THE STAR: MEL B-FORE & AFTER

Getting that post-pregnancy body back into shape takes a lot of drive, focus, and a solid working knowledge of Photoshop!

Photoshop Disaster

Definitely some image manipulation happening here.  The tell is not so much her oddly cylindrical torso as her grotesquely swollen, Popeye-like elbows and forearm. Well, blow me down!

Thanks Adrienne. The original was found in the The Star magazine.

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Photoshop Round-Up: Links We Love

Welcome to your weekend!  This week we featured some real doozies, from an unrecognizable Eva Longoria, to an unrecognizable Mark Wahlberg, but the biggest disaster had to be the one-armed, one-legged Vogue China model.  Poor girl.  If we were her, we’d leave that image out of our portfolio.

Now it’s time to take a look at some other great sites which have featured Photoshop news recently.  Enjoy.

  • Model Chrissy  Teigen asks fans to Photoshop a new background behind her.  (Thanks to our Fail Challenges, we know PsD readers could do better than these guys, but we’ll give them an A for effort.)  [BuzzFeed]

  • Proof that we’ve been manipulating photographs since long before Photoshop was even invented!  In this famous shot of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln’s head was placed on South Carolina politician John Calhoun’s body. [NYDailyNews]
  • Fashion Behind The Scenes: Models Are Made.  This short video is a great reminder that it takes a village to make models look as good as they do.  Thanks for the link, Remy. [YouTube]

  • Clever Photoshop parody of “Dewey Defeats Truman” photo mocks CNN’s Healthcare announcement blunder.  Our reader Chris would also like to point out the disastrous finger…. [HuffPost Comedy]
  • The persistent ”Back To The Future” Photoshop hoax resurfaces.  [BuzzFeed]
  • What I’d Do With Photoshop in Real Life [Smosh]

That’s it for this week.  Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you back here on Monday with more disasters. Don’t forget to join us on FacebookTwitter, and Google+ for daily entertainment!

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GRUNBECK: HANDY MAN

At the time, it sounded like a brilliant idea, but after the disappointing debut of “The Litmus Chronicles,” the Berlin school board had second thoughts about incorporating 3D technology into educational videos.

Photoshop Disaster

Okay, we see what they’re going for here. Unfortunately, Herr Grossenmitten’s left arm is positioned in a manner that looks natural only when grasping one’s other hand in front, as demonstrated by his colleague, thereby making it rather blatant that the image was shopped and not a result of forced perspective. On the upside, that’s one of the cleanest-looking hands I think I’ve ever seen!

Thanks Matthias.

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PERMETAL GOLD: PUMP THE VOLUME

Not everything at Costco is worth the hassle of buying in bulk.

Photoshop Disaster

This ad may be giving potential customers the wrong message, like this is how much you’ll need to clean a standard size oven face and backsplash.  I also hope there’s nothing flammable in the ingredients, otherwise a much more dangerous message presents itself with regard to product placement.

Thanks Mega. You can see the original Labud site.

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VOGUE CHINA: HALF-ASSED FAIL

Given a choice, I think I would much rather float than hop, too!

Poster Disaster

Someone needs to explain to this GA the difference between the shadow of a leg and an actual leg. This girl is either an amputee, or a school of piranha has chewed a hole through that raft and devoured her right leg all the way up to Christmas.

Thanks Eduardo. The original was found in the Vogue China June 2012 and the model is Doutzen Kroes.

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MEN’S FITNESS: MARKY MARRED

“The Real Mark Wahlberg”?!  Who knew all those years of aging was actually just caked on layers of ego.

Photoshop Disaster

Not sure this is a PSD.  Rumor has it that Wahlberg has been cast to play the starring role in next year’s sequel to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which follows the story of an over-the-hill porn star who quits his tribute band to take one last shot at playing pro football. But to pay his way to the tryout, he takes a temporary job on a crab boat, where he gets sucked into a time vortex caused by a hundred-year storm and finds himself stranded thousands of years in the future in a world populated by boy bands.  Co-stars Will Ferrell as “Nick Zaius.”

Thanks Martin for the great find! You can see the original in the July/August 2012 edition of Men’s Fitness.

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