Ode To A Photoshop Artist
Oh Mamma Mia Photoshop artist.
I see you working away at your poster.
You are delighted by the sparkling background.
The background is totally top notch.
Lets hope it distracts people from the hack job on her neck.
Perhaps she had a glandular infection.
Or is in the process of swallowing a whole melon.
You know, the way snakes swallow pigs.
There are many possible explanations.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Mamma Mia: Neckrophilia
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let me be the first to say (to those who will say "that's just how her neck is!") - go google pictures of her and you will see in all of them that her neck is a>thinner and b>shorter than her upper arms, which does not appear to be the case in this poster.
Ah...the face of a model, but the neck of a linebacker.
I think it's the neck of TWO linebackers.
txb is made of win. lol!
An amateur might simply take a bad picture. It takes a trained professional to transform a photo of a gorgeous woman into a painfully distended goiter victim!
Very rarely do we see disasters that actually create horrible, horrible monsters in the process. Tonight I'm going to dream of that head chasing me around my house, her neck twisting and curving around corners. Hissing.
I think she's an alien in disguise.
is it just me or is her boob extra long also?
That's just how her neck is! Seriously.
This reminds me of the 'distorted leg' that wound up just being the model standing on a mirror.
People's bodies take on strange shapes when in unusual positions, and this is NOT a photoshop disaster, period.
I'm consistently disappointed. Surely you can find better!
I LOVE THIS SITE!
REALLY LAUGHED WHILE WATCHING ALL YOUR POSTS!
THANKS
KEEP IT UP!
"That's just how her neck is! Seriously."
Really. You believe this woman's neck is as long and as wide as her head, with several extra vertebrae so it can curve like a brontosaurus's neck. Sure, I'll buy that.
Isn't this the daughter from Big Love? She's an odd/oddly attractive chick, but I'm nearly 100% certain she is not an alien.
I've noticed that the (almost always anonymous) people who ALWAYS come on to say "this isn't a disaster, you can do better" are really writing for one of four reasons:
1. They're egotistical assholes.
2. They're trolls who like to get us all going.
2. They're the artist.
3. They're blind.
Well all you unanonymous or anonymous posters; think about what would be the motif to do a sloppy edit. In this case I can't why it should be necessary. They surely had the picture and with the right head (and neck). Why bother messing around with it.
I too think this is NOT a PS disaster.
Have a lookie here http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3009910528/nm1086543
Yes, she does have a long neck ( http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00014014.html ), but I do think some editing was done, perhaps to reduce shadows, that ended up making her neck wider in the image than it really is.
My god... she looks like a dinosaur.
This is the guy who writes designerdisasters.blogspot.com: http://rahulnath.blogspot.com/
Seriously, you suck dude. Quit ripping off this site!
txb made me LOL.
Really, I can't top that. The image, along with the movie from what I've seen, is made of FAIL>
This is one of those things I wouldn't have noticed without PsD. I have a neurological spatial-perception problem that messes with my having an innate sense of the finer points of human anatomical proportions (I had probably the world's most unique body-image problems up until I started making myself actually surreptitiously measure others on the subway with the transparent ruler that came with my Filofax and then computing how I compared, ratio-wise, when I got home. It turns out I'm really not horribly disproportionate, and my head is not one-fifth of my body's overall height (I seriously thought so until a couple years ago)). Anyway, this neck thing here: 1) I see it now that you've pointed it out. 2) Oh, ew! What is she supposed to be doing, competing with Britney Spears in the Neck-Thick-a-Thon?! That is so less "neck" than "gullet." Ew. Too much time at that one machine: Find a gym that has them thar "Fitness Circuits." Almost as bad as Chicken Girl, below (the smoothness of the neck seems to indicate that she's built it up to the point where she can no longer nod "yes." Oh, eccccchh!).
She's a Skrull!
or maybe the artist was replaced by one.
If the poster is this bad, the movie MUST be worse.
A must-miss.
they did that to her to reduce shadows? surley another explanation is in order. i think this site should try and track down the PS monkeys that do this work and get the real story.
For those of you who seriously think this is normal.
Get a ruler.
Her adams apple was edited in a way that makes it almost the same size as her forehead to start with for starters...
If you are consistently disappointed with this site stop coming here. I suggest going to one that you can understand. You obviously don't grasp anatomy or photoshop.
Either you are a troll or just not too bright... probably both.
I love this site, partially because not everything it showcases pops out to the the general public immediately. As someone who edits photos its fun to see and helpful to remind us to not make the same mistakes.
Um, if her "adam's apple" was edited, we are dealing with a whole different kind of photoshop disaster here...
Talk about grasping anatomy...
That said, it's still freakish.
Neck-grow-philia, surely.
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's GOITER-GIRL!
"I love this site, partially because not everything it showcases pops out to the the general public immediately."
I like that too. And sometimes the things that jump out at us immediately (the Givenchy girl's leg) aren't what we think right off :)
To the person who asked what the point would be to having shopped her neck, my guess would be that her head in the photo, as in the IMDB photo someone linked above (in which her neck looks normal) was in the wrong position. In order to bend it around to where they wanted it, they had to fiddle with her neck, and did a poor job of it. Look up goiter and you'll see smaller bulges called "large goiters."
Hey, "That's just how her neck is! Seriously," Anonymous- no, that is NOT "just how it is" unless you consider that bad photo editing accurately reflects reality. Check out thee first post's suggestion, then come back and apologize for being so horribly wrong.
she kinda looks like a dinosaur
The whole poster campaign to this movie is pants, this is but one of many disasters. Check these out:
http://www.impawards.com/2008/mamma_mia.html
Number 9 is shocking!
Meryl Streep's legs and body keep getting shorter and longer, but never at the same time. Those are weird.
It's the Loch Ness monster!
Whoever sent this picture never saw the neck of a person when they're looking up.
I'm fairly certain you're confusing "person" with "giraffe"
No one's neck curves that much when they look up, unless there is something broken there.
her nick is big. wahh!!
http://www.impawards.com/2008/mamma_mia_ver3.html
Check out the legs on the guy in the black suit.
Project much Charlene?
I agree with txb
"Whoever sent this picture never saw the neck of a person when they're looking up."
Precisely! Just because it looks weird doesn't mean it's the byproduct of bad photoshopping. It's similar to the hyperextended arm girl that wa posted here, or the givenchy model...
Rather than apologize (as recommended) I would suggest that those who think this was done digitally get a better grasp of anatomy and STOP obsessing over Photoshop, because you're interpreting the world through it's lens.
YOU apologize to ME, because you're wrong. "Looks weird" != "Someone destroyed it in photoshop"
It's fun to pretend you're in expert in stuff, I understand. But when you're wrong, admit it.
""Whoever sent this picture never saw the neck of a brontosaurus when they're looking up."
That's better. And the rest of the movie pictures are badly done too.
VIDEO. Wow, maybe I should start a blog called AfterEffectsDisasters, because at around 37 seconds, this girls neck looks huge! They must have edited that series of frames, because it looks slender at the beginning of the video...
I wonder if it would have looked bigger if she was leaning forward, so her neck appears to begin closer to her clavicle, shoulders slumped forward, and further elongated by a low cut dress?
Nah, because the natural elasticity of our throats, combined with the muscle movement involved with tipping our heads back isn't enough to get that effect. It can only be done digitally...
I better call the people who taught me CPR and inform them that tipping a person's head back DOES NOT widen the trachea, allowing for more air flow... It can only be done in Photoshop. Do any of you astute anatomy experts mind if I cite your posts?
If you think that would be a bad idea, I'll check back for some well deserved apologies... Any day now...
Most of the comercials are "improved" using Photoshop, the eye is the easiest to impress. Either with beautifull boys or girls, or with explosions or stuff like that. If you want to learn how to make them, check for example http://codervods.com/Default.aspx
that's one HELL of an adam's Apple MAMMA MIA!!!
Even i ve some amazing photos like urs..how can i post it
I can understand the desire not to moderate these comments as far as criticism, argument and discussion, but I do hope the outright SPAM can get deleted. :/
haiiii
i think that the neck is actually real. it's just a weird angle
sorry to disappoint you Joel, necks don't curve that way, no matter what angle.
His neck looks the same and the pic is untouched.
The actress on the picture, Amanda Seyfried is real, it is her neck, her body and her head, here is the evidence, just compare some pictures of her, she really has so long neck: http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/1/13839/06_2008/ActressAm_Jeffr_15231659_600.preview.jpg
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u276/matseb2611/AmandaSeyfried01.jpg
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I have tears in my eyes from laughing at the image and the comments! oh boy! this was my favorite funny post
funny enough, she's the one that squeezed her boobs to gauge the weather in Mean Girls.
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