5 Companies That Need To Step Away From The Photoshop
The fashion, celebrity, and advertising industries are famous for Photoshopping their subjects into oblivion, but lately, we've been seeing even more hysterically hideous chop jobs than usual. Between Target's square crotch-botch and J. Crew's overuse of the magic eraser tool, it's hard to even tell where the model ends and the graphic design begins. I'm starting to think that 2014 is the Year of Awful Photoshop.
One thing is for certain, consumers are no longer blind to the hack jobs being offered up on websites and in print. How could we be, when the errors have become so blatantly bad? Here are the five companies whose ridiculous Photoshop fails have made their ads unintentionally hilarious.
Ann Taylor LOFT is the most recent brand to come under intense media scrutiny for hacking off a chunk of this model's ribcage in order to sell swimsuits. Because come on, all women secretly want to look like their top halves don't match our bottom halves. Obvs.
Though the brand has issued a statement denying the claims, this certainly isn't the first time Ann Taylor has made laughably cringeworthy Photoshop mistakes. A quick search on PS Disasters turns up several pages of hilariously-botched Ann Taylor images.More »
Thanks to their hack graphics department, J. Crew is now famous for more than just selling pseudo-affordable preppy hipster clothing. J. Crew's Photoshop "skills" usually fall under the "unfinished" category of disaster, wherein whole chunks of the image have been accidentally erased. They're also good at creating unrealistic thigh gaps, and then there was that one time when they pasted a dude's finger into a very NSFW place.... Awkward!More »
Speaking of thigh gaps, early in 2014, Target caused one of the biggest internet kerfluffles to date, when they uploaded this beauty to their site. In an effort to make an already-tiny model even tinier, someone edited out a sizeable portion of her crotchal region and slimmed out her midsection, leaving jagged, square edges that are simply not found in real human anatomy. (Thank goodness.)
Feminist sites like Jezebel jumped all over this Photoshop error, questioning why designers feel the need to carve out thigh gaps, stretch their arms out, and basically make lovely models look like mutant freakazoids.
By the way, this isn't the first time Target has been, well, targeted for being horrible at Photoshop. They're becoming frequent flyers, kind of like...More »
What is Victoria's Secret?
Photoshop. Duh.
When it comes to 'shopping beautiful women into scary-weird proportions, nobody does it better than Victoria's Secret. Whether it's placing a leg at each corner, like the image pictured here, or simply stretching models out and rearranging their body parts like some kind of deranged Dr. Frankenstein, Vicky's real secret is that nobody looks like this in real life. And that is a good thing, trust me.More »
For many years, Ralph Lauren has been quietly cranking out ridiculous images disguised as fashion ads. At first, the company fired back at critics, demanding that the images be taken down from sites like PS Disasters and others. However, Ralph and Co. soon learned that you really can't fight the internet, and if you're going to repeatedly digitally stretch and dismember your models, you're going to have to face the laughter.
And oh, the laughter.... These models look more like aliens than human beings, with their giant bobble heads that are thinner than their itty-bitty waist lines.More »
One thing is for certain, consumers are no longer blind to the hack jobs being offered up on websites and in print. How could we be, when the errors have become so blatantly bad? Here are the five companies whose ridiculous Photoshop fails have made their ads unintentionally hilarious.
1. Ann Taylor
Ann Taylor LOFT is the most recent brand to come under intense media scrutiny for hacking off a chunk of this model's ribcage in order to sell swimsuits. Because come on, all women secretly want to look like their top halves don't match our bottom halves. Obvs.
Though the brand has issued a statement denying the claims, this certainly isn't the first time Ann Taylor has made laughably cringeworthy Photoshop mistakes. A quick search on PS Disasters turns up several pages of hilariously-botched Ann Taylor images.More »
2. J. Crew
Thanks to their hack graphics department, J. Crew is now famous for more than just selling pseudo-affordable preppy hipster clothing. J. Crew's Photoshop "skills" usually fall under the "unfinished" category of disaster, wherein whole chunks of the image have been accidentally erased. They're also good at creating unrealistic thigh gaps, and then there was that one time when they pasted a dude's finger into a very NSFW place.... Awkward!More »
3. Target
Speaking of thigh gaps, early in 2014, Target caused one of the biggest internet kerfluffles to date, when they uploaded this beauty to their site. In an effort to make an already-tiny model even tinier, someone edited out a sizeable portion of her crotchal region and slimmed out her midsection, leaving jagged, square edges that are simply not found in real human anatomy. (Thank goodness.)
Feminist sites like Jezebel jumped all over this Photoshop error, questioning why designers feel the need to carve out thigh gaps, stretch their arms out, and basically make lovely models look like mutant freakazoids.
By the way, this isn't the first time Target has been, well, targeted for being horrible at Photoshop. They're becoming frequent flyers, kind of like...More »
4. Victoria's Secret
What is Victoria's Secret?
Photoshop. Duh.
When it comes to 'shopping beautiful women into scary-weird proportions, nobody does it better than Victoria's Secret. Whether it's placing a leg at each corner, like the image pictured here, or simply stretching models out and rearranging their body parts like some kind of deranged Dr. Frankenstein, Vicky's real secret is that nobody looks like this in real life. And that is a good thing, trust me.More »
5. Ralph Lauren
For many years, Ralph Lauren has been quietly cranking out ridiculous images disguised as fashion ads. At first, the company fired back at critics, demanding that the images be taken down from sites like PS Disasters and others. However, Ralph and Co. soon learned that you really can't fight the internet, and if you're going to repeatedly digitally stretch and dismember your models, you're going to have to face the laughter.
And oh, the laughter.... These models look more like aliens than human beings, with their giant bobble heads that are thinner than their itty-bitty waist lines.More »
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