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Tomorrow's Headlines Today

We can't wait for tomorrow's New York Post, so here's the tabloid treatment of Madonna's possible affair with baseball player Alex Rodriguez. Photoshop by Jim Cooke (left) and Steven Dressler (below). The headline's from Deadspin's A.J. Daulerio, unless he stole it from someone else. Here are some other suggestions from Daily Intel and Best Week Ever. Can you trump them? Try—in the comments. More »

7:49 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Nick Denton
6,244 views, 169 comments

advertising

How To Sell A Porn-Blocking Product With Class

Just like you can block pop-up ads on your computer, you can also buy software to block porn, if you wanted to do that for some odd reason. But that very software has to have its own ads—preferably ads that incorporate porn, for clarity's sake! You can see the quandary. One German porn-blocking company solved the problem with some strategic Photoshop work [UPDATE: A concept pioneered at Something Awful], and the result is so creative you almost want to buy their purifying product just to applaud the effort (not really). Two of the company's ads, via Copyranter, are after the jump. They're perfectly SFW, as long as you don't use any imagination. More »

11:41 AM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,802 views, 47 comments

Latest by n/a: Is it just me, or are others having problems working out the gender of the person playing the recorder. Without the obvious boobs or 'gender parts', I'm not quite to sure what I'm looking at!!! more »

Tropes

Girl-On-Girl Magazine Covers: Shameless, Popular As Ever

The new issue of W is a fine example of a shameless girl-on-girl magazine cover: to this day, one of the surest ways to guarantee sales on the news stand, regardless how vapid the interior editorial content may be. Whether you loathe it (exploitation!) or love it (exploitation is hot!), it's a design trope almost as common as the between-the-legs A-frame photo. Below, five more famous examples from the recent past. The only way to fight the enemy is to know the enemy. More »

5:34 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
8,301 views, 39 comments

Latest by n/a: Ye gods, Kate's looking rough. more »

Cult figures

The Ten Best Craigslist Cash-Waver Remixes

The Craigslist Cash-Waver is a certified internet star. When we posted the original photos from his Craigslist personal ad (showing him with a fan of $20 bills to impress the girls), and then his angry voicemail demanding that we take them down or else, little did we know how big he would become. His photos spawned an entire genre of visual remixes, which elevated the cash-waving theme to fantastic new heights. Some of the reaction was stupid, and some was even racist. But some was pure, hilarious magic. After the jump, a photo gallery of the ten most inspired Cash-Waving Craigslist Player Photoshop jobs—a testament to the scary power of smart, mean, bored people on the internet. We fear you all. More »

12:59 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
8,821 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: @Hez: You didn't see the pipes because like Mr. Cash Fan, you too live in a less than luxurious residential setting. more »

debunker

Oscar De La Hoya: Not A Cross Dresser After All

Remember those pictures of boxing champ Oscar de la Hoya wearing fishnets and stilettos that surfaced last fall? And he said that they were fakes, but everybody was like "Ha, yea, right. Of course you say that, trannie boy." Well, turns out they were really fake! I'll be darned. Oscar's reputation will never fully recover, but it must be said: this was great Photoshop work: More »

3:25 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
11,532 views, 32 comments

Abraham Lincoln Was Photoshopped Photographers improved their photos in post long before Photoshop. This gallery includes old retouched photos of Abraham Lincoln, Stalin, and Castro. [Scientific American]

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photoshop

What If Websites Were Realistic?

What if Facebook let you properly express your rage against the tool who just added you to the "Buying and Selling Friends" app? What if Netflix knew you'd skip to the dirty bits? I paid Jay Hathaway a slave's wage to draw up what this would look like. More »

4:50 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By Nick Douglas
3,861 views, 5 comments

the campaign

Obama: Too Dominican

This flier has reportedly been circulating throughout Puerto Rico, which holds its primaries on June 1. As you can see, it features a poorly Photoshopped version of Barack Obama dressed up as dreaded Dominican. There's no indication the Hillary Clinton campaign is actually connected to this flier. And really, why would she go to the trouble? The lesson: West Virginians and Puerto Ricans have more in common than they think. Click to enlarge. [via Ad Age] [UPDATE: A tipster points out that this flier is a spoof! It comes from the all-day-jokers at 23/6. There are some anti-Hillary ones too, so let's just say everyone everywhere is racist and sexist and leave it at that.]

1:30 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,050 views, 72 comments

Latest by bess marvin, girl detective: @ultrasur1: "i hope you realize there are hispanics who happen to be white just as there are hispanics who happen to be black (as well as every combination in between." that's exactly my point. puerto ricans and dominicans hating each other more »

photoshop of horrors

Worst Vogue Cover... Since The Last One

The new Vogue is like an attack ad against Adobe Photoshop. You can practically hear the ominous attack-ad music in the background as you gaze upon Gwyneth Paltrow's detached head, hovering "a full foot in front of her neck" on the cover. So far, more than 10,000 votes in a GoFugYourself.com poll support the notion that Paltrow "looks like an alien" in the shot. The photo has of course been named an official Photoshop Disaster. Vogue may have pulled off the neat trick of making as much of a mess of its front in May as it did in April. It certainly took some heat off Marie Claire, which up until now had been this month's poster child for ASME airbrushing guidelines with this strange cover involving the TV producer and actress Tina Fey: More »

1:57 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Ryan Tate
7,541 views, 47 comments

Latest by the earl grey: also summer 2007 "W" editorial, gwynyth, on crutches, and feeding a big rat with a sippy-cup. Im serious. by steven klein more »

persecution

World Forbidden From Looking At Pretty Things

First, they came for photoshop, and I said "good luck putting a magazine together." The American Society of Magazine Editors may put together a panel that will brainstorm some "best-practice guidelines" for digital manipulation of photographs in our glossies. Not that they'd ban it, of course! They say they just don't want readers to be misled. We say SLIPPERY SLOPE. Because now, in France, they're taking this to its logical conclusion: they're banning pretty people. Or skinny people, anyway. More »

3:32 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Pareene
2,603 views, 34 comments

Latest by 8Millionth: If there were no advertisements for food, Americans would starve to death. It's true! more »

disasters

Photoshop Monster Destroys Bodies!

It would probably be better if Photoshop had never been invented. Not only does it distort our mental image of what the human body looks like, but, when wielded incorrectly, it can actually destroy bodies altogether. Some parts get weirdly erased; some get warped beyond reason; and sometimes, unrelated parts of other bodies materialize in pictures like traces of a poltergeist. From a long list at the Photoshop Disasters blog, we bring you the five most grotesque works of Photoshop hackdom you will ever see—unless the monster strikes again. More »

4:46 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
32,798 views, 20 comments

Latest by crotchety: @antisocialite: That is an actual improvement on Marc Anthony. more »

advertising

Heidi Klum's Nipples: Not For Sale

Supermodel Heidi Klum signed on to be the face (and ass) of Jordache last year. They needed the help; Jordache was really cool when I was in elementary school, and since then, not so much. The company has been pushing Klum's ads everywhere—today, there's a half page spot in the Post adjacent to Page Six. Which makes it all the more pressing to answer the question: What happened to her nipples? Jordache has chosen to offset the fact that Klum is doing topless ads by simply making her nipples disappear, which is eerie, bad for children's educations, and, frankly, un-American. Sports Illustrated does some photo magic for its swimsuit issue, but this is more blatant and disturbing. The offending ads are after the jump; please advise your kids that this is not natural. More »

10:15 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
12,683 views, 31 comments

Latest by beirut: @TheHonJudgeSmails: if she could make her clitoris disappear and reappear, she would. more »

watchable

You Suck At Photoshop

My favorite new web series is a bunch of Photoshop lessons. No, really, funny ones, in which the teacher works out his frustrations at his marriage through angry software lessons. The script is clever ("we could use this tool to clean off some of the dirty shame and unfulfilled dreams") and makes some jokes only possible in (I can't believe I'm saying this) the medium of screencast comedy. Because the nerdy joke beneath this is that he's actually teaching Photoshop techniques. Below, watch the best episode. More »

12:34 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Nick Douglas
8,527 views, 15 comments

Latest by n/a: I find it funny because I suck at Photoshop and I also married a whore. more »

Blended Britney Spears' face, and someone else's body, on the front of the latest Blender. [Idolator]

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Gig We need some photoshop work done quick, for a piece on Lou Dobbs. Email alexp@gawker.com (Could turn into a regular gig.)

13 comments

naked fashion editors

Panty-Clad Anna Wintour!

WWD notes that Stardolls has added a Vogue editor Anna Wintour doll to their digital collection—and Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio notes that she is basically naked. We are going to be Photoshopping outfits on her ALL DAY LONG. (Wintour's doll is much prettier than Perez's!)

Anna Wintour as You've Never Seen Her [Portfolio]

10:25 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Choire
2,853 views, 27 comments

designing the future

Our Dream Magazine

Magazines. They just don't satisfy, somehow, all niched up and specific and all about one thing to make advertisers happy. Why can't magazines address the multiple people that we are? Why can't they reach, and stretch, and maybe purr a little? So finally we've designed our dream magazine. We seek investors who believe in the power of print! More »

5:38 PM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Choire
5,025 views, 9 comments

new york times

'Times' Might Want To Shell Out For A Few Photoshop Classes

As you've seen in the past, when we're deprived of the Photoshop services of Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley our own efforts are somewhat wanting. Still, we're not one of the biggest news organizations in the world; how the heck did this get through? More »

12:10 PM on Thu Feb 1 2007
By abalk2
206 views, 3 comments

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