This Swedish Artist’s Photoshop Skills Are Pure Awesome
A wild imagination coupled with phenomenal image-editing skills makes for a killer combo. That’s the story of Swedish photographer and retouch artist Erik Johansson, who creates surreal images in Photoshop by recombining hundreds of original photographs and raw materials.
Erik’s work is a benchmark in terms of photo-retouching and he has been a speaker at events like TED and Adobe Max Conference. His fantastical images seem incredibly real because of the finesse with which they are manipulated. Check out some of his best work below.
1. Go your own road
2. Electric guitar
3. Imminent
4. Vertical turn
5. Impact
6. Ground breaking
7. The cover up
8. Give me Time
9. Fishy Island
10. Full Moon Service
11. Snow cover
12. Expecting winter
13. Reverberate
14. Arms break, vases don’t
15. Iron Man
16. Coffee slump
17. Work at sea
18. Cut and fold
Behind the scenes:
How does Erik go about creating these images? Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the process behind the ‘Cut and fold’ image.
