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The Worst Photoshop Disasters of the Decade

December 18, 2009

I can tell that Photoshop was the almighty software of the decade... but along with all the guys that have mastered the tool, there are also the ones that didn't... and just got to amuse us. Thank God for them!

So, the greatest Photoshop Disaster blog of all time is an endless source of these, and we through looking for the worst of the worst.... and found some pretty heavy stuff. People, if you got yourself a weak stomach, you should not continue. If you got a weak heart, know that you are in danger... because there might be something BEHIND YOU. Well... keep going and you'll understand later. Anyways, I hope you enjoy my selection, and we want to ask you: which Photoshop Disasters you think are the worst of the decade? Cheers!

Janet Reger: Regrettable Hand Job


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Vizio: Your Experience May Vary


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Swedish Taxi: Hard To Handle


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

PES Soccer: World Keepy Uppy Champion


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

JCPenney: You Broke The Baroqueometer


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Victoria's Secret: Mostly Invisible Handbag


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Ralph Lauren: The Hits Keep On Coming


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Mega Magazine: Worst Hand Job Ever


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Formoza: We Are Competent Formoza The Time


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MacMall: Perspec-you-what?


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Microsoft Poland: At Least They Left The Asian Guy In


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Toast Chee: Ants Probably The Least Of Your Problems


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Dust Jeans: Let's Hold Hands


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Spider-Man Meets Squid Boy


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Syms: Face Off


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Crescer: BEHIND YOU!


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Veja: Lettuce Never Forget!


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Braking The Cycle: We Broke The Cycle


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Closer: The Cutout Of Delight


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Salazar: Chick Unfingers


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Wacom: Wacom Mole


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computerdesks.com: Wat!


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Unwigged & Unplugged: Cannot Undo


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Gillette: Reveal The Deformed Freak In You


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Burda: Limbo


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Maxim: The Pond Of Implausibility


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Mystery Meat: Knee To No Basis


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Kaiser: Perspective? Pah! Anatomy? Pah!


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Maxim Ukraine: Footloose And Fancy Free


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Bild: A Quick One Off The Wrist


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BMW: Ghetto Spinners Come As Standard


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Austrian Newspaper: The Clone Arranger


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Think about grip


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

Solidea: Detachable Pelvis


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Gap: Wristful Thinking


The Worst Photoshop Disaster of the Decade

JVC: Gonks Love Headphones


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The Star: Back Handed


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Pet Vet: Crap Trap


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My Life In Ruins: Down With Perspective


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Bell Internet: Porn For Vampires


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Transparentes Sichtfeld = This should be transparent, moron!


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Nestle: Unfinnished


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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 25 year old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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102 Comments

thepeachdesign12/18/2009

Some of them are really scary indeed. The others are hilarious :D

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thetruth12/18/2009

yes true

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Bojan12/18/2009

1+

John Mark Herskind12/18/2009

I have to say that Transparentes Sichtfeld was my favorite! I always love these posts! thanks for sharing

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adicktuz12/18/2009

Hahaha the transparent part of the package is FTW!!! Dumb dumb lol.

Sammo12/18/2009

I really can't believe some of these, they are truly shocking!

How some of these people get work, and how some people who finalise the pieces for print don't notice that something is wrong, is beyond comprehension.

rupert12/18/2009

I'm fighting with same thought. For example car with spinning wheels. How can be "artist" so blind?

Slayir12/18/2009

The one with the little girl was freaky, but agree with the above posts that the transparent was the best!

BORA12/18/2009

Like the others said: "transparentes Sichtfeld" made me really laugh! :)
Damn that's embarassing...

Paradoxchild the III12/18/2009

funny stuff lol

banana12/18/2009

truly petrifying lol

shekhar12/18/2009

i m always appreciate this kind of posts. & one thing i just wanna make an announcement for all you out there, that a resourceful web design blog will be lunched on 1st Jan 2010. cssjunction.com

Carstyler1112/18/2009

ahaha these are great xD

http://carstyler11.deviantart.com/

Shevonne12/18/2009

Some of them freaked me out. hahaha

thetruth12/18/2009

i just love this funny stuffs..lol

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DEF1312/18/2009

Love it !
But some time the problem didn't come from the graphic designer, for example :

1-The graphic designer have done a good job, but the customer want something completly different at the last minute ... And he didn't pay well (or enought).

2-The massive use of images banks : a creation killer, because the customer want something impossible to do with pictures he select himself ...

3-The "I know somebody who know used photoshop"'s problem. This problem is really frequent in France ... And generally the result will be what you present in this topic ... xD

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Kaspar12/18/2009

Very nice collection.

Kuba12/18/2009

I know that Microsoft one with face change from black man to white.:./

it was loud about that in Poland.

Bloody racists

karthik12/18/2009

wow, this is fantastic post. lol..all photos made me laugh

Hybrid5912/18/2009

très drôle mais inquiétant !
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pk12/18/2009

Hahaha, awesome! :)

Medienemensch12/18/2009

scared

tino c.12/18/2009

Love these posts! My fave is "Transparentes Sichtfeld" but this is embarrassing too...cause I'm german...:D

ThunderZeaL12/18/2009

really excellent ! but how it is possible these freaky jobs are published !? xD

whatthewhat12/18/2009

The Spinal Tap shot (Unwigged & Unplugged) is not a mistake. They are comedians, remember?

Creative ideas12/18/2009

Funny compilation

Plasma_Wolf12/18/2009

I'm not good with photoshop, but even I know that things don't look right if I see this. :P

Spark PC12/18/2009

Nestle paid to not finish the job? Lol

cchana12/18/2009

photoshop failures are always fun, but some, like missing fingers and limbs can make you feel a little un-easy!

Milou12/18/2009

Very nice lol, reminder to keep sharp!

idagency12/18/2009

Hilarious, so good to see that !

acrisdesign12/18/2009

He he he nice collection

Boris12/18/2009

funny and ouch! XD

maikawaii12/18/2009

damn.. it looks like people do that deliberately. and we all know they dont!

Sporky12/18/2009

The mysterious extra limb - a classic

Anonymous12/18/2009

Funny and i always want to see more of these.

P.S. scientology is now a sponsor? lol

Louis L.12/20/2009

Yeah, I noticed that too. What is with that? A little bizarre for Scientology to be advertising on a graphic design blog. I wonder if that's an ad unit he can't control.

BC Design12/18/2009

On "Microsoft Poland: At Least They Left The Asian Guy In"
Dont know if anyone noticed but the Switcheroo guy is using a MAC computer w/out the Apple Logo! Too funny!

Anonymous12/18/2009

Some of these are not Photoshop disasters. Some, I would say, are bad photography. Others, such as the transparency issue on the package, are production issues; be that poor communication or failure to follow instruction. And some of these people simply are evil mutants or have deformities. Would you make fun of flipper boy if you saw him in your local community pool?

Btw, the one titled "computerdesks.com: Wat!" was obviously done intentionally for whatever deviant reason and is hilarious.

Forcize Studios12/18/2009

lol. The best way for start the morning :)

Regards,

Mikystone12/18/2009

it looks like a fastest amateur works...

blinkerdesign12/18/2009

Ouch!

ALackOfColor12/18/2009

I think those with the extra hands , retarded/ extra stretched fingers , or no hands , are so freakyy . The computerdesks one is really funny though :D

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Paul Jacks12/18/2009

BEHIND YOU ! ..... Satans Daughter hovering on your back ,
Brilliant !

Infected12/18/2009

Haha, nice collection!

But one image is definitely missing in this!

Guys, u gotta check this one out, its worth it!

http://bilder.rofl.to/pic/ein-schwarzer-im-boot-ist-genug

Someone can explain to me why they did it? (mention the left-over leg =) )

greetings

Ali Suarez12/18/2009

I can't believe nobody saw those details before they were published.

Sebastian12/18/2009

I couldn´t believe my eyes but after I went to a local store I laughed out loud as I saw the PES Soccer: World Keepy Uppy Champion cover! :D

salvatore12/18/2009

hahahaha
i think as a human we have some mistakes and that`s ok...
but how this people get the job?

theurel12/18/2009

so funny jajajajajaja

look my projects at:

http://theurel.deviantart.com/

PhotoproMasta 2bil.0 12/18/2009

OK! so working at maxim for 5 years and seeing beautiful lady skin all day can leave a mind to wander! so what if i missed a leg here or there.... Trust me no one is look past the knees anyway!

really you be paying closer attention to what I have to do to those unsightly extra fingers! anyway.... STOP PICKING ON MY WORK!

oh and thanks for all the other shoops!

Anonymous12/18/2009

"Austrian Newspaper: The Clone Arranger" is NOT a disaster: it was indeed a political critic against the cloned politician

BC Design12/18/2009

On "Microsoft Poland: At Least They Left The Asian Guy In"
Dont know if anyone noticed but the Switcheroo guy is using a MAC computer w/out the Apple Logo! Too funny!

Anonymous12/18/2009

Yo
that was prettty awful, and im sure some people lost their jobs.
thanks

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Brian Jones12/18/2009

Fantastic collection. and thank you for sharing. Tutorial Freakz posts these often as well and it never ceases to amaze me the mistakes that are published. Whatever the reason - you would have to place blame on all parties - from the designer for producing such horrid work - to the client for paying and accepting this type of finished product..

Astma12/19/2009

Hilarious. BEHIND YOU! made me realy laugh.

liena12/19/2009

It's really owesome picture.

Jon Victorino12/19/2009

That Wacom disaster isn't real. I'm looking at the ad now in the March 2009 issue of Graphic Design USA and it's fine.

Although, the image I'm looking at could be fixed version of the ad.

Gemn200012/19/2009

ha! These are awesome! Some are hard to find, others are so obvious. Both make me laugh and are quite entertaining.

Shamima Sultana12/19/2009

..:D
Have fun...anyway nice collection

Karl12/19/2009

Awesome stuff. Closely related to another article i just read about how alot of clients know someone/have a nephew who has photoshop and is a so called 'graphic artist'. This is what they get when the use their services rather than paid professionals!
Thanks for compiling. I feel very competent now!

jerichvc12/19/2009

sometimes, the agency or the team behind the material allows it to happen so people will start talking about how ugly or how disastrous its done in photoshop. then people starts spreading the word. its viral. just like bad publicity is still publicity.

Omer12/19/2009

wow i am speechless i understand that some flaws are understandable but the ones that i see them i just cant believe those are real flaws lol especially some of them belong to huge companies. Despite the fact that most of them are obsolete and old fashioned as well as they belong to huge companies like BMW:)

deep_paint12/19/2009

great post!
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Kartlos Tchavelachvili12/19/2009

haha, very funny but are those people stupid or what?

Colin Morgan12/19/2009

I love how more then once the pictures of women have giagantic amazon legs. Even hollywood is shaking its head.

bakerjam12/19/2009

Ha! It's great to see some Canadian content on here, especially the newspaper article of the mayor of Mississauga (my home).

DanBale12/19/2009

Wow. Awesome. Some really good pics. Thanks.

De La Costa12/20/2009

ohhh muy interesante jejeje

Roni Gomes12/20/2009

LOL ... OMG!
The worst to me is: Burda: Limbo

SoraZG12/20/2009

Look at the link Infected put here. Weird.

Junior Santos12/20/2009

Is so cool to see those things. :)

Iraqi Dinar12/20/2009

Gonks love headphones! Indeed...

Alexis Brille12/20/2009

Awful captions. You should really describe where mistakes were.

ram12/20/2009

that thing behind the woman...that's not a baby, is it? That thing is gonna give me nightmares.

LuCpOpR12/20/2009

hahaha, best is Transparentes Sichtfeld xD

bdzine12/20/2009

Brilliant! and scary!

MexiChriS12/20/2009

I'm sorry. But I found this to be very stupid & not worth a post at all. I know this may be set to have some sort of amusement of some sort. But I expect better from a site like this. At least worse pieces of work. Not crappy ones like these listed! Could of done better on the source work.

I come to this site for inspiration & the chance to improve myself or do better than others. As we are only trying to do our best in our work. This post just literally brought me down on what you guys post here. That's just my honest opinion.

Wasn't entertaining nor interesting. So I hope I never see anymore posts like this from any of the contributors behind this site. Well with that note, I end with that as my closing line, so I hope to see more vivid pieces & articles posted.

- MexiChriS

Anonymous12/20/2009

I have to agree with MexiChriS. Every regular photoshopdisasters reader will have noticed that all these disasters are from 2009. Look through psdisasters, and you will have almost the same list. And it's also very uninspired to go to another website, take their pictures (traffic), and don't even change the headlines. You could have made some comments on the pictures, but like this, the post is very weak.

joots12/20/2009

This is goooood :D ... Unwigged & Unplugged: Cannot Undo

Jasper Kennis12/20/2009

Some of these make me feel sick...

ram12/20/2009

Because of this article, you now know what not to do, where to pay more attention to and where your work will end up if you screw it up.

Martin Brent12/20/2009

The scariest thing is there was a client or someone else standing there saying

"Yeah thats great"

Andrea Leti12/20/2009

ahahhahahhhh fantastic! aahahah

turisuna12/20/2009

Ha ha ha ha that's funny, but I love to see these pictures, they make me laugh :D Thanks for sharing :)

Jeffrey Bennett12/20/2009

Wow, these are hilarious! Epic fail! LMAO :)

Great post Paulo!

Jonnyy12/20/2009

Some of them were quite obvious, I don't know how the designer didn't notice. A few made me laugh. Nice collection :)

Pat Hartl12/20/2009

Good collection, though a little inaccurate. For example, "Kaiser: Perspective? Pah! Anatomy? Pah!" was done like that on purpose. The perspective "issue" is based on the product of the beer. Look at the other guy with the beer in the bottom left corner. This is not a mistake. I wouldn't consider it a bad Photoshop job either.

I might be wrong on this one, but in "Austrian Newspaper: The Clone Arranger" how do we know that it's not a twin that dresses identical to his brother? Just sayin'.

Anonymous12/20/2009

to MexiChriS:
How can you criticize this site for a funny post. You can't even write full sentences with a noun and a verb.
"As we are only trying to do our best in our work."
Well, don't take your poor grammar depression out on abduzeedo.com.
Lighten up and enjoy the ride.....

MexiChriS12/22/2009

Hehe, to my anonymous friend, hello! :)

My grammar may & will probably always be improper. That's what dealing with an unstable day to day life from the age of 6yrs old on your own can do to you. Although, that's my life & major fail on my part. So I take that into account & blame myself! But never let it get the best of me & continue to learn on what I know best.

The fact of the matter is at least with my major flaw in grammar, I've come to manage a better skill trait, a skill in 'art'! That being drawing, designing, visioning art, blah blah blah! It has at least given me an eye towards finer things that are more intriguing on the mind & eyes. With that comes more of a hunt for a better source, lets say for an example finer pieces of 'work disasters' than these listed above. As these weren't interesting nor fascinating disasters at all.

That was the point of the comment I listed. Finer work source could of been done. No offense to the poster & abuzeedo.com for that though. Its just my honest opinion, from a frequent visitor, as I've seen several wonderful, amazing, fascinating & funny posts.
Maybe your just simple minded & missed that part.... or don't see beyond the point that these are just horribly listed pieces seen on several other online 'work disaster' posts! And ya figured it would be better for you to dumb down on a person, like me, & calm me down for whatever reason... Weird!!!

But hey, its amazing, I however find it amusing you found this post 'funny' !! :D So by your judging on me & my wordings to describe a horrible epic fail on a post. I find it great abduzeedo.com at least managed to entertain you & give a bash! Maybe they did do a great job with this post. Guess I missed that part, hey! :)

But anyways, thanks for your opinion on me, my anonymous friend! :)

- MexiChriS

p.s. and I do enjoy the ride!
Visit the site daily, like air is required to live! :)

misty12/21/2009

oh jeez.. :D

Dzinepress12/21/2009

you did excellent job in this article.

diecimarzo12/21/2009

ah ah ahahah ah ah ah h !!!

Anonymous12/21/2009

Nice article but the BMX ad...describing the wheels as "GHETTO SPINNERS" is kind of offensive...What makes them "GHETTO" ??

Anonymous12/21/2009

This pretty much just a rip off of the photoshopdisaters sites last few posts. Come one guys do some real work.

Fred Slocombe12/22/2009

I can see within the work, the demands made by the clients. "Don't show the thumbs!", "the hands distract from the clothing" and "this is the only picture we have of the product and I need it in 90 minutes!"

Some of the models looked like they could really contort. There was a girl who was a world-class climber whose arms grew extra long because she spent her early years climbing every day.

I have to give a pass to the Kaiser beer ad because the distorted perspective was a theme on product foreshortening, even though it looked wrong. The very fact that it is here being posted is proof of it's effectiveness.

EDI LOPES12/22/2009

Incrivel como há detalhes que todo mundo vê.
as vezes pode acontecer de esquecermos um pequeno detalhe que pode melhorar uma arte, mas as imagens aqui mostradas são um erro grosseiro parece que foi feito por amadores

mertz12/25/2009

this is hilarious. granted i saw most of these already on other sites, it's nice to have this all compiled in a list and funny captions. i can't believe that vs selita e banks shopping one. i'm always on that website and although i've seen some crap there, i've never seen something that negligent. the double hand mayor hazel one scares me...infact most of these scare me. funny in a haha very funny kind of way while your eyes widen because you can't believe how people this stupid could have jobs or even try to pass of their crap as legitimate. that's life i guess. it's good humour and fodder for us all. love photoshop disasters!

underpk12/26/2009

I don't understand the PES, what's wrong with it?

Leon12/27/2009

LOL, this is really funny. Never get tired of seeing Photoshop Disaster posts.

NickP12/30/2009

Just once I want to see a post like this that hasn't had it's content 100% ripped from www.photoshopdisasters.com

Is it really that hard to think up your own captions?

Fx Boss01/15/2010

Great post, totally agree with you on that point.

Chantal03/10/2010

Hello Paulo,
I found your site through a link inside a magazine here in the Netherlands (europe). It's funny to see all those mistakes.

There are a couple nonetheless, which are perhaps a bit weird to see on a first glance, but the photo's are -in my opinion- perfectly 'healthy' and 'un-fixed'...! >>

* 'Mega Magazine: Worst Handjob Ever' - I certainly agree it looks alienlike and awfully unnatural flexible... But, this pose, with the hands like this, ís possible..! I tried it myself. ha! ;)
I think why it seems so unnatural on the photo, is the blending of the middle and ring finger; it makes the ring finger look verrry long. But next to this, I believe it's so confusing because we expect her pink on the left side to be a thumb. So when we think to see the pink is a thumb, then that ringfinger seems to be an extremely long indexfinger. .....Still with me?.. haha :)
It's simply a realllly weird pose, optically verry confusing and I can't think of any reason why they chose this pose/photo....

* 'Salazar: Chick Unfingers' - It seems to me that her index-finger is unseen/hidden by her curly hair.

* 'Mystery Meat' - the model in the red dress is leaning on her right leg, her left leg/hip is crossed over her right leg. It's a weird pose, makes it look like the legs are switched or so. But in modelling the body is often required to take weird and flexible poses, also women are better at this because of their waist/hips.

* 'Maxim Ukraine' - the model is clearly sitting on an edge -for instance a swimmingpool- so her right leg cannot be seen.
The cover-desiger's fault is not showing the edge clearly enough.

Well, that was just what my eyes are telling... .

Thanks for spreading Photoshop disasters..!! 'Plastic-Fantastic' they make our world.... yuk. Here's to a revolution of truth! :)

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