You’ve probably already seen images where you could tell that some parts of the photo are real, and others are digitally added. You also might have wondered how to create a similar image yourself.
In this article, we’ve collected 30 of the most amazing Photoshop artists on Instagram. Not only do they create a wide variety of spectacular artwork, but many of them also have a YouTube channel. Make sure to check them out if you are looking for inspiration for your own digital photography!
What is Photoshop Art?
Photoshop art is a niche where photography and digital drawing overlap. Photoshop artists combine their photos with digital elements, creating a unique look.
These images often tell a story and fit into a new, imaginary universe. They are stacked with effects and digital alterations.
Some artists use Photoshop to add extra elements to their photos only for the sake of aesthetics. These can be including butterflies or adding a colourful sky to portraits.
The results of Photoshop art are breathtaking images, that often make you ask what the deeper meaning of the photo is.
Who Are the Most Influential Photoshop Artists?
Let’s take a look at our list of these amazing Photoshop artists!
FlĂłra Borsi
FlĂłra is a Hungarian artist who has been collaborating with brands such as Hasselblad and Photoshop. In 2018, she was commissioned to create images for Adobe products. She is self-taught and has become known for enhancing her self-portraits. Her style involves digital ‘makeup’, surreal patterns and colours. She often creates images that are somehow related to nature, whether it is a portrait with a parrot, a white dove, or a butterfly.
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Vanessa Rivera
Vanessa is an artist who gets inspired by childhood imagination. Her pictures reflect a dream world that is often based on her own children’s concepts. Her work sometimes includes her children’s favourite books and stories, such as The Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter, or the Marvel films. On Instagram, she shares the behind the scenes secrets for several of her photos.
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Erik Johansson
Erik is a Swedish photographer and visual artist. His work can be described as a surreal world, which he creates with a combination of several images. He has personal projects, as well as commissioned work with companies such as Adobe, Toyota, or Microsoft. He aims to capture ideas that are depicting a story or a concept.
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Dylan BolĂvar
If you are looking for a mixture of fine art and photo manipulation, make sure to check out Dylan’s work. He works with portraiture that is extremely refined while adding some extra personal touches in Photoshop. He works with illusions, mystical and mythological figures, creating a look that reminds the viewer of a Rennaissance painting.
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Max Asabin
Max is a Photoshop artist whose main goal is to tell stories through his photos. His style involves light painting, colourful smoke, digital technology, mostly in an urban setting. He also shares which elements he used to create each picture, which might inspire the viewer to try out something like this on their own.
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Kevin Carden
Kevin describes his work as “original, creative, and Biblical Christian artwork”. This is, in my opinion, a perfect summary of his work. His images represent the values and principles of the Bible while doing so in a subtle way. His style revolves around magical overlays, dark colours and gorgeous backgrounds. He usually includes video tutorials in his posts that explain his techniques.
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Benjamin van ValenÂ
Benny is a Dutch graphic designer who is specialised in Photoshop art. His goal is to inspire and entertain people by showing them how much he enjoys creating such artwork. He loves creating fantasy and sci-fi related images, such as Star Wars or Joker posters. Despite his young age, he is already an influential and widespread Photoshop artist.
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Aronvisuals
Aronvisual’s profile has a gorgeous overall look. He bases his work on Picasso’s famous saying “everything you can imagine is real”. He imagines the most unrealistic composites, using planets, stars, the Moon, and several other light phenomena. The art he creates makes us wonder: what else is out there in the universe that humans have no knowledge of?
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Karen CantĂș
Karen is a visual artist from Mexico who draws inspiration from her difficulties in her past to create art. According to her, her mind is always creating unrealistic scenarios, and visualising these is her way of coping with life. This is visible in the work she is doing: you can find highly surrealistic, yet beautiful and touching images in her portfolio.
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RamĂłn LaguĂa
If you are looking for magical and sophisticated Photoshop artists, RamĂłn’s profile is just for you. His work revolves around the universe, often including planets and the Moon in his photos. His pictures have a very unique atmosphere, consisting of dark skies, bright clouds, sparkles, and magic. His models pose in a way that adds story and mystery to his images.
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Shaun Jonas
Shaun’s artwork often involves characters from movies and series. He places his subject in a fitting environment, recreating their stories. But he also adds his personal touch and style to every character he portrays, which results in pictures that would make for perfect movie posters.
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Calob Castellon
Calob loves taking photos that literally glow as you look at them. He plays with lights perfectly as he creates portraits. They not only reflect his models’ personality but also build up a magical story around the models. He includes a behind a scenes video for many of his photos. He also has a YouTube channel where he shares some of his Photoshop secrets with his followers.
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GermĂĄn Benito
In case you are interested in an artist who makes fairytales come true- in a modern dressing-, you have to check out GermĂĄn’s work. He sells courses and Photoshop tutorials to those who are interested in learning from him. He likes creating images that include surrealistic proportions and surroundings, such as a huge fish flying in a forest or a woman sitting on a flying parrot.
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Phase Runner
Phase Runner is an English digital artist who loves designing images based on comics and movies. Many of his photos are inspired by cinematic universes such as Marvel, DC or Star Wars. He often recreates movie posters in his own style, which involves spectacular backgrounds and playing with colours. If you are interested in his speed edits, check out his YouTube channel!
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Pulkit Kudiwal
Pulkit is a Photoshop artist, creating images that address contemporary issues, as well as taking commissions from clients. He often captures a fantasy world, involving creatures such as dinosaurs or fairies. Many of his photos have a post-apocalyptic feeling, as he takes a futuristic approach towards digital art.
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Farelyph
Farely creates highly detailed Photoshop art, using movies and series as her main inspiration. She often takes self-portraits and shapes them to reflect her vision. Her style is dynamic and fantastical, with loads of light sources and contrast. She also has a YouTube channel with tutorials, where she makes videos in her mother tongue, Russian.
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Pavel Bond
If you look at Pavel’s pictures, you will find that his work contains many unexpected details and twists. Vicious Santa, devilish angels, skulls, jack-o-lanterns, and robots are combined in his style of mixing imagination with reality. He has a detail-oriented approach, including tons of tiny elements in each photo. This is how Pavel eventually creates a whole new version of modern digital art.
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Pascal Wagner
Definitely check out this profile if you are looking for an extraordinary surreal Photoshop artist. He creates composites that are out of this world. Including the cosmos, visualising magic or capturing underwater scenes are only some of the incredible ideas that Pascal has. He also shares speed edits, inspiring his followers by showing his methods.
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Bishal Roy
Bishal is an Indian artist whose work is a fine combination of digital drawing and Photoshop art. His work depicts portraits full of emotions, alongside with beautiful landscapes and night photos. He uses a variety of dramatic skies and lights, which add to the atmosphere of his images. The images he posts create an overall dark atmosphere for his feed, which defines his work.
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Kellan Hendry
Kellan is one of the most followed Photoshop artists on Instagram. He describes himself as “the guy who edits everyone’s pics”, which implies that he doesn’t always take the images that he edits, but he offers his services for others as well. He is an outstanding retoucher, always knowing what extra elements he should add to portraits to spice them up.
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Ali Khalid
Ali creates spectacular photo composites, in a way that you can barely distinguish whether his work is photography or digital drawing. His choice of subject is varying from image to image. He likes landscapes as much as an urban environment, often resulting in a dark, dystopian atmosphere. Ali shares many behind the scenes videos and photos, showing which photos he made his composites from.
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Sony Jackson
Sony is a self-taught Photoshop artist who takes his self-portraits and turns them into otherworldly images. His scenarios go around the world, capturing deserts and jungles as well as oceans and western scenes. He often creates tribute posters for movies such as Black Panther, Aladdin, or Joker.
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justin_designs
Justin also uses self-portraits for his digital art, but he does so with even more surrealism than the previously mentioned artists. Flying objects, robot humans, and fantastical creatures mix in his images. Many of his photos are critical towards society, delivering a message that focuses on the negative effects of technology, social media, and social norms.
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Brooke Shaden
Brooke describes herself as someone who stands for beauty in darkness and radical self-reflection. Her style is dark and descriptive, turning mental and emotional struggles into disturbing portraits. Her models are mostly female, showing raw emotions and stories that depict a hidden part of themselves. Brooke’s photos will definitely make you think about the dark corners of the human mind.
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Joel Robison
Joel is a Canadian fine art photographer, specialising in conceptual portraits. He has worked together with brands such as Coca Cola, Adobe, and FIFA. He also teaches an online course that aims to improve his students’ creative eye. His style could be best described as still life photography mixed with conceptual portraits, executed in a very sophisticated way.
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Alexandria
Alexandria is an American digital artist, whose biggest inspiration is her family. She poses her children to take pictures that she later turns into true works of art. She captures a fairytale fantasy world, soaked with magic and imagination. Many of her images are related to Harry Potter and Disney movies, these ideas are presented in a uniquely smooth and refined style.
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Danielle
Danielle is another creative photographer who gets inspired by children imagination. However, her photos are not as surreal and off-world as many artists’ on this list. Her images are closer to reality, often depicting everyday scenes such as reading, tree climbing or sleeping. But there is still a touch of magic, childlike happiness, and optimism in everything she creates.
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Rostislav Demchuk
Rostislav’s images look like as if they have stepped out of a comic book. He uses a great variety of tools to reach this look, such as neon-lit backgrounds, defined subject outlines, and strong visual effects. He often draws inspiration from movies that were originally comics themselves, such as Marvel or DC characters.
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Marischa Becker
Marischa draws gets most of her ideas from superhero movies, which highly affects her style. She captures the magic of the universe in her dramatic images. The contrast of the sky and natural elements play an important part in her photos. The effects she uses creates a dark and sinister atmosphere, which fits her choice of topics.
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Batyr
Batyr’s digital art shows us a rather catastrophic world. War, extreme weather, mutant humans and natural catastrophes make a frequent appearance on his photos. But he creates these in such a brilliantly detailed and mindfully composed way that the viewer just cannot stop looking at his pictures. In every post, he also shares what he makes the composites from.
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Conclusion
Photoshop art is a genre that has many faces. It can be used for creating a whole new story around your subject, as well as for adding visual effects.
We hope that our collection of the most influential Photoshop artists will motivate you to try it out yourself!
Do you agree with our list? Drop us a comment with your favourite Photoshop artist under this post!
We are always on the lookout for exciting new Photoshop artists. If you are a Photoshop artist, and you feel like you should be considered this list, make sure to drop us an email at emma@expertphotography.com with your bio, website, and Instagram link!
