30 Horrific Commercial Photoshop Disasters
- September 3rd, 2009
- Inspiration
Here’s a collection of horrific commercial Photoshop disasters made by professional graphic designers, who have made a poor job of not paying attention to detail when it comes to retouching photos.
What’s the best way to become a better designer ? learning from your mistakes and other people mistakes. Being careless and not paying attention to detail can have a big impact on your work as designer and can potential ruin your relationships with clients and also potential clients who are considering hiring you for a project.
Feel free to leave a comment to share your personal favourite Photoshop disasters and other Photoshop disasters which are not within the list.
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1. Garnier: On The Shoulders Of Midgets
2. Torchwood: Retractable Thumbs
3. Pepsi: Challenged
4. Lexar: 8GB
5. Azoogle: This Was Really Well Thought Out In Every Way
6. Braking The Cycle: We Broke The Cycle
7. computerdesks.com: Wat!
8. Unwigged & Unplugged: Cannot Undo
10. StarGate: Dodgy Vertical Hold
11. Ladyhands
12. America Team
14. Basic Head Swap
16. Red Bull: Gives You Nightmares 
18. INFDaily: Photo Editor’s Pants On Fire
19. Playboy: Clone Tool Beats Belly Button 
20.Fanta: You Really Don’t Wanta
21.Tuttosport: Insert Severed Hand Joke Here 
22.Cheese Heads: Finger Deforming Good!
23.Curves
25.Highland
26.Diario Sportivo AS: I Wasn’t Expecting The Spanish Inquisition
27.Towson: The Haunted College
28.Rigged Outfitters: Unbelievable Printing
29.London Lite: Ain’t Gonna Go To Retouch
30.Kids Toys
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#13 is not a photoshop mistake. It is physically possible (and highly reccomended) to hold a weapon and not put your finger on the trigger…until you are ready to kill.
The gun is going off in #13. As far as I know, it’s not possible to fire a gun without pulling the trigger… I can’t see what’s wrong with #3 – anyone want to help?
“Bebsi” the rest aren’t flipped so it’s Bebsi.
OMG, this post make me laugh. Btw thanks for post :)
Very funny PS works :-)
Haha brilliant, some great spots here well in fact some obvious ones it seems.
These are one of the best photo shop disasters pics! Awesome!
Some are hilarious LOLZ
How on earth did some of those get the editors approval? There are a few which are subtle and no doubt easy to miss at a glance… but seriously, someone should have seen extra fingers or a whole ‘severed hand’!
So funny, LOLzzzz
Did anyone else notice in #5 that the shadow of the guy is different? There is no cheque in the shadow… lol
“? learning from your mistakes and other people mistakes.” Indeed. Should be a capital L on ‘learning’ as it starts a new sentence. Also you can’t learn from other people mistakes. Surely other people’s mistakes? Slight case of hypocritical irony there…
Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyway, just wanted to say wonderful blog!
Very Horrific thebigoctober.tumblr.com
These are great. Several years ago I took a phone picture of a Victoria Secret cover (ahem, I am a mailman), that just looked funny. I don’t pay much attention to them, really I don’t. But this one made me keep trying to figure… FINALLY I saw it…the poor gal had been photoshopped so much, her belly button was clear up her right side, several inches to the right and higher than it should have been! I hope I can find that picture! If you save your old ones :) you might have it yet!
The advertising agencies earns more than any photoshop master. It´s a shame.
what is wrong with number 3
“Bebsi”
The computer desk one cracked me up, looks like the 80’s
Yes, to Batman, in 23 there IS a tee shirt under the sweater. I used to provide massage for a local CURVES, and there was a full sized poster of this woman in the same pose. It was very clear that it was a shirt. This is not a mistake.
The black girl with the white stomach: I put it down to shoddy artworking!