
While it's entirely possible that Heidi Klum's nether regions don't look good from every angle, it takes real guts to let them go to print like this.
Thanks to Steffi! Original is here!
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If it is commercial and awful then please let us know! Anonymity can be arranged for the easily embarrassed/canned.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
GQ Italy: At School They Called Her Heidi Ho
Monday, December 29, 2008
Lumix: Winner Of The Palm D'oh

Ah, no, you see, that isn't a disaster because Germans have this thing called verletzterfingersieg, which is the triumph of fingers over logic, dummy.
Thanks to thePGJ! Original is here!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Ohio TTA: Fill Her Up

Plato believed in a dualistic nature of existence; we only experience imperfect impressions of perfect "Platonic" ideals.
For example, this image is real (and imperfect), while the Platonic ideal would be a picture of the same bus at a gas station, filling up.
Thanks to James!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
US Military: Your Tax Dollars At Work

It isn't often that we feature the US military-industrial complex on PsD, not least because it has the web deployment skills of a meringue.
Regardless, somewhere, deep in the bowels of this [Warning: criminally defective] site, lies this beautiful example of retro-tokenism.
Props to Z. Happy holidays everyone.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Nuts: Nakedish

Nuts (formerly The London Review of Radical Feminist Thought) brings us a delightful nude pictorial of UK nano-celebrity Chanelle Hayes. Except that she's not nude. She's just a big thong-clad phoney. Phoney!
Thanks to Easy Target! Bigger image here!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Apple: Light Bending Required

This isn't a disaster because the Apple Store can approve or deny which reflections will appear on an iPod.
Thanks to Anj and everyone else who sent this in!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Tele7: The Lid Of My Ad

Since time immemorial man has tried to make pictures of women giving a thumbs up. Time after time, these attempts ended with success. Now at last, the barrier to awfulness has been breached. Enjoy.
Thanks to Baptiste!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Swedish Cosmo: Why So Serious?

For some reason Swedish Cosmo held back from going all the way and adding a cleaver and a severed head.
Props to Emil! Original can be found here!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Victoria's Secret: Why Don't You Slip Into Something More Human?

All we know is that something bad happened and underwear was involved.
Thanks to LS! Original is here!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Daily Fail: Shouldn't Throw Stones

We here at the Daily Mail - along with all right-thinking people - are shocked and appalled by the sight of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair retouching their Christmas cards. Why oh why can't these hypocrites stop their clumsy electronical meddling with pictures? I don't recall Margaret Thatcher resorting to Photoshop when her teeth actually [continued p94]
Original is here, thanks to Adam!
Monday, December 15, 2008
National Geographic: Here's Your Prize Cheaty McCheaterson

PsD Winner
These shallow images are mainly famous for not being very well thought out. The picture shows Photoshop's multiply layers effect.
Original is here (choose Viewers' Choice from the select.) Thanks to jc!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Prison Break: Sun, Shadows And Stupid

I don't think shadows really work like that.
Thanks to Rien! Bigger image here.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Dude You're Getting A Pink Slip



iStockphoto is a microstock company that charges a billion dollars per image. Or you would think so judging by this motley crew of light-fingered miscreants. The Oktoberfest banner you can kind of excuse. The laser lady is just dumb. But Dell? Really?
Thanks to Eros, Roman and Ainstushar!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tatler: Legs Akimbo

Even though about 500 people have sent this in, I'd like to say that this clearly isn't a disaster and this blog, which used to be good, has jumped the shark again.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Campari: Buy Her A Drink And She'll Give You A Little Head

And heeeere are the top reasons why this happened:
- Jessica Alba really is pinhead, usually uses concealer
- Had to resize body to hide naked Terry Richardson in background
- Photographer using fairground mirror
- Image is 'before' image for diet plan
- Little known side-effect of Campari: microcephaly
- Retoucher about to quit anyway
- Applied too much Preparation H
- Original image featured bizarre decapitated Alba; this was a compromise
- Shapeshifting aliens not that good at proportions
- Witchdoctor on set mightily pissed off
Thanks to Mari! Original is here!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Apple: Live By The Wet Floor, Die By The Wet Floor

I don't think Apple invented the wet floor style, but they have certainly used it a lot. So it was only a matter of time before an album sleeve featuring a wet floor should appear on Apple's site within another wet floor composition. Result: human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.
Thanks to Hannah! Original is here (for now)!
Friday, December 5, 2008
InTouch: Zahara Mystery Child Of Evil

Intouch Germany reveals the truth about "Bennifer" (a cool way of talking about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.) Gossip magazines never alter the images they show, providing proof that the couple's youngest child, Zahara, has an evil twin.
I'm sure that some of you think this evil twin theory is ridiculous, and that the child is, in fact, from an evil alternate universe. Unfortunately we can't prove this either way as she is hiding the evil goatee that she probably has.
Thanks to Sara, Siv and others for sending this in!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Sarah Connor Chronicles: I'll Be Background

In this episode they have to go back in the image history to a time when the comping wasn't hilariously bad.
Thanks to Darren!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
IPS: Does This Make My Bottom Look Disastrous?

The mission of the image in the context of marketing a medical procedure is usually to imbue confidence and value in the mind of the consumer. In rarer cases, images can be used to convey a dread sense of profound incompetence, a terrible feeling that something is very wrong, and that a long slow descent into a hellish nightmare of pain and regret awaits. Ask your marketing adviser which strategy would work best for you.
Thanks to Ben! Original is here!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
HCN: Is That Supposed To Be Finnished?

Ooh bad Photoshop
That plodding fat hand reveals
An absence of thought
Thanks to Joonas! Original is here!
Edit: the original site has (rather unsportingly) fixed the image.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Daily Fail: People Who Live In Glass Houses

In another scandal to rock the world outside of the Daily Mail, indignation about inept Photoshoping has spilled over into an ugly battle between [please fill in details, I have no idea what this is about].
In a torrent of cliches, Photoshop has become a cruel bagel of opportunity for editors who all too frequently want to have their cake and not face the consequences. Albatross.
"I have no clue how Photoshop works but I use it anyway" said Daily Fail graphic designer Nigel Bottomly, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution.
Thanks to Alexandra, original is here.
