Most professional photographers and image retouchers will have handled some funny Photoshop requests in their time, but clients sometimes need to be careful about what they ask for. One Photoshop wizard has turned ironic misinterpretations of editing requests into an art form with hilarious results.
From requests to make people taller to pleas to remove ex-boyfriends, this retoucher will do it all... just not in the way that his followers might have expected. Download Photoshop today and get started on our Photoshop tutorials if you hope to one day reach this level of mastery.
Since Photoshop's release back in 1990, Adobe's software has revolutionised image editing and retouching to the point that it became a verb (whether Adobe likes that or not). Now with tools like Generative Fill, it's more powerful than ever, capable of allowing us to make pretty much any image manipulation we might be able to imagine. And Photoshop wizard James Fridman has a lot of imagination when it comes to interpreting the requests he receives through social media.
James shares the before and after images of his editing jobs on Instagram, where he's picked up 2.4m followers. Sometimes he makes very literal interpretations, and sometimes he thinks totally out of the box, creating surreal edits. Either way, the results never cease to surprise and amuse. He's even produced a book with some of his funniest Photoshop jobs (see some of our own recent favourites below).
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Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.
