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Website of the Day: Photoshop Disasters

GeekSugar — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:05:31 -0700

Remember when you used to wait for the dentist as a kid and ate up as much Highlights as humanly possible before your appointment? You were all, I do understand where Goofus went wrong and Gallant was right. And then you got to the two pictures and had to find what was wrong with the second picture? Photoshop Disasters is kind of like that. Except it's just one picture, and you get to scan the pics and figure out were the photoshopper went wrong.

Sometimes it's putting a three-handed woman on a book cover, sometimes there are no finger on the trigger on a movie poster, and my personal fave, photoshops so hilariously bad that you resent the graphic designer for thinking you're so dumb you wouldn't have caught it.

Photoshop Disasters won't search the web for your first attempts at the cloning tool (been there), they seek out commercial stuff in the mainstream, where someone was actually hired to make Heidi Klum look like an alien.

Busted! Calling Out Photoshop on the Streets

GeekSugar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:00:37 -0800

What should we do as a society to combat unrealistic images of celebrities due to the widespread use of Photoshop? Rant and rave on a blog? Publicly shame them on sites like Photoshop Disasters?

Or, you could take it back to the streets, as was done on an ad of celebs in a train station in Berlin; the geeky street artist affixed a Photoshop menu and commands onto the smooth faces of Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears.

Public comment plus geekiness? I'm all for it.

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Dane Cook's Photoshop Rant: Was It Justified?

GeekSugar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:00:05 -0700

Let's just say I tired of Dane Cook's shtick sometime around 2005, but his recent rant about Photoshop put him back on my geeky radar.

The actor/comedian ranted about the photoshopping and general artwork for his new film, My Best Friend's Girl, basically calling out the shoddiness of the work and how differently it portrays his own looks and the feel of the movie.

Usually we notice runaway photoshopping of females, like Keira Knightley's blown-up chest or the lightening of Beyonce's skin, so it's interesting that a male celebrity is up in arms.

Choice complaints of Cook's list? "They should have called Donnie Hoyle and had him give a tutorial using "You Suck at Photoshop" templates." And "It looks like I'm wearing Maybelline Water Shine Diamonds Liquid Lipstick."

You be the judge; as Cook says, his skin has been smoothed to an unrealistic porcelain finish, but is it worthy of Photoshop Disasters?

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