photoshop
Fractalius is a Photoshop Plugin (by Redfield Plugins) that allows the creation of striking visual pieces, in one go.
It relies on the "extraction of the hidden fractal texture of the image" (paraphrasing a bit there).
The image above (fragment of the original, by DeviantArt user Hemamm) is a perfect example of the possibilities of such a tool.
How to use the Match Color feature in Photoshop, to take advantage of the knowledge/wisdom (about color) of The Old Masters, and apply it to our own photos.
Smoke typography Photoshop tutorial.
By/from Abduzeedo.
... And the same happened, again, in 2011:
Back in 2010, this video evoked/invoked into my mind Sir Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd Law.
It reads:
any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The "culprit":
