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Okay, I’ve got one of Shakespeare’s love sonnets in the original Klingon. Now I need a good valentine before Tuesday. Thankfully, Eric Goodnight of How-To Geek has a step-by-step tutorial with screenshots that shows how to make a geeky valentine with Photoshop. He also has eleven ready to use, including the two you see above.
Link -via Geek Crafts
You have to wonder if the eight-foot-tall woman has to pay extra to get her legs waxed. Or is the aesthetician just very small? There’s some question of whether this picture is a Photoshop disaster or just a photo taken at a strange angle. What do you think? Link
AMC is promoting the return of the TV show Mad Men with a minimalist poster showing a falling man, with a blank expanse around him. The only other thing the poster contains is the date at the bottom right. That’s just asking to be embellished, and plenty of folks have great ideas about what to add. Gothamist asked for submissions, and has been collecting the “improvements” to post for your pleasure. Link to gallery one. Link to gallery two. -via Laughing Squid
This Photoshop disaster looks as if someone noticed it was 5PM and went home, fully intending to finish the job the next day, but hit publish out of habit. See the entire screenshot from the J. Crew online catalog (which shows where her hair ended up) at PSDisasters. Link
How did this happen? Maybe when they decided to list the house for sale in a hurry, the only exterior picture they had was a dud from the wedding album. Or maybe it was a Photoshop Disaster. Either way, potential buyers are going to assume the house is haunted! Link
“This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.” Wait, that‘s not a real picture? Apparently not. Filmmaker Jesse Rosten critiques the beauty publishing industry in this video. Hard.
-via Larry Saunders | Rosten’s Website
Photoshop Disasters is always good for a laugh -or a nightmare. I may be seeing this model and her “elbow that won’t quit” in my dreams for some time to come. She is one of the Top 10 Photoshop Disasters of 2011, but she’s not #1. Link
No word yet on whether or not the TSA will let you get on a plane with these 3D gun nails, but then again, it’s going to be pretty hard to load them assuming you have these on both hands, so maybe you’d be more of a threat to yourself than to other people.
Link Via Geekosystem
These two photographs of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s funeral procession were taken only seconds apart, but the top photo was taken by Japanese press outlet Kyodo News, and the bottom one was provided to journalists by North Korea’s state news agency. North Korea is no stranger to photo manipulation; in this case it serves only the purpose of making the procession look more “perfect.” The details are at the New York Times photography blog. Link -via Metafilter
(Image credits: Associated Press, via Kyodo News; Korean Central News Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency)
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The possibilities of Photoshop are only limited by one’s imagination. I don’t know who originally had the idea to swap facial features in pictures of more than one person, but the results can be freaky! Sometimes the whole face is swapped; sometimes it’s hard to tell where each part came from in this selection of images from the Something Awful forums posted at Unreality magazine. Link
When you take the idea that a mustache can double for hair on the head, you get Moustair. It’s weird, I know. The tumblr site has quite a few examples of both famous men and submitted pictures. This one makes Hulk Hogan look a little bit like Captain Kangaroo, don’t you think? Link -via Breakfast Links
There’s something about these Care Bears that’s not quite right. Maybe it’s the massive fangs, or sharp claws, or the fact that the symbol on the bear’s stomach seems to be running. Something tells me these bears don’t want to hug and sing songs!
Have you ever wondered what Brad and Angelina would look like if they switched faces with each other? Or what Abraham Lincoln would look like if he was actually played by Nic Cage? Well, thanks to the magic of Photoshop, now you can -and the results are hilarious. WebUrbanist has a great collection of Photoshop face swaps along with links to blogs that specialize in that sort of thing. Enjoy.
Pictures of scared guests from the Nightmares Fear Factory have been sweeping the net lately, but how many pictures of scared people can you really look at? Fortunately, some people have been taking to remixing the images and the results are hilarious.
Here is a photo of President Abraham Lincoln “taken during his brief, yet memorable stint as a paranormal investigator and eliminator circa 1864.” Link -via Buzzfeed
Carme Chacón is the spanish minister of defense. This photo of her, probably part of a magazine spread, is a quiz at Photoshop Disasters. Out of almost 8,000 guesses, 46% of the responses say this is a perfectly normal photograph. What do you think? Link -via J-Walk Blog
Update: Mighty Optical Illusions explains this picture. Link -Thanks, algomeysa!
There are plenty of Photoshopped animal hybrids on the net, but BuzzFeed’s collection of cats with owl faces includes some pictures that look far more realistic than many of the rest. I don’t know about you, but these critters would certainly make awesome hunters.
Michael Guppy recreated the artwork of masters as if they’ve had access to Photoshop CS5′s Content-Aware Fill.
A couple more after the jump: more …
It's
no Ralph
Lauren level of photoshopping but cosmetic maker L'Oréal recently
got into trouble for airbrushing (already) beautiful women in its latest
ads:
Mark Sweney of The Guardian explains: LinkL'Oréal has been forced to pull ad campaigns featuring Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington, after the advertising watchdog upheld complaints by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson that the images were overly airbrushed.
Swinson, who has waged a long-running campaign against "overly perfected and unrealistic images" of women in adverts, lodged complaints with the Advertising Standards Authority about the magazine campaigns for L'Oréal-owned brands Lancôme and Maybelline. The ASA ruled that both ads breached the advertising standards code for exaggeration and being misleading and banned them from future publication.
Someone watched an episode of Master Chef on Hulu and saw twins in this crowd scene. It must have been a thin crowd for the producers to decide it needed a copy-and-paste makeover. What’s the world coming to? It’s getting to the point where you can’t even believe what you see on TV! Link -via Breakfast Links
The photo of President Obama and senior officials watching the live feed of the killing of Osama Bin Laden from the White House Situation Room has gone viral and produced some hilarious works of photoshoppery. My favorite, so far, is one featuring Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino from Jersey Shore.
Link via Super Punch | Image: Alexis Madrigal
Possibly you’ve seen this strange picture of President Obama and his wife Michelle holding hands -with an extra hand. Many people assumed the picture was the victim of Photoshop, but Chicago Tribune photojournalist Alex Garcia has posted an explanation and the rest of the photo sequence. Link -via The Daily What
(Image credit: Alex Garcia)
Ever wonder what some of Hollywood’s hottest starlets would look like if they had Steve Buscemi’s eyes? No? Well, thanks to the amazing Photoshop work of Chicks with Steve Buscemeyes, now you won’t be able to stop wondering. Is it just me, or does Taylor Swift with Steve Buscemeyes look a lot like Heather Graham?
Relax, it’s an altered image, not a painted kitten. But isn’t it cute? Link -via reddit
Photo credit: ukaaa on Flickr
Even before the advent of digital photo manipulation, photographers were creating works of wonder using trick lighting, forced perspective, and plain old imaginative ingenuity. Sounds hokey, but it’s true, and it’s nice to see that it’s not a lost art.
The power of Photoshop is amazing, but still it doesn’t beat the power of imagination. Although many photos taken by professional photographers and enhanced in Photoshop can be absolutely stunning, the photos taken wisely and in a creative manner are even more impressive.
Today’s showcase is dedicated to such photos, the ones that make people skeptical about not being manipulated and still they are genuine and impressive. They can be really inspiring and a pride to every photographer’s portofolio, no matter if they are funny, dramatic or just miracles of nature.
See all 36 non-shopped photographic marvels here.
There’s a widespread conspiracy to conceal the truly intelligent nature of American animals, but thanks to the True American Dog blog, we now know the truth. How do I know that it’s true? Well, I read it on the Interweb: Link – via Look At This
If you’re trying to build a mnemonic memory circuit out of stone knives and bearskins, it helps to have someone like Photoshop artist Rabbit Tooth nearby. You can view five more images from classic (and I mean, really classic) Trek at the link.
Link via blastr | Rabbit Tooth’s Website
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Those Photoshop geniuses over at Something Awful forum are at it again – this time, they imagined what movie monsters and baddies do for fun.
Geeks Are Sexy has the highlights: Link | more at Something Awful
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Joseph Senior photoshopped Hello Kitty into a variety of pop culture crossover / mashup. Can’t beat the Darth Kitty with a ribbon bow helmet! Toysrevil has more: Link – via The Jailbreak
Once a scammer, always a scammer, I suppose. Daryl Simon had a brilliant idea to persuade the judge into giving him a lighter sentence for defrauding people: provide photos of himself doing charity work.
The problem? He photoshopped himself into the photos:
Daryl Simon’s bald-faced move included sticking a picture of himself into a shot with a physical-therapy patient, then flipping the image and placing it next to a teen student.
"Evidence that his image was inserted and flipped can be seen by examining the single detail on his shirt above his fingers — that detail appears on the left side of the shirt in the top photograph, and on the right side of the shirt in the bottom photograph," prosecutors wrote.
Another particularly heartless snapshot shows the 38-year-old scammer purportedly comforting a sickly patient struggling during a rehabilitation exercise.
Simon even had the gall to submit fake letters of support from various charitable organizations and individuals, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
The judge didn’t buy it, and slapped an additional jail time for his shenanigans: Link – via Slashdot. Sadly, I can’t find any of the badly photoshopped images for your vieweing pleasure.
