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Photo manipulations by Joan Charmant

Joan Charmant is a software engineer who started playing with photo manipulations in 2004, when one day he stumbled upon some UFO pictures and wanted to see how hard it would have been to fake them.
He started spending some days and nights on the website Worth1000.com (there are many great tutorials and competition on photo manipulation in that website, give it a look) and learnt a lot from the other members.

Anyway, his photoshop skills are great and his creative process pretty interesting.. just pity that his day job is software engineer so you can’t find many pics from him on the net (or twitter accounts, blogs, flickr and so on)

I really like his photo manipulations, and you?

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fantastic materials used in this picture

Source:
An interview with Joan Charmant by Abduzeedo
Joan Charmant home page

Another World Lightroom Preset

A slightly HDR-esque set of Lightroom presets to enhance your photos.

The presets work better on images with many details and textures, also be aware that the effect is very strong, especially around the edges. You should probably adjust the fill light and restore values if you see some artifacts on the image.

Anyway, have fun with this preset!

How to install presets on Lightroom?

Click on Preferences, select Presets tab and click on Show Lightroom Presets Folder… button.Uncompress the ZIP file, move the folder in the Lightroom Presets Folder/Develop Presets and relaunch Lightroom.

Download Another World Free Preset for Lightroom

Vending Machines in Japan

Wandering around my neighborhood I found a battery vending machine. You know, where you put money and you can automatically buy some batteries. Ordinary things, here in Japan. So I started wondering, what kind of vending machines do exist here in Japan, the homeland of vending machines?

Well, this is a list of the most interesting (from PhotoMann.com)

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Battery Vending Machine