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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Woohoo!! AWESOME!
I think these are probably genuine, but the first one would have been very hard to set up.
amazing pictures, all look genuine except for the kid with the cone. the cloud looks grainy and worked, but that’s only my opinion
These all look real except for the last one. I remember doing some research on the jet effect on water (the effect that makes it go up) and saw the slowest motion possible (like a few 1000 frames a second) and i don’t remember anything like that.
like I said before (T) The last photo is created using a very fast shutter speed, higher than a normal camera is capable of. (again, google Harold Edgerton) the colour is easily acheived using lights, often used to help highlight the different angles (see how the green appears to be from the back-top of the scene, and the blue from the front of the image. The reason the waves appear to ‘fade’ is because this is the first drop into the water, the surface of the water being broken has created the ‘mushroom’ style shape, much like a cloud after an explosion, and the riples are gradually eminating from the centre of the liquid. Also remember that shutter speed affects aperature, which changes the focus style. If the apeartue is set one way you can see most of the picture in focus if it is taken the other way the main central foreground object will be in focus and most of the rest of the image will be slightly blurry. If this was taken as a scientific study of the reaction of a liquid when the surface tension is broken by a drop of liquid, then the image would not be photoshopped. However many images are put through a programme like photoshop just to tighten up the contrast/colour balance and so they are technically ‘photoshopped’ but have not been edited severly.
When developing photos in the traditional ‘wet’ room it is easy to change darkness by leaving it in the developer longer, or taking it out earlier, it is also possible to add objects to an image using the enlarger to place an object directly onto the photographic paper under the film, or smaller objects/films on top of the original film. Therefore the term ‘photoshopped’ is quite narrowminded and seems to suggest that all photos are either true to the original object, or completely different and we only managed to start editing photos when we created the digital camera. These assumptions are untrue, and so the real question should be ‘are these photos significantly edited, or just enhanced?’
all of them look cool xcept for the ice cream one it obviously how its done it easy peesy shampoo squeesy.
I am running ur gadget in Vista,Absolutely love it, keep up the great work.. Love all the images, specially the grapes,the little green man holding up the tomato is perfect. Also love the water shroom….. Great Job Guys!!
cup is not photoshopped, did that in science once but i think the water mushroom is
Can someone tell me how they got the water to reflect green and blue when reflecting from the same direction?
I’d say that’s pretty close to impossible, isn’t it?
I’m pretty sure the last picture is by Martin Waugh…his specialty is water sculpting…you should check out his work
The ice cream one was mega awesome! Well, of course it is! I haven’t seen an illusion over here that’s not as decent! I love it!
What does the one with the grapes mean?
I hate to state the obvious – but for the glass of water – perhaps the background contains extra-wavy lines which the glass has been placed in front of, and bends them more?
I dunno about the one withn the girl smiling … something is fishy about her eyes.
totally photoshopped
Hey Ellen (#35), you’re right the last one is real, and they did the EXACT SAME THING on the Discovery TV show Time Warp. The color is archived by lighting and the background, and the photo was taken with a camera with a really fast shutter speed. The shape is formed by a water droplet. When it hits the water, it goes into the water, then back up (with a little more water it brought up with it). Immediately then, another droplet collides with the first one, and you get what you see in the picture.
Wow I didn’t realize so many people watched time warp, that’s cool.
If you haven’t seen time warp, you should check it out. It’s a cool show.
Frankly, I don’t think any of them are Photoshopped, but I’m skeptical about the wavy lines one. You know, you can still fake a picture without Photoshop. Like some of the other comments, they could have easily taped a piece of paper with wavy lines to the cup, or the background.
The glass with stripes is real.
People who have worked in steam plants or boiler rooms know that this phenomenon is often used to make it easier to see water levels in sight glass tubes. There is often a card with diagonal red stripes behind the sight glass.
You can see at a glance where the water level is because the water reverses the stripe pattern: through the top (empty) part of the tube the stripes slant normally, but when viewed through the water-filled section of the tube, the stripes appear to slant in the opposite direction.
I don't think any of them are photoshopped. The first one is actually a photo by gnato which can be found here–> http://gnato.deviantart.com/art/f-f-96889572 . There is also a coloured version in the description. The second one could be some paper pasted to the back of the glass. The third one is just a cone held in a way that it looks like the cloud is in the cone. The fourth one could simply just be a tomato put on top of grapes. The fifth one was probably taken by a high speed camera with some colored plastic with light shining through put at different angles to achieve that effect. It was also shown in an episode of Time Warp how to take photos like the fifth one.
Thats awsome! :) i dont think there photoshopped
those who cant see the point in 1st one, shes holding 2 fishes which heads look like specs
the tomatoe stem looks like a star fish holding up the fruit, and water looks like a static object like a mushroom
The WATER one is photoshopped :P
it looks kinda photoshoped to me
Cool. maybe they are photoshopped?!? or not? the water drop one looks photoshopped!
The water one is not photoshopped, what Time Warp at Discovery Channel, there is a episode were they do this trick.
The tomato’s leaf do not
represent a Starfish (Brian)
It represents a person.
Look closely.
hahahah the last one looks like a condom
Lol. who would eat a cloud though? That one was depending on timing if it’s not Photoshopped. If it was, the cloud was probably moved there.
omfg
lol the second one is so a awesome! and sooooo cute
very top one with the fish is 5/5
The glass one is cool but 3/5
The kid is 4/5
The grape on is awsome 1000000/5
water one is cool 4.5/5
I love the kid with the cloud lol, i think the water looks like a jelly fish or a mushroom hmmmmmm i like these keep them coming
I think all of them are possible without photoshopping, although I’m a tad skeptical about the cup one. Maybe it’s a pattern printed inside the cup and it’s set up to look like there’s water? Or maybe I’m just being stupid and it’s totally real.
The last one looks like a upside down tornado, duh.
i could do all of that any day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m questioning the striped water an mushroom ones, but the rest I think are completely possible
You can scan all these photos on this website that uses ELA (explanation on the site) to see if the images have been manipulated (only works for .jpegs). For the tomato one: http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/49e743c/ .
The tomato/grape one looks like atlas holding the world on his shoulders to me.
rob, areyou using condoms at the moment then?
The first three aren’t photoshopped but I’m calling bs on the last one.