Photoshop Disasters

One of my new favorite sites is Photoshop Disasters, which features actual commercial photoshop work that is bad or stupid.

Check out, for example, this ad for Elizabeth Arden lipstick, where they’ve gone to the trouble to hire Catherine Zeta-Jones, and then photoshopped away all her actual facial features. Or how about this impossibly thin babe? Or this jaw-dropping horror? Or OH MY GOD! HER LEGS! HER LEGS!

Some of the best stuff is for movie posters and DVD covers. Once movie production is finished, there’s no way to get the cast back together—in costume and makeup—to photograph promotional pieces, so the promotional art has to be assembled in Photoshop from existing images. The result is often quite hideous, with actors pulled in from different scenes with different lighting, heads pasted onto bodies, faces pasted onto heads, and arms and legs slid around to impossible locations.