Dutch artist, Ard Gelinck has been dishing up nostalgic magic for years. His series of celebrities hanging out with their younger selves seamlessly blends the past with the present. He has over 293 thousand followers on Instagram, and his page is a gorgeous gallery of famous faces traveling through time. In a world where photoshop fails are flooding the internet, Gelinck’s work puts the wow factor back into digital manipulation.
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Gelinck is a self-taught “photoshoppper”. He spends between one and three hours on each image. “Sometimes, I react to a news item, a birthday, or day of death and then post an edit of that celeb as an honor or celebration,” he previously told Bored Panda. Gelinck has become somewhat of a celebrity in his own right. And many of the famous faces he’s featured love his work. Madonna, Sylvester Stallone, Ricky Gervais, and Snoop Dogg are among some of those who have shared his photos.
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Gelinck uses editing software called Adobe Photoshop. He has this advice for anyone wanting to try their hand at some digital photo manipulation: “You have to buy that software and just begin and try and practice a lot until, in my case, you have the luck that a lot of people like it.” But as we’ll explain a bit later, sometimes you’ll need a lot more than luck to ensure success. And to avoid your photos being shared for all the wrong reasons.