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Magazine Covers

Obama v BP and Economist v NYT…

July 8, 2010

Above Left: Cover of The Economist; Right: Original, unedited Reuters photo.
The Economist is under fire by the New York Times for editing a photo for their recent cover. To their credit, The Economist fully admitted to editing the photo and here’s what they had to say about it…
I was editing the paper the week we [...]

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Outside Magazine to Lance Armstrong: “What’s the BFD?”

June 19, 2010

Outside Magazine got called out the other day by their very own cover boy, Lance Armstrong. He tweeted…

Pictured above is the cover he tweeted about. Outside Shopped onto Armstrong’s plain t-shirt “38. BFD.” The “38″ stands for Armstrong’s age and – I imagine – the “BFD” stands for that infamous Joe Biden-ism “Big Fucking Deal”. [...]

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Executive Digest’s true Photoshop Disaster…

March 12, 2010

One of my favorite blogs, Photoshop Disasters, posted this gem today – a cover of the Portuguese magazine Executive Digest…

I think the magnitude of this Photoshop Disaster speaks for itself – that face simply does not go with the rest of that body! After doing a little photo research I discovered the above cover image [...]

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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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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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