80 Appalling Commercial Photoshop Disasters You Have to See
Adobe today released its CS5 range of design programs including the new and improved Photoshop with some amazing looking features such as patch match and content aware fill that aims to fill an area that’s been cut out intelligently using an algorithm.We look forward to using this and writing more …
Adobe today released its CS5 range of design programs including the new and improved Photoshop with some amazing looking features such as patch match and content aware fill that aims to fill an area that’s been cut out intelligently using an algorithm.We look forward to using this and writing more one this hot topic.Hopefully theses features can help the designers behind the following images, probably not.
Photsohop disasters aren’t only amusing and shocking they are an informative visual lesson both in terms of what not to do and that proofing with a double and triple check should be standard. If you think otherwise please take a look through these 80 mistakes that have gone through to publication.
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1. Pabo: Fat Is A Frequently Missed Issue
If you’re going to edit your models to make them a little thinner, you probably want to change your clipping path as well.
2. Levi’s: Reflective Defective
Here’s that design process in full:
- Receive requirement
- Sketch out rough
- Get approval
- Create artwork
- Review
- Create finished artwork
- Preflight and proof
- Notice reflection is upside-down*
*optional
3 . Unwigged & Unplugged: Cannot Undo
So apparently Spinal Tap was some rock group in the 1970s (I think they were the ones who did Staircase To Heaven.) If they were hoping to appear on PsD then congratulations are in order.
4. Jenna Jameson: Artbreaker
To be fair, this is Jenna Jameson after she was run over by twelve buses.
5. Entertainment Weakly: (Badly) Masked Vigilantes
The Comedian. Secret power: immune to clipping paths.
6. Salazar: Chick Unfingers
Well it’s a Portugese movie so obviously she’s yakuza, dumbass.
7. lastminute.com: Three Thumbs Up
Lastminute’s Freudian obsession with thumbs seems to be causing some hysteria in its design staff.
8. AT&T: Whoops
Something tells me that in this image in an AT&T mailer the grass was darkened and that the whole right side of the image has been extended and that the whole image has been flopped. I don’t know how I can tell, I guess I’m just psychic.Source Photoshop Disasters :
9. Linda P: Old One-Arm Is Back
The great thing about Photoshop is that you can senselessly butcher your models for the sake of composition without getting blood all over the place.
10. The Sunset: Tatooine’s Best Restaurant
Tired of boring old single sunsets? We have DOUBLE SUNSETS for DOUBLE ROMANTICNESS! Our sunsets are GUARANTEED! Where will the sun set? WE DON’T KNOW! Order NOW!
11. Maxim: The Pond Of Implausibility
You have to admire the spirit. Maxim could have just bottled out and run the original image. But they had ambition. They saw the bigger picture and made something guaranteed to stand out from the crowd.
12. XXL: Eminenema
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this image; I’m only posting it because 322 people have sent it in so far and it’s getting hard to navigate my inbox. It’s totally fine.
13. J Brand: Cough
Cough a-hrrrrrrrm mmggghhh cough cough.
14. Closer: The Cutout Of Delight
Closer magazine provides us with a beautiful cutout of the “oh bollocks” variety.
15. FHM Germany: Put Your Little Leg In

This is what happens when you keep making EVERYTHING bigger.
16. Im Juli: Behind you!

For Gods sakes man, pull yourself together. Have you ever seen a wing mirror?
17. The Knot: The Not
Bing! Your separation from reality is complete.
18. The Deal: Why SO SERIOUS?

No, let’s make him smile even more! You can do that in Photoshop, just make him smilier. Much smilier. You know how William H. Macy is famous for smiling. He’s a smile machine. Don’t look at me like that, just go back to your desk and do it. Do it now.Source Photoshop Disasters :
19. MySpace: Why Try Harder When You’re #0

<remark snideness=”10″ subject=”MySpace”>
<snark content=”All the elegance of a diseased yak falling into a polluted swamp while listening to German pop music” />
<reservation thought=”Well it is MySpace” />
</remark>Source Photoshop Disasters :
20. Audi: Will This Do?
So yeah like we were like doing the Flash for Audi and the old bag who’s ADing this said get like a picture of some cool architecty house next to a winding country road and even though I spent over ten minutes looking for some stock I simply couldn’t find like nothing man, nothing, so I thought hey I can just comp some cool geezer’s house right in to any old pic, right? So I spent literally fifteen minutes comping it in and you know no one’s going to notice cos I don’t think you can really tell. That’s the beauty of Photoshop man. Can I have a bite of your sandwich?Source Photoshop Disasters :
21. City of Toronto: Token Brilliance
What a great way to show that your city has no racial hangups or weird stuff going on!Source Photoshop Disasters :
22. Kennedy International: Mobiusbiking!
Number Six in the Suzuki comes from in front to overtake the Yamaha and is clearly now behind and can only needs to stay in front to lose the race. Fantastic.Source Photoshop Disasters :
23. Adobe: Wet Floors Are Dangerous
Here’s the formula I use to determine how disastrous a piece of work is:
Badness equals quality expected divided by quality delivered.Source Photoshop Disasters :
24. Night At The Museum 2: Monkey Stomping
The Egyptian dude is like totally stomping on the monkey dude’s foot. Awesome.Source Photoshop Disasters :
25. Syms: Face Off
THIS IS WHY YOU HAVE TO GET RELEASES SIGNED.Source Photoshop Disasters :
26. Divahair: Knee To No Basis
27. Saxo Bank: INVISIBLE BIKE

I don’t think much of this investment cycle!Source Photoshop Disasters :
28. Monte Carlo Resort: World’s Worst Hitchhiker
29. Mariah Carey: Who Care-y?
Please fix giant hand and misshapen leg and weird chin and bizarre arms before putting this to bed, but don’t worry about doing new proofs because I trust you.Source Photoshop Disasters :
30. Rampage: Some Necking And Then A Little Head
31. Formoza: We Are Competent Formoza The Time
Oh Japan, country of cuckoo clocks and windmills, why are you so enigmatic and mysterious in your art production techniques?Source Photoshop Disasters :
32. Paula Deen: Is Your Mother Home?
33. Nestle: Unfinnished
Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this Photoshop what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutiqueSource Photoshop Disasters :
34. My One And Only: Zero Out Of One
35. Ralph Lauren: The Hits Keep On ComingSource Photoshop Disasters :
Although Ralph Lauren have apologized for their last outrageous bout of Photoshop exuberance, they still haven’t apologized for the original DMCA their lawyers issued to this blog.Source Photoshop Disasters :
36. Oriflame: Symmetry? PAH!
Earth to Oriflame: Cosmetics are supposed to improve the way you look.Source Photoshop Disasters :
37. Mega Magazine: Worst Hand Job Ever
Mega Magazine in the Philippines manages to totally Ralph Lauren their cover.Source Photoshop Disasters :
38. Edwin Jeans: Pittiful
Shrink to fit.Source Photoshop Disasters :
39. My Life In Ruins: Down With Perspective
Somewhere in Italy a designer is shouting “Stronzo!”Source Photoshop Disasters :
40. Swedish Taxi: Hard To Handle
Hey here’s a cab. You know, come to think of it, maybe I’ll walk instead.Source Photoshop Disasters :
41. Hardwired: That’s Some Jawline
This movie is awesome: Val Kilmer contracts mumps and then a huge goitre appears on his neck. Can Cuba Gooding reattach his hands in time to cure him? Awesome!Source Photoshop Disasters :
42. Ana Maria: The Lady With The Bezier Shoulder
43. The Spy Next Door: Pull The Other One
44. New York Lottery: In Dog We Trust

Now you know where the prize money for the New York lottery comes from; little puppies let it out…and it’s certainly not online payday loans.
45. Galapagos Explorer: Uh huh
What? How dare you impugn that this image is a fabrication! How dare you!Source Photoshop Disasters :
46. Lost: Unexplained Logical Discrepancy Shocker
47. Prison Break: Sun, Shadows And Stupid
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I don’t think shadows really work like that.Source Photoshop Disasters :
48. 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.Source Photoshop Disasters :
49. Birds Eye: Birds Hands
Lets just get this straight. You, Birds Eye, sell frozen food. You advertise this food with images that you produce. You employ designers and photographers. You have producers and models. You are a real company.
50. The Times: Toffee Nosed Stalinists
51. Cray: These Angles Are Cray-zy!
Cray computer: good at math, not so hot at art.Source Photoshop Disasters :
52. R A Muller: Physics For Current Writers
You’d think that someone with the vast intellect required to lecture the President on physics would have some sort of basic understanding of how reflections work.Source Photoshop Disasters :
53. OMG Crop Circle Aliens!
So she escapes from Beijing and you think she’s all safe and stuff and the music is all sweet and you’re waiting for the credits to roll but then there’s like another scene and so you think OK fair enough just padding the ending out and stuff but then the music does this kind of off-key thing and argh argh there in the cornfield underneath you goddamn it argh I hate this movie. Argh.Source Photoshop Disasters :
54. Cosmopolitan:
55. Stuff:Still Footloose!
Looks as though Craig DeChristo isn’t a leg man.Source Photoshop Disasters :
56. Bosch: Make Way For The Ecnalubma!

At Bosch Car Service we see what others do not.Source Photoshop Disasters :
57. Caterpillar: Baby Bulldozer Dreams
Objects in rear view mirror are smaller than they appear. Or the other way around. It’s deceptive, even though it doesn’t appear to be deceptive.Source Photoshop Disasters :
58. Maria Mena: You’re The Only One Made Out Of Rubber
Maria Mena understands that there is no spoon.Source Photoshop Disasters :
59. Butt
Inside this month’s Butt magazine: embracing your inner 8-year old.Source Photoshop Disasters :
60. TV Guide: Further Evidence Phelps Is Robot
Michael Phelps; half human, half aircraft carrier. The goggles, they do nothing!Source Photoshop Disasters :
61. Google Maps: Unusually Similar Trees = Black Helicopters
I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for Google Maps getting all clone-happy in this part of Holland. It’s probably just a secret alien landing site or something.Source Photoshop Disasters :
62. Mad Men: Mad Scaling
So there’s this show on AMC called Mad Men. It’s great. I haven’t seen it, but I understand that it’s about this ad agency in the 1960s that is entirely staffed by people with growth disorders. All of the stories are about how people of radically different heights – pygmies, amazons, dwarves, giants – can somehow work together. It’s fantastic (probably)!Source Photoshop Disasters :
63. Ann Taylor: Cut Paste Bish Bosh Loadsamoney!
Something of a subtle one today. Ann Taylor embraces the uncanny valley, courtesy Jenn S!Source Photoshop Disasters :
64. AP: Behind You!
Tim Donaghy won’t meet with NBA’s investigator because he has a hand growing out of his neck. Duh.Source Photoshop Disasters :
65. DLO: Attack Of The Unfinished Cutout
66. J Crew: Does This Make My Cutout Look Fat?
Fixing up a picture, trimming a little material, making it pretty, are all perfectly acceptable things to do with Photoshop. On the other hand, you might not want to put the original right next to the shopped copy. Kind of self-defeating.Source Photoshop Disasters :
67. Google Maps: D’oh!
These stupid driving directions don’t mention any reef!Source Photoshop Disasters :Source Photoshop Disasters :
68. Milk: It’s An Olympic Thing
Let’s streamline the comments a little by explaining that people don’t usually have fingers growing out of their shoulders, no you can’t do that right now, there’s no such thing as a “stray layer” and sure, this blog is going downhill, but that just means we’re saving gas.Source Photoshop Disasters :
69. Red Fin: Just How Bijou Are We Talking About?
The secret of great real estate photography is making a place look bigger, while dispelling the sense that you are about to be swallowed whole by a huge animal.Source Photoshop Disasters :
70. Vogue China: Going Out On A Limb
Somewhere in Hong Kong a designer is reading this story and shouting “Ai yah!”Source Photoshop Disasters :
71. Nike: The Sweat Shops Here!
OK everyone! I want you to line up by height! Watch out for the earthquake!Source Photoshop Disasters :
72. Yves Saint Laurent: More Gaussian Than Fashion
-dislocate your head!
-try blurring your body!
-hottest trend: unusual and unlikely shadows around the neck!
-cap off the look with inexplicable highlighting around the decolletage!Source Photoshop Disasters :
73. Sense & Sensibility: I Am The Poodle, Koo Koo Ka Choo
Although she wears bonnets throughout the movie, once the designer decided to somehow render Kate Winslet without a bonnet he was committed to the fast-track of fail, past the point of no return, deep into the uncanny valley. We salute you, mullet perm helmet guy.Source Photoshop Disasters :
74. B&Q: With Apologies To Richard Hamilton

Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Sheds So Different, So Appealing?Source Photoshop Disasters :
75. Hurriyet: No Expense Spent
Uh, I think we need to have a little chat about the thoroughness you’re applying to these cutouts.Source Photoshop Disasters :
76. Jean Coutu: Still A Bit Too White
77. Elle: Mariah Carey Reassembled
Oh dear, it seems Elle has been getting Carey-ed away with their Photoshopping. Dlisted and JustJared weigh in, along with Gawker. Where do you think her right other right arm joins her body? Freaky.Source Photoshop Disasters :
78. Iranian Govt: Persian Pixels Pwned

Not only do Iran’s missile pictures reveal a shocking gap in that nation’s ability to use the clone tool, our patented Extra-Contrast-O-Vision shows how clumsy they are at comping. Presumably the third missile didn’t go off and rather than trying to relight the touchpaper they resorted to Photoshop.Source Photoshop Disasters :
79. Time: It’s Abysmalicious!
80. Elle: Mary Kate Bobblehead

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awesome collection thnks again Ben
ehe really big collection, awesome also!
NO! no! nooooO!!
For those of you that do not know Spinal Tap or the members of the band, you may want to check out the original movie This is Spinal Tap. That photo may be a mistake, however, they may have well done that on purpose. Their sense of humor is…interesting. The “mistake” even appears in their promo photo that you can download. And if you are a musician and have not seen This is Spinal Tap then you are missing a vital part of your growth and possible affect on your future songwriting.
Oh yeah, and there is something wrong with the Eminem image. Eminem is in it.
Nice collection of skrewups. The Nike reflection is nice one.
thanks Nikola , well done on your milestone btw : ) hope you have a great year
lol thats funny – and thanks for your intelligent and insightful answer
cheers vunky , yup the Nike one is a gd 'en
Just WOW, I can do better then some of those mistakes! haha, but the Night in the museum one I think is an easter egg, they did that on purpose just for fun… check out this archive site of easter eggs lol http://www.eeggs.com