Note: This tutorial uses Corel Photopaint, The steps might also be applicable fo r other programs but the keys and name of the tools might be different. First open up the photo which we are going to give an extreme make-over. Go to the menu file> open then locate the photo. note: make it a habit to duplicate the layer you are going to edit so that you can go back if in case you ever made a mistake. To duplicate the layers, first open the objects docker. To do this, in the menu go to window>dockers>objects or just simply press Crtl+F7. The Object Docker in the right sidebar should

Mark Khaisman, a Ukraine born, Philadelphia-based artist has created a whole collection of art in a strange new medium, brown packing tape on clear Plexiglas panels. To see more of his works visit his website here. If you're ever in Philadelphia, you could see his creations at the woodmere art museum. It will be held from January 27th to March 8th.

Julian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. Its peculiarity? Beever gives his drawings an anamorphosis view, his images are drawn in such a way which gives them three dimensionality when viewing from the correct angle. It's amazing !!! See more works of this talented artist, here.

Although this is not an art related site. I think the webmasters are artists because it is so artistically crafted! What does it does? NetDisaster.com is a fun little toy you can use to destroy the website you love to hate. You can type in whatever website URL you want and choose whatever method of destruction you want (spill coffee, nukes, bloody guns, chainsaws,meteors, flood, ants, etc. my personal fav is the zeppelin attacks) and watch it go! It's a good way to wade away the time whenever you are bored. note: no harm is done to any of the websites. :) Visit it here now!

Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage in its development, Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use. Terragen is an extremely powerful piece of software, which can create stunning and almost photographic images of landscapes. It is in a constant state of development and is currently free for non-commercial use, which is nice. You are limited to images of 1,280 by 960 however. The interface is relatively straightforward and within minutes it's

Sharing with you another great app which is like most of my entries here are freeware so enjoy! Characterizer is freeware "One form" application for converting images to ascii text (ASCII art). Characterizer support JPG, BMP and WMF source images. Result is plain text file. You can set result size (width x height in characters), destination font size. There is implemented more render methods like photo, shape or contour blur. User can define own character set for rendering. Characterizer support four rendering modes, color inverting and adding random noise. The screen shot doesn't do

Akiyoshi Kitaoka is a professor of the Dept. of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. who made these amazing illusions which trick the eyes using involuntary eye movements just like heat devils. Stare at it for a few moments. move your eye thru the entire artwork. Must be seen in full view to appreciate. Caution: Some of the pictures on this website can cause dizziness or might possibly epileptic seizures. The latter happens when the brain can't handle the conflicting information from your two eyes. If you start feeling unwell when using this website, immediately cover one eye with

Few artists have achieved success as far as Kharisma have. Kharisma Ryantori or Kry1 is a Chinese girl who was born and grew up in Surabaya, Indonesia. But the road to success wasn't always a straight one. She tried a couple of times working in graphic design companies but after a while, she didn't feel that the corporate life was for her, so she tried her luck elsewhere. Now she is currently a freelancer who's in love with what she does. Ever since she was a kid, she loved drawing and when she joined Mangarevolution.com in 2005, she strived hard to improve her talents because well she didn't

PowerClipping is embedding shapes or other objects, such as bitmaps, within other shapes or objects. Getting Started The first thing you'll want to do is open a new graphic in Corel DRAW. Click File in the Menu bar, then New . Importing a Photograph Now let's add a bitmap image. You can choose any picture that you want on your computer.