What is Photo Manipulation? I’m not a painter, and this is not A.I art. In a way, it’s a sub-genre of photography. As the name ‘photo manipulation’ implies; I quite literally do just that. I manipulate normal photos into your vision through heavy processing and editing. For example, a photo of a tiny pebble; With the right imagination and skillset – that pebble can be a floating island, a mountain, a texture for a stone tiger. Anything you can imagine.