Recreating a 17th Century Painting in Photoshop Is Basically Magic

Using stock images and Johannes Vermeer’s 1664 painting The Concert as a base, photographer Erik Almas admirably recreated the lost masterpiece in Photoshop. Heck, it might be able to fool you into thinking it were the real thing… if you were standing and squinting from very far away. Still. It’s pretty neat to see Almas’ workflow and how creative he gets in trying to mimic the original. Source: Recreating a 17th Century Painting in Photoshop Is Basically Magic

Microsoft’s Surface Book isn’t the dream video-editing machine I hoped for

Would I consider using the Surface Book as my go-to mobile editing machine? Probably not. It was functional, but not ideal. Source: Microsoft’s Surface Book isn’t the dream video-editing machine I hoped for I have the Surface Book that came out last year that I use for my IT professional job. It’s a really nice machine but like this post I found it not quite so good when trying to edit photos and working in Photoshop. It works but not as fast to work with than my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro. I think it comes down to the dual core processors …