What is the meaning of - photo manipulation ?

Photo manipulations one of the best &creative artwork nowadays which are so funny to create and to look at too. Using Photoshop you can do lots of creative and great impossible stuff. You can manipulate photos like you imagine and can show others what you have in your creative mind. In this post i try to cover all questions and topics that talking   about photo manipulation  and  i have added some of best and amazing examples of photo manipulation works for you.
So , first of all what is photo manipulation ?  
" simply it involves transforming , altering or change a photograph using various methods and techniques to achieve your target " 

  
in this artwork by Erik johansson , photographer and retouch artist , he explain what is photo manipulation simply by combine some shots together for a landscape and another photograph
for a handmade design form paper to achieve this view .
the tutorial here
 photo manipulation can be done using photoshop software only without any additional tools , but you should know some basics before you start your first project.

(1) think about the scene you imagine 

imagine any scene you want and try to draw it as you can to draw just make the main idea out from your head , this is because you will need to remember every thing even the tiny small detail . 

(2) collect your footage  

this is one of the most important  steps if you want to make a surreal photo manipulation 

 surfing over net or register in flicker or any other website will be helpful .

so , collect what you want from internet to build your scene but take care about footage file size in photo manipulation  we design a new scene and every detail matter so you should use good footage and big too
to achieve your desired results .
for me i used google images after i make my filter with bigger than 2 mb
my second website is flicker , so there are more websites you could use to collect your photos to build your imagination scene .
this is list of footage web sites :

textures  , flickr ,google images
 manipulation need practicing and subscribe other artists work you should see manipulation projects and photo editing as much as you can to learn methods and types of this art  which has no end or boundaries your imagination is the limit , so you need to look at some great examples to know what the footage they used and the methods the walk with through the project  , you can use behance  it's very helpful website which contain massive amount of projects and methods in all designs topics , just create a new account and start searching for photo manipulation term and follow the artists who create artworks from allover the world .
YouTube is the greatest tool for this filed as it have every tutorial you  should use just search for the term and you will shocked from the amount of tutorials talking and working in the field of graphic design and photo manipulation specially
there are too many channels take the photo manipulation as the only graphic design topic and make tutorials only about it .
so , you can use all these networks to learn or to know sources , methods and techniques .. just collect any footage or tutorial concerned with this topic it would help .  

 (3) you should know the basics

i will recommend these tutorial for beginners to know the basics of photo manipulation
this video tutorial will show you how to make your first photo manipulation

 and this second tutorial will show you another techniques but in a simple way

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