Some days, being optimistic about the future can be tough. On days like this, it feels like the Super NOT-Awesome People outnumber the Super Awesome™ ones. But then I remember that Adobe Photoshop exists, and so do cats, and the combination of the two is guaranteed to make life better.
On days like today, we need cats in weird places, and we need cat faces where cat faces aren’t supposed to be. You’re welcome, world. And also, thank you.
Koty Vezde (Cats Are Everywhere!)
The Queen of Photoshopping Cats™ is Cat Universe’s Galina Bugaevskaya (Instagram @koty_vezde). This digital art genius has ‘shopped cat faces onto food, dinosaurs, royalty, Star Wars, and perhaps most famously—the bodies of other animals. You can buy Cat Universe merch online (check out what’s available @kotomerch and on Kittywarez.com). Bored Panda has interviewed the artist twice, so you can read more about Bugaevskaya here and here, and of course, follow her on Instagram!
Cats As Food
Cats As Royalty
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Cats As Dinosaurs
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Cats as Star Wars Characters
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Cats As Other Animals
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Fat Cat Art
Zarathustra the Cat (we/us) is the ginger muse of Svetlana Petrova’s brilliant classic art Photoshops—now with 1000% moar cats! Zarathustra and Petrova run Fat Cat Art where you can purrchase digital paintings, canvas prints, posters, and calendars of Zarathustra’s most purrfect(ed) artworks. There’s even a book! (Instagram @fatcatart)
Tomb of Nebamun, Cats Hunting in the Marshes. I Gotta Fishy, I Can Has Dis Birdy Plizz? (FatCatArt.com) Still Life With a Lobster (FatCatArt.com) Great Wave Off Kanagawa (FatCatArt.com) A Lady with the Cat in the Unicorn Hat: Hearing (FatCatArt.com) Mona Lisa (FatCatArt.com) The Catwain, Or the Burden of an Internet Kitty Fame (FatCatArt.com) Girl with a Pearl Earring and a Ginger Cat (FatCatArt.com) In Search of Lost Time and Dinner (FatCatArt.com) Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles and Cat Hunting Them (FatCatArt.com) The Tower of Babel, Diptych, Part 1 (FatCatArt.com) The Persistence of Memory (FatCatArt.com) Sunflowers Are Ginger Kittens (FatCatArt.com)
Jim Lind’s Family Vacation Series
Photographer and photo retoucher Jim Lind either has incredible Photoshop skills or he takes incredible family vacations. Either way, the resulting photographs are stunning. Read more about Lind in the Washington Post.
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Cats In Food
Kseniia Zmanovskaia (Instagram @cats_in_food) has been Photoshopping cats into food since January 2018. Buy a 2021 Calendar here for cat food fun all year round!
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Sphynx Flix
But where’s the love for hairless sphynx kitties, you might ask? Check out @sphynx_flix for pictures of redesigned movie (and TV!) posters by Photoshop Wizard @giank_art. But do the posters have cat puns? Yes. Yes, they do.
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