The Pixelation forum came up with a neat contest for it’s users. They poked at the question, “what would modern games look like on an original Gameboy?” They ask their users to re-create screenshots of their favorite modern games in pixelated Gameboy-form.

You’ll find games like Guitar Hero, BioShock, ICO, Okami, Sam & Max, Flashback (not so modern but very cool) and so many more. Needless to say, we’re very impressed with some of the images their community has come up with. Kudos, guys. The forum is now holding a contest for user’s to make their own Mega Man level, with the only restriction being the graphical limitations of the original NES games. Show ‘em what you got.

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I saw this picture and just couldn’t resist.

My buddy Nick McGlynn is on a mission to expose poor photoshop skills.” To achieve this noble goal, he’s created a new blog called Photoshop of Horrors. Nick’s site feature pictures of some of the worst Photoshop disasters known to man. My personal favorites are this shot of Beyonce with three arms and a picture of a topless denim model who had her nipples edited into oblivion.

There have been other bad Photoshop sites, but Nick says his blog is a cut above the rest because “the elegant and easy to navigate page design incorporates witty mouse over captions for each photo, as well as offering large and small views of the page.” You can make a lot of great stuff with Photoshop, but this site is a powerful reminder that, as Spiderman once said: “with great power comes great responsibility.”

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Digital artist Lena Gieseke made this amazing “3D exploration” of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. Gieseke says her piece is supposed to be “a provoking and deep contemplation” of the original work. She says she was inspired by art jigsaw puzzles because they force you to “study a painting in great detail and… become aware of the very lines, shapes and colors that the painting is composed of and how these elements merge to create a unified expression.” Remixes of classic art generally suck unless they put a thought provoking twist on the old concept. This 3D Guernica doesn’t really do that, but it just looks so freaking cool that you’ve got to love it.

Gieseke made her Picasso with Maya, Shake, and Photoshop. This is a pretty powerful rebuttal to those old fogies who say digital art is nothing but pixels. After the jump, check out the video of Gieseke’s masterpiece.

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I don’t know if he listens to RZA but at least graphic designer Alberto Seveso knows his shit. Apparently he’s so good at using ‘teh l33t ph0t0sh0p sk1llz’ that he was able to essentially transform surfer Kelly Slater into a damn wave. Yeah. Alberto cut him up good and did a hell of a shading job. Some of the best work in Photoshop I’ve ever seen.

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While it’s not the work of untooning master Pixeloo (the artist behind the untooned versions of Jessica Rabbit, Homer Simpson, and Super Mario), this untooning attempt, which was an entry to a Worth1000 “Reality Cartoon” Photoshop contest, comes pretty damn close to the master himself.

If the producers over at Family Guy were to one-day let Peter Griffin star as a live-action character, we can only assume he would look something eerily similar to this untooned version of everybody’s favorite father from Quahog. Hit the jump for a larger shot of the untooned Peter. (more…)

Perhaps you popped a hard one last week browsing the Internet. Maybe it was because you’re into leather, maybe you saw Tera Patrick blowing Peter North or perhaps you were one of the many geeks who saw a Photoshopped picture of Jessica Rabbit turned into a human.

Now, thanks to the wonder of video capture, you can see how the man behind the transformation put her together. It’s only the first hour of work crammed into a ten minute video but it’s well worth the watch. Turns out her face was reconstructed from part Angelina Jolie, part Allison Hannigan and Andrew’s mustache. Oh my…

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We’ve all heard enough about the presidential election in the recent months, but of what constructive use does this give us? Sure, we have a better idea of who could be running the free world for the next 4 to 8 years, but come on, we need some LOLz in our life! A change of pace from all of the politics stuff.

Thanks to some creative uses of Photoshop, we can now magically guess what our next president will look like in 4 years, by the end of their first term. We can see from past recent president’s that this job ages you a few decades in a fraction of the time. The stress just comes with the territory. So forget where America will be in four years, and rejoice in the fact that whoever is running the place will be much uglier than when they began. Hit the jump for the two other usual suspects. (more…)

This is what happens when a company looks at Apple, realizes that their simplistic ways are becoming very popular with consumers, and decides to one-up Apple. Well, maybe it’s more of a 3 or 4-up, simply put, Adobe took it too far. These are the icons for the upcoming Creative Suite 3 from Adobe, which has begun with the release of Photoshop CS3 beta that many people have downloaded and taken a look at. These early adopters thought that the icon Photoshop installed was just a placeholder for what was to become the next CS3 icon, they were wrong. These icons are nothing more than a pretty gradient background with white acronyms for their respective applications. Ps=Photoshop. Di=Director. Fl=Flex. So on and so forth. The way that Adobe released the icons is nice, isn’t it? A color wheel with the many variations of colors with each icon placed where its background falls. Wrapping up, if you use Adobe products, with the CS3 lineup, your desktop will become indecipherable, have fun! — Nik Gomez

Adobe CS3 icons revealed [The Unofficial Apple Weblog]

Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, the next version of the end-all-be-all for digital photo editing and graphic design, has been announced to be released this Friday. Adobe has also stated that Photoshop will be the only version for which a CS3 beta will be released. Adobe Creative Suite 3 is the next version of the Creative Suite line (which was created because Adobe couldn’t keep adding numbers for software versions), and the first version of CS to be released since Adobe bought Macromedia and all of its software. Another little detail, Adobe has also said that they will put out an “Advanced” version of Photoshop CS3 that will focus more on the video and science markets, and will have enhanced capabilities for the most demanding and specialized images. Because of the expensive cost of the Adobe CS products, upgrades are a major part of sales. In order to be allowed to try out the new version of Photoshop, you will need a valid serial number to one of the various Creative Suite 2.0 distributions. — Nik Gomez

Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta to drop this Friday [AppleInsider]