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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Bild: A Quick One Off The Wrist
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I don't get how these sort of disasters work. Do they comp her in and forget to add the arm? It's not like they can erase an arm and underneath will be a car...
looks like they started cloning the arm out, the reflection in the car behaves strangely.
Maybe the boss came and said: "ho no, keep her in" and the guy forgot he had already started to remove the arm (honest mistake ;) )
You're right Mortimer, haha!
Egads! It's not enough they are forced into marriage as children, but then they have to deal with THAT as they go into church?
she's fading away...
What was even the point of that? What kinda statement would they have made either way? Damn these kinda people confuse me..
If I was cloning her arm out I'd be very proud of my work so far. Maybe I'd get a tad complacent. Maybe I'd just walk away halfway through...
The original is NOT at the link...
bah, never mind, it's on the right (small)
I was totally looking at what I thought was the boy's oddly rotated left hand and only just now saw the much bigger problem...
(it would be much easier if we could edit comments on blogspot!)
she is a ghost...plain and simple
Yeah. The security detail is holding the door for the kids. She's reflected in the window. Why even start cloning her our of shot, and why then give up at the elbow? Pshaw.
Michael Jackson is dead.
Wv: sudectic
Given the half faded door handle and the messed up glare (or lack of) on the car, I wouldn't be especially proud of the work done so far.
Someone lend her a hand!
yea it was just clones out
The pic ed. says he wants the litle dude with the acrobatic fingers and plans to crop out the driver- but there's going to be a disembodied hand left sticking into the shot. So art department look at the crop lines on the proof and whip off her arm at the elbow- don't need to go any further.
Then Layout F*** it all up by printing the shot uncropped..
that's one ugly kid!
And why did they NOT use PS for that little bike that's awkwardly parked in the girl's hair?
Looks to me like they cloned out the arm in preparation for a crop.
It looks like the photo was originally going to be cropped to include only the children. Her arm would have been in the frame, and layout people like to avoid phantom body parts, so they cloned it out (poorly). Then they ended up with more photospace than they originally budgeted for, so they included the uncropped (but still cloned) photo. You see this kind of indecisiveness a lot in tabloids. I guess they don't know how to save layers.
KIDS! you chopped off the chauffer's hand while raising the window again!
"She is a ghost, plain and simple."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh, come ON. Can't anybody see that she just got her hand caught in the car's window slot? GAWD.
Webster's new acronym:
"My girlfriend can do that!"
MGCDT
MGCDT
MGCDT
:-)
Maybe she knows the German celeb (now deceased) missing her shoulder.
wv: tereat
I suspect you're confusing BILD (german tabloid, that you mention in the title) with BLICK (swiss tabloid).
A better direct link is this:
http://is.blick.ch/img/gen/S/C/HBSCBa5j_Pxgen_r_900x565.jpg
the kids look sad....
It so happens that I was present at the shot, and I know with absolute certainty that the woman with the missing arm was home-schooled.
Hey! That woman with the disappearing arm is MY GIRLFRIEND!
Hahaha! Aww, and it was such a great piece of photoshopping... up until they chopped off her arm.
Oh no! She needs to go back to the past to make sure her parents meet in 1955 or she'll never be born and continue to fade away!
The little girl *is* suspicious of what she's seeing.
She stored the wedding ring in an interdimensional rift, and she was looking for it when the photo was taken.
WV: Rummahsh! (The sound of an interdimensional rift opening up)
Whahahahahahaha!!! WTF did they think they were doing?
VW: tring. They were tring to fix up the picture, but they borked it.
Why? WHY??
Must be Marty McFly's older sister!
Fuzzy: LOOOOOOLLL
did she travelled back in time and her father fell in love with her?? XD
Freaking the kids out? Those kids are freaking me out! That boy looks like one of the Gelflings from dark crystal~!
That's Boris Becker's son.
If the son freaks you out, check out his daughter Anna. (These kids aren't bad looking, in fact they're kinda beautiful. Let's just say Boris has a taste for brown sugar, and the resulting offspring are quite unusual-looking.)
Cropping disaster, from the looks of it.
This reminds me of a certain fantasy novel where a character can weave himself through solid stone; only for her its the windshield glass!
Maybe the designer thought they were going to crop the picture, and so only cloned out the portion needed for a close up on the kids.
And then... I don't know. There really is no excuse for this.
The little girl looked very bothered. Maybe the security lady said to her, 'What ya lookin' at?'
@internalgrip: My bet is that the retoucher is given a print layout where the images are cropped. They decide only to retouch the part of the photo that appears in the crop. The editors of the online edition don't realize this, and end up running the whole photo as is without looking at it.
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