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The intersection of art and NFTs keeps getting weirder. Painter Damien Hirst has joined other artists and burned 1,000 of his pieces this week, all in the name of non-fungible tokens.

Sam Tato, a self-described 3D Generalist, says that computer graphics (CG) and computer-generated imagery (CGI) have reached the point that it has made practical beverage photography a thing of the past -- and he says he can prove it.

Photographer and digital artist Rubén Álvarez shot a series of handcrafted cells to represent the process of blood cell formation, taking inspiration from his fight against salivary gland tumors and facial paralysis.

Photographer Reuben Wu has released the final chapter of his groundbreaking Lux Noctis project, which involves lighting large-scale landscapes with drone-mounted lights. Titled "An Electric Storm," the digital artwork has an incredible physical installation that combines a print with AR light projection.

Associated Press (AP) will auction 10 non-fungible tokens (NFT) to celebrate its "iconic photojournalism" over the past 175 years. The NFTs are artistic representations of notable, iconic photographs and will be available on the blockchain for the first time.

A collection of images by digital artist Beeple called "The First 5000 Days" is currently up for auction. It is the first fully-digital set of art pieces protected with a unique non-fungible token (NFT) that guarantees its authenticity and is currently bidding for $3 million.

Academy and Emmy Award-winning software developer Boris FX is dipping its toes in the world of still photography with "Optics": a new standalone application and plugin suite that brings some of the company's feature film visual effects to the world of photo editing.

Artist and designer Jessica Johnson of Creators Couture has created a unique set of Photoshop brushes that do something we haven't seen before. Stroke by stroke, and controlled by brush size and direction, you can add an impressionist painting effect to all or part of your photos.

Skylum has released the latest version of the Luminar photo editor, and in addition to the expected performance enhancements and minor updates, Luminar 4.2 boasts a new feature called "AI Augmented Sky" that makes creating surreal photo composites the work of a few seconds.

In 2016, world-famous photographer and digital artist Erik Johansson was commissioned by Swedish construction company NCC to create something special that showed the areas NCC was working. This is one of the 6 photos he created for them, and below he shows you how it was made.

Huseyin Sahin is one of the most talented digital artists you'll find online. Following in the footsteps of other incredibly skilled artists like Erik Johansson, he's got a stunning talent for creating surreal scenes by blending together digital photographs.

I’m always searching for interesting personal projects—ideas that are worth the effort and time it takes to make it visible.

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to walk through the many different ways to create this pixel dispersion fragmenting effect to make your model or object look like it is bursting into little particles and pieces.

A basic landscape or cityscape photograph is just the beginning for Italian photo manipulation artist and architect Laurent Rosset. It's once he has the pieces in Photoshop that his creations really begin coming to life.

Photographer and mother Holly Spring's photography has always been about her daughter. Born with only one hand and suffering from something known as Hirschprung's disease, little Violet almost died from surgical complications before Holly ever got a chance to take a single picture of her.

Shortly after that, her husband bought her a DSLR, and she has been taking pictures of Violet ever since.

Inspired by the beautiful ink-in-water photography of Alberto Seveso -- who, by the way, we've featured many times on PetaPixel, so definitely check that out -- South African artist and photographer Chris Slabber recently put a spin on ink photography the likes of which we've not seen before.

Using his skills as a digital artist, he combined the genres of ink photography and double exposure portraits to create something that, in the interest of avoiding photography word inflation, is both good and beautiful (but not 'stunning' or 'brain paralyzing').

If you thought Photoshop 1.0 was primitive, take a look at the video above. What you’re watching is a short section of film shot at the Amiga launch conference that took place in 1985.

Specifically, you're watching world-renown artist Andy Warhol using his first ever computer to digitally edit a photograph of Debbie Harry by “painting” over it using the Amiga’s graphic program.

Joel Grimes' photography is fantastic, and I use that word in its most literal form. As Grimes puts it, "photography is not reality," and so his work is about exploring the border between photography and digital art as he creates portraits that are unlike anything else out there.

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has responded to the copyright controversy we told you about earlier today... sort of. We didn't receive a response directly from them, but because of the massive amount of attention the story has gotten both here and on Reddit, the band posted an interesting response to their Facebook.

Budapest-based photographer Sarolta Bán is on a mission to shed a positive light on all shelter animals by creating images that will capture the eyes -- and hearts -- of anyone considering the pups for adoption.

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Here's an awesome TED lecture in which digital artist Erik Johansson discusses creating realistic "photographs" of impossible scenes.

Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenarios come to life, while keeping them visually plausible.

For his project titled "Unrealistic Scenes", photographer Nathan Spotts composited his own landscape photographs with digital artwork of planets floating in the starry night sky.

I've always been captivated by the beauty of our world, and often dream of the things that lay just beyond what we can see. I wanted to create images of scenes that are not-quite real, but that almost could be.

For her series entitled "Photo Opportunities", photographer Corinne Vionnet gathered hundreds of photographs taken by tourists at famous locations and combined them by layering them together, creating surreal views of places we've all seen before in photographs.

Digital hyper-realist artist Bert Monroy spent four years creating an incredibly detailed Times …