To: replacable_designer_72@oprahmagazine.com
From: oprah@oprahmagazine.com
Subject: slight tweak for cover
I love it! It's so wonderful. But can you remove the huge sandwich I'm eating and replace it with a hand of cards?
TIA,
O xxx
Thanks to everyone who set this in!
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the cards look really fake... like it was implanted there...
o_O
What a pile!
Not only do the cards look unbelievable unbelievable, she looks like she has man hands!
Isn't her head and shoulder also completely off from the rest of her body? Look at the way her bustline is alligned compared with her shoulder and neck. I'm pretty sure there's a head transplant job going on here.
My friend and I saw this in the supermarket and spent a few minutes trying to figure out just how jacked it was. The best we came up with is that she was actually holding cards, but a particular brand of cards, and they went and painted over the real cards for copyright/product placement reasons.
OMG. bobble head, fake cards, man hands... and i haven't seen oprah in a while but seriously do her breasts hang down to her belt buckle? OMG.
i hate to be the ten-millionth person to make this complaint, but this is supposed to be 'Photoshop Disasters'.. not 'Photoshops That Could Use A Little More Polish'.
i come here to see comps with very obvious and disastrous mistakes that we all can't believe anyone could overlook.. not "those cards look kinda fake". please show us more awful cloning jobs and missing limbs, please!!
mojo, she has man hands! What more can you want? Plus the cards are a cartoon.
Yes, man hands and fake cards... but I don't think that's her hair either.
Christ Mojo, the cards dont look "kinda fake", they look like clipart. Thi is a woman with millions of dollars, if not the richest woman in America, who is posing on her own magazine - and yet they've not covered up the fact that she has the hands of a boat yard worker.
It is a magazine in real shops, that people are expected to pay real money for. Designers, writers and editors were pressumably paid relatively good mey for. This is not a church news letter produced by amatuers. The fact that this went to print is a disaster.
the cards look like Colorforms, dude!
I saw this magazine in the grocery store and it stopped me in my tracks. I picked it up and showed it to my 63 year old mother and she said "What's wrong with the cards she's holding? They don't look real!" I'm so glad this one made it to photoshop disasters, this kind of slap job photoshopping can't be ignored when it's coming from a major publication. Hello Oprah? You saw this and gave it the OK?
Mojo ---
Ever asked yourself if your standards are a little too ... low?
All I can think of is that Seinfeld episode -- man hands!!
I'm thinking this magazine cover will only make sense if wearing 3D specs
And, like, oh my gawd, they, like totally used Michael Jackson's old nose and a hand model's eyebrows with Iggy Pop's molars -- and you can even tell they MIRRORED Iggy's teeth... it's SO OBVIOUS! That's SO totally NOT even Oprah at all. I can see how they cut it all together from scratch rather than taking a photo of Oprah.
... ok, the cards look faked in, and badly at that. But the other stuff people imagine they see boggles my mind.
Someone should be hitting the unemployment line for that crap.
Its like absolutely fake
Hah I saw this the other day in a store and considered buying it to scan/post but, well, I don't care that much. Glad to see it made it here regardless!
I also noticed her head/neck...before the cards, actually. There's a LOT going wrong there!
Her face looks ... weird. Stretched, stoned, odd... odder than usual, m'kay?
I can't believe they photoshopped in the ace of hearts. Everybody knows the only card you need is the Ace of Spades.
@Russ - Motorhead reference FTW!
@Brandy - Yes, she does look weird somehow in addition to the cards, and stoned was exactly what I thought! Not sure that's PS or just good doobage =)
To:replacable_designer_72@oprahmagazine.com
From: oprah@oprahmagazine.com
Subject: Re: Re: slight tweak for cover
Great, great. Just one thing, though; you can still see some mashed up alfalfa sprouts between my teeth, can you get rid of those? And my cheeks look kind of puffy... you know what? Can you just use the head from this stock photo I've attached?
TIA,
O xxx
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To:oprah@oprahmagazine.com
From:replacable_designer_72@oprahmagazine.com
Subject: Re: slight tweak for cover
done
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To:replacable_designer_72@oprahmagazine.com
From: oprah@oprahmagazine.com
Subject: slight tweak for cover
I love it! It's so wonderful. But can you remove the huge sandwich I'm eating and replace it with a hand of cards?
TIA,
O xxx
"i come here to see comps with very obvious and disastrous mistakes"
I come here again and again for dwarf bowling videos and I get disappointed every time.
I saw this is in the store... out of the corner of my eye.. it was THAT bad.
Gawd, I saw this on the newsstand a week or two ago -- even took a photo of the tabloid next to it (headline: Opera's secret lover reports she's on heroin) with the O cover visible for giggles. Forgot to suggest it. :)
Forgot a snarky comment:
Oprah's secret to keeping a man?
Don't marry him. Ever.
This is absolutely fucking terrible.
It looks like she's actually holding a cup of tea with its respective plate.
OMG!!
I've just noticed a huge PsD!!!
U2 just released their new video for 'Get on your boots'. At 2.05 you can clearly see the watermark on the images to the right, reading 'getty images'.
Heres the link:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=t2FgCQAtBdQ
Its hilarious!
By the way, I'm Dwaine.
Like someone just said, these are coloring cards. I guess it was all a failled attempt to illustrate the words on the cover: MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK. Like, you could paint ythe cards that suit you..?
That is fucking ugly!!
Horrible !!!
First
No wait, that's not it, is it?
Oh yeah..
OMG. WTF. I saw this at a newsstand because that's where they sell them and I totally picked it up and ran around waving it in people's faces saying, like, wtf, omg, look how frickin' lame this is!11!
Actually, I didn't, because everyone would have stared at me and thought I was a 'tard...
Dwaine's video catch...wow.
I wanna cry!
The cards do look fake! Photoshop can do way better, well, sometmes! Love reading the blog, and I have nominated you for an award!
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Maybe she was holding tarot cards and they decided that "evil" cards would upset her fans. Terrible job replacing them, though!
I noticed her head, etc., but I think it is just that she is seated in a twisted pose and she has big hair.
Terrible. How much is Oprah worth again?
Completely off-topic, but PSDers will appreciate this listing from Sara's wonderful blog It's Lovely! I'll take it!.
Really. You really will.
I saw this in the NYC subways and was awestruck with awful. I pulled my girlfriend over to the magazine rack so she could take part in the revelry, but she wasn't really interested. I think we're breaking up.
Heath, I'm with you on this one, although I think I can see the face of Kermit in her sleeve.
Perhaps Mojo doesn't want to think of this as a disaster since he's the one who shopped it.
There is so much wrong with this cover that it is difficult to isolate the PSDs from the rest of the train wreck--she shouldn't wear yellow, her head looks like it was screwed on and tightened and extra turn or so (probably photoshop disaster), the cut of the dress emphasizes how fat she has gotten recently--either that or she is smuggling watermelon underneath it.
Strange because most of her covers look good. BTW she appears on all the covers b/c when they did other cover models (famous ones) newsstand sales tanked.
The cards are, of course, beyond hideous and look like some kind of odd joke but she never jokes about her image.
That's incredible. If Oprah is going to publish a magazine dedicated to herself, you'd think she would impose some standards on it.
her boobage area is also realllly pretty low considering her angle/shoulders..
as if the shirt hanging off of the shoulder was an afterthought and a mash-up of two photos...
or she's not wearing a bra and well.. hot damn.. o_O
the way I see it, pretty much anything anywhere might be considered a photoshop disaster, the way it's going with this blog lately.
OMG I keep looking at it absolutely HORRIFIED that this is out on shelves, honest to goodness for sale. Wow!
Wondering if O magazine has any new openings for Art Director...
Did they clone out her nostrils?
I saw this at the store too and couldn't believe my eyes on the cards. Then I saw her head seemed to be on crooked too.
I would think she would have final approval on this, I can't even believe they let it go out like this. It's even worse in person.
The worst thing about this cover is, it looks better online. I am a cashier and when this issue of Oprah came into my little bookstand at my register, I FREAKED OUT because it looks so awful. Seriously--you want to see real photoshop disaster, look at it in real life. It looks 500x worse.
I actually saw this in a shop today, the cards look really cartoony XD
Holy crap.
...CLIPART?!
I thought nobody was that dumb, but once again I have underestimated human stupidity...
hey her bra strap broke and then it released her bust to hwere it goes lol
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