Shock and panic swept the Time newsroom today as senior figures conceded that they had lost the war against abysmal Photoshopping. A Senior Creative Director, speaking on condition of anonymity revealed the awful truth: "Time no longer has any grip on the basic fundamentals of media production. We have people's babysitters producing graphics for us now."
Others tried to stem the wave of nausea by insisting that the latest photo-illustration work was "deliberately bad."
"It's a style," claimed one designer, "it's supposed to be outsidery" she insisted as she struggled to hold back the tears.
Thanks to Nathan B! Original is here!
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Time: It's Abysmalicious!
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Yikes...
I think it's supposed to be like that.
McCAIN SMASH!
That's not Photoshopped. I've met Senator McCain and he looks exactly like that.
Congratulations to Time Magazine for refusing to pander to the false gods of quality work.
some of these photoshop things are just stupid, or actually meant to be done...
it does look akward, but it isn't it supposed to look like that? i mean, the pen looking big...that is the problem, right? other then that i can't see any other problem with it.
Is it the fact that his arm is really short?
Because that would be bad. Otherwise, it's *shudder* supposed to look that way.
Oh god, its as if McCain is a doll and some kid was playing with him like he was going to veto a bill. That Kung-Fu Grip can't hold a pen worth crap.
Don't you people ever get tired of posting "that's not a disaster! it looks fine!" and then having people with eyes point out the problems you didn't see?
- The perspective of the text "to do" doesn't at all match the pad
- McCain's left hand is a terrible cut out. Or he's wearing a translucent cast or something.
Those are on top of the arguably-intentional collage byproducts.
With the fist closed, it looks like they used Bob Dole's arm instead of McCain's.
I am so in love with this blog... thank you for a laugh every day!
Hello. Here's a link to see Apple Xserve, this reversed. At the top of the screen. http://www.disarthost.com/
Sorry for my English.
I also love how the pen and paper are far sharper than McCain. Although he seems pretty happy, given that half his right forearm is missing.
The most important thing is that McCain is standing in front of the pad of paper (look where the paper meets his jacket), yet his pen still reaches it.
what is the point in this image anyway?? let alone the fact that it sucks, how does it enhance the article, or how is it even remotely funny?
why does this bother me?
i blame the editor. this 'collage' should have simply been consigned to the dustbin. but then again this is about the standard of journalism at the times.
Oh God, and they used Sand, too. That screen font was cool and overused - what - five years ago?
Well, you know, they could have at least *pretended* that he was holding that pen, but heck... it mostly looks like a grip, right?
So many things are an awful abuse of Photoshop!
His left hand casts some kind of glowing shadow!
His right hand clearly is a cutout from another time. It's lit differently, and it looks like it was supposed to be holding a microphone that they clipped out.
Oh, and that "To Do" was definitely written by a marker, and not the giant fountain pen that the short-armed, fake-handed, mini-McCain seems to be using.
PHOTOSHOP DISASTER! ABUSE!
He is warping space and time in order to write on the pad behind him. His power comes from his GIGANTIC pink hand.
Head two sizes too small.
Bodyswap.
Weird fist holding the pen, magically.
Right arm WAY too short.
Can't even get cutout right on left hand.
Sen. McCain would dress better than that (sloppy suit/tie).
Terrible.
Also, terrible.
yeah. the future is now
The thumb that they didn't even TRY to make look like he was gripping the pen is a nice touch to this M.C. Escher midget art...
Great blog. Thanks for all the hard work. BTW is this the new McCain "pound"?
Actually, I don't think it's that bad because it obviously doesn't mean to be realistic. It's kind of cute. I'm much more shocked by picture who claims to be "real" and are a total mess.
i love minature mccain, and i only wish they would expend their offer to include mini obama and mini hillary as well -- make that the entire political class, and yeah, all ayn rand worshipers should be brought down a notch too and only then unleashed to compete. now that would be a p-shop success where i'd hope for nature to imitate the art.
Funny text perspective XD
And there's some "nice" rendering in the left arm XD
lets face it it looks s**t if i produced anything that just plain looked that bad i would be handed my p45
You get what you pay for...thank you Getty and other stock agencies for offering us the $1 image. We can use the extra money for buying Visine to stop the burning.
it's worht pointing out that Getty/iStock didn't generate this travesty - they just provided the source. The pen and pad is from iStock and the mini McCain is from the Getty 'collect and keep' keyring collection.
Haha I mean, maybe it's intentionally ridiculous, but come on... it's Time magazine. It looks idiotic.
It's easy to spot bad designers among commentators. They look at ridiculously bad Photoshop job and say "there's nothing wrong with it", just like they do at their own office. ..without them this blog would run out of source materials.
I agree Artistpavel, but I do hope that those who say 'there is nothing wrong with this image' are not designers but those who aren't involved in the design and advertising business whatsoever. Because if this is passable to them, then they have no right to be there. But then again, the person who okay'ed this image thought it was passable right.
Oh whatever, just keep churning out the disasters for us.
You would think Time could afford a decent illustrator.
http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/wantednyccposter.jpg
wtf
I'm 100% sure i could have done better with my trusty Gimp 2.4
So, because it's "intentionally bad" that makes it not a PS disaster? I really don't understand some of these commenters.
If I'd turned that in to any of my media design classes, I would have been failed. No question about it. Ugh. Heinous.
Ahhhhh, what have you done to Bush v3?!
Oh the humanity!
this is obviously barf.
Flabbergasting. Gobstopped. Charicature is one thing, but this? This is a used diaper with a dandelion taped to it. It's not funny, it's not cute, it's just ass. TIME, be ashamed. Be very ashamed.
To the Defense: "Yes, it's supposed to look horrible and amateurish. Hey, We're Time Magazine! We're supposed to make things look horrible and amateurish!"
Is that so? Gosh! Who'da thunk it!
Actually, the people saying what an abortion this is are just upset that Senator McCain came out in support of Man-Pen Love. He's obviously not using that instrument to write with.
I think it looks great.. looks stupid and dumb! there are abominations out there that deserve more attention than this!!
D'oh!
Anyone knows that the silk-stockinged McCain would DICTATE a "To Do"-List!
To the same guy whom he dictates the grocery shopping list to!!
Meh... What you going to do. I wouldnt spend too much time on a graphic of McCain either when I could be doing a colouring book.
muito bom
I was going to say Escher Shop too, but evergrey beat me to it.
"It's easy to spot bad designers among commentators. They look at ridiculously bad Photoshop job and say "there's nothing wrong with it", just like they do at their own office."
LOL - like you say, gives the blog lolz for years though :)
Illustrator: "Uhhh I want to show McCain writing a To Do list. Yeah? so I'll need to go into Photography and. . .
Editor: "What? We don't have TIME for that! Just take THIS picture and PHOTOSHOP IT with a pen and a pad saying To Do (Make sure its in the "Sand" font) M-kay?"
Illus: "Uhhh. . ."
Editor: "Ok! Great idea! Next item on the agenda. . . can we fix Bush's vacant stares? I mean he LOOKS stupid! And you know he's the most intelligent man on the planet today! M-Kay?!"
Makes McCain look even more like Bob Dole than usual.
lotsa giant hands lately.
Ummm...
This isn't an image from Time Magazine. It's an image from Mark Halperin's blog, hosted on the Time Magazine web site.
The picture was never intended for publication. It's a silly illustration for a blog post, and either the blog author or some kind of intern took 15 minutes grabbing a couple stock photos and pasting them together to make a goofy picture. There was no editor or professional designer involved.
So yes, I agree with all of the commenters who call bullshit on this. Is PhotoshopDisasters really going to go through every blog on the internet looking for silly and unrealistic images? You know, a few weeks ago my friend said she hated a certain guy so I photoshopped a picture of her hugging him and emailed it to her! It looked even less realistic than this McCain picture -- I can send it along to PhotoshopDisasters if you guys are interested in making fun of my technique.
(Same as previous commenter).
Also, one other point. It would be extremely unethical for any sort of political analyst to make a realistic photoshopped picture of a political candidate. These are journalists who have to abide by journalistic norms like, you know, not deceiving their readers. So if you're going to have a photoshopped picture of McCain as a cute sidebar to your post, it damn well better be a ridiculous "Photoshop Disaster".
To the last commenter: OMG WTF.
Also, McCain's left-handed.
My nine year old daughter has a better sense of composition and perspective. But he is a little guy living in the Land of Giants isn't he?
OMG! is unveliebable, how does this things happen? and how demanding are we with our own work! wish everyone would be as demanding.
I don't see anything wrong with this - he's obviously Hellboy.
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