Daily Fail: Blazing Saddles My Ass

You know, I'm just a rather snippy blogger who really doesn't have a lot of helpful advice for the Photoshoppers of the world, but I'd just like to weigh in here and suggest to Colin Davey and his photo editor that it might be inadvisable to use a comp of sub-Fark quality right next to the original source image. You see, that way you're kind of rubbing peoples' noses in it.

Thanks to Richard M! Original (with bonus photo of glowing horse) is here!

Homebase: More Like Freebase

Neo: Whoa, furniture.
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing, but the furniture is half-deleted.
Morpheus: Uh oh.
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: Semi-deleted furniture is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

Thanks to Ryan R! Original is here.

NICI: Thats A Hell Of A Mosquito Bite

A true "Who moved my cheese" moment, except that it's her elbow that's gone.

Printed in NICI's (German) catalog. Sorry for the moire; thanks to Florian!

Mamma Mia: Neckrophilia

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.

Thanks to Silva!

Time: It's Abysmalicious!

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!

Chanel: Deformed Arm Trifecta!

Hello, Chanel? All you have to do is put a model in front of the camera with your fricking handbag. How hard can it be? Model, handbag. How can you get that wrong? She looks as though she's been run over by a truck and glued back together again.

Bigger here, thanks to Eduardo R!

EA: Ronaldin-OW!

On the one hand, Electronic Arts is one of the largest media companies in the world with 7900 employees and $4 billion in revenues. The company has a virtual lock on sports franchise games; for FIFA'08 they have a multi-year licensing and marketing deal with FIFA, the world governing body of the most popular sport on the planet.

On the other hand, they aren't very good at arms.

Thanks to Lucas H! Original here!

Sears: Let's Have A Big Hand For The Model

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.

Original is here. Thanks to ticklemeamy!

Guitar World: If You Close Your Eyes It's Believable

The hilarious thing here would be if Eddie Van Halen really looked like this. He'd be walking on the beach and people would be taking pictures of him to send to this blog. Guitar World: we expect and deserve a sincere apology.

Thanks to Chris E!

Weekend: If You Undo Your Belly Button Your Ass Falls Off

Summer Rayne Oakes ^{(warning: stripper name)} is that most mundane of species, a stunningly beautiful environmental scientist who helps injured kittens against the the decepticons, or something equally unlikely. Her blog is here.

Because of global warming she frequently has to take off her clothes, as shown here in Austria's Weekend magazine. Her belly button is currently in Sweden accepting the Nobel prize for narcissism.

Thanks to Anna K!

Azoogle: This Was Really Well Thought Out In Every Way

Well these Azoogle guys look pretty legit. Look at that huge check! There's absolutely no way that's not real, and I know 'cos I'm an expert at faking pictures and stuff.

Thanks to Dave E; original is here!

Elle: Mary Kate Bobblehead

Bobblehead bobblehead bobblehead bobblehead.

Bobblehead - bobblehead (bobblehead: bobblehead!) Bobblehead bobblehead. Weird wrist. Bobblehead.

Bobblehead to Kevin C! Bobblehead!

University of Halle: This May Hurt A Little

Halle University leads the field in the new open-brain forced injection education system. The German text reads "The Glugging Sound Is You Learning!"

Meanwhile, the same redhead shamelessly pops up in Stuff magazine (UK) in an ad for Samsung, which makes sense if you don't think about it.

Thanks to Sam P! Halle's unbelievably slow site is here (probably).

Revolver: Where Is Your Pain Waiver Now?

You know how it is; you go out to lunch on a Friday with just one thing left to do, and then you get into a tequila slamming competition and you forgot how it would interact with your medication and then there was this girl who thought you were so funny and then you wake up at 4am and your brain says "Ohshitshitshit I didn't finish that cutout."

Original in Revolver magazine, reported by Laura!

Country Living: Note To Self: See Ophthalmologist

What kind of wood is the chair made from? Tiger Wood?

Original is here. Thanks to Marjo K!

[Edit: Looks like someone at Country Living reads PsD; the original has been taken down. Google cache is here.]

Dana Carvey: Avoid Portrait In Attic

Apparently Dana Carvey has a son, also named Dana Carvey. In other news, HBO not that good at doing hair cutouts.

Thanks to Patrick B, Brian C, Brandon V, Matt S, estacey, Karen McC, Martin H, Jocelyn W, Lindsey C, Tony S, Justin R, Diana, Jessica K, Dana C(!), Jenni L, Matthew J H, Miranda Dubyah, Hugo M-S, Justin A, Jessy, Christopher S and Jesse S!

Houston Realtors: Subprime Home Clone Fiasco

Must. Sell. House. Must. Erase. Dead. Wino. From. Lawn.

Shameful original is here. Kudos to Sue M!

Washington Post: Unlikely

Aren't newspapers supposed to not do things like this? (I mean real newspapers, not National Inquirer or the British tabloids.) Isn't there some sort of oath of journalistical ethics that they have to swear or something?

Original is on page 15 of this huge pdf. Thanks to Robert S!

[Edit: The image is from Getty, not AP. The Washington Post Express actually phoned me up to say there was no Photoshopping on their part.]

Zoo: A Shadow Of A Doubt

Obviously she's been at the shadow pies.

Props to Mitchell, original is here [NSFW].

Epic Boat: Are We Having Fun Yet?

If you've just joined us, it's Olympic Wakeboarding and Raequel Hoffman is up for USA.
Smiles on the judges' faces. She's really doing very well.
Yes, considering.
What's that?
You know, considering she's a pinhead.

Thanks to Shawn! Original is in July issue of Wakeboarding magazine.

Lancome: Ooh You Poor Man

Hmm, for some reason these pictures of craggy tough-guy real-man Clive Owen look a little unfeminine. Could you please run the Donna Summer filter over them a few times? Ta!

Next week: Patrick Stewart for Head and Shoulders.

Thanks to Rebecca J and Matt M. More Lancome-Owen outrage here.

The Sun: Hitherto Unassailable Respect For Women Cast Into Doubt

The Sun is a British tabloid that represents - to the point of parody - the darker side of the human psyche, and has portrayed women in various states of undress for forty years or so.

Which might lead you to expect of them at least some passing familiarity with the female anatomy. Some smattering of understanding of the golden ratios of head, arm and breast. Some inkling that women, even botox-drenched page 3 slappers, have a set of proportions that our art and culture has recognized since the time of da Vinci.

Ha ha, just kidding, the Sun is lame at Photoshop.

Thanks to Aaron L!

KFC: Dig Your Own Grave

In an all-round win for pragmatists worldwide, KFC apparently believes that people who are both on the internet and interested in fried food are unlikely to possess the visual acuity required to realize that a piece of artwork is unfinished. Early reports indicate that the brand's graphics department simply did not believe anyone would care, least of all themselves.

When asked for his perspective on the matter, KFC's Senior Art Director replied "what's perspective?"

Original is here. Thanks to Britney B!

Donna Summer: This Time I Know It's For Real!

Mmm hmm.

Thanks to Emma W!

Vizu: She's Off Her Marbles

Woooo! Cross my palm with silver and gaze into my crystal ball! Mmmmmm!... I can see the past! Ohhhhh! I see a photograph... being taken in front of a white backdrop.... in a studio... I see someone Photoshopping blue sky and little clouds behind me!.... Woooo!

Original is here. Thanks to Matt Nicolaysen!

Maxim Mexico: Another Victory For Healthy Role Models Everywhere

By renormalizing the model's waistline, Maxim Mexico takes a bold socio-political stance in the ongoing battle of the politics of representation, clearly referencing the oppressive reification of male-gaze heteronormative modes of synthesis in a semiotic blancmange of post-structural teakettle barbecue hatstand fishmonger.

Thanks to Eikona!

Givenchy: Polio Chic!

Givenchy, Like Dior, belongs to LVMH. It's signature style is Ricardo Tisci's sickly waif look, which now extends to severely wasted limbs. Or possibly wasted retouchers, could be either.

Still, this image is buried deep in Givenchy.com's profoundly annoying Flash site, not on the front page, right? Right? Oh, really? Oh.

Props to Haley Saner! Original is here.

Lily: Like Paris Hilton Without The Gravitas

At the risk of sounding re-all-y stu-pid, I have no idea who Lily is, but it's kind of cute that despite being in a lonely booze hell on account of her secret heartache and bizarre behind, she can still smile for the camera merciless and shameless photo butchering.

Thanks to Jonny!

Shy Guy: Go Away Or I Shall Taunt You Some More

Mafia Parano is the French title of Gun Shy. As with all American products in France it is of paramount importance that entirely Gallic artwork replaces the Anglo Saxon dreck that everyone else gets.

So the French get a stunningly obvious Liam Neeson head transplant that is so obvious they include the original picture on the back cover. Oh, and in the French version Sandra Bullock is a guy.

Singes dans les arbres to Sebastien Lemmens!