Photo-Manipulation Photo-manipulation is the art of altering an image to express what you want, rather than what the original image may have displayed. It is done for deceitfulness and artistic reasons. Photoshop is the most popular application used for this process.
Illustration Illustration is simply the creation of an image using a range of various mediums. You could paint, use a computer, draw in pencil or pen, use collage and so on. Illustrations generally have narratives or purpose, they tell stories, they sell products, they convey information. They are all around us on cereal boxes, magazine ads, billboards, clothing and so on and are becoming a very useful medium to communicate an idea without using photography, video or text.
PHOTO MANIPULATION Some photos that I have found on Google for PhotoManipulation.
Kyle Thompson is an artist that works with photo manipulation. He is a photographer from Chicago, Illinois. His style, as he describes it, is surreal conceptual photography; the creation of a surreal world in order to depict concepts.
Fiddle Oak Fiddle Oak is another artist that works with photo-manipulation. His photos are interesting because they look realistic. He gets photographs himself and his family and then loads in the images into Photoshop, where the people in them are extracted and composited as tiny figures in a gigantic world.
ILLUSTRATION
Peter Callesen Peter Callesen is a Danish artist and author. Callesen is renowned for his talent in combining the minimalism of a big crisp white sheet of paper with the complexity of meticulously cut and folded paper.
Rob Ryan is a British visual artist who specialises in papercutting and screen-printing. He is now most famous for his detailed paper cut outs. His artwork has featured in Vogue, Elle, and Stylist.