)…
but that pic isn’t what I think it would really look like…and the stripes curve.
I can certainly see how these are possible without photoshop. Except for the last one, the water drop, that one seems to have at least been colorized. Either way, these are all great illusions!
The one with the cup isnt photo shopped. its called refraction, when light waves travel trough a new medium it can bend the waves, and make it look like that. fill a glass with water, stick a pencil in it. doesnit it look like its bent????
i really like the fish lady…its funny and origional. plus the tomato stem holding the tomato up is HECKA cool too ;D
The Grapes one is fantastic
I really like the cherry tomato and grapes, as well as, the water.
Thanks for the great site.
totally photoshopped
cool, i’m first the last one looks cool
the last image might actually happen in nature, it light a mushroom affect. it goes up, then collapese back down, must have been a highspeed camera
the others i don’t get the illusion
Hi there,
Still loveing you site, and the Google Widget works great (still).
What I would say is that the first 3 big pictures look like Not Photoshopped, but the last one could be photoshopped, because the water circles are “fading” away, so there is some photoshopping there. Also I believe the darkgreen color in the watercircle isn’t the same as the background dark green color…
Greetings from Holland
Thias
wow!!! awsomeness!
The gadget was working fine yesterday, now it’s blank again. Le sigh. But I really like these images – the fish-eye girl is my favorite. :)
AWESOME!! real cool pics! nice photography!
omg i love the water one :D it’s so cool ! :D
and the fish too ;D
AWESOME!!!!!! SO COOL
sidebar seems to be working for me! takes a few seconds for it to load when i press the arrows but other than that it works fine!
these are kool!! the top one i am not sure about, the middle ones can be done easily and do not need to be photoshopped. and the last one can be done with a slow-mo camera (i saw it on time-warp its a drop of water following another drop of water’s splash they hit each other and make kool visuals!)
Fascinating pics…I will buy two fishes today to check the first pic ;-)
All of them look easily done IRL, so I don’t see why any would be photoshopped.
They are all cool too, but not really illusion-ish
I say the last three are fine. The first is slightly iffy.
Cant tell if the first one is photoshoped but the other r real :) the water one is really hard to get. i basically take a picture of a droplet falling into water, and then when the column goes up, another droplet hits it. the colors are achieved with different lights with filter and etc. :)
really like the last one. mushroom water droplet. nice. 1st!
The last one is absolutely stunning. Photoshopped or not, it’s pretty cool!
that is amazing!
my favourite is the tomato one.
Feels good man
1- not photshopped but really cool and creative.
2- I reckon the patttern is just printed on the back of the cup.
3- Real and quite fun.
4- Real- quite cool to create a person in fruit.
5- A photoshopped image if i ever saw one, no liquid looks like that, but photoshopped well.
No way these are photoshopped; awesome.
The last one has to be a painting.
I think the first one is probly photoshopped,(dont think the water would warp the lines like that) but the others could all be real, if you get your angle right, or take heaps of photos then get lucky with the image(probly how the last one was taken) all good otherwise thou, keep up the good work.
These are really neat! I like the ice cream cone the best….
1st :P btw i think, that 3rd might be modified…
i just knew that was a fake ice cream
i can see that is a fake ice cream
Well, for most of them, I don’t see any reason they would be photoshopped. The second one I’m not sure of. (I really like the one with the tomato!)
Cool pictures. At least the last oe aint photoshopped, I once saw a tv-program how those kinda images are made. They drop drops of water in certain pace adn when drops hit water surface, they will make that sorta pillar and when next one hits the pillar it couses that sorta cool effect. Then you just add some colored ligth. Ofc all of this happens in a fraction of a second.
I really enjoy your site. These photographs are a real pleasure today. If you have many more, I’d love to see them as a regular part of your Illusions page.
Thanks, Mark
ICE CREAM PHOTO SHOP U NUB
These are wonderful. I can definitely believe they are actual photos.
ooo first! The ice cream one is cool. The last definitely looks photoshopped.
I luv the icecream 1! It’s soooooooooo kool! Yay! 1st comment! =)
First comment!i!i!iI!!i!
I think the first one, the second one and fourth one are photoshopped but the other two are not. For the ice cream one, some random person could of found a cloud and told his kid to hold the cone so it was under the cloud then taken the picture. The last one, the had that done on some Discovery Channel show and it was really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very funny/interesting
this is coll lol lmao(: :D
I think the tomato is the best.
I think they are all not photoshopped, I get the pics fine through igoogle
These are great photos! Nice finds!