What I saw gives me a feeling that theymos tends to send more sMerits to hand-made arts (pictures, wood-sculptured arts, ie. So Photoshop does not actually help applicants.
Huh? You can hand-make things in Photoshop. Those pixels aren't going to push themselves. 
Is theymos a merit source? He looks like a giant merit source I have ever seen but it is likely that he has drained out of sMerits for today and he has to wait for tomorrow to see his sMerits pool refilled.
He's an admin. He can do literally anything on the forum. (For one thing, who do you think assigns sMerits to sources in the first place?)