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Dean Samed : The UK’s most prolific genre cover artist

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May 21, 2016 by Clinton lofthouse Leave a Comment

If you ever entered the dark depths of Deviantart a few years back, you would have most likely stumbled upon the name Conzpiracy at some point in your journey. Like a modern day urban legend, his complex manipulations of the macabre made waves through the DA community.

Conzpiracy’s Photoshop tutorials were coveted by users in their DA journals. If you dug a little deeper, eventually  it would lead you to SurrealPSD. A Photoshop, manipulation, tutorial website, where Conzpiracy laid out his tricks and techniques for all to learn. Having used this site as a go to for my own early works, I always wondered who the man behind the curtain was, the wizard of this dark , twisted facade.

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Organization is key – 6 tools to keep your workflow in check

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May 16, 2016 by Clinton lofthouse 12 Comments

Benjamin Franklin once said “For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.”

And no truer words have been spoken, well apart from “its finger licking good!”….but lets not get on to the colonel and his tasty chicken fillets. 😛

As photographers, most of us tend to have creative brains, which in my own experience, tend to work in the most annoying way imaginable. Logic and coherence is thrown out of the window for a machine gun of random, inconsistent, inspiration, an attention span of a 5 year old, and the tendency to daydream for 15 minutes a time in the middle of your current task. The best way to describe a creatives brain (taken from a meme I once saw on Facebook) is like an internet browser, with  thirty tabs open all at the same time. Not very productive or time efficient, to say the least.

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How To Create Bullet haze and Fire haze in Photoshop

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May 14, 2016 by Clinton lofthouse 4 Comments

Sell the fake or add to the surrealism.

As as creative retoucher and composite photographer, these are two aspects that in my opinion are very important, you either learn techniques to help blend realism into the piece, or techniques to make it stand out and add surrealism. For example, you can have a model float in the air with giant swords, fighting a very angry octopus, but if the shadows are in the wrong direction to the sun, then i’m sorry but that is a big fat fail! [Read More…]

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Clinton Lofthouse is a Photographer, Retoucher and Digital Artist based in the United Kingdom, who specialises in creative retouching and composites. Proud 80's baby, reader of graphic novels and movie geek!
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