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Topps – retouching America’s pastimes…

March 6, 2010

Above: The ultimate photobomb – 2007 Topps card featuring Derek Jeter with Mickey Mantle in the dugout and George Bush waving from the stands. Topps spokesman Clay Luraschi told the AP: “We saw it in the final proof and we could have axed it, but we decided to let it run, we wanted to print [...]

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Spy magazine – covering the covers

March 3, 2010

Above: Two of Spy magazine’s infamous “spoof” covers – Hillary Clinton as a dominatrix (from 1993) and George Bush Sr. with “cutout hair” (from 1989).
Spy magazine was a publication known for the manipulated images which often graced the covers, and the satirical wit which always occupied the inside pages. Spy ran monthly from October 1986 [...]

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Happy 20th anniversary to Photoshop…

February 26, 2010

Happy 20th anniversary to Photoshop!
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the invention of Photoshop. To celebrate, Giovanni Antico made a video with Photoshop 1.0.7 and posted it on Vimeo. Love it!

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In Soviet Russia, you don’t make Shop, Shop make you…

February 26, 2010

OOPS! is right – as in “OOPS! We over Shopped Taylor Swift’s face and made her look like Catwoman!” Ugh. [Photo source: Journal-Plaza.net]
Related articles…
What Did ‘Oops!’ Magazine Do To Taylor Swift’s Face? [Hollywood Life]
The Photoshop Awards: Taylor Swift On Oops! Magazine [dlisted]
How Do You Say “Scary” In Russian? [Jezebel]

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New Moon, new abs…

February 26, 2010

Taylor Lautner’s abs are brought to you by Edilson Nascimento.
In continuing with our it isn’t just the chicks who are Photoshopped theme, I give you that werewolf dude from Twilight. It appears the body used in the New Moon imagery of Taylor Lautner belongs to model Edilson Nascimento. [Photo source: tara renee ϟ on Flickr]
Update: [...]

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