: How are photorealistic wallpapers and pictures created? How do graphic artists who post their works of art on DeviantArt (like this one) create their pictures? What software do they use and how

@Debbie163

Ok. It is a veeeeeery board question.

The first element to have a good image is talent, the other is practice and the other is dedication.

That particular image is not that impressive, but you can diferentiate diferent elements.


Backgrounds. The clouds.
Objects. The skeleton and the card. The flying rocks.
Effects. The fire. Another layer of clouds.


The inustry leader is Photoshop, which you can rent on monthly basis, but you can download Gimp for free. www.gimp.org/
The basic idea is take some elements, or photos, cut them and paste them together.

After that you need to blend them, so they look that they are from the same scene. That can take from a cuple of hours or minutes to days if you are not proficent enough.

I do not think it is the case on that image, but some artists model the elements, the skeleton and the card for example, generate their own clouds, etc. That can take aditional days of work. But I do not think that is the case on this image.

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@Bryan765

There is nothing 3D about these pictures. They are just photo manipulations, usually done in Photoshop or a similar raster image manipulation tool (GIMP comes to mind).

The artist draws from any number of resource images and pastes them together, paying attention to changing colours and showing and hiding the right parts of the source images. Such a piece can take anywhere from a few to tens of hours to complete, depending on the composition, resolution and overall quality.

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