Erik Schumacher is a digital artist based in Germany. He has discovered Photoshop in 2005 and since then specialized himself in the fields of Photo-Manipulation and Matte-Painting. In the past years Erik has joined several online art collectives as a contributing artist, like Depthcore and Slashthree, and he has been featured on various websites and in publications such as the "Advanced Photoshop Magazine" and "the Book of Creation". Aside from his affection for digital art he is also a devoted student of physics with particular interest in the phenomenons of particle- and astro-physics.