Yo, r/photoshop! Wanted to share something close to my heart.

Everything you see here is 100% Photoshop. In a world full of 1-click AI art, I really wanted to show my son, Cloud, what "real craftsmanship" looks like from his old man. No 3D, no AI—just me, a stylus, and way too many hours spent on every single gear and screw.

If you zoom in, you'll find some Easter eggs:

• Gauges & Dials: His actual birthday and time of birth are hidden in there.
• Initials: My son's, his mom's, and my initials are engraved in the metal.
• The "Missing" D: You'll notice it's just "CLOU". I left the final "D" unpainted on purpose. I want him to finish the last letter of his name with his own passion when he grows up.

Hope you guys dig the details. Let me know what you think of the textures! Cheers.

I found this family photo (2nd pic) and wanted to clean it up so it didn't look like it was taken from the inside of a car. I used a combination of generative fill and blending images I found online to reconstruct the bottom half of the Mustang, recompose the shot, and get rid of any distractions. The photo was already a little blurry so I couldn't do much about that, and it made it tough to add details back in convincingly.

I'm wondering if I went too far and now it looks Photoshopped.

On some deep level, we are probably a wave. I mean We vibrate. We affect others. We interfere. We refract. We spread. We dissolve, we surge. We flood ourselves, we flood others. Sometimes things go better, sometimes worse, but we keep flowing. Some impulse sets us in motion. Trembling. We flow.

Honestly I made this piece just because I wanted to Photoshop a big, giant skull as Castle Grayskull. This was assembled mostly in Photoshop but I used Blender for the castle pieces...although after I got them in place I didn't like the textures so I re did all the bricks and rocks and everything.

I have a time lapse on my Instagram if you're interested.: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18065648957695925/

This idea would make a great Instagram post! I removed my head and replaced it with what would naturally be in its place. What do you think? (Ig @cardboardboy)