Photoshop: As Real As It Gets
Art imitates life imitates art, plus 61 cups of paint and a rubber glove.
Typically, Photoshop design is, in one way or another, a mock-up of visuals that could, or do, exist in the real world. But Jakarta-based agency Bates 141 decided to flip this on its head in a project for client software-asil.com.
In an design-imitates-life-imitates-design twist, the crew literally brought the Photoshop CS4 workspace to life.
We have to appreciate both the strategic freshness and the supreme craftsmanship behind the work — we can’t help wanting to come in and play with the wonderful world of tools and colors.
You can see the behind-the-scenes details of the extremely laborious process at Art Snob Solutions’ corner of Flickr.
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This is amazing!
A lot of hard work has clearly gone into this piece.
Ha! I love it! This must have taken a lot of hard work. It’s easy to forget that all of these tools originated off of the computer and Photoshop just made it computerized (and then, of course, expanded). It’s ideas like this that make anything in design seem possible! I love taking an idea from one platform and transforming it into another – it’s simple, but totally unexpected.