My new favorite website is called Photoshop Disasters. It's a collection of mostly hilarious examples of what happens when amateurs try to use Photoshop to somehow "enhance" a photograph.
I'm pretty sure the conversation for this ad went something like this:
Marketing Person: So the model will be wearing the black button down sleeveless shirt. And jeans.
Photoshop User: A button down shirt that is sleeveless?
MP: Yes.
PU: Seriously?
MP: We want him to look cool and kind of edgy...let's have him holding a motorcycle helmet in one hand.
PU: And in his other hand, his fingers can be entwined with disembodied fingers! Now THAT is edgy.
Photoshop Disasters' posts are sometimes over my head when they show a photo that looks perfectly fine to me, but has a headline that says "clearly a vertical hold problem" or "terrible leveling".
Which reminds me of the years when I worked for the company that makes Photoshop. I must have had this conversation a hundred times:
Person I have never met: You work at the company that makes Photoshop?
Me: Yes.
Person: Wow! I've been using Photoshop since Version 3.
Me: We're on Version 27 now.
Person: It's a great product. But I have a problem when I try to <insert technical words here>. Do you know how to fix that?
Me: No.
The other amusing thing about Photoshop Disasters is that it has actual examples of disasters created by the company who makes Photoshop. What could be more ironic - a Photoshop Disaster featuring a photo of Photoshop packaging. I thought this was so funny. Like really laugh out loud funny. But that might be because I am relieved to a degree you probably can't imagine that I no longer have responsibility for marketing Photoshop.
