This is How Photoshop Artist Erik Johansson Creates His Mind-Bending Images

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Swedish photographer and retoucher Erik Johansson is well known for his mind-bending photo-manipulations and optical illusions, which are all made with careful photography and Photoshopping. If you’re wondering how the images are actually created, Johansson has been regularly release behind-the-scenes videos showing his techniques.

Here are a number of his photo-manipulation artworks accompanied by short but fascinating BTS videos:

Cut & Fold

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Post-production for this project took 15 hours.

Drifting Away

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Landfall

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Endless Stories

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An image created for The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Closing Out

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Soundscapes

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You can find more of Johansson work on his website, and you can follow along with future videos by subscribing to his YouTube channel.


Image credits: Photographs and videos by Erik Johansson

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