The world through the eyes of Photoshop: Artist creates twisted version of reality where children swing from the clouds and animals do the impossible




An elephant balances perilously on a tiny cartwheel and a young girl dangles her legs from a swing thousands of feet in the air.



These surreal images may make you want to look twice as the everyday is blended with the unusual using Photoshop.



Photographer and artist Caras Ionut has created the stunning images by twisting his own, ordinary photographs into bizarre and otherworldly creations.

Surreal: Artist Caras Ionut lives in the world of Photoshop where he digitially assembles surreal landscapes and portraits. These images of a girl on a swing have been blended with other textures to create unique artwork



Precarious: Impossible physical feats like this elephant balancing on a wheel (left) are made possible in the 'dreamlike' artworks. A standard picture of a man has been given a bizarre makeover with the addition of jet black wings (right)

Manipulation: This stag's antlers have been re-imagined as trees complete with nesting birds and This little girl takes a ride on a huge fish in Caras Ionut's artwork Going for a walk: This child is walking a huge bison across a wasteland in the picture by Ionut

The Romania-based photographer describes himself as a 'photo mechanic' and has created the series of mindboggling pictures using the computer program.



Often using a normal picture as a starting point, Ionut mixes the ordinary with the extraordinary changing a simple scene of a girl fishing by a lake into a startling image of the girl riding on top of a huge fish.



A stag's antlers have been transformed into a pair of trees - complete with birds flying out of the branches and a deer sits comfortably on a battered sofa in the middle of a muddy wasteland.

Animals and humans interact in the pictures with one little girl taking an elephant for a walk by the trunk and another riding on the back of an ostrich in a custom-made saddle with reigns.



Ionut describes his work as a manifestation of dreams and says he takes his inspiration from the colours of autumn and winter.



As well as working as a professional photographer and retoucher, he offers courses and tutorials to people that want to learn how to digitally manipulate photographs.



Take a bow: A musician finishes his piece and bows to the assembled elephant audience and an ostrich has been fitted with a saddle so the youngster can ride it across the landscape

Best friends: The elephant and the little girl seem to be best friends in this surreal mixture (left) The white hues and blue filters on the artworks are inspired by autumn and winter, Ionut says

Landscapes: Ionut says he wants his images to have a 'dreamlike' quality and offers tutorials for budding artists. A wild deer is seen (right) in an almost domestic setting - curled up on a battered sofa next to an umbrella

The startling colours of the peacock (left) look like they have been painted but the art is created by layering photographs. A little girl plays on a gravity-defying canoe in this image (right)



















