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We don’t know about you, but ever since those astronomers kicked Pluto out of the party, we’ve been feeling mighty lonely over here on planet Earth. But wait! We’ve just the solution: Our pal Dirk wrote up a tutorial that shows you how to turn any panorama or landscape photograph into a full-fledged planet! Best of all, once you’ve selected an image to work with, the process takes only 5 minutes. (Launching your new planet into solar orbit may take a bit longer.) |
Scene opens to solar winds gently blowing intergalactic tumbleweeds past the open porch door. An eerie quiet blankets the solar system.|
So you may as well join them. Over at MacMerc, they’ve got a step-by-step tutorial that’ll have you creating iKids, iPets, and iFriends in no time. (And if no time is just too long, send your pic to iPop My Photo along with $20, and they’ll do it for you!) Make Your Own iPod Ad Silhouettes p.s. You’ll find a simpler tutorial at Photoshop Lab. It lacks some of the subtleties of the MacMerc method, but it gets the job done. |
Unless you’ve been living under a stack of LPs and 8-tracks for the past few years, you’ve seen the too-hip-for-you iPod ads everywhere by now. On buses, billboards, and buildings, you can’t escape those hipsters jumping and gyrating with their white earbuds.|
Mix equal parts digital camera, computer, and imagination (you’ve got all three), and you’re on your way. Although flashier computer-generated animation is in vogue, stop-motion has a rich heritage of its own. After all, who doesn’t love the Gumby shorts of the 50s and 60s, Gumby’s comeback in the mid-90s (you know you’ve arrived when you’re a spokescharacter for the Library of Congress!), and the ever-popular Wallace and Gromit? And it’s not limited to claymation, either–Tim Burton used stop-motion and puppets to create The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Comedy Central’s Robot Chicken uses stop-motion with action figures and toy props. You can use just about anything in your stop-motion animation, and thanks to digital cameras and computers, creating one is now super easy. |
Stop-motion animation is one of the simplest, most fun animation techniques.|
Those ancient works of art took hundreds of hours of painstakingly precise labor. Larger works even employed teams of artisans. You don’t have teams of artisans. But you do have LEGOs. And Photoshop. John Tolva wrote up a tutorial that takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a photo mosaic using LEGO bricks. It’s not gonna turn your studio apartment into a villa, but we think it’ll bring a touch of class to the joint. Also worth a look: Holly Barhamand made a photo mosaic out of beads, the mathematics behind arranging differently shaped tiles can get quite complicated, and Ed Hall LEGO-fied Starry Night. It took several months and ten thousand bricks! John Tolva’s LEGO Photo Mosaic How-to |
Although elegant mosaics oft-graced Greek and Roman villas, they’re not so common anymore.|
Our pal Josh, shown here holding his imaginary camera, has a nifty trick that will let you fix those shots in a jif. All you need is a copy of Photoshop (almost any version will do) and about five minutes. You can use his technique to improve nearly any photograph where extreme lighting fools your camera into underexposing your image. Watch our quick video to learn how to do it! |
If you’ve ever wrestled to get a decent shot of the outside and inside when shooting indoors on a sunny day, or been disappointed to find your subject silhouetted when shooting into the sun, we have your fix.|
Do you ever look up at the sky, a towering office building, or an expansive landscape and wish your photos could capture everything you can see with your eyes? We do. Our pal Mareen does this neat thing she calls panography. Taking dozens of photos of a scene, she assembles a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you’re not looking through a viewfinder. Call it super wide-angle panorama or call it panography, we think it’s awesome. Read on to learn how you can make one yourself! |
If you like Hockney, you’ll love this.|
It may sound scary, but building your own talking picture frame: simpler than you’d think. Alison and Diana walk you through all the steps in their simple video tutorial — the Pilot episode from the gals at Switch. DIY Talking Photo Frame |
Floss, check. Hole punch, check. Nail Polish, check. Hot glue gun, electric wire, drill, and recording module, check check checkity check!|
We found a clever project that uses CD jewel cases to make rearrangeable, refillable, photo frames for those empty walls of yours. Watch our first ever Photojojo video tutorial and see how you can get your photographs off-line and on your walls in about half an hour! Poooooooolar Bears. Watch our CD Case Photo Frames tutorial |
Come clean. Most of your walls are as bare as the day you moved in. Consider this a friendly intervention.|
Simply send them your digital photograph and they send you back edible icing! Lickety split! Your tasty photo icing arrives as sheets of sugar on paper backing, sealed in a plastic bag. You can slide it onto cakes, cookies, or cupcakes right away; or store it for up to 6 months. Instructions are included, and sizes range from 11×17 to 2.5†round so you have plenty of options. Photo cupcakes are our new favorite thing. Read on to see how we made ours… How to make your own photo cupcakes |
Just when you thought cakes and cupcakes couldn’t get any better, here come the happy and fun-loving folks over at Icing Images.|
Julian Opie’s portraiture style is unmistakable, so it’s unlikely you can fool anyone into believing you thought this one up yourself. We suggest you just admit that you copied the idea from us here at PhotoJojo, who in turn copied it from Karl, who was inspired by Julian Opie to make his own copy. Whew! How’s that for post-modern? How to make your own pop art portraits |
This dude named Karl has come up with a super-simple process that lets anyone, even beginners, turn photographs of people into beautiful illustrations (for posters, prints, or whatever.)