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Guy Photoshops Himself Into Childhood Pics To Hang Out With His Childhood Self, And The Result Is Just Too Realistic
Photoshop isn't useful for trolling only. Montreal-based photographer Conor Nickerson has created an art project where he has inserted his current self into his own childhood photos from 1997-2005, and the nostalgic photo manipulations look perfectly real.
"While looking through some old family photos, I wondered what it would look like if tried to photoshop myself today into them," Conor writes. "I gathered all the old hats and t-shirts that I could find and did my best to put myself into those moments which, aside from these old photos, remain only distant childhood memories."
Conor says that one of the biggest challenges with these photo recreations was matching the quality of the new pictures to the old ones. "It involved a lot of blurring, sharpening, and noise to try to get it to look like an older photo."
"Photo editing these images and looking at them so closely for so long takes a bit away from the shock value, but seeing the final images all together definitely is a bit strange! I feel like me and little me would have gotten along pretty alright."
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Bobby Frank James 8 years ago
This whole post is awesome, so simple yet so unique and his Photoshop skills are on point. Great job all around. I give it a 10, a f#king ten!!!!!!!!
Sylvia Martin 5 years ago
brilliant picture and I would love to share this with clients prior to session if ok? I have a technique that this picture puts into a visual better than any explantion, please let me know if you would be OK with this? hugs
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endelbendel 8 years ago
Clever and creative. Too bad site doesn't work and cannot scroll to see them.
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Susan Forbes 8 years ago
They say the child is the father of the man, so yeah! :)
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Sariah Fahad 8 years ago
Besides your amazing photoshop skills as an adult, I am truly amazed how well dressed you were as a child! Neat
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Deborah Nicky Tonelli 8 years ago
Gram is my Mom and she's alive & kicking :) These blew me away because this Aunty has watched this little guy grow up into an amazing & very talented guy!
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Nessiesaurus 8 years ago
It's so strange that we all felt sad, probably because we feel that grandma is already gone.
Tammy Chapman 8 years ago
I have lost my great-grandmother and my grandmother (Meme). Many of the comments are probably from others who have lost someone.
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Maria Molina Evins 8 years ago
Right Becca!! and people are critiquing.. this is amazing work!
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Celestial Lynx 8 years ago
*automatically gets the song stuck in her head* thanks random person (partial sarcasm)
Load More Replies... Maria Molina Evins 8 years ago
lmao! Photoshop does not do this... HE does this.. Photoshop is very very very hard.. you have to learn it.
Andrew Keane 8 years ago
This is the only one that's a little off because of the different perspectives.
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Ged Maybury 8 years ago
Conor, that's extremely good work! I do a bit myself (using 1998 Paintshop Pro) so I get very good at noticing how well others do. You've done the Number One Right Thing: SHADOWS! Light angles and shadows. Yours are perfect! Grats!!
Cheryl Rehan 8 years ago
Utterly amazing. so very well done, I loved every one of them, especially the 3 of you.
Moses Fang 8 years ago
These series of photos reminded me of Cloud Atlas... Can't explained why.. it made me think about lives lived in different time. It's as if the older self visited the younger self... or both selfs are exist at the same time.
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Taryn Wallace 8 years ago
I am not 100% sure but I think there was an empty chair because the shadow looks like there's an empty chair next to the kid... I could also be completely insane and have no idea what I'm talking about though cuz it's been a super long week :-)
Connie Pilachowski 8 years ago
It was definitely empty. Look at where his butt meets the chair. It's slightly off
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Sara Lamothe 8 years ago
Why do you have to nitpick about it? Lol jeez it's still a great finale to the series! Great skills all around :D
Maria Molina Evins 8 years ago
Dying over all the criticism.. obviously people who have no clue about photoshop and how hard it is to do stuff like this. Who really cares if the shadow is 100% as it should be.. for reals. These pictures are amazing!!
Tammie Brown 5 years ago
What a beautiful gift he has given himself, his family! Could you people stop commenting cretics and just enjoy the moment? Jees!
Priscilla Winslow 8 years ago
Can someone explain how a cute button nose became long and pointed? Did he have rhinoplasty after breaking his nose?
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Hazel Waring 8 years ago
You look like you gained a protective and loving big brother! I hope you look after yourself as much as you would over little you.
Isabel Tamayo 8 years ago
Awww nice! It feels good to have a lot of childhood pics... These days most pics are taken digitally and posted online. So easy and can just be done because there's nothing else to do. In the past, every click of the camera is precious.
Kara Witham 8 years ago
I need to see him photoshop in his son or daughter in the future please!
Andrew Batmann 8 years ago
For once a photo project that isn't too try hard or obnoxious or weirdly deviant. Love them.
Daria B 8 years ago
Or he can clone himself. That would be more accurate to try and emulate this project in real life. ^_-
Load More Replies... Hazel Waring 8 years ago
You look like you gained a protective and loving big brother! I hope you look after yourself as much as you would over little you.
Isabel Tamayo 8 years ago
Awww nice! It feels good to have a lot of childhood pics... These days most pics are taken digitally and posted online. So easy and can just be done because there's nothing else to do. In the past, every click of the camera is precious.
Kara Witham 8 years ago
I need to see him photoshop in his son or daughter in the future please!
Andrew Batmann 8 years ago
For once a photo project that isn't too try hard or obnoxious or weirdly deviant. Love them.
Daria B 8 years ago
Or he can clone himself. That would be more accurate to try and emulate this project in real life. ^_-
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