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Photobashing is a digital art technique where an artist merges and blends parts of photographs and other existing images into a single composite piece.

This involves using some combination of image manipulation (e.g. squashing, stretching, cutting and pasting), digital painting, 3d models, photography, and sometimes uses elements from, or is used in modifying, existing screencaptures of other media (e.g. a character's face from a 3d animated film).

Photobashing is often used to add realistic textures and anatomy, or create images that resemble on model artwork of mainstream 3d animation.

Photobashing Vs. Photo Manipulation and Photomorphs

Photo manipulations and especially photomorphs typically involve taking a single existing photograph, and altering it.

Photobashing usually starts with a drawing, or 3d rendering, and then parts of photographs or other images are added and blended into the image using digital painting — "a photobash" has no original "unshopped" photo, only source images that have been "bashed together" by the artist, and an original sketch or rough rendering.

See Also

• paintover
• photo manipulation
• photomorph