Elizabeth Arden: Introducing Catherine Zeta Beckham

The always-excellent Stylefrizz beats up on Elizabeth Arden for inexplicably hiring Catherine Zeta Jones and then transforming her into something that is almost - but not quite - entirely unlike Catherine Zeta Jones.

Thanks to Kitty M for the heads-up.

Trillian: They Probably Code Better Than They Photoshop

Meet Trillian Astra, which is a piece of software that has lots of interoperability, dynamic user profiles, strawberry-flavored web integration and, of particular interest to us, profoundly awful artwork.

Thanks to K3v!

Let's Be Cruel To: Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind has a theme of cheap-and-cheerful pastiches of existing iconic movies, hence the grade-school-style painted background. What's unfortunate is the middle-school-style perspective distorts and remedial head transplants in the photomontage in the foreground.

It's neither bad-enough-to-look-deliberate, nor good-enough-to-not-appear-on-photoshopdisasters. Bigger version here.

Edit: Belated thanks to Señorita Puri, mea culpa!

Wanted: She Has Jolie Long Arms

Cue 200 comments about how Wanted is about a woman with five-foot long forearms and deformed thumbs.

Thanks to Adam, AlecSky, Alexis, Red7ine, and a whole bunch more people. You guys rock!

Red Bull: Gives You Nightmares

Red Bull in Hungary makes you wish you had never seen this image. Scrubbing your eyeballs doesn't work, I tried.

Props to Phaedra.

Fox: Disaster Watch Begins

Today, thanks to super-observant contributor Amos, we present photoshopdisasters first Disaster Watch: How long will it be before 20th Century Fox replaces the evident clone tool abuse in their logo?

Bigger version here.

MSN TV: Lobster Man Likes His WebTV

This kind of casting is called Goldilocks casting. She's not too sexy, not too serious; he's not too young, not too old, not too pretty, not too ugly, not too having-fingers-instead-of-a-blurry-flesh-mitten. Wait, what?

Thanks to Eric! Original is here.

Segmuller: Perspective Be Damned

The idea is that things that are close appear larger, things further away appear smaller. No? Per-spec-tive. Still no clue? Please, you're holding the class up. If you carry on this way you'll end up working for a furniture store.

Thanks to Mike in Stuttgart.

Good Luck Chuck: Jessica Alba Is Constipated

Aside from the inappropriate appropriation of the John Lennon/Yoko Ono pose, this Good Luck Chuck poster is one of those beautiful images that reminds you that not everything can be solved by pasting heads on bodies.

If you can't see the awfulness, ask yourself if Jessica Alba looks as though she is even in the same room as Dane Cook.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in; bigger version is here.

Narnia: Prince Caspian Is A Cylon!

When you're adapting your artwork to go on the side of a bus, it probably pays to take a look at the mechanical supplied.

Full story is here. Thanks to Doctor Popular!

Capcom: Good For Hitchhiking

Capcom keeps them coming with this masterpiece of baroque anatomy. Unbelievably enough, this is illustration, not a rendering error in a game. 1up has a nice story, original is here.

Thanks to Hug0 and everyone who sent this in!

Daily Fail: Do They Not Have A Crop Tool?

To: Artroom
From: jfryer@dailyfail.co.uk
Subject: Please comp me into this picture LOL!
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Can you make it look as though I actually left the office to write this story LOL! ? Please make sure it doesn't look like it is a comp, no telltale clues or anything LOL! Thanks a million! LOL!

Thanks to Papple, original here.

Spirit: Eva Mendes Is Strangely Deformed

So the story is about how The Spirit fights this one-legged woman who has the power to make her arm look like some kind of flipper. Sounds great.

Props to Megan.

Capcom: The Great Okami Watermark Fiasco

Usually when a watermark crops up in an image it's because someone wouldn't pay for the material. In Capcom's case, they had the rights to the artwork, shown here:

but inexplicably used stuff that carried IGN's watermark. Confusion, calamity and catastrophe follow. Kotaku has the most coherent coverage.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in (Roto13 was the first.)

Ford: Putting Composition Last

Hi! I'm AD at whatever advertising agency Ford has in Ireland. I used to think composition and perspective didn't matter. You kids might think it's cool, but it isn't! You can't just smush images together, or you'll end up like me, appearing on photoshopdisasters. Is that cool? Stay straight kids, don't end up like me.

Thanks to Nersh.

Irish Independent: That Must Be Some Distinctive Nose

It's hard to describe the fractal-like layers of wrongness that make this post.

Original is here. Props to Elana.

93X: Impossible Babe Of The Day

Dingo: You're listening to Dingo And The Baby on 93X in Minneapolis
SFX: Dingo And The Baby!
Dingo: Yeah!
SFX: Ninety three X!
The Baby: Heyy!
Dingo: Heyyy!
SFX: In the after-noooon!
Dingo: Yeah!
SFX: On the ra-dio!
The Baby: Hey you know what would be funny? You know what would be really funny? If we could put the worst possible piece of photoshopping on our "hot babes" site and then get picked up by that photoshopdisasters site?
SFX: (fart noise)
Dingo: Alllllrigghhhhht! Let's do it!
(continues forever)

Original here [marginally NSFW]. Thanks to Kristen.

Manor: Don't Look Now Darling, But We're Having An Earthquake

Either the location overlooked a Walmart parking lot and the designer comped in a cool skyline without worrying too much about matching the perspective, or the building is falling over.

Found here [warning: annoying Flash site], thanks to Ben!

Vogue: When Good Work Goes Bad

Steven Klein's photoshopper goes overboard with Gwyneth Paltrow in the new Vogue. Not only does her head look detached, she gets a Stepford Wives makeover.

Go Fug Yourself has a poll on how awful it is, while Stylefrizz weighs in on the heavy-handedness. Thanks to Andrew and Jill for sending this one.

Ades: Soft Drinks Hate Anatomy

Each time you look at it, that hand gets more disturbing.

Thanks to Romina.

Company: No Freaking Way

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.

Thanks to Melanie!

Accidental Husband Part 2

a: Winner of the coveted "Least Convincing Photoshop Head Transplant Ever."
b: Oh come on.
c: Someone forgot to finish cutting out the flowers.

Thanks to Andy and the dozens of people who sent this in.

Please Excuse Our Appearance As We Redecorate

As you know, whenever a blog "jumps the shark" it is necessary to do a redesign. Please excuse any unsightliness as I fumble about with the templates. On the plus side, the new layout will allow larger images.

Burger King: Fingers The Unfingerable

Well, guv, yeah, we ave ta shoot the burgers separate, innit. It's a longstanding tradition! Burger has to look perfect, dunnit! We'll jus' comp the burgers into the hands and bobs yer uncle. Easy peasy. No trouble.

Thanks to Leon; embiggen here.

T-Mobile: Lets Go To Ecinev!

T-Mobile in Germany thinks laterally in this piece of phone packaging.

Thanks to Jens Kloepfel!

Time: More God-damned Reflections

Position: Art Director, Time Magazine
Location: New York
Salary: $225,000, excellent incentives
Requirements: Must have an excellent eye for detail.

Thanks to Kosmonaut!

J C Penney: Jaw-dropping

Why do I get the feeling she's about to devour her
friend?

Thanks to Kris.

Cuisinart: M.C. Escher Strikes Again

Cusinart defies perspective in this disturbing composition. If you're wondering if it was the woman, the table or the blender that was comped in, the answer is probably all three.

Thanks to Sylvain.

Sony: Vampire TV

Ironically the TV itself is showing an image of reflections. It's like something by M.C. Escher.

Thanks to HDTVLounge and Tr@mb for spilling the beans.

Yahoo: Cars And Reflections Don't Mix

You know how when you see pictures of people in the 70s or 80s you wonder why they had such awful clothes and haircuts? That's how people in 2020 are going to see this decade. It's the decade of inept reflections.

Original here. Thanks to Tephlon!

Yahoo: Didn't They Do This On South Park?

That's not a disaster, I can do that with my head right now.

Original is here. Thanks to ajb!

Chanel: Maybe Someone Shook Her Hand Too Hard

Keira darling, that's great.. lovely... let the camera in darling... that's great... Keira sweety can you make it look as though your fingers have fallen off and are in an anatomically impossible position? Yes, exactly like that, that's perfect, super darling, OK everyone that's a wrap.

AdRants has a bigger version here. Thanks to Michael.

Renault: This Internet Sure Is Shiny

When the Web 2.0 "shiny table" has filtered down to car ads, you know it's over. Perspective? Pah!

Thanks to Julius in Germany!

Zoo: Adolf Hitler Is A Babe And She's Melting

Gemma Atkinson gets some rough treatment from this tawdry babeblog. It looks like her right hand is a flip of the left, or would have been if the artist hadn't quietly given up. I have no idea what they were trying to remove, but the unfortunate shadow under her nose suggests a whiff of the third reich.

All in all, probably not the best combination for titillation. Thanks to Mr Price for the tip. Original here [marginally NSFW].

INFDaily: Photo Editor's Pants On Fire

If you're going to run a story on how celebs sometimes get sweaty armpits, it's probably not a good idea to goof up faking the images. Three-armed Beyonce is not amused.

Thanks to Just Katie, original is here.

Mr Potatohead: Angelina Jolie Version

Someone at Public (a French trashtacular) decided that Angelina needed waking up. Because, otherwise, you know, she'd look weird.

Merci beaucoup to Lizuka.

300: Comp Like A Spartan!

Looks fine, provided you close your eyes and imagine Leonidas actually holding a sword, rather than just being comped near a sword.

Thanks to Leo!

Amazon: Hard To Swallow

1. Clearly he's lying on the armrest. Lame.
2. This blog used to be great but now it sucks.
3. I don't get it. What's wrong with it?
   

I love you all, really. Especially Meghan, who sent this one. Original is here.

Parenting: All The Fun Is In The Top Half

• What will your baby be like? Will she have any legs?
• Ten things you can do that don't need a lower body.
• Half the child, twice the fun.

Thanks to Tami. Sorry, no bigger a/w.

Curves Cereal: The Lid Said Flesh Tone

Can't... find... words...

Update: Looks like we're #1 on Reddit! Thanks to Jessica.

Maxim: OMG I Have X-Ray Vision

This hottie from Maxim's 2007 Hometown Hotties apparently cooled a little too quickly.

Thanks to Lindsey!

LiLo: I'm Not Bad I'm Just Photoshopped That Way

La Lohan gets the pneumatic-airbrush Jessica Rabbit treatment in this UK version of her latest cartoon.

Thanks to gregorysl for the tip. Original here.