I have a faint and unnerving sense of dread that there is a model who is famous for heroically persevering in a modeling career despite having a huge hand and I've clumsily wandered into a minefield through sheer ignorance, doomed to be the laughing stock of the entire web. Nope, it's another Photoshop disaster.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Sears: Let's Have A Big Hand For The Model
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just perfect - how could they...?
no joke, i spit out my drink
...SERIOUSLY, Sears?
OMG!
This is the first one in a long time that had me laughing out loud at work. I wonder if Sears gets a discount for hiring "less-than-perfect models"?
That's no ps disaster. That's her pimp hand.
Wasnt she on an episode of Seinfeld?
The lead character in Tom Robbins' "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" was a model with huge thumbs. Perhaps this is an homage?
WHY?
The hand is the right size; the rest of her is modelling doll's clothes.
If you zoom waaaaay in on the original page you can tell that it's a man's hand. I didn't know they do hand transplants across genders now!
whyyyyy would they do this to her?
I wish that englishfail dick would stop spamming links here to his racist blog.
Also the hand looks a different colour from her other one!
This top will really make you stand out from the crowd.
Erm. Yes. I'm not sure it's the top that people will be looking at.
It is the extra big open hand, customers should put their money in...
Bizaare! At first I thought they'd pasted someone else's hand on there, but when you use the zoom feature on the Sears site you can see that they've actually - for some unknown reason - stretched the right half of her hand out to about twice its original width.
Renegade designer at Sears putting the system to the test – see if they're stupid enough to put that online.
You fat-handed twat!
my friend has a hand just like that. i suppose you all want to cleanse this world of everyone who doesn't fit your perfect proportions?!
lol.
Lend me a hand, will ya... I have to photoshop this crap all night...
LOL
Gimmie five!
The question is WHY would they do that?
I think there is a pill for that...
Weird.
My only theory is maybe they have an automated procedure that stretches the edges of the photo to extend the background, and her hand happened to be in the distorted area.
Maybe she whacked her hand with a hammer from the hardware department?
Zoom in! Use the controls on the Sears website to zoom into the image and view the disaster close up. It's even worse when it's larger.
I wondered whether this was done by Sears, or by "Apostrophe," whoever they are. So I searched for more Apostrophe products on the site and came up with this. Yup, I think I caught them red handed.
Maybe they should change the name of the line of clothes to
Catastrophe?
jus sayin...
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHHAAHHA that's great.
She would make a super catcher for a softball team....lol:)
Photoshop destroyed the one part of her body that could get safed from anorexia.
That hand is cute.
Ouch! That's no small magazine!!
Like Sears says "This is the perfect outfit for that semi-casual event"... or for all those people with semi-balanced hands! :s
That's the last professional hand-job that designer will be getting in a while.
but WHY WHY WHY
Actually, there was a male model who mostly did catalogue work for motorcycle apparel. One hand was never seen unless he was modeling gloves also. I think it was damaged by fire... but yes, a model did deal with a hand issue to carry on with a career.
I had a buggy copy of Adobe PhotoDeluxe where images would be partly stretched like that when I opened the file, when they were normal when I saved it. Maybe this is a similar problem.
That big hand is the one they slap you with when they bump your sears card to a 31% interest rate.
Wow! And if you look close enough, not only the hand is skewed (duh?), but also the thumb is chopped! God, she's an alien!!!
Armando Vilas Boas
I wish that englishfail dick would stop spamming links here to his racist blog.
He's clearly spamming, but I wonder hard what makes you think of his blog as racist.
But...but...but...how?! Why? How?
The Sears page does say above the pic - "Stretch your check"...
A refreshing return to basics and how good it is!
She is super scary but just think of the 'hand job' she could give ;-)
"I am sick and tired of people making jokes about my giant hand. the first such incident happened in 1942 when...." - Power plant worker, the simpsons
Ps Tech 1:"Say, it would look really funny if we did this to the model."
*stretches hand*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ps Tech 2: "Oh, that was good. Now put it back before you forget."
Ps Tech 1: "Yep, sure will, as soon as I finish this other part. I won't forget."
Good god!
I can't believe this wasn't done on purpose. Like someone said, it must be a renegade designer trying to see if this could go unnoticed or another case of someone making a joke (perhaps even to be on here).
How about deleting the spam from 'englishfail'? It's on every article...
Psh. No big deal. My girlfriend can do that.
Sphereize or Liquify?
Holy crud! Its really horrible! Maybe she tryed to change a tire of her car and the car fell on her hand :S really awful! WHY?????
"Let's throw a random 'disaster' onto our website somewhere where that blog will undoubtedly find it. That'll generate some more traffic.."
When I click the magnify button on the website three times her hand goes back to normal. Then if I click on it to move the picture the hand elongates again. What would make that happen?
Actually, if you click the zoom tool to zoom in just once, the hand goes back to normal. This isn't a PS disaster, its bad code writing on the website. The art director shouldn't be blamed for this, the IT department should.
It's an autoscaling error. Apparently the picture at the website can be stretched, probably to meet size of the picture window. But instead of scaling the whole picture, which would make her fat, it suppose to only strech the right side of the image. But the shopper must have select her hand accidentally. If you scale up or down and move the zoomed picture left and right, you can make the hand return to its orginal shape.
Nice detective work!
one of the worst ever
Looks like the photo on the website got fixed...
"I've clumsily wandered into a minefield through sheer ignorance, doomed to be the laughing stock of the entire web."
It is a zoom issue so yes, you have.
Does anyone else find it ironic that it says "$TRETCH Your Check" above the picture on the original Sears page?
I don't care whether this is a zoom issue or not. It's still my new favourite. It's the way she's holding it out as if to say "Look at my giant hand! I'm super proud of it!" I would not want to piss that girl off for fear of a thwack across the face.
looks like real!!! waaah!! very big hand
I think they fixed the hand. If you look at the original and zoom all the way in, it looks pretty normal.
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/
p_10153_12605_007C8012000B?
vName=Clothing&cName=Women%27
s&sName=Tops+%26+Tees
Reminds me of this - http://goldeneye.detstar.com/submitted/freeze.jpg
ewwwww that one's really bad!!
When I checked the original on the Sears site it looked fine. Perhaps some Photoshop deception on the part of the poster?
They haven't fixed it yet. After the page is loaded, zoom in (about 2 or 4X), then drag the figure to the left so that the hand is in center. It will magically eexxxppppaaaaaannndd
I must be doing something very wrong, because it looks fine to me...
Either Sears fixed it, or someone made this up...but there is nothing wrong with the picture on the sears website!! I could zoom in on the hand--it was still normal.
Freaky...
The original has been fixed BTW.
Maybe I'm missing something, but when I look at the original, via link, I can't see that the models hand is mis-shapen.
OMG! Fat Hand Disease. Reminds me about the Little Britain and Tom Baker's brilliant comments.
hahaha.. nice hand!
well i dont know what u guys see, but when i visit that site and take a look at the original picture, i dont see any big hand. totally normal... maybe they've changed it or im becomin blind...
how does that get past Quality Control? I mean, really. these people are getting paid 5 and 6x more than i am and make mistakes like this?
it was fixed i guess. the original doesn't look like that anymore and if it IS a photoshop fix, it looks damn good now.
They have "corrected" the hand in the original site.
Ew, gross! (shudders!)
Great blog idea, very interesting!
Yeah fuckin big hand girl must be fixed now cos it aint big on the site no more maybe I blind
that is so fucking scary
Good to know that Sears pick up on this and fixed the hand,
On the other hand, I miss the big monster hand...
Fake post.
Aw, they fixed it on the Sears page.
the only photoshopping. is whoever submitted this picture.
because the original site shows no indication of messy photoshopping at all.
just a really good photoshoot.
This isn't a fake post folks...
If you check this site frequently... like every day, you will get the chance to see the mishaps on the actual company's website. If you clicked the link on the 23rd, you would have seen the mistake.
Usually once the company notices their grotesque photoshop error, they fix it... so as not to have other websites make fun of them.
This has happened on many websites... once they realize they messed up, they fix it. Don't blame the poster because you were late to the party and you missed all the fun.
peace
I am one of the photo editors that work at the company that does Sears images. Sears, as well as the other companies we process images for, publish images more than 5 times a day so most mistakes do get corrected that day. Usually the mistakes are wrong items in the pic but this is beyond anything most people at work would even think of. Don't worry... she was ridiculed promptly. And it was less than a week before her wedding too.
Hmmm the original one looks fine to me now. Have they altered it?
This is fake posting. it fine. you all stupid
And they paid someone to do this...a real slap in the face to the struggling real artists out there.
Oh well..
it is at least freakishly funny...going to send it to my favorite sculpture instructor. He will laugh...he will cry.
"it is at least freakishly funny...going to send it to my favorite sculpture instructor. He will laugh...he will cry."
Or..he may even bother to read the rest of the comments and see that it was a SOFTWARE error that caused it, not an artist.
It was the artists misuse of the software and a lack of interest in the outcome. Not the software alone. It wasn't the zoom function either. When you run an action in PS, as the girl who did this had, the image may be off if the focal point of the pic was not centered like the image that the action was setup for. The girl who did this didn't bother to look at the image after it was done to make sure it looked right. She did it all the time. Luckily she has a new job function now and there won't be those kinds of mistakes.
Oh god, this girl became "handy"
hand looks corrected now on source page *sniff*
I saw the original (even zoomed in on it to figure out how it was distorted). It's been fixed now. (Apparently Sears is on top of something.)
(: that is just plain weird
strange. the link for this disaster doesn't have the problem. either its been changed or ya'll r crazy
Yup. They edited the picture.
now that's pure comedy!
This picture doesn't match the original. Did they fix it?
"Do not just give a gift, grant a wish". Know this slogan? Yeh! It is Sears!!!!!! Clothes, footwear, tools, electronics, jewelry, beauty products, appliances, furniture, and bedding – everything is there! But the company has lots of drawbacks as well. All the dissatisfaction with the services and products are on www.pissedconsumer.com. There you can post your complaints to share with others.
You know, I don't care if this IS an autoscaling error or a zoom error or whether or not they fixed it. I actually snarfed for the first time in my life when I saw this picture. And every time I get a look at the caption...a literal ROFL. Owww, my sides.
This and the Intymnie one absolutely kill me no matter how many times I look at them.
I'd like to think that the person that made that comment about her being ridiculed is not in my department. The person who did this is a wonderful employee and produced a large volume of work without fault. The person that did this has also been promoted for their good work, not because of their lack there of.
uh... nice try, but that's not the original picture... way to fake content
Er... it doesn't match the original. This edit seemed so dramatically, and unnecessarily bad that I just had to check it out in its natural habitat. On Sears, it's fine. May want to check your sources before popping stuff up here.
but you photoshopped it yourselves?
it's fine on the original.
"you're the disaster in this instance"
whatver
Why are you all so stupid, people who are still posting?
SEARS FIXED THE IMAGE ON THEIR WEBSITE, YOU IDIOTS. Learn to read the other comments before making your own dumbass snarky reply.
His blog isn't racist. You're a paranoid racist who tries to find racism in everything.
Did i actually LOLed it?
yes, it's incredible how many posters don't read ANY of the other posts. So you end up with a string of idiots repeating eachother and guffawing like dumb-asses. First year design students rather than professionals, hopefully.
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