Eric Johnsson Photoshop minipulation

Photo Manipulations by Erik Johansson

March 13th, 2009 | Inspiration |

Photo Manipulations by Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson, a young talented artist from Sweden, creates remarkable images by digitally modifying photographs that he took himself.

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After doing some phot minipulation in class , you can see who far you can go in photoshop to create images

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haroon

FLAWLESS!

Mar 13th, 2009
lmfao

That would be fun playing tic tac toe on the streets like that. It would take like 20 minutes to make the chart then the ‘x’ and ‘o’

Mar 13th, 2009
Matt

Some awesome edits there, very talented work. I saw some of these elsewhere that didn’t credit Erik, pisses me off when people don’t credit the artist, you can see the work that went in, it costs nothing to add a name.

Thanks 🙂

Mar 13th, 2009
Dave

Amazing!

Mar 13th, 2009
Naldz Graphics

Funny yet impressive 😉

Mar 13th, 2009
Zerial

Nice!

Mar 14th, 2009
Oscar P

Flawless indeed. There are fantastic photo manipulations.

Mar 14th, 2009
Paul Sample

I love the water on bed, I wanna make it real!!!!

Mar 14th, 2009
wtyang24

i liked how he portrayed the self-punching – exactly what i imagine when i feel like punching my face in.

Mar 14th, 2009
Zoya Orlova

His work is beautiful. Let us see the world…

Mar 14th, 2009
MrCatJ

These photos are absolutely brilliant!

Mar 14th, 2009
Mr. Bons

Great ideas. Awesome inspiration. Some of the pix freak me out though.

Mar 14th, 2009
mahdi

very nice

Mar 14th, 2009
navin

the 1st one and the cofee spill were outrageous!!

Mar 14th, 2009
Jackie

Amazing!

Mar 14th, 2009
Scat R. Brane

Amazing ideas, brilliantly made images. There is beauty in the absurd, too.

Mar 14th, 2009
Marcuss

Great work! The DIY Volvo got me laughing.

Mar 14th, 2009
BR Macgregor

I love the “man broken-vase intact” picture.

Mar 14th, 2009
Dave deBruyn

fantastic work!

Mar 14th, 2009
Telkom

Wow, really really impressive. There’s a lot of great photo manipulation on the web but these definitely have a quality that stands out above the rest.

Mar 14th, 2009
Fly

A simple comment will not suffice to the amount of creativity, originality, and skill in these photos.

You are an amazing artist, Erik.

Mar 14th, 2009
Tommy Stylz

Amazing!!!! MC Escher-like/Rene Magritte-esque…I love it!!!

Mar 14th, 2009
carrie

Very creative.

Mar 14th, 2009
Patternhead

Some fantastic ideas and technique here.

Mar 14th, 2009
Hunter

wow that’s impressive….it makes me want to go mess around in photoshop

Mar 14th, 2009
André

Very Very nice!

Mar 14th, 2009
Glenn Jimerson

Impressive Photoshop skills you have. While I liked all the photos, the Volvo/Ikea pic is my favorite.

Mar 14th, 2009
Brett

I saw that tic-tac-toe picture a while ago and I thought it was real!

Mar 14th, 2009
Diego

Awesome concepts and photos!

Mar 14th, 2009
Laura

Those are fantastic! I’m very impressed.

Mar 14th, 2009
Sklep Zoologiczny

Unbelievable

Mar 14th, 2009
dai

amazing!

Mar 14th, 2009
Ana

My favorite!
I’ve never seen anything as amazing a s this.
I especially like the plaid headless photograph

Mar 14th, 2009
miya andoroido hime

Amazing!!!!

Mar 14th, 2009
arslion

wow amazing..

Mar 14th, 2009
james

These pictures are quite fun, but he is one of many artists doing this type of work. Get into the scene a bit more and find the other artists. Their work is awesome too.

Mar 14th, 2009
Perry Crann

Excellent work. Good creative and technical skills. Very inspiring!

Mar 14th, 2009
Tim Lussier

Great work !

Mar 15th, 2009
Ilona

genial! :))

Mar 15th, 2009
Noora

I like it
very creative

Mar 15th, 2009
tom simmons

lets see what we can do .

Mar 15th, 2009
Rachel Davis

brilliant, and inspirational!

Mar 15th, 2009
nilbert

very cool.

Mar 15th, 2009
deden

Hahahaha great, i love it.

Mar 15th, 2009
Psi

Bemused completely !! you are indeed creative….

Mar 15th, 2009
Mario

a great piece of homemade art

Mar 15th, 2009
Dre

Really not that great. With exception of 1 or 2 photos, this could be done by anyone with a basic knowledge of photo editing.

Mar 15th, 2009
Alx

Basic knowledge Dre? Not really.

Mar 15th, 2009
mone

more than AMAIZING

i hope i can learn how to do this kind of photos… 🙂

Mar 15th, 2009
jia

awsome
funny and amazing…

Mar 15th, 2009
Mett Katz

Really cool work! Best regards from Germany,

Mett

Mar 15th, 2009
Leo

Terrific Photoshop-work off course. But above all: fascinating imagination to come up with the ideas to create the pictures. Respect.

Mar 15th, 2009
Flappajon

goodjob i did this paint one time and i thought i was good but you ar good but i still think im pretty good

Mar 15th, 2009
Florian

Still laughing about the Tic Tac Toe picture! ^^

Mar 15th, 2009
Taylor

Wonderful! Made me smile.

Mar 15th, 2009
Dean

Agree with Dre.

Mar 15th, 2009
Srinivas Tamada

Ultimate.. Excellent.. Fantastic ..

Mar 16th, 2009
Jaqi Mugo

Forgive me, but could someone help me understand the Volvo pic?

This post is brilliant! I’m very inspired! 🙂

Mar 16th, 2009
ICT

Jaqi In Sweden there has been a dialog if IKEA would buy VOLVO now when they are in economic crisis. I guess it is a comment on what would happen if infact VOLVO was bought by IKEA. Another create comment on IKEA and SAAB is the following Imagehttp://krohniskt.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/om-ikea-koper-saab/

Mar 16th, 2009
punto

perfect. you are a good artist.

Mar 16th, 2009
Remko

Great stuff, really impressive and a good sens of humor too 🙂

Mar 16th, 2009
Ninnie.

WOW! Love it!!

Mar 16th, 2009
javeed

Very nice work..
what software were involved in making..
Do you want to share tutorials..?

Love the work
very impressive

Mar 16th, 2009
moy

The same question of jaqui… i didnt understand the volvo one
anyone who explain it?

Mar 16th, 2009
moy

sorry, i already got it…
For jaqui: ikea is a furniture company…

Mar 16th, 2009
Christopher Prins

It’s people like yourself that truely inspire other photoshop users to keep moving forward. Wonderful work. The best i’ve ever seen to be honest.

Kind Regards,

Chris.

Mar 16th, 2009
Parissa

wow!..I liked the man who’s ironing himself!

Mar 16th, 2009
Rick

Fantastic editing. I’d love to see a tutorial on these methods.

Mar 16th, 2009
Fret_Lord

Awesome work bro…wow!

Mar 16th, 2009
arthurbarbato twitter

amazing! What software is employed?

Mar 16th, 2009
aaron

Very cool. These are all great. I think my favorite one is the one with man with the melal ball for a head. It reminds me of a drawing by my favorite artist M.C. Escher “hand with globe”

Mar 16th, 2009
marta

great job! creative and inspiring

Mar 16th, 2009
Beezy

absolutely amazing and creative! wow.

Mar 16th, 2009
Andrea

Wow! Very cool, I love it!

Mar 16th, 2009
Parisima

Speechless…
words are poor against feelings…
great job.

Mar 16th, 2009
Beatleg

Absolutely amazing

Mar 17th, 2009
melufa

Fantastic!!! Thumbs UP to U!!

Mar 17th, 2009
Larry Page

Incredable!

Mar 17th, 2009
Norma Shelan

I appreciate your creative spirit! Thanks for sharing.
Norma

Mar 17th, 2009
rabia jamil

wow amazing

Mar 18th, 2009
naima

i appreciate all picture reallyb amazing more more more hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Mar 18th, 2009
Jennie

I loved these! They really make you think. Job well done!

Mar 18th, 2009
squeek12345

loved your pics, they made me laugh and look with awe.

Mar 18th, 2009
denise

really stunning…

Mar 18th, 2009
Khushboo

G8! work

Mar 19th, 2009
pixonu

AWESOME!!

Mar 19th, 2009
Gillian K

These are brilliant. I’m a huge fan of Magritte and these make me think of Erik as a 21st century Magritte. Keep them coming they are a fabulous way of looking at the world!!!

Mar 19th, 2009
Waldo

Genial Realmente son muy buenas estas fotos! genial !

Saludos a todos! bytes

Mar 19th, 2009
wailer

Just 1 word: WOW.

Mar 19th, 2009
Miguel Martinez

Fantastic, very impressive, you are a very talented guy.

Mar 20th, 2009
samu

Las fotos son asombrosas, este chaval es un genio.

Mar 20th, 2009
Andy D

Love the Homo Sapiens plant & the Tetris one. Amazing work!

Mar 20th, 2009
golublog

It’s like a surreal dream. I love it.

Mar 20th, 2009
Joselete

Increiblemente maravillosas!!!! vaya imaginacion y que talento para llevarlas acabo..un 10

Mar 20th, 2009
Adriana M

This is amazing!!! Big big big congrats 4 u! 😀

Mar 20th, 2009
sunrainet

Incredible, too creative

Mar 21st, 2009
Ahmed nawaz amrohvi

very very good thanks for all pics

Mar 22nd, 2009
Izzat ali amrohvi

nice cute strange&lovely

Mar 22nd, 2009
Rav

My step-brother is a friend of his, showed me the site. Very cool.

Mar 22nd, 2009
abhijit dutta

Amazing man…seriously…..hard to believe at times…
Truly amazing

Mar 23rd, 2009
MAGRITTE

This is for Dre & Dean ( …IF they are not the same person, as I assume they actually are! )

If you are so ( stupidly ) convinced on what you affirm, you should be able to DEMONSTRATE it! So why both of you do not SHOW us what YOU can do with a “basic knowledge of photo editing”??

Come on guys… you really make me sick with your NONSENSE comments!

Mar 25th, 2009
Vladimir

Really funny!!! Great stuff!

Mar 26th, 2009
ekram

love it!

Mar 27th, 2009
syabi

good!

Mar 27th, 2009
azad mangi

Great ideas. Awesome inspiration. Some of the pix freak me out though

Mar 30th, 2009
Mahmood Malik

Wonderful work

Mar 30th, 2009
TwistedSifter

Looks Shopped!:p

Fantastic work. The comment haters are hilarious. Go do something productive.

Mar 31st, 2009
Konrad Fischer

Very impresiv e , it really touched my imagination and vision. Thanks Konrad

Apr 2nd, 2009
Jon

Like an paint artist with canvas, the work Erik has done challenges the senses. It is worthy to be called art and should be shared with the world. I love it!

Apr 2nd, 2009
Hank-Dachbeschichtung

Greatings,

really cool pictures, dude, very nice work. Congratulations!

Hank

Apr 3rd, 2009
cati

wow very biutiful i lovely

Apr 11th, 2009
Faseeh Ahma Fasahat

Wao, I did not see this type of pictures on computer what a brilliant work very impressive

With best regards
Faseeh Ahmad Fasahat

Apr 19th, 2009
Castiel

Belissimo

Apr 20th, 2009
Dave

Msot of the work is brilliant, but I am not sure the IKEA/Volvo one really belongs. I could do that with a printer and a camera. Where is the Photo-shopping?

Apr 21st, 2009
Jasper

ha ha, the reflection taking the photograph should have been naked!

great stuff

Apr 22nd, 2009
Mohan

Classic pictures and great wrok.

Apr 22nd, 2009
Doris

It caught my interest, great job!

Apr 22nd, 2009
Ruth Crabb

Fabulous images, it made me smile inside.

Struth

Apr 22nd, 2009
Agnes Pires

The newest Taylor James? Great jobs, pure inspiration for us!

Apr 24th, 2009
AnnRan

Creative and flawless – wonderful work!

Apr 24th, 2009
NOOR

it is not nesessary to get off dress so iron them with itself. amazing idea.

Apr 26th, 2009
Aussie Allan

100 off limited editions of these works with certificates and cash in on your remarkable talent,what have you got to loose!!!!!!!!!

Apr 28th, 2009
Rodney

The Tetris Building was cool.

Apr 28th, 2009
jose

nice stuff dude!

May 7th, 2009
inoreloaded_photo manipulation

Erik is a great artist.
I want to be like him someday..

May 8th, 2009
Will

These are wonderful. I’m amazed.

May 13th, 2009
sailboats

Badass, makes me wanna do some photoshoppin

May 18th, 2009
Ellis Miller

I have genuinely not seen photo manipulation that fantastic before.
Congratulations!!

May 29th, 2009
Ally B

these photos are great….Can’t wait for more !!!

Jun 2nd, 2009
Joshua Miller

All of these are mindblowing. Such a creative artist!

I’ve got my own spin on the Volvo picture.

To ME, it shows the relation between purchasing a Volvo and purchasing an item from Ikea. You get a top notch car with peace of mind – so having Ikea on the bottom left, with the Alan key in-hand shows how when you buy a Volvo, you’re buying a worry-free vehicle.

Jun 3rd, 2009
miana

wow that is awesome love the volvo one! haha soooo clever

Jun 9th, 2009
erwin15155

awesome…

Jun 14th, 2009
Bruno

That’s mad skills. It took me a few seconds to appreciate the coffee spill image. It drew out the world continents.

Jun 15th, 2009
Ralph

Great talent As a Vietnam Vet it makes me feel good that there is still people that have good things to offer.

Jun 17th, 2009
Mery Cecchi

Amazing!

Jun 25th, 2009
Mohan Gandhi

Amazing Photos! Very Nice.

Jun 28th, 2009
Monorelojero

Muy muy ingenioso, definitivamente maravilloso!!

Jul 20th, 2009
Exprezso

Very very nice! I’m deeply impressed!

Jul 29th, 2009
FRED

Window sill needs a wipe – the best gag is the simplest – the Volvo one ;)P Stick to that

Aug 2nd, 2009
Sonia

Wonderful! The Tetris one is very nicely put together and clever! Amazing stuff and original ideas – difficult to be new and original in this day and age. Keep it up dude!! (-:

Aug 2nd, 2009
azka

wonderful n amazing i impressed really!

Aug 7th, 2009
cloris liu

very brilliant,i like it so much.It reminds me of an old chinese philosophical concept “天人合一” ,which means the mixture ,unification of nature and people and a kind of harmonious relationship between the two.

Aug 12th, 2009
amjadkeryo

very good pictures thanks

Aug 13th, 2009
Dachbeschichtung Frankfurt

Great collection, its amazing. In my opinion No. 11 looks best
Greetings

Claus

Aug 13th, 2009
Lerryck

Awesome,brilliant…Erik u special artist & very original…keep like that..and u will be big photograff in the future!!!!!

Aug 27th, 2009
Christian

Pretty impressive! You have talent!

Aug 28th, 2009
Bea

that was fantastic

Aug 28th, 2009
faisal

amazing,

Aug 31st, 2009
Lawliet

Very good,
Amazing….
can i be his student???????

Sep 1st, 2009
RohithCG

Simply terrific! He needs to be given the credit due for his efforts. x-(

Sep 2nd, 2009
emma

extraoridinarily creative. they crystallize another perception of the world around us, topsy-turvy, toppling, hectic and mind-boggling. thanks for Eric’s efforts.

Sep 11th, 2009
Hebie

they are amazing.it’s already spread out on Asian website.

Sep 14th, 2009
husna

Awesome n truly amazing!!! very creative n different

Sep 15th, 2009
Marialba

Amazing!!!!

Sep 18th, 2009
Alex Woollard

Now he’s a master at his trade.
I create pics using various images that have taken but not to this level of excellence, most of my friends who they are usually aimed at tell me that I have too much time on my hands.
Great entertainment Erik.
Cheers Alex

Sep 20th, 2009
Laura

Wow these pics are fantasitc!!! I’m sick of people making something totally stupid like a wonky lightswitch and then calling themselves artists. I havn’t a creative bone in my body and I could do the likes of that rubbish. It’s really refreshing to see something that takes talent and imagination and skill. I wish him all the best in the future and hope we will all be seeing a lot more from him as well.

Sep 22nd, 2009
Laura

I looked at the website above just now and its brilliant!! Vertical turn, haha!!

Sep 22nd, 2009
kirsty

Alot of work and patience gone into these images. Probably done on adobe after effects. Dre, show us something better then..

Oct 5th, 2009
fran

bril, couldnt do better myself,?? ha ha

Oct 11th, 2009
Eloi

Nice art work.

Lund is a nice place to learn photo…

I which to see more video and sound art work, those great creativity stories could fit in CMetrage, it’s like you’re in those touristic buses on the top of the cliff in Alps mountains and you get the nicest view from the roof, but every body in the get vertigo watching you.

Cool, I love it.

Nov 5th, 2009
Searchman

Genius!!!!

Nov 7th, 2009
Gray Mouser

Genius indeed!

Nov 11th, 2009
lauvsland

cool! whitch program are you use to edit photos??do you have some youtube videos where you show how to edit? I am editing a little my self but is difficult with light and……

Nov 14th, 2009
Liyana

I believe you are the photographic Magritte.

Still I find some of the photos a bit too harsh in terms of idea, still all of them – perfectly developed.

Nov 17th, 2009
Raja Zahid

quite amazing

Dec 3rd, 2009
Natsky

wicked imagination and perfect execution!

Dec 21st, 2009
mariola

fantastic. beautiful work.
The most beautiful work to my eyes.

Dec 24th, 2009
linkstochina

Nice photo work.
The comment haters are hilarious. Go do something productive.

Dec 25th, 2009
Velaija

Whow this is really amazing!
It’s beautiful!

Dec 25th, 2009
diwhflq

Whow this is really amazing!
It’s beautiful!

Jan 4th, 2010
Arslanian

Nice photo work.

Jan 18th, 2010
pookey

Asoulutly brilliant! Im working with manipulation for my GCSEs at the moment and you are my insperation!!!

Jan 20th, 2010
Paul T

Mind bubbling

Feb 13th, 2010
Dr. Katzenbaum

These photos are mind-bogglingly beautiful. Does anybody know where you could purchase postcards or maybe posters with Erik’s Artwok on them?

Feb 27th, 2010
Rechtsanwalt

What a mindblowing page! Really impressive!

Mar 10th, 2010
Kenan

Wow!! I cannot seem to choose which one is the best, funniest and most artistic
Very nice to have a glimps on Erik’s artistic mind,
kind greetings, kenan zonnema

Apr 26th, 2010
Steve

Dre, show us what you can do, are you able to be creative and original, as well as being an expert on photo maniplulation?

Apr 30th, 2010
Melanie

This is absolutely brilliant! Love it!

May 5th, 2010
Jose L. Diaz

Awesome work, this is a perfect way to manifestate an art using modern tools creating a real way of imaginative and impresive images, also we can see a new form of comunication of fresh and innovative ideas, this work are expresive and do not selfindulgent as many “intelectual” modern art, sometimes a modest and simple art are better when are expontaneous, Erik Johansson are a real master.

May 12th, 2010
jaeden

i would love to see how to do this im going to try it very soon dont get the volvo one

May 16th, 2010
Carl

Amazing like everyone else has said. How can one learn to do this stuff? I wish I had Erik’s talents.

Jul 12th, 2010
Ivanhoo

Brilliant work, very talented young artist. I’ve seen this image before on the internet but I did not know who made them. Nice…

Sep 14th, 2010
Alexito

wooo increible!!!!!!

Oct 21st, 2010
MattJazz

This is simply brilliant ! Someone said earlier this could be easily done in photoshop. Of course it is easily done if you have skills, but most important is idea and inspiration. This guy is next Storm Thorgeson !

Oct 28th, 2010
Jan Lee

Wow these are so brilliant—an amazing talent.Cannot understand the Man In Rowing Boat—am I missing something?

Feb 22nd, 2011
thezar

Ikea furniture uses the key for assembly. What if a Volvo had to be assembled? There’s your catch.

Feb 24th, 2011
DUARRAB

BRAVO

Jun 17th, 2011
Public Cyberfreak

These pictures are awesome, and I hate being a buzzkill, but Tetris came out during the 70’s, and not the 80’s.

Oct 31st, 2011
Art Pestaño

epic!!!

Feb 7th, 2012