ABSTRACT
As Photoshop artists, we’re often asked to produce images of situations that would be impossible to photograph — a planet exploding, a politician melting down, or, as opposite, city landmarks as they might appear years after all the people had disappeared. It’s a playful, frivolous approach to photomontage that won’t appeal to all users, and is certainly far removed from photo realism. The readers should aim for a final result that looks almost like a real photograph at first glance, but which on closer inspection proves to be impossible. Breaking glass in Photoshop has little to do with broken glass in real life, which tends to look dull and lifeless. In real life, of course, smashing a screen would cause the glass to implode inwards, to fill the vacuum inside the tube; but real life is sometimes too dull to reproduce.
