Nowadays we have so many art tools and softwares like Photoshop or Illustrator that almost everyone can create digital art. Even though it's really exciting that we have so many opportunities, at the same time it's becoming more and more difficult to come up with creative ideas that would be thrilling and different from others. However, one artist still manages to do that. Previously featured on Bored Panda here and here, Atlanta-based creative director and Instagram star Stephen McMennamy is back with his new surreal photo collages!
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His ongoing digital photo manipulation series is called 'ComboPhoto' and we should say it's a pretty intriguing personal project. He creates fascinating collages by combining interesting photos of unrelated items and playful scenes, carefully splitting them in half and placing them next to each other. The interesting part is that he doesn't use stock images so he takes every cool photo himself so sometimes it can take weeks for him to find the perfect subject!
I kind of wish they had blended the point where the photos merge. I think it would have looked better.
"I was bored (no pun intended)... just playing with a collage app, loading pictures. I noticed the similar shapes between a balloon and my daughter's head, I combined the two and that’s how it all began. From there, I just started looking around for other things I could combine. And the rest is history" - the artist told Bored Panda about how everything started.
Very interesting! This is a way of making everyday stuff look madly interesting!
I don't see this as stopping immigration, I see it as a country saying stop hatred, bigotry, racism, all things non-inclusive.
The artist admits that at first he used the iPhone to capture photos and the PicFrame app for photo editing, however, now he has a professional camera and uses Photoshop. What began a small side project just for fun has become a wonderful obsession. And we can totally see it from the quality of his collages!
Reminds me of certain politicians - sweet one end, eaten alive at the other
From a hose forming a waterfall and falling on a father with his daughter, two fingers forming legs and walking to a giant flower which is serving as an umbrella to a little girl, these collages are really thought-provoking and will make you look twice at them. So let's dive together into this thrilling magical world where the artist makes everything possible!
"And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration..."
Looking closer at the other works, I think the line is left intentionally, so show the transition point.
Load More Replies...And, once again, somebody gets their work posted even though they haven't figured out what to do with the skylines
should have that on Yellow Pages-"Let your fingers do the walking!" yeah, i'm that old lol
I like how the nails match the toenails in color. Bet you didn't notice that!!
I was gonna say the same thing- first thing I looked for!
Load More Replies...Exactly - this one has a timely theme. If we don't stop fouling our nest, we will have no place to sleep.
Load More Replies...I always thought Eggheads wore horn-rimmed glasses and were a lot older...
This is beautiful! I do wish these didn't show the background differences quite so obviously. There must be a way to merge them together. But I know nothing of Photoshop and am in awe of these pictures!
No to much detail... unless it’s 1:1 scale... wait for it... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies...This should have the record label of Lonnie Mack, with the song Oreo Cookie Blues : )
My facial expression after I carjacked my brother’s Flinstones car when I was a toddler. Mom didn’t know whether to laugh or yell at me for stealing his toy.
Woah! So inventive splicing a toy car with a real car. Much Imagination, very wow.
I like this! It's different from most of the others. How did he do this?
They say pets start to look like their owners...or the other way around
I can't get past the very visible line marking where one image ends and the other begins. For me, these just look lazy. Photoshop has tools that make blending images together relatively easy.
Pretty sure the delineation lines are intentional...an artistic effect that balances the overall composition. I like it.
Load More Replies...That’s not a DeLorean, the full wings are from the Tesla SUV.
Load More Replies...*image scrolls up from the bottom* "Oh, what's this one OH GAWD"
Vegetables and raw fish wrapped in sushi and seaweed?
Load More Replies...i recently realized there was never anywhere saying Humpty Dumpty is an egg
Load More Replies...I'm trying to think of something nice to say, but I just feel really uncomfortable.
Very philosophical if you think about it. Every day, we continue to write our own stories and fill in the missing gaps with new knowledge, new relationships, and new experiences.
There are a few of these I would really like to have handing on my walls at home. This is one of them. Took me a few seconds on this on.
especially how the human veins and the tree trunk lines match up
Load More Replies...DUDE, that's hy you can't get the flipping damn car moving, IT'S GOT NO ENGINE DUDE! >_< (excuse me for the language lol)
I'm sorry that literally everyone is missing your joke.
Load More Replies...*guy flops through the bottom* "Man, why'd you do that?" "It was too appealing."
Could you imagine this running angrily after you? Not just no but hell no!
Load More Replies...Does any one else thinks this is what beards look like, because That's how I see beards...
How my fiance's beard feels when I'm not expecting him to ambush me with it. (He'll run around a corner and rub it on me)
Peace and Violence are not goals, they are tools to achieve what people really want - Security and Prosperity.
Load More Replies...Is this supposed to be a metaphor for the political debate over affordable healthcare?
So...saving time and just shipping the White House to Russia?
who says its a govt building? those ones have that style of domed roof
Load More Replies...imagine smashing a golf ball and mid-air it becomes this and WHOOOSH, it flies away
I wish more people saw life this way. This is brilliant. Opens up a whole new genre of art, media and thought.
What a funky, cool mind you have. I love how you think, and bring things together.....just over the top, in imagination!!
I wish more people saw life this way. This is brilliant. Opens up a whole new genre of art, media and thought.
What a funky, cool mind you have. I love how you think, and bring things together.....just over the top, in imagination!!
