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This weekend I was playing around; I wanted to try some new ideas floating around in my head.

My daughter’s favorite movie (right now) is The Parent Trap (remake) with Lindsay Lohan (debut film). It was actually pretty hard explaining to my kid that Hallie and Annie are actually the same actress… So what better way to convince her than to make a twin out of an only-child?

This was actually a pretty easy setup; I took the first picture of her, taped the area and had her go change clothes. We then snapped the second picture and later I laid the two images on top of one another, then using the layer mask and the paintbrush I carefully masked one picture into the other.

Pretty fun experience actually. But now my kid thinks Mary-Kate and Ashley are the same ha!

Yesterday I got to turn my boss into a cartoon; I do love my 9-5 sometimes haha! I spend a lot of my day mantaining our company blog and the “home” page was just the saddest thing ever! I wanted to brighten it up with a banner welcoming our employees to the site.

I told Susan what I wanted to do (with a “cartoon” version of her) for the banner and she loved the idea! So voila – it’s my boss in vector cartoon format!

Well my 9-5 is fine; I learn stuff all the time and enjoy it for sure. What I really love is my night-life design job; Only that would have me out at 1 am taking pictures of exotic dancers!

The girl is Khaos (stage name of course), and she’s sporting a black spaghetti strap shirt featuring the branding of Big Daddy graphic design company; he makes custom shirts for any occasion (especially the NSFW ones!). This is one of my favorite shots after two days of shooting; of course I can’t show the “other” ones – this isn’t that kind of blog! I like this one because the angle, and her expression are just awesome.

Of course, I had to shoot these while the girls were working, so the backgrounds and the general lighting wasn’t ideal. I decided to use Photoshop to do some tweaks, clean up some blemishes and blur out the background. Hope you like!

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I’ve made my very first screen-cast; I hope you find it useful! The video tutorial shows you how to remove an object from a complex background using the Pen Tool and the bezier curves:

I’ve created a new Photoshop brush for making Water Bubbles. Click the image for larger view!

This file is free to use, credit is always appreciated for my hard work, but not required. However, this may not be sold or traded for goods or services by anyone other than the creator – me.

The Photoshop Brush is an .abr extension. Created with 300 dpi for high-res painting. Free for use in your projects or for playing around. Set for Scattering and size variation out of the box – All you have to do is start brushing!

Download Photoshop Brush – Water Bubbles (.abr file)