When people Photoshop heads onto bodies they really need to look for little details that might give away the artifice, such as mismatching shadows, different lighting, or differences in sharpness. You know, those subtle, tiny differences that people might notice.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Company: No Freaking Way
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haha, those subtle things... like race.
Well I think it is too big to be really an error of the graphic designer : don't you think it could be done voluntary, like a graphic figure of speech ?
How much crank do you have to smoke to not realize that the model's skin color does not match the head you've shopping in?
Wow, that's one EXTREMELY directional spotlight they shone on that black woman's face!
What do you guys have against inter-racial photoshopping?
Duh. The white woman is just very very tanned. Very very VERY tanned.
Who DOES these things??
I fear -really fear- the cleaver.
I'd swear it was used to make the final model out of two perfectly matching people.
She's just wearing a different color body suit. What's the big deal?
You should read the advertisement as well!
I think it is supposed to look like that!
"From defined American classics to the creation of soon-to-be classics"
I totally can't imagine, that these women are supposed to appear as one woman!
Photoshop is a bitch when you work on a black and white monitor.
hey, I used to see the photos from bloglines, but not anymore. Could you fix that?
I thought her extremities were just covered in blood from all that butchering she's been doing, while her face has luckily remained splatter-free.
When you tweaked your design, your RSS feed stopped showing pictures. Please fix!!
her ear don't look a little weird?
ops, post on the wrong image
And what's up with the weird, rubberized legs under the counter?
And they forgot to put on the table her left hand she has just cut off.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAAHHAAAAHAHAHAHAA
//skandinavian
I don't see the problem. She's just a black woman from Sweden... They're all blond there... :-)
Or, as the Monster of Frankenstein would say: "She's the woman of my dreams."
I... wow.
Like the new look, by the way.
your blog is great! congratulations!
Love your blog! As for the photoshop blunder, can't believe someone is not catching this before it goes out.
dremm,
graphic designers don't do retouching. They design layouts, text, etc. This is a retouchers mistake, and inevitably the art director. graphic designer in this situation would have been responsible for layout, however, they should have noticed something odd
Is is so easy for some to make up some bullshit blog about an advertisement piece they saw and shot with a shity digi camera.
For one it is not a white girls head on a black girls body. It's just the idiot that this photo doesn't know how to adjust their shutter speed or has a shity camera.
Here is the original piece asshole!!!!
http://www.mrlarios.com/cab.jpg
Get your facts straight before you post a stupid blog like this!!!!!!!!
Chill out, mrlarios. did you take the photo, is that why you're so angry? Advertising is what's stupid, not this blog. Kudos for not being an anonymous dipstick, though.
The folks making fun of this blog need to stop coming here if it bothers them so much. I for one find this site incredible, and whether they are true mistakes or not, I take it as a learning experience. I am studying advertising at uni, and if this site helps me make sure I NEVER produce a piece that can be misconstrued, then the idiotic world of advertising is better for it. Advertising is a bizarre creature that must be handled correctly.
@hayley. You are right on your views of advertising. But if I am gonna post some negative blog about a piece of commercial art, I better have my facts straight.
If I never created that piece, (which I did) I would think that the image "Photoshop Disasters" posted about Company was a piece of garbage.
Which I proved wrong on my post.
I just think that this blog is incorrect and it just shows that anyone with a shitty camera can take a photo of an ad and just rip it up. WHICH I THINK IS WRONG. Much respect, Hayley.
Hey, mrlarios, there's no need to be calling ANYONE an asshole here.
I checked out the picture you linked to, and the tones still don't seem to match, even if they aren't as dramatic as the one posted in the blog here.
This blog is awesome, and I hope the posted pays no attention to the idiots who post stupid shit in the comments sections.
It's really just a bit of fun folks, don't take it personally, take it as what it's intended for!
OMG! OMG! OMG! Michael Jacson did that final, decisive surgery!!! But seriously, Jacko, a missing nose can be covered up, but a missing left hand??
I hope in the future I put that much heart into what I do, mrlarios.
;) peace
mrlarios: there is a serious difference in skin tone on the original image. it's not the camera, nor the person handling it. the "shitty" image taken probably has some added contrast, to make the difference even more obvious. there truly is something seriously wrong with that head/body combo: makeup, lighting, plastic surgery, or shitty camerra, or whatever, it's not a match. But it's a human error, the people designing the poster should've spotted it, it could've been corrected in a few seconds, and no one would be calling other people assholes. the blog is great btw.
@Anonymous. It's pretty funny how you have to make childish comments about the models hand. But you are "anonymous". It's figures.
Anyway the models hand is covered by the cutting board. If you didn't notice.
Plus, may I add. That the image above does not look anywhere as close as the image I posted.
As for mistakes. I don't feel like I made any mistakes. True, there is some tone difference to the body and head. But it is not as horrible as the image above. You say that the image above has some "added" contrast? Get some glasses!!! It's a lot of added contrast!!! And it was taken by a shitty camera.
Do yourself a favor and remain Anonymous. And God forbid someone finds your artwork and makes a shitty blog about it!
I think some of the comments are funnier than the disasters, a lot of people jumping on the bandwagon or just making stuff up out of thin air about stuff that isnt even photoshopped. Then theres the people who freak the hell out because someone objects that its not a disaster.
@mrlarios: sorry for being anonymous in my previous post, but since I don't blog or have an official website or anything like this, my identity doesn't really matter. my comment wasn't intended to be offensive, sorry if it sounded like that. but you have to accept, that your image does have flaws... and it's obvious without the contrast, too. and sorry about the joke, but this DOES look like a "head transplant", even on the original, even if the difference is not that bad, it's there.
Mrlarios: I am one who submitted this image, and I can assure you that the way it looks here is EXACTLY how it looked on the posters that were all over Vegas. I know, hard to believe, but very much true. The poster looks no different in real life than it does in this photo, which is why i was so blown away that they actually used this advertisement.
-Melanie
Here is what the picture really looks like :
http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/2007/11/company_american_bistro_opens.php
Mrlarios it seems you're wrong !!
either way, the photo which i submitted looked exactly like that on the printed poster that i photographed in las vegas. maybe the printer that printed the poster was effed up, but the arms and legs were in fact THAT DARK.
There has definitely been retouching between Mrlarios' original photo and the one on the image in this blog.
Just look at the shirt-tails between her legs, and the legs of the tables in the background. It is almost like the final is a comp of two different shots, horizontally joined at the table.
Anyway, somebody did something odd with Mrlarios' photo...
^^this^^
somewhere, someone definitely changed his comp.
Haha! Who could've missed that one?
My six-year-old son looked over my shoulder and said "Why is her top skin-coloured [I guess he means the same colour as his skin] and her bottom half brown?". When a six-year-old can spot there's something wrong, there's something badly wrong.
Congrats on being a Blog of Note.
It appears this happens in real life creations too:
http://www.offbeatearth.com/the-true-skin-color-of-jesus-has-been-revealed/
I instantly thought of this blog when I saw it!
Arrggg the link got cut off.
Here it is again
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