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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-03-2008, 07:03 PM:

This site cracks me up. Some of my favorites...

Your shadow is not your friend.

They should've called this Gimpy, not Givenchy.

This must've been taken in front of the Addams Family house.

Nice driveway!

Way to go Disney.

Where's your other hand?

What, run out of two-legged models or something?

Nice arms...especially you in the red.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-03-2008, 07:17 PM:

And they thought nobody would notice.

Basketball is a very violent game indeed.

Nice use of perspectives.

Very sexy indeed.

She's hungry, ok?

I'll bet she walks funny.

It looks great, yeah great. You know, one little thing. No big deal. But if you could make the top of her head smaller? Just the top part? So it isn't hiding the banner. Yeah, no, I know, but you know what, no one cares about the top of her head. Just make it smaller. Yes, I know. Just make it smaller. Just do it. I'm just going to go ahead and make that an order. If you could do that, that would be great.

Oh, and if you could make her shoulder disappear, that would also be great.

...and the best one ever...

Batman fascinated by window frame!

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 07-03-2008, 07:56 PM:

Haha, I saw that Madonna one on another web site. She looks like one of the aliens right out of Communion.

Not photoshoped to my knowledge, since this picture is 30 years old. But someone should have told Jimi that his band mate was trying to get in his pants...

This is the cover to the Experience LP and CD box set. We get a kick out of it every time we get it in at the record store.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-03-2008, 10:37 PM:

Funny!

Here's another...

Prince Caspian...CYBORG!

Someone forgot to tell the artist these guys are cojoined twins methinks.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-04-2008, 11:26 AM:

Another view. They got the right side this time, but missed the left. You'd think if they did one, they'd do the other?

This is just another view... [Razz]

[ 07-04-2008, 06:09 PM: Message edited by: Brad Miller ]

Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 07-11-2008, 04:58 PM:

Looks like Iran has gotten in on the lousy Photoshop game:

There's a small gallery of some horribly altered news pictures where I found that comparison:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/photostore/chi-080710-photo-fakes-photogallery,0,2972551.photogallery

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-30-2008, 03:18 PM:

Something is wrong with Kim Basinger's breasts on the cover art for the new home video release of L.A. Confidential. The reflection of her face on the table below seems a bit odd as well.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-30-2008, 06:15 PM:

quote: Bobby Henderson
Something is wrong with Kim Basinger's breasts

That's the first time in history those words have gone together. [Wink]

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-30-2008, 08:37 PM:

I guess her hair on the left side of her face does not reflect in mirrors either.

I sent it into the PD site. I wonder if they will post it.

Posted by Tristan Lane (Member # 1169) on 08-04-2008, 02:31 AM:

I'm gonna go ahead and do this.

Dts reader light with no cable attached.....shameful.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-04-2008, 02:45 AM:

Ha ha! There is a cable attached and the light is real. Can't turn on the light without the cable. Notice the red LED is also lit.

Posted by Tristan Lane (Member # 1169) on 08-04-2008, 11:01 PM:

I stand corrected!

Funny pic regarless. Like you said: A lot of detail lost when resized [Big Grin]

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-05-2008, 02:59 AM:

I actually didn't notice the barely visible letters "trash" until he posted the larger version.

Posted by Tristan Lane (Member # 1169) on 08-05-2008, 01:42 PM:

One question still remains:

Why is the timecode light on with no film running? Is the processor going through a boot-up sequence, or there some other problem that is causing the LED to remain on?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-05-2008, 03:45 PM:

It's just an effect to add to the mystique of the picture. The DTS unit is actually located nearby (not hooked up) so it is easy to simulate this effect:

Yep, that's right! The DTS unit has been regulated to supporting the slide projector! That's about all it's really good for since we have Dolby Digital in every single auditorium. Only once in a blue moon will we get a Bollywood movie without Dolby Digital and actually includes the discs. The 35mm projector used to be where the platter is now, but I moved it. The slide projector used to be where the two slabs of wood on the wall are.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-05-2008, 08:39 PM:

The modern projection booth would look really bland without LEDs.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-05-2008, 09:38 PM:

I don't know.. as a kid I remember big banks of vacuum toobes at the drive inns.. all that glowing was pretty impressive and the tungar toobes were neato too.

Mark

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-05-2008, 10:16 PM:

Yeah, that's why I said the MODERN booth.

We had a few tubes back in the day too, but LEDs do have more color, you gotta admit.

Posted by Tristan Lane (Member # 1169) on 08-06-2008, 12:22 AM:

I love the look of a booth that has all of the sound equipment stuffed into the console. Reminds me of the ActIII style booths I used to service. They always seemed cleaner, less cluttered, and quieter.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-06-2008, 01:03 AM:

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
as a kid I remember big banks of vacuum toobes at the drive inns

Definitely! A Drive-In wasn't a Drive-In if it didn't have at least a good dozen Motiograph amplifiers hanging on the walls next to the rewind machine - with those large output tubes inside glowing and flickering blue at times.

Also, a booth isn't a booth unless it has either a rectifier full of glowing Tungar bulbs, or a spinning "gennie" in the next room which whines a little louder when you strike up the arcs in the 2nd lamphouse.

Sorry, LED's and solid state just doesn't have the personality as the good ol stuff we used.

quote: Tristan Lane
has all of the sound equipment stuffed into the console

..then, when you open up some of these consoles and you find a spaghetti factory inside.... [Big Grin]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-06-2008, 02:29 AM:

quote: Tristan Lane
I love the look of a booth that has all of the sound equipment stuffed into the console.

Is this why you hate Christie with such an intense, life-burning passion... because the sound can't be stuffed into the console itself and instead must piggyback or be installed elsewhere? [Smile]

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Posted by Jaime Tuzzio (Member # 4760) on 08-07-2008, 03:06 AM:

quote: Tristan Lane
I love the look of a booth that has all of the sound equipment stuffed into the console. Reminds me of the ActIII style booths I used to service. They always seemed cleaner, less cluttered, and quieter.

You've been in my booth. Albeit, I don't believe anything was turned on at the time, but it wasn't cluttered and dirty, was it?

My first booth was an ActIII booth. Actually, so was my second, but the first had the amp racks behind the screens in addition to the sound processors and automation being mounted in the console. Knowing no other way I was indifferent to this until 1) it was my turn to finally be assigned the chore of cleaning the amps, and 2) I experienced the words "Now, I need you to go check the amps..." when on the phone with a tech. Turning to my right was so much nicer than going downstairs, crawling behind a screen, etc. Cleaner, too.

I did like the space and room around the projectors at my first theatre, but the booth was very roomy to begin with and floor equipment being stored in the booth had no effect on cleanliness and operations (however, the booth being open to the lobby did). My second theatre's booth was crowded and hot and filled with all sorts of stuff.

My current booth has nothing in the lamp house console that doesn't actually relate to the lamp except the automation. So, I have blinky lights to my right and to my left. No cool red lights above me, though.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-07-2008, 12:08 PM:

This was actually one thing the old ORC 6000s had going for them... lots of cool different-colored indicators and button covers on the back.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-10-2008, 05:44 AM:

Here's one I found for an old ad for an arcade game:

Do you think any of those individuals could even reach the joysticks if they tried?

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-12-2008, 10:28 PM:

Hmmmmmm, kinda creepy that Google Maps is getting in on this. I wonder what they are hiding! [Eek!]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-12-2008, 10:52 PM:

Brad, that's the Sun Valley nudist camp...

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-13-2008, 12:02 AM:

In Italy?

Posted by Jaime Tuzzio (Member # 4760) on 08-13-2008, 12:44 AM:

And by Italy you mean, of course, The Netherlands. If I had any reason to go to Gelderland that hotel ( Kasteel Engelenburg) just on the other side of the golf course looks like a pretty nice place to rest one's head.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-13-2008, 04:11 AM:

Well it was close to the boot-shaped country that is recognizable as Italy, so that's really the only place that counts.

Posted by Jaime Tuzzio (Member # 4760) on 08-13-2008, 10:40 PM:

Close? Brummen is to Rome as New York City is to Macon, Georgia.

I guess a real good day's drive is close.

I think you paid Italy a compliment, though, so I'll let it go for now.

For now.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-13-2008, 11:49 PM:

I noticed that the map labeled Germany as "Douche Land" or something like that.

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 08-13-2008, 11:58 PM:

Dane Cook rants about the movie poster disaster Here

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-15-2008, 02:54 AM:

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-15-2008, 10:19 AM:

quote: Allison Parsons
Dane Cook rants

I think he goes a little overboard, but it doesn't matter...all movies titled after rock songs (especially 1980s rock songs) automatically suck and flop anyway.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 08-26-2008, 03:03 PM:

I found this on someone's profile on hotornot.com . I couldn't stop laughing at how poorly-done their photoshop job was.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-02-2008, 06:04 PM:

Nice reflection.

Posted by Tyler Potts (Member # 4952) on 10-03-2008, 12:58 AM:

From film...

From the poster. Not sure who's hand that really is, or how that umbrella is being held up.

I'm a big fan of "Brick", aside from this odd photoshop job on the poster I hope The Brothers Bloom does well.

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 10-11-2008, 10:30 PM:

On the subject of current movie posters.

Vanessa Hudgens hand freaks me out the more I look at it. I'm not sure whether it's the missing finger or the fact that her thumb is about twice the length it should be. (look at your own hand and see if you can get your thumb to stretch that far)

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-11-2008, 11:16 PM:

That's actually not a photoshop disaster. That is a Disney genetic glitch. Watch this.

By the way, here is a high resolution shot of the above picture that Michael posted.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-07-2008, 09:52 PM:

This is a fan made pic, but something about that forehead really bothers me.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-07-2008, 10:34 PM:

I'm pretty amazed by the image really. Not so much that Megan Fox is suffering male pattern baldness (abnormally receding hairline). What I'm talking about is the freaking lack of Trajan.

In case anyone cares, the type used on that image is Neutraface.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-07-2008, 10:48 PM:

Thanks, Bobby. Yes, I am always interested in those things. [thumbsup]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 11-08-2008, 01:08 AM:

quote:
"Ask me about Trajan."

Is that the font style that Bobby likes, or the history of the Roman Emperor?

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 11-08-2008, 01:36 AM:

Is her red suit that tight you can see her bellybutton and abs? Or is it painted on? And who the hell is Megan Fox??

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-08-2008, 02:01 AM:

1. I think the suit may be "Photoshopped" on.
2. Megan Fox showed off her tasty mid-riff in Transformers

quote: Monte L Fullmer
Is that the font style that Bobby likes, or the history of the Roman Emperor?

Close guess.

Trajan is a type family designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe Systems. It was inspired by the lettering carved into the Trajan Column, a certain sculptural piece made many centuries ago in tribute to the Roman emperor Trajan (his full name was Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus).

Adobe Systems has bundled Trajan in certain versions of Adobe Illustrator. In recent years, the OpenType version known as Trajan Pro (which features a true large capital-small capital character set) has been bundled in with various Adobe Creative Suite applications.

In movie poster culture, Trajan has become the Helvetica (or Arial) of movie poster title design. It is a default, knee-jerk, no-brainer, go-to font when a designer can't seem to come up with anything original. Trajan, despite being a beautifully designed typeface, has become ubiquitous, over-used and even boring. Yeah. Boring.

Typical Hollywood movie poster these days: some "A-list" actor's bulbous potato head all Photoshopped to smoothness with a title set in Trajan. Hoo-ray.
[Roll Eyes]

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 11-12-2008, 01:30 AM:

Dramatic source photo: check. Trajan Pro: check. Fifteen minutes of work ... instant hit movie poster!!! Yep, Bobby, I think you're right.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-12-2008, 09:13 AM:

That's, um, pretty damned good. If I knew you were going to go to the trouble I would have posed holding one of my handguns. Then the poster would have been PERFECT.

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 11-12-2008, 02:28 PM:

Well, there's always going to be the sequel ... [Wink]

Trajan 2: Trajan Pro Vengeance ... Trajan 3: The Wrath of Twombly

Thanks, though. I don't have nearly enough Photoshop projects in my life. My Recent Documents is always so boring.

Posted by Charles Greenlee (Member # 3856) on 11-20-2008, 07:10 PM:

quote: Brad Miller
That is a Disney genetic glitch.

But which batch is Brad from? Or is he from a a knockoff lab from one of Disney's competitors?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-19-2008, 08:56 PM:

Awesome cat, but what the hell is up with the background?

That's some of the most horrible usage of the clone tool I've ever seen.

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 12-20-2008, 04:28 AM:

RIP Murphy

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-20-2008, 04:35 AM:

I LOL'd

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 07-12-2009, 01:08 AM:

http://www.11points.com/Misc/11_Photos_Where_Black_People_Were_Awkwardly_Photoshopped_In_or_Out

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-03-2009, 05:56 AM:

Head pastorama.

The guy on the left looks like he's one of those Einstein dolls from Night At The Museum 2! (And the others don't fair much better either).

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-26-2009, 03:19 PM:

This is a Microsoft ad that was Photoshopped for Poland.

Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 08-26-2009, 03:56 PM:

Update to the Google Maps image Brad posted near the beginning of the thread. Nothing looks amiss in this image - especially as you zoom out. Google Maps

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 08-26-2009, 04:12 PM:

quote: Joe Redifer
This is a Microsoft ad that was Photoshopped for Poland.

Even the original is altered. Notice that the black guy is using a Mac yet the logo disappeared.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-26-2009, 06:25 PM:

quote: Justin Hamaker
Nothing looks amiss in this image - especially as you zoom out. Google Maps

I give. You lost me.

???

Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 08-26-2009, 06:30 PM:

The Lake and the Trees are the "same" shape, a little off but close. And the trees look like a person.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-28-2009, 02:06 PM:

I'm sorry, I still don't get it. Why is that unusual? Did someone Photoshop it?

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 08-28-2009, 03:40 PM:

I'm with you Tim.

Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 08-28-2009, 04:11 PM:

Cant see anything unusual, the trees do look kinda like a person pointing, but nothing unnatural

Posted by Joe Elliott (Member # 4006) on 08-31-2009, 03:56 AM:

I think he is talking about the google watermark, visible only when zoomed in.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-01-2009, 06:58 AM:

Okay, I got it... pronoun trouble. It's the same link Brad posted earlier, and that one DID look Photoshopped. Now it appears normal (non-Photoshopped).

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-12-2009, 03:55 PM:

Getting back with the program...

Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 09-13-2009, 05:38 AM:

With regard to the Google Earth image. The reason I checked it out and posted the image and link is because Brad's original made it look as though someone (Google?) had used a Photoshop clone stamp to hide something. The image I posted shows the same area covered by trees, but it doesn't appear to have a clone stamp applied.

Brad's original post is about half way down the second page of this thread.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 09-14-2009, 04:25 AM:

Nah, leave it in...it looks good.

Freaky-Sized-Head-Day

Images in the mirror may bear no resemblance to anything in reality.

Hold my hand my love.

When you say I can make money...what EXACTLY do you mean?

Posted by Alex Edwards (Member # 5413) on 09-24-2009, 04:51 PM:

Heres one that was in the news recently...

You'll notice that they are showing us that the smart car is built strong enough to support an elephant. Apparantly so is the suspensions.
Heres the article

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-25-2009, 12:03 PM:

This tv is so lifelike. It is as if she is right there in the room!

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-27-2009, 03:20 PM:

WTF is up with that finger?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-04-2009, 04:37 AM:

My, what a big head you have. And what short arms, and lack of torso, and...

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-04-2009, 09:54 AM:

Ugh. When I see screwed up photos like that I imagine the people and sequence of events that altered the photo into that goofy arrangement.

Basically, you have a magazine editor or other decision making people involved in the "food chain" with absolutely NO CLUE about concepts of geometry and aspect ratio. He has a box on a page where he wants the photo displayed. Despite the size and shape of that box he wants the lady's face big enough in the box. But let's make sure we see some of her leg so it might make someone get a raging boner. They hand off that laundry list of impractical shit to the designer like he's some pizza delivery guy. Impossible you say? Just use that "intelligent scaling" feature in Photoshop CS4. That's why we upgraded! By the way, make sure the end result looks "professional."

The designer walks away muttering under his breath, "yeah, I'll make it look professional. While I'm at it, I'll just jot down the mathematical formulas that solve the Grand Unification Theory and make cold fusion possible. I'll bring about world peace with one phone call. Then I'll heat up the coffee on my desk with the laser beams I can shoot from my eye balls."

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 12-18-2009, 02:22 AM:

We know she has a big (cute) bum, but how long is her right arm??? [Eek!]

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-08-2010, 05:02 PM:

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-08-2010, 05:45 PM:

The image is a bit too small to see, but I am guessing it has something to do with her legs?

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 02-08-2010, 06:23 PM:

The kerning on "The Blind Side" title is awful. The "Th" in "The" is really bad. The "Bl" in "Blind" is set too close. Generally it's laughable.

At least the title wasn't set in Trajan. Times isn't an easy typeface to space well. And there is no true small capitals weight with that typeface. Oh shit, Trajan Pro does feature true small capitals. Guess we'll see more Trajan.

Posted by Julio Roberto (Member # 4976) on 02-08-2010, 06:24 PM:

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-08-2010, 11:26 PM:

Who gives a crap about kerning when you can look at Sandra Bullock in a tight dress?

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 02-09-2010, 12:01 AM:

She looks like Julia Roberts in that poster.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 02-09-2010, 02:53 AM:

Sometimes ads unintentionally reveal a truer meaning. Lynx Bullet deodorant makes you totally sexy. So why is there only one set of footprints?

Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-09-2010, 03:43 AM:

Sandra has an unfeasibly narrow waist when compared to the movie still. Hell, they've even airbrushed out the wrinkles in her dress. [Eek!]

What's wrong with a few crinkles? With this kind of sterilisation, no wonder many women go ape over their appearance. Whatever happened to natural?

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-09-2010, 02:01 PM:

I'm pretty sure there are laws against that sort of thing in public. [Razz]

Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-09-2010, 02:07 PM:

Curses! Foiled again. [Big Grin]

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 02-09-2010, 07:36 PM:

quote: Brad Miller
So why is there only one set of footprints?

Because he was carrying her when they arrived, leaned on the car for a rest and then departed still attached.

Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-09-2010, 07:42 PM:

The footprints aren't very deep so that would mean he (assuming it was a male doing the carrying)was coupled to either ..

A. A supermodel

B. A midget

C. An inflatable doll.

..any advances on C?

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-09-2010, 07:51 PM:

A Playboy magazine? [Cool]

Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 02-09-2010, 07:52 PM:

Digital copy or HARDcopy? [beer]

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 02-11-2010, 09:46 PM:

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE! WE HAVE PHOTOS OF DANIEL DAY-LEWIS' CROTCH!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-12-2010, 10:18 AM:

Why does the whale have a creepy human eyeball?

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 4784) on 02-12-2010, 11:24 AM:

very creepy eye indeed...

Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 02-12-2010, 12:08 PM:

I can't decide if I'm more freaked out by the eyeball, the fact that they keep making Free Willy sequels or that Bindi Irwin is getting into acting. [Eek!]

Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 02-12-2010, 01:59 PM:

That must be a newborn Orca. (It's very small.) A new calf would have more of a yellow color on the parts that eventually turn white. Now I know it was a Photoshop fake!

Posted by Alex Edwards (Member # 5413) on 02-12-2010, 05:40 PM:

What the heck is wrong with her back?

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 02-28-2010, 08:31 PM:

Something isn't right about those breasts.

Uh huh.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 02-28-2010, 10:20 PM:

Something isn't right about the gap in that chick's teeth and something isn't right about the cucumber that dude smuggled into his Fruit of the Loom™ tidy whities. Seriously, what sort of guy wears "panties" like that. I recommend Joe Boxer™ boxer shorts. I'm currently wearing the "beer goggles" cartoon shorts in their product line. I'll probably wear the "8-ball" shorts tomorrow. I reserve the "good taste/bad taste" Joe Boxers for the weekend!
[Razz]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-28-2010, 10:48 PM:

quote: Bobby Henderson
...something isn't right about the cucumber that dude smuggled into his Fruit of the Loom™ tidy whities.

I agree, Bobby. It looks more like a gherkin. [Eek!]

Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 03-01-2010, 01:18 PM:

quote: Bobby Henderson
...something isn't right about the cucumber that dude smuggled into his Fruit of the Loom™ tidy whities.

Yeah but he still is hot. As Phil would say, "Hubba hubba." [Big Grin]

I find it amusing that the dudes in the "She's The Man" poster have matching (except for the color) boxers too.

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 03-16-2010, 09:19 PM:

See, Blu-ray is better than DVD. On Blu-ray your sidekicks have legs.

Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 04-16-2010, 12:00 PM:

I was looking at a Power Wheels for my son's birthday and I noticed that the grass in this photo just didn't look right.

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 04-16-2010, 12:16 PM:

Even more obvious are the tree clones and duplicated turf.

Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 04-16-2010, 12:23 PM:

Wow Rick! I noticed the grass but not the waaaaay more obvious trees. [Eek!]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-16-2010, 01:00 PM:

So the fact that the kids are about to make a sudden sharp turn while traveling obliquely down a hill doesn't make us worry that the car is in danger of rolling over?

It's obvious that the shot is a studio set-up from top to bottom. The bad Photoshopping just adds insult to injury.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-16-2010, 04:47 PM:

On top of that is the lunacy that people actually buy motorized vehicles for kids to ride around in. No wonder there are so many fat kids.

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-16-2010, 07:27 PM:

Indoctrinate them into the consumerist culture as young as possible. Right? [Wink]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-16-2010, 08:23 PM:

Mike, are you calling Joshua's kid fat? Film-Tech fight!!!

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-16-2010, 10:45 PM:

It's a miracle they could get those little bastards pried away from their video game consoles long enough to get a studio photo of them in a fake truck. All the more reason to hang the Photoshop "artist" out to dry for criminal use of the clone tool!

Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 04-20-2010, 03:48 PM:

I always wanted one of the Power Wheels when I was a kid and we have a large yard so I thought he would enjoy it. The neighbors gave us their 6 volt quad Power Wheels when they got a John Deere tractor Power Wheels for thei kid. The John Deere is 12 volts and runs much faster. The 6 volt quad they gave my son is so unbelievably slow that I think I could crawl faster on my belly without using my legs or arms. My son is also in the 100th percentile for his age so his feet are about 3" too long for the foot cradles on it and he has to stick his feet outstretched on both sides to ride it.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-20-2010, 05:02 PM:

Joshua's kid isn't fat...Film-Tech fight's off. [Frown]

Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 04-20-2010, 05:07 PM:

No bad photoshop here, but since there is discussion of children driving motorized vehicles, I thought I'd share a straightforward picture of a family heirloom. That's my niece in her 1967 Mustang Jr. It's been in our family since the early 1970s and has been handed down three generations so far. It runs on a 6V Ford starter motor, and from what we've been told, is one of about eight or so known to exist anymore. When the battery wore down, we'd have to push the car, thus keeping us from getting fat! [Big Grin]

I promise my next post in this thread will involve bad photoshop if I have to submit one I did myself! [Wink]

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 04-20-2010, 05:17 PM:

I'll save you the trouble, Hillary...

Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 04-20-2010, 05:45 PM:

Thank you John! [Big Grin]

You shame me for not thinking of that myself! [thumbsup]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-20-2010, 06:40 PM:

John = [thumbsup]

...That's really funny! [beer]

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-04-2010, 08:32 PM:

The horror...

and

A collection of 37 badly photo shopped posters.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-11-2010, 11:02 PM:

Hot off the press...

So, is Harry inside or outside the carriage? Is his head really that much bigger than Hermione's? At least they've lost the 3D...

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-12-2010, 04:54 AM:

Why are they on the subway? I thought Harry Potter took place back in the days of wizards, warriors and King Arthur, et al.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 10-12-2010, 05:11 AM:

Not that I've ever seen a Harry Potter film, but from what I've seen from the booth, he lives in the contemporary world.

Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 10-12-2010, 04:54 PM:

Yes, the "magic people" live in a sort of underground (not literally), secret society in the present day. But they still use old-style things like quill pens (which are magical, of course) and candles and other stuff which makes it seem like a period piece.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-12-2010, 05:30 PM:

Greg, did you know that only your face is in color? The rest of you is in black and white. Just thought you should know.

Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 10-12-2010, 08:26 PM:

You mean that I am a Photoshop disaster? Wow!

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-23-2011, 01:11 AM:

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-23-2011, 04:09 PM:

Obviously Stevie was the one to OK that pic.

Posted by Jake Spell (Member # 5294) on 07-07-2011, 10:04 PM:

Yes, this guy fails...

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 08-16-2011, 09:23 PM:

Not quite a photoshop fail, but boo on the stock photo catalog...
This is live on Deluxe.com and as well as on the mailers they sent out this week...

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-16-2011, 10:14 PM:

This isn't a Photoshop fail either, but I call it a Synopsis Fail. This is a direct paste from the Sony website for their movie "Moneyball":

quote:
Based on a true story. Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It more than baseball, it a revolution one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he tearing out the heart and soul of the game.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 08-16-2011, 10:43 PM:

Wow, Mike. For me to spot the errors it must be pretty bad...and it is...

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-17-2011, 12:23 AM:

He no lyin'.

Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 10-17-2012, 08:36 AM:

It has been 427 days since the last post.

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-17-2012, 08:36 AM:

Original Site: http://store.americanapparel.net/ssalt-lace.html

Must be an outtake from the movie, "The Godfather."

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-20-2013, 10:38 PM:

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 02-09-2013, 06:12 PM:

Four-handed piano playing is a neat trick, but it can't touch Kim Novak's talent of playing the left-hand octaves with the back of her head.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 06-13-2013, 10:13 PM:

So this is how Melissa McCarthy really looks...

...and here she is in the latest poster...

Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 10-14-2013, 12:05 PM:

Hey mister! ~ Wanna spin my propeller?

This picture was part of a TARGET store Halloween ad I got by snail mail.
The young man is wearing a "PLANES" character costume.
What, exactly, is holding that propeller up? (maybe that explains the big smile?)
Also, this kid has the strangest set of legs I've ever seen! From where the 'pants'
legs sepeate, his crotch would have to be down somewhere around his knees.
And how about his left hand (on the right) that has only two 'peg-like' fingers?
I hope this poor kid can get all the corrective surgery he needs before he hits
puberty! (and what's with those white lines painted on his face?)
Looking at the original image under magnification, it's obvious this young man
was the victim of some pretty bad cut-&-pasting. You can actually
see that his left leg is simply a mirror image of his right. (or vice-versa)

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 03-11-2014, 06:47 PM:

Disney strikes out again... [Eek!]

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 03-12-2014, 08:33 AM:

Why do the two men have the same legs from the waist down?

Article here:

http://nypost.com/2014/03/11/iranian-teen-with-stolen-passport-on-jet-sought-asylum/

Text from article:

"Two men traveling with stolen passports on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner were Iranians who had bought tickets to Europe and were probably not terrorists, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

The announcement is likely to dampen, at least for now, speculation that the disappearance of the Boeing 777 was linked to terrorism. Police said both men bought their tickets in Thailand and entered Malaysia together.

No debris from the plane has been found. On Tuesday, baffled authorities expanded their search to the opposite side of Malaysia from where it disappeared more than three days ago with 239 people on board.

The airline says the pilots did not send any distress signals, suggesting a sudden and possibly catastrophic incident. Speculation has ranged widely about possible causes, including pilot error, plane malfunction, hijacking and terrorism.
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The two Iranian passport holders who used stolen passports to board the Malaysia Airlines flight, Pouria Nourmohammadi Mehrdad and Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza.Photo: Reuters

News that two of the passengers were traveling with stolen passports immediately fueled speculation of foul play. However, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference Tuesday that investigators had determined one was a 19-year-old Iranian, Pouria Nourmohammadi Mehrdad, and that it seemed likely that he was planning to migrate to Germany.
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International students in Zhuji, in China’s Zhejiang province, light candles to pray for passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on March 10.Photo: Reuters

“We believe he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group,” Khalid said.
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Malaysia Airlines planes sit on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 11.Photo: REUTERS/Edgar Su

Interpol identified the second man as a 29-year-old Iranian, Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, and released an image of the two boarding a plane at the same time. Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said the two men traveled to Malaysia on their Iranian passports, then apparently switched to their stolen Austrian and Italian documents.

He said speculation of terrorism appeared to be dying down “as the belief becomes more certain that these two individuals were probably not terrorists.”

Khalid said the 19-year-old man’s mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt and had been in contact with police. He said she contacted Malaysian authorities to inform them of her concern when her son didn’t get in touch with her.

He also said there was no truth to a statement by at least one other government official that five passengers had checked in for the flight but never boarded the airplane.

The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur, on the western coast of Malaysia, early Saturday en route to Beijing. It flew across Malaysia into the Gulf of Thailand at 35,000 feet (11,000 meters) and then disappeared from radar screens.

Authorities have said the plane may have attempted to turn back toward Kuala Lumpur.
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Crew members from a Vietnamese air force helicopter survey waters off Phu Quoc.Photo: AFP/Getty

The hunt began on Saturday near the plane’s last known location. But with no debris found there, the search has been systematically expanded to include areas the plane could have reached with the fuel on board. That is a vast area in which to locate something as small as a piece of an aircraft.

Malaysia Airlines said search-and-rescue teams have expanded the scope beyond the flight path to the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia’s western coast and Indonesia’s Sumatra island — the opposite side of Malaysia from its last known location.

An earlier statement said the western coast of Malaysia was “now the focus,” but the airline subsequently said that phrase was an oversight.

“The search is on both sides,” civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said.

The search currently includes nine aircraft and 24 ships from nine countries that have been scouring the Gulf of Thailand on the eastern side of Malaysia. Land areas also are being searched.

China, where two-thirds of the passengers are from, urged Malaysian authorities on Tuesday to “speed up the efforts” to find the plane. It has sent four ships, with another four on the way.

A shopping mall in Beijing suspended advertising on its large outdoor LED screen to display a search timer — an image of an airplane along with a digital clock marking the time since contact with the flight was lost.

Assuming the plane crashed into the ocean or disintegrated in midair, there will likely still be debris floating in the ocean, but it may be widely spread out, and much may have already sunk. In past disasters, it has taken days or longer to find wreckage.

The United States has sent two Navy ships, at least one of which is equipped with helicopters, and a P-3C Orion plane with sensors that can detect small debris in the water. It said in a statement that the Malaysian government has done a “tremendous job” organizing the land and sea search effort.

Vietnamese planes and ships are also taking part.

Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of the Vietnamese People’s Army, said authorities on land had also been ordered to search for the plane, which could have crashed into mountains or uninhabited jungle. He said military units near the border with Laos and Cambodia had been instructed to search their regions also.

“So far we have found no signs … so we must widen our search,” he said."

Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 03-12-2014, 09:25 PM:

JAYLO with Baby JAYLO [Confused]

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 03-14-2014, 06:21 AM:

quote: Dennis Benjamin
Why do the two men have the same legs from the waist down?

According to this article on Huffpost, the release of a digitally-altered photo was an oversight.

quote:
Malaysian police released photos of the men with identical legs, which turned out to be digitally manipulated. Police said this was an oversight and was not done to mislead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/12/malaysian-response-to-missing-flight_n_4949743.html?utm_hp_ref=world

Posted by Scott Jentsch (Member # 1681) on 04-12-2014, 01:15 PM:

This one isn't quite as obvious, until you see the issues, and then you can't un-see them:

The Washingtonian
Freaky Photoshop disaster: Jay Carney puff piece goes hilariously wrong [pics] - Twitchy.com

Look at the top row of books. You'll see a red-covered book that will be your key to seeing where it was duplicated, along with others next to it. Then, go to the next row, and you'll see duplicated books again, on the left and the right, including the kid's pinky finger from the left over on the right, just floating there. It just keeps going from there, so someone obviously took a portrait photo and stretched it by filling in and flipping other portions of the image. Either that, or the rest of the bookshelf on each side was unacceptable or uninteresting.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-12-2014, 05:32 PM:

quote: The always thoroughly researched Huffington Post
Malaysian police released photos of the men with identical legs, which turned out to be digitally manipulated. Police said this was an oversight and was not done to mislead.

How can this be an oversight? One doesn't just accidentally put fake legs on people. Ha ha oops I accidentally Photoshopped some legs on this guy as I was attaching the image to the e-mail! It happens! No, someone put effort into that. While I believe it was not intended to mislead, it was actually made for some reason. Why? Why did someone do that and why did the police or whoever get a hold of that image?

Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 08-22-2015, 11:38 PM:

It has been 497 days since the last post.

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 08-22-2015, 11:38 PM:

Wait, what color is his skin?

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 08-24-2015, 07:32 AM:

Although it is a photoshop fail, turns out not to be as big a fail as has been suggested (i.e.: they didn't photoshop his head onto someone else's body). His hand is in the shadows. Oh well, fun while it lasted [Wink]

Original photo:

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 08-25-2015, 02:47 AM: