The Daily Mail is essentially the UK equivalent of Fox News and Michelle Malkin. It features numerous pieces complaining about immigration, foreigners, Europe, how everything is hopelessly awful, etc.
If it had any good old British blood of steel in its newsprint-veins of justice it would do something about the terrible Photoshopping that is undermining that great nations sense of pride in its media. After all, didn't Churchill once say (continued on page 97).
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Hastily (and blurrily) fixed version is here.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Daily Fail: What Is Your Major Malfunction?
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Ah, I wish you hadn't put that red circle there, and made us search for it ourselves.
The Addams family must live nearby.
@niolani
Beat me to it :(
I like the invisible post/fence/whatever he's leaning on. FWIW, they appear to have "fixed" the original. Oh Thing, we barely knew ye...
::DCT
Seriously... Is it not cheaper for them to just NOT have shitty Photoshop "artists" on staff at all, rather than these fluckups who make grotsque and lazy mistakes. No wonder they're calling it the Daily Fail.
No one seems to be disturbed by this guy putting all his weight by leaning on pure nothing.
Your characterization of Michelle Malkin is laughable. Stick to Photoshop critiques.
Something's the matter with his waist.
@anonymous 2:25pm:
Huh? Michelle Malkin's blog reads exactly like the Mail.
Truly inept. On the original page, make sure you click the 'enlarge' button, bottom right of the photo - see all the incompetent clone and blur spots in all their laughable glory. Why the hell anyone would want to see that photo in any more detail, apart from to spot the mistakes, though, is beyond me.
HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF A MAN HOLDING FLOWERS OUTSIDE HIS HOME?
Why have they got people Shopping this kind of image at all?
Seems as if the whole hic has become victim to the clone tool! :P
Have a look at the brick wall abnd hedge to the left of him.
It seems to be extended using the clone tool.
Also some of the wall on the house behind him and just to the left of his (to us) left shoulder.
I also think that there was taken two photos - one with him leaning leaning where his hand is in this pic and one where he held the flowers up without leaning.
Also have a look at some of the artifacts and soft edges around him in the "fixed" pic in the article -it almost seems as if he was cut from another photo and pasted on top of the background.
If you don't believe me, I have posted an image where I highlight more of the (extreme) flaws of this pic.
http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=article10220800168a2fa0ki9.jpg
And why is he so thin?
What is he "leaning" on?
Look at the cloning on that laurel bush on the left!
There was a house next to that one, I'm sure - look at the leading edge on the left!
Chaos. I'm going to write to the Daily Mail about the poor standard of photoshopping in Brown's Britain.
Hilarious.
This blog, by the way, is a delight, and I take it as cautionary warning about my own Photoshop work!
Is it just me or does his head looked pasted on there too? It's almost too large. That's what caught my eye when I first looked at it.
Bravo! They fixed this by cloning even more of the background. It's such a shame because the undoctored photo would've been perfectly sufficient.
@Thomas Jergel: Nice work! His head is so pasted in.
There was clearly a house in the background that was cloned out.
This is almost as creepy as the photoshopped hand disaster in the Victoria's Secret catalogue a couple months back.
haha! that's the best one I've seen in a long time.
He is supposed to be leaning on a bicycle seat. The fixed version took out the hand but he is still leaning on some pretty badly cloned thin air.
*shivers*
Great nation? Proud of it's press?!? Oh god it was sarcasm...hahah... It wasn that funny really...Crappy nation and crappy news from crappy land... Oh and btw, this is crappy post -_-
i'd like a disembodied hand for my garden fence.
The 'new' version on the Fail's website shows a very strange plant growing up the left of his house, which is so neat it manages to replicate itself perfectly up the edge of the wall. The roof on the same side clearly needs some emergency work to prevent collapse. The sky on the left has a lovely hazy look too - I'd suggest that this isn't fog, rather a wing of the terribly grand Hasting's house which has been shopped out to make him look more like one of the plebs, darling.
the fixed version is disgusting too
In the actual paper they just cropped the image. God knows why that wasn't done on the website.
I like how there's a shadow on the edge of his left sleeve without anything to actually throw a shadow on it.
And his entire left side looks like a bad bluescreen effect, like from old superman movies.
CLONE-O-RAMA~! This is hideous work. Makes me wonder how dreadful the photography was in the first place.
I thought it was ILLEGAL in the UK for newspapers to doctor their photos without indicating that they had been altered.
Yay, it's still on the Google Cache!
Pg 94 shurely as any fule kno?
Oh, Lord. This image deserves its own blog, it looks like forever is not enough to point out everything that is wrong there.
Adobe should use it to show how NOT to work with their products.
Astonishingly, The Daily Fail have declined to post up my comment asking whether they actually pay people to fiddle with images like that.
What I want to know is, WHY?
As someone already said, his whole head is actually pasted on. You can see it quite clearly in thomas' image: http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=article10220800168a2fa0ki9.jpg
His torso! Oh my God, his torso!
Oh, AND - they didn't give him the left half of his body back in the fixed version, either!
Isn't his hand holding the flowers way too big?
And is his right hip supposed to be in line with his arm?
This makes me wanna cry. Just really cry. And I'll laugh all the way to my grave!
I Thought I'd Lost Something :D
Keep Going With This Blog It Makes My Day, It's Hilarious :)
Folks, that whole scene is completely fucked up. Looks at the clone stamping in the bush, for example. Or try to get a handle on what his waistline is.
As someone else said, the head just ain't right, either.
Hilarious! :)
Looks like the part between his waist and mime arm is painted in. It's likely it was on the wall and they painted the background to kind of match. And of course everything is cloned.
Who the hell wears a watch on the right hand?
i truly love how hes leaning on nothing.
I wear a watch on my right hand.
"Who the hell wears a watch on the right hand?"
People who are left-handed ...
XD what idiot forgot to make the head smaller and take away that hand?
I thought the "hand" were gardening gloves...
Honnestly, I only met one person who wore their watch on the right arm and it's because they lacked a left one.
"Honestly, I only met one person who wore their watch on the right arm and it's because they lacked a left one."
You need to get out more. I have been wearing my watch on my right arm for as long as I can recall, and I know a number of other people who do also.
Correction, Michelle Malkin complains at how Democrats and Liberals think everything is horrible and the worst ever in history and you need more govt. to fix it all. Republicans are the party that believes everything will be better - if you take govt. out the equation. Immigration? Ask the average Brit or Frenchman how he feels about the immigration problem from Muslim countries. The rest of te world doesn't call it "Europ-stan" for nothing.
Now onto the Photoshop disaster. Obviously the Daily Mail (a rag even by The NY Post standards) employed a non-Photoshop professional to "fix" this photo. Someone well versed in photo manipulation would have never made these obvious mistakes. This reminds me of the AP reporter who doctored a photo to make a city look enveloped in smoke from bombings more than it was. The cloning was so atrocious it was a wonder any news editor used it.
Amazing that a disembodied hand could be missed in the editing process. There's a meme there somewhere... 'shopping disembodied hands into photos in less-than-obvious locations?
Oh, and I have to agree that you mischaracterized Michelle Malkin, or at least oversimplified what she's about. Pointing out that a border and laws surrounding it should be enforced is not so ridiculous. Lots of people (including my wife) have gone through the lengthy process of legal immigration to the U.S., so why should others be able to "cut in line" with impunity? Breaking the law as your first act in a country isn't a very good start. Anyway, I shouldn't go any further as this isn't a political forum. Probably better to keep it that way.
Dear anonymous @ June 5, 2008 8:34 AM,
You are a racist tool.
No love,
a British white girl
P.S. Daily Fail? lol!
this still looks like he's leaning on a imaginary ghost
ah ah ah! oh! the thing! hehehe!
Umm...if the photo was taken with a wide-angle lens (and it looks like it was), that would explain the apparent size of his head and right hand. Note that he is leaning forward, which brings his head closer to the lens, which would already be pretty close (18 inches max, my guess). See how the hand and flowers are slightly larger than the head? They're a bit closer to the lens than the head.
Folks prolly ought to get out from in front of the computer and out shooting more...
The other stuff is pretty fail, though.
Someone liquified his left collar for some reason.. Poor guy.
I really liked the 'continued page 97'; it shows you've been reading Private Eye.
Reading Private Eye and not picking up any of the jokes of course, as the article is actually continued on page 94.
oh his torso is missing too,
why dod people post comments in arabic?
there are really a lot of ghost here in the world.
I Know! The third hand is Thing from the "Addams Family"
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