Elemental Photo Manipulations, Part 3: Air
Elemental Photo Manipulations, Part 3: Air “Elemental Photo Manipulations” is a four-part series highlighting tutorials and inspirational amazing artwork combining photography with Photoshop in surreal, mind-bending, and sometimes startling ways. This is the third installment in the series, an all-tutorial installment in which you’ll defy the laws of physics by bending and twisting air, smoke, light, and even gravity itself. Pariah S. Burke “Elemental Photo Manipulations” is a four-part series highlighting tutorials and inspirational amazing artwork combining photography with Photoshop in surreal, mind-bending, and sometimes startling ways. This is the third installment in the series, an all-tutorial installment in which you’ll defy the laws of physics by bending, twisting, and molesting air, smoke, light, and even gravity itself.
Don’t miss “Part 1: Fire” and “Part 2: Earth;” then and return to CreativePro.com in two weeks for the final and most exciting installment of my “Elemental Photo Manipulations” series, “Part: 4: Water.” Click each image to learn how to create it.

This article was last modified on December 13, 2022
This article was first published on October 14, 2013
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