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[ By Steph in Drawing & Digital. ] Reality is malleable and nothing is quite as it seems in the surreal world of photographer Erik Johansson, who takes hundreds of photos of a single subject, merges them together and digitally manipulates them to...

Chinese artist Liu Bolin paints his body to camouflage into urban environments. His first retrospective opens in the U.K. this week. Chinese artist Liu Bolin is known in the art world as "the Invisible Man" because of his uncanny ability to use bodypaint...

Photo editing is a common practice these days. It’s used for everything from making celebrities prettier to creating comedic images involving cats. Even if you have a pretty rudimentary background in software, you can download a program and fiddle around...

Do your eyes ever play tricks on you? Or maybe you’ve seen something that puzzled you so much  you had to rub your eyes and look again. Sure, you’ve likely seen plenty of optical illusions, but what happens when blatant retouching is of such high skill...

Photoshop master Erik Johannsson creates optical illusions and photo manipulations so mind-bending and life-like that his work sometimes seems like magic. In these awesome behind-the-scenes videos, however, we get to see how he actually creates some...