Photoshop - Web Gangsta - Web Watch https://thewebgangsta.com Web Gangsta - Web Watch takes on pop culture, the web, and other interesting things ...since 1994. Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:27:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 How to design a flag in 5 easy steps https://thewebgangsta.com/2014/09/how-to-design-a-flag-in-5-easy-steps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-design-a-flag-in-5-easy-steps Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:00:09 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=7910 Everybody needs a flag to rally behind. But who wants to use the same old flag that everybody else gets to use?  Why not design your own?  Betsy Ross did, and look how well that did for her… But design your own flag?  Why do that when there are so many existing flags out there […]

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]]> This was the very first Photoshopped image https://thewebgangsta.com/2014/06/this-was-the-very-first-photoshopped-image/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-was-the-very-first-photoshopped-image Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:00:11 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=7841 In today’s technology age, it’s easy to identify the history of certain things. The first phonebook?  Hard to know.  The first wristwatch? Questionable. The origin of the sandwich? We know the (supposed) story, but we aren’t able to pinpoint the exact ingredients or date that the sandwich was invented. Photoshop Which brings up to the CREATION […]

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]]> Get your own custom Cartoon Character https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/10/get-your-own-custom-cartoon-character/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-your-own-custom-cartoon-character Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:00:07 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6896 Everybody knows someone who spent all day doodling on their school notebooks. And once in a while, you’d look over and say, “hey – that looks cool.  Draw me!”   And that never actually turns out the way you’d think, like Jack drawing Rose on the Titanic.  It ends up something more… grotesque. Learn to Draw […]

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]]> The Chip Shop Awards: What advertising should be https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/05/the-chip-shop-awards-what-advertising-should-be/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-chip-shop-awards-what-advertising-should-be Fri, 24 May 2013 23:00:49 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6317 Have you seen the classic Dudley Moore movie CRAZY PEOPLE? It was about a burned-out advertising executive that decided that Truth in Advertising was more important than lying to potential consumers about what a product could or couldn’t do. Like the oft-quoted line about Volvo cars back in the day, “Boxy, but safe”.  True on […]

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]]> Photoshop Fun: Calvin and Hobbes edition https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/02/photoshop-fun-calvin-and-hobbes-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photoshop-fun-calvin-and-hobbes-edition Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:49 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=5889 Web Watch readers can generally agree – the Best Comic Strip of All Time is (was) Calvin & Hobbes. Sure, there will be some naysayers that will claim that the best comic strip was The Far Side, or maybe Bloom County.  Granted, those comics were awesome in their own way, but they never really captured […]

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]]> Art as Music. Music as Art. (or, How to visualize a song) https://thewebgangsta.com/2012/07/art-as-music-music-as-art-or-how-to-visualize-a-song/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=art-as-music-music-as-art-or-how-to-visualize-a-song Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:00:22 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=5158 Do you – or someone you know – suffer from SYNESTHESIA? That’s the neurological condition where someone experiences one sense at the same time (or in place of) experiencing it in the traditional way. One of Web Watch’s friends has this condition, and when they hear specific words, they also end up visualizing that word […]

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]]> SFW Porn https://thewebgangsta.com/2012/05/sfw-porn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sfw-porn Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:14 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=4986 Are you that Web Watch reader who’s stuck at work, just hankering to look at some images that your company would consider to be NSFW (that’s “not safe for work”, for those new Web Watch readers who may not be familiar with the term). Look – Web Watch understands that some of our readers may […]

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]]> Disney Princesses in Real Life, a photo essay https://thewebgangsta.com/2012/02/disney-princesses-in-real-life-a-photo-essay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=disney-princesses-in-real-life-a-photo-essay Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:59 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=4758 Jirka Väätäinen is a Finnish design student at Bournemouth, and he wants to be very clear that his name is pronounced “Yirka”, not “Jerk-a”. Web Watch has no reason to quibble with him on this, as he’s doing some phenomenal work on RE-IMAGINING DISNEY PRINCESSES as if they were real-life people. Sure, we’ve seen some other examples of this […]

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