Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Taking Over the World: The Glass Floor Effect

The enthralling details and glass designs at Harpa Concert Hall continue to inspire.

What if we convert the glass window panels into glass floor?

I manipulated this image by cloning and rearranging the glass panels to create transparent, angular floorings and an all over glass effect. 

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Modern Architecture: The Glass Stairs Effect

Stunning interior design and architecture can be found at the Harpa Concert Hall. The glass window panels give a modern, abstract, and futuristic twist to the scene.

I decided to manipulate the image by flipping it around and altering the position. All of the cool angles turn this into silver, shiny glass stairs (so why not just walk on it?)

Featured on Flickr's Explore.

Friday, April 18, 2025

Faded Hexagon Art: Pastel Bubbles Background Effect

Fun background designs, faded effects, and soft yet bright, pastel colors continue to awaken our senses. 

I was inspired by the creative, painterly digital art from a manga and had to create my own rendition of it, infusing my favorite colors and blending in different textures. 

Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Manipulation Effect: Magical Twin Stairways

The Myriad Botanical Garden is everything you would dream of. Tranquil, tropical, and filled with all of nature's surprises. 

Unique plants are tucked into every corner of the conservatory with picturesque staircases throughout. I decided to manipulate this photo by duplicating the stairwell, adding sun flare effects and lightening the tones for a magical twist. 

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Pastel Bubbles Background: The Card Frame Effect

Pastel Bubbles Part IV: Ethereal, magical, dreamy, and colorful digital art always captures my attention.

I used an existing pastel bubbles background creation and altered it some more, adding in a yellow-tinted hue and incorporating borders to give it the card frame treatment. 

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Sparkly Stream of Lights + Midnight Blue Sky Imagery

Reunion Tower Imagery Part II: You can find so much inspiration from the skyline in Dallas. I used the Bank of America Plaza as the focal point for this creation, changing this up drastically with a focus on a dark midnight blue sky and sparkly colorful stream of lights falling from above.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Step into the Light: Mysterious Trees Ahead

Another walk into the unknown. All the trees surrounding me in this somewhat secluded park led me deep into the forest, the fogginess creating such a mysterious, fantastical feel. I decided to play around with the layers, creating a lighter effect and shifting various layers around to give a blurry, faded light effect. 

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Textured Pastel + Paint Strokes Imagery

Soft pastel colors always create a dreamy, ethereal, and delicate look & feel.

I absolutely love mixing various shades of pastels across digital art creations and wanted to create a piece dedicated to some of my favorite hues in a painterly strokes type-of-fashion. 

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Circle of Life: Abstract Clouds in the Sky Imagery


No cloud is exactly alike. It continues to change and evolve, just like life. 

I was inspired by a really cool cloud formation as it was nearing sunset in the mountains and decided to manipulate the picture by creating clones of it and creating abstract art that resembles clouds that cycle in a circle in a fiery, feathery design. Adding extra faded bubbles and pastel hues add on the dreamy vibes. 

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Colorful Confetti Lights in the Sky: A Night in Dallas

Reunion Tower Imagery Part I: There's so much we can't see with our naked eye when we look at the night sky in a city polluted with lights. But we can always use our imagination and create our own imagery of how we want to perceive the world. 

I love the downtown night views of Dallas, especially with the illuminating lights of the Bank of America skyscraper in the near distance. I decided to manipulate this image by adding in green and purple hues, enhancing the brightness and contrast, and decorating the sky with colorful confetti-like lights that resemble fireworks and a dreamlike reality. 

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Futuristic Skies + Skyscrapers by the Waterfront

The future is certainly going to be unpredictable. Not just with the architecture, but the colors, the lights that illuminate into the sky...everything will be exciting, abstract, and futuristic. 

I decided to dramatize this photo taken in Yokohama, Japan a bit more by reducing the contrast, stripping out the dark colors, adding in hints of fog, yellow-white lights, pastel hues, and abstract designs into the sky to create an entirely different vibe of the city at night. 

Featured in Flickr's Explore

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Blue-Green Snowflakes and Sparkles Imagery

 'Tis the season! 

I decided to create a snowflakes design by combining a range of snowflakes, adding extra sparkles, diamond effects, and extra glow to a blue-green gradient background to jumpstart the holiday month. 

Friday, October 7, 2022

Mix 'n Match: Famous Skyscrapers and Skyline Imagery

City Mashup Part II: Continuing to mix and match different skyscrapers from famous cities all over into one single image. 

Inspired by Big Hero 6, I decided to do my own mashup with a range of skyscrapers at night, tweaking the background colors into a dark, midnight blue hue. 

Friday, September 23, 2022

Magical Display of Fireflies at Night Imagery


I always love the dramatic, magical beauty of fireflies and the cold lights that emit from them.

I decided to create a closeup image with swarms of fireflies and their bright yellow light outside by the trees. 

This original picture was taken during the day time next to a colorful lake. After changing the hues, darkening the tones, and adding in firefly art, this ended up being the final result.

Monday, September 12, 2022

Swirls + Waves Collage: Blue-Green + Purple Effect

I continued distorting and experimenting with more effects in photoshop using some of my favorite colors and filters, creating a mix of neat swirls and graphic imagery. 

Friday, August 5, 2022

City Mashup: Visionary Skyscrapers and Blue Lights Imagery

City Mashup Part I: What happens when you mash up a bunch of cities together? 

I'm always just so fascinated by the visuals and the combined cities of San Francisco and Tokyo in Big Hero 6. Inspired by the colors and the combination of the two different cities, I decided to create an image with a bunch of well known skyscrapers from major cities and mix them all up together. 

I wanted to create an otherworldly effect with the skyscrapers by adding in unique graphic effects to the rooftops of buildings, incorporating blue streams of lights going up in the sky, and altering the background colors with a blue tinted hue (as inspired by Perfume's Tokyo Girl MV. 

Featured in Flickr's Explore.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Blue-Green and Purple Glass: Waves + Swirls Effect

What happens when you mix your favorite colors up together into a gradient and play around with all the filters and distort everything? 

You get some fascinating effects. I was surprised by how this one turned out--it looks like an interesting mix of a swirly wave with sharp glass edges and clear, vivid textures all throughout. 

Monday, July 4, 2022

Pastel Watermelon Skies: Palm Trees Glow Effect

So many carefree, chill palm trees all over the beach in Southern California. 

I decided to modify this picture a bit (taken during sunset) by altering the hues for a full contrast effect. I like how this gives off a nice pastel watermelon vibe, with blends of orange-pink and glow-in-the-dark green colors. 

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Star Dust Effect: Night Lights in the City

Come take an elevator ride up 40 floors and peak outside the window into the city streets of Tokyo. 

Skyscrapers, tons of lights, and a tower surround us 360 degrees of the way. 

I decided to have a little bit of fun with this picture, adding in some extra light effects, adding in trails of stars falling from the dark sky. 

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Sunset and Water Colors: Painterly Vibes


The golden hour is the best time of the day. 

Especially while watching the sunset colors from the other side of the city, all the changing hues in the sky and cool water effects. 

This is such a serene spot and I decided to incorporate extra painterly effects so it resembles more like a painting.