Price$25.00
Media TypeTrick, One-Trick DVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedJul 22, 2011
PhotoShop
Tsai, Will
SM Productionz
(Based on 3 reviews)
Imagine having the ability to go beyond dimension. Being able to pull and put anything you want in and out of the photo. That's a miracle that fulfills the fantasy that everyone has. Guarantee audience reaction!
This project involves no video app or advance technology. This is magic in its simplest form. In your audience mind, you have a photo, you pull an object out of the photo, they get to keep the object as a souvenir, and they can even keep the photo! An effect ends absolutely clean with perfect give away souvenirs. PhotoShop is not only a powerful stand-alone effect, it's also a strong opener or closer to any close up routines. With PhotoShop, you can produce a gift for your audience as a stand-alone effect. Use it as an opener to squeeze a coin out of a photo to start your coin routine. Or even use it as a finale to pull a folded card out of the photo just to reveal their signed card from your ambitious routine!
PhotoShop is fully customizable with endless possibilities. It is extremely easy to perform which will allow you to fully concentrate on your presentation. Equip yourself with PhotoShop in your wallet. PhotoShop is always ready WHENEVER and WHEREVER you need it. A must have for performers at all levels.
Comes with instructional DVD, fully customizable Gimmick and Complimentary Kiss Chocolate photo cards to get you started right out of the box. More pre-made designs are available at your convenience at your favorite magic store.
Reviews
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This is a good effect. In short, you remove a small photo from your pocket and show a picture with a Hershey Kiss and the empty wrapper from another Kiss on it and proceed to "pop" the one wrapped candy Kiss out of the photo and into the spectators hand leaving just the other wrapper! This looks pretty good when executed correctly. The nice thing is the spectator gets to keep the picture and the candy at the finish. I used this during the week of Valentine's day with some female coworkers and they loved it. I already went through all of the pictures that come with the effect and now have to order more!
The video instruction is good and the training clear. There are other variations to this effect that can be purchased separately through the Sans Minds website if you don't want to do the candy version. Or you can simply make your own.
All in all, if you want a quick visual trick that leaves not one but two gifts for your spectator get PhotoShop. You (and they) will not be disappointed.
The video instruction is good and the training clear. There are other variations to this effect that can be purchased separately through the Sans Minds website if you don't want to do the candy version. Or you can simply make your own.
All in all, if you want a quick visual trick that leaves not one but two gifts for your spectator get PhotoShop. You (and they) will not be disappointed.
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Lucky for us this lack of thinking ends with the name of the production company because this product/DVD/Effect is pretty darn not-sans-minds. :)
The effect is simple (always a plus): an object is removed from a photograph. Period.
For $25 you get a relatively short DVD, a few photos and the gimmick. You'll have to supply your own "real" objects. The photos that come with the DVD are pictures of a Hershey's Kiss. The Kiss falls out of the photo into the spectator's hands. You'll need to supply the Kiss, but everything is included.
Additionally, you are taught 11 different ideas of effects you can do. In the case of the other ideas, you'll have to make your own photographs or buy them from [Jeff tries not snicker] . . . Sans Minds Productionz.
For $15 bucks you can buy a combo pack of photos from [snicker . . . snort] Sans Minds Productionz. The pack contains 19 photo cards with 8 completely different effects. In my opinion, it's worth it.
The only negative I might have to say about this product is that there is a minor discrepancy that happens when using the gimmick. However, it's handled so casually and so briefly that I don't think it's an issue. Plus there are a lot of other ways to accomplish what the gimmick does with either other gimmick or even without gimmicks at all, so I'm not going to let this impact my review.
There are a lot of really good ideas on this DVD, but let me point out my four favorites. I'll just give the effect exactly as cleanly as it really is, and you'll see why I like them:
1) A picture of a deflated balloon is shown. You bring the picture up to your mouth and extract the balloon nozzle from the picture and blow into it. You then push the nozzle back into the photo and turn the photo around to show the balloon has been inflated in the photograph. Your hands are empty and you can IMMEDIATELY hand the photo out for the spectator to keep. This effect totally fooled me. It just made me smile. It's beautiful.
2) Another beautiful effect . . . Borrow a quarter. Show a photo that clearly is nothing but an empty table top. Then take the quarter and visually put the coin into the photo. The audience sees it go in the photo. You can IMMEDIATELY hand the photo out to be kept. Your hands are clean and totally empty. This looks like real magic or trick photography. It's incredible.
3) A lighter funny effect . . . a photo of red sponge ball (a.k.a. a clown nose) is shown. The photo is raised up to the performers nose. When the photo is lowered, there is a red nose on the performer and the photo is sans red nose.
4) How 'bout this . . . show a picture of your desk with nothing on it. Hold the photo facing you in your left hand. Your right hand throws your house key at the photo. It hits the photo and goes right inside. You IMMEDIATELY hand out the photo which now has a key in it.
I don't know what else to tell you about this guys. If you do close up magic professionally, full time, part time, or even if you just do the occasional "bend" when the situation permits, you'll find something on this DVD.
Final Verdict: 5 Stars with a Stone Status of pure unadulterated total GEM!
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Ive had this for quite some time and i don't think i'm really ever going to use it.The teaching is great and the filming was beautiful but the effect itself is not that good. In the trailer he does use a case to produce the items so it looks like he did produce it from the picture. But he only teaches that method if you buy a refill pack. Also the gimmicks aren't too great because of you leave it in the case for too long the picture sticks to the plastic and ruins both the case and the picture. Overall the effect is not that good (someone figured it out after my first performance) As good as it looks i would not recommend purchasing photoshop.