That's BS Jesus. I use PS for a living, and you ARE a photoshop wizard...

About how these abominations get published, 98% of the time the culprit it's the circus of approvals that these images have to undergo...
These are all "camels", from the term "A camel is a horse designed by committee".

Closely related, and a must listen, "The impossible approval guy":

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gizGianca

@Faslane66: screw staples!!! i used to go there to steal customers in line to get there computers fixed lol...

urbanturban666

@Faslane66: linksys tech support is in the phillipines actually... i screwed up a ddwrt flash and had to return it to the store...but the store wants a case number from tech support so i had to call...

urbanturban666

I've done a couple photoshops that might be considered as a federal offense (ok.. it IS a federal offense). But I don't see anyone complaining. S'all gewd! :)

ripfire

@Faslane66: I once had the cops called on me for trying to do man-on-the-street type opinion surveys in front of an Office Depot.

GeekyNerdGuy

@Faslane66: Not to question you, but how do you know it goes to India for revision?

DustyButt

@SigmundTheSeaMonster: I would hope these were the result of rushing a job. If these are the skills that those GD's bring to the table... damn.

@jabber: Yeah, that neck looks like her thyroid is about to pop!

Most photochops go on unnoticed.
I think, at minimum, 80% of all (non historical) media provided images have been "enhanced" in some way. It's not a number out of my ass. I work in design, and ALOT of what I do gets altered. I think it sucks, because most of it is changing the look of people from their normal state (which is usually quite beautiful) to an image of "hyper-realism" to make them more "perfect" (which I think is bullshit).

DustyButt

OH, and now I'm in prison for soliciting business inside Staples!!

J/K

Faslane66

Or could spot 90% of them but just thought they weren't THAT bad. I mean they were passable. Just spotting the photoshop doesn't mean it sucks that much. As a designer I've gotta say, GIVE US BETTER ASSETS DAMNIT!!!

waveman216

Here's a factoid not much may know, I went to Staples in So. Cal (Carlsbad, CA) and heard a woman chewing the copy center guy a new one, so i listened on and she had made changes to a document they created via her sketch and supplied photo and it was all jacked up an not at all what she wanted. So the guy said no problem, just give me the changes and I'll email it out again for revisions. Normal right? WRONG!! The changes go to India!!!! (Like everything else in the tech world, ahem, Linksys) ANYWAY, I found that really weird that they send their graphic design oversees. I know it's cheap labor and all that, but you have got to wonder about the "lost in translation affect" and how many people have paid extra to "add one more hour here and there to fix" type of situations. I politely handed the woman a card while she was browsing in the store about 10 minutes later for my Graphic Design Services, she's called me already and I
re-did the whole thing for her in about 2 hours and she was thrilled!! LMAO.

Faslane

Faslane66

I do this for a living and couldn't spot 1/2 of them. I think it's time for a new career damnit...

waveman216

Yea, I'm bad at this game as well. Is it that her neck is giraffe long in the "Mama Mia" poster?

jabber

@Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G: Or babies

Carmen turns 19 in 5 days!!!

@Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G: She only has one nipple so that doesn't count. And it's covered (albeit sheer).

These are all great examples of poor PS skills or rush jobs.

I recall the one (not here) of a beach-going gal, but they shopped out the guy she was with, but you could see his arm on her! The phantom hand!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

I love the Fifa Wii game cover...that guy is INTENSE! Somebody's been eating their Spinach...

Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G

I'm glad to see PSD finally featured on Gizmodo. They're a great site. I still can't believe gigantic posters get printed of really bad PS jobs, like the Wanted poster with Angelina Jolie's extremely extended arm. And the current Mama Mia.

Rain-man

Creepy creepy stuff. I find this analogous to the early days of photography, when they published pictures of "fairies". Lots of people were convinced they were real, including Arthur Conan Doyle. Looking back at them they're laughably primitive, much like these.

stryder100

@Jesus Diaz: She's like a living Bratz doll...

NightElfMohawk

Whenever people complain about the way I look I explain that it is just bad photoshopping.

It's not as convincing when your actually standing in front of the person, but still...

("Why didn't you shave ?" "I did, but it's photoshopped to look like I didn't.")
("You've totally gained weight, haven't you?" "Phooootoooshop!")

92BuickLeSabre

Um, i'm not an expert, but the pearl g-string: it's a mannequin, no?

itouchgadgetsinappropriately

@IphtashuFitz: Her nipples gone...shit. Hey if it don't bother her ;)

Carmen turns 19 in 5 days!!!

Everybody's calling himself a Photoshop Expert these days...

russdanger

@lastpulse: Dude, her head is gigantic and completely out of proportion. They changed the head.

Jesus Diaz

psh... interns

damnElantra

[www.hemmy.net]

Like this story showing celeb ad photos - before and after photoshopping

Public Relations

@Chromeo: Well you found at least one of the problems. Go back and check out the other breast on that girl. What's missing?

IphtashuFitz

@92BuickLeSabre: not really...i had a few bad grades 55%, 60%....so i had to borrow an 8 and beef up some numbers... i used photoshop to crisp up the lettering since i scanned the report card and it would look like shit if i printed as is...

urbanturban666

@Chromeo: How can you NOT tell?
THe girl with the nipples showing is pretty damn ugly... her face scares me but i'd totally ...nevermind.

BTW-THAT CHANEL BAG IS AMAZING!....Must . BUy. IT!!!

Carmen turns 19 in 5 days!!!

Do I smell a "bad photoshopping" contest?

Gann

I suck at this game...I can't tell anything is wrong in them.

Oh, and the girl in the black has a nip showing, which would be considered NSFW by a few. Just saying.

Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G

I photoshopped my brother-in-law out of our wedding photos, came out great! I'd considered replacing him with Jar Jar Binks, but the annoying still would've outweighed the funny.

atomx

Jesus... "model wearing a pearl g-string " AGREED!
It's grotesquely obvious when they spray out the whiskers !!

ANoel

@lastpulse:..and if you are to the one in lingerie , i am not so sure that's her body . Head is bigger then body + she does not have a nipple on the left breast.

j1234

@homerjay: Unfortunately it's sort of a no-win situation. Do they make it like they did or do they make it look more realistic and risk getting a lot of complaints for a pornographic ad? As it stands I bet a lot of religious zealots and other prudes would consider that existing ad to be highly pornographic.

IphtashuFitz

It's good to know that everyone struggles with finding the correct head size.

GeekyNerdGuy

@urbanturban666: You had to blur a vagina out of your H.S. report card???

92BuickLeSabre

@ lastpulse

shes got a batwing!

Sh3rpa

what is laughable and sad is that some of these are in so called "news" stories.

rjupiter

@lastpulse: If you're referring to the Chanel ad (second to last) take a close look at the arm, specifically the diameter around the elbow.

IphtashuFitz

That girl in the black is ultra hot. What is wrong with that one?

lastpulse

@homerjay: i once messed up faking a report card in highschool like that...

urbanturban666

I couldn't figure out a few of them but the Amazon bubbles one is AWFUL.

homerjay

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Kareem King

How the hell did you guys miss this one?

Kareem King

[thisdistractedglobe.com]

The Casino Royale poster had Eva Green floating above the steps.

RAREBREED

Oh yeah, you guys forgot the DS with bigger screens ad.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Funny stuff.
Bound to happen.... there's just too many people out there that thinks they are oh so great with photoshop after reading one of those "Learn in 21 days" books.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi