Alternative Press: Alternative To Being Competent

Alternative Press PSD
I actually dismissed this one for a while. I thought, yeah, that hand belongs to the guy at the back. There's no way that's some orphan. And the weird empty space is sort of possible. On closer examination, it turns out this picture is a trainwreck.

Props to A, Frederick, Michel and Holmes!
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69 comments:

Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist! said...

more importantly, why does that guy have an orgasm face?

Galadriel said...

Something is wrong with light-green-shirt guy's right arm. Arms don't bend where there are no joints.

leslie said...

double fail !! the guy with the flyng hand on his shoulder don't have legs !!

polok koxol said...

seems like the (also flying) arm with the face/doll tattoo on the left is the right hand of the missing person -- who I assume is the boy in the center.

Diego said...

Who cares about photoshop disasters? Have you seen those guys faces and haircuts? Come on...

STS said...

^^the person in the middle is a boy?

stumphed-xx said...

trufax: the weird disembodied hand actually belongs to the guy in the middle.

i love the fact that i know this.

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

I agree with Diego; the PSD is the best thing about this image. Those wretched creatures make me want to kill, kill, KILL!

deryke said...

i didnt see that. though the photoshopped a band out of a bunch of 14 yr old girls.

im like. the band looks fake ?!?

hehe

Miss Whorecake said...

It's funny because it's actually the singer's [big face] other hand.

But forget their faces and haircuts. Have you heard their latest music? It just makes me sad.

Mariella said...

Looks like some other (heavily tattooed) disembodied body part is behind the circle you added on the lower left?

http://tr.im/altpre

Also, the guy on the far right, green shirt, has no lower body.

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Is the one in the woolly hat of an 'alternative mentality'?
Maybe The Painted Hand has shocked him into grimmacing like Juliet Lewis's even uglier brother.

Lindsey said...

Blegh, they didn't need the PSD to make them look terrible. The thing that makes this a disaster was that I had to stare at their faces to take in the complete disaster. If they had photo shopped it right I wouldn't have had to look at it >_>

Bofofo said...

Am I going nuts or isn't the green shirt goyrl's jaw denoting he is the real psycho of the Scary Movie ???

Ben Hutchings said...

What disaster? The band's line-up includes Thing.

ZaphodQB said...

Ok, the disembodied hand and the missing legs can all be explained with one theory.

The four people in the background were all one group, and they were split apart into two groups of two to make room for the clown in the middle. the disembodied hand (notice it is wearing the same long sleeved black shirt) belongs to the second person from the left.

adler said...

this is, like, wrong on so many levels. or layers.

Ash said...

Hmm. Did they have to get their mommy's to sign permission slips to get those tattoos?

Manticore Pinion said...

That's the band Bring Me the Horizon, the floating hand is Oli's, the guy in the front. His knuckles say Drop Dead.

and on the off chance he needed mummy's permission, he'd get it.

Manticore Pinion said...

also, this is unusual for AP, they normally do pretty good photoshopping.

almexxx said...

it's made even worse by the fact that the guy in the foreground obviously has the same tats as the disembodied hand

verification word: ingsore (or maybe eye sore?)

Shig said...

Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks, "Eldrad must live!"

gwy9etc said...

@DIMA Even MORE importantly, why is he Ashton Kutcher as Kelso from 70's Show?

These guys are the face of alternative music? They look like they get driven to soccer in a minivan, drinking the SunnyD that mommy packs in their Emo lunchboxes.

Also, when you're tats are all Rainbow Brite-colored, "Drop Dead" kinda loses the effect.

gwy9etc said...

*"your tats" not "you're", sorry -
This PSD sucked so hard my brain fell out.

Pasho Odnoletkoff said...

the two disastrous guys on the right, btw, seem to be young Ashton Kutcher and Owen Wilson. This must be a movie...

illy said...

Drop Dead is his clothing line..
it's actually pretty colourful. so it's allowed to be in rainbow colours.

plus.. Mummy permission?!
Not if you you're 22!

Anndrealeeann said...

Ok, Oli Sykes, the guy (yes GUY) in the middle is the owner of the disembodied hand. How do I know this? Psychic. Also, this tattoos :] HIs fingers spell out Drop Dead. We see the DROP and the dead is written on the floating hand. Obviously this is 2 shots one of him solo and one of him with the band and they just 'shopped him out. I never comment but this... yikes.

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Illy, you appear to be missing the humour.

Avoura said...

The mistake to make here is to assume that this is a photograph of humans. They are not human, at least they do not look like any humans I know. This is a picture of aliens, and so they do not look human and they have weirdness that is non-human and that is to be expected. Or maybe they are just a bunch of weird people who got badly photoshopped.

Andrew said...

Those are some ugly girls.

gwy9etc said...

@Illy - First, what Soph's Diary said. Also, he has a CLOTHING LINE?! OMGLIKE that's 50H4RDK0R3!
/the bitter drip of anti-poseur sarcasm

jambalie said...

It just goes to show, you can't be too careful

Dave said...

is Hansen touring again?

Neil Cicierega said...

This picture has five mistakes, can you spot them?

illy said...

@gwy9etc

it's hxc
not
H4RDK0R3


you people are crap
you just don't know good musician's when you see them.

Chad Schofield said...

Illy fails.

Personally I'd rather watch The Crow, listen to some alternative generic American emo rock band before shooting myself in the face on webcam than purchase anything from these painted anotomically-freaky turds.

Erin Blue said...

the other hand on the left side also belongs to the guy in the front. Double whammy!

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

We can only hope that these hideous urchins were (are?) viciously bullied at school by the big girls and subsequently turned to self-harm in a pathetic attempt to draw attention to their meaningless lives.
Someone just needs to pull down their ridiculously ill-fitting jeans and give their bottoms a damned good thrashing.

STS said...

^but they would enjoy that...

i think illy is about 13...

fa said...

look to this link im from mexico and i found this picture that "seems" to have some problem hahahahah http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f186/dragondel96/?action=view&current=sexy.jpg this picture belongs to a blogspot of "sexy girls" everyday they seems to change the girl image, im such a fan of your website, c ya!

fa said...

i think that with the word SEXY you'll find so many pictures of this disasters look at this please... http://www.tuswallpapersgratis.com/wallpaper/Eva-Mendes-sexy/ i was looking for some pictures for a homework and i ended it sending you this hahahaha

illy said...

Illy is not about 13
Illy is 17
and attempting to defend a band she is friends with.

MVG said...

Hey people, just because you´re not cool like them doesn´t give you the right to.....no, wait, it does....

jackie31337 said...

ZaphodQB said Ok, the disembodied hand and the missing legs can all be explained with one theory.

Understanding how it happened doesn't make it any less of a disaster, though.

Manticore Pinion said...

friends because you met them at a signing? lulz.

illy said...

friends because I see them at least twice a week and spend a reasonable amount of time with them.

seriously. they're nice guys, stop being shitty.

Orangetiki said...

Dude, it's got like tats on it and stuff. you should totally keep it in dude

Commen Sense Man said...

I'm pretty sure this "photoshop disaster" is only the beginning of these girl's problems.

Aimee said...

wow lol :p i was gonna buy this issue and i didnt even see the photoshop disaster lol :p (i only wanted it for center boy anyways <3)

gwy9etc said...

@illy - are you seriously asking us to be nice to a band that plays death/metalcore? seriously? like, we're gonna huwt dems widdle feewins if we don't like the way they scream about evil, etc?

ironically, though, pray for plagues is exactly what i do when i hear them play...

gwy9etc said...

oh, and, illy?

i've been speaking l33t since you were in kindergarten, so don't try to school me. how's about instead you learn up on sarcasm and humor? Also, music.

illy said...

That was.. surreal.

'Kindergarten'?
No thanks. I'm not American.

Special said...

Its really great.

http://allspecialsummaries.blogspot.com/

Manticore Pinion said...

I just don't like their music. bleh

Ariel said...

fucking emo retards...

CrazyAwesome said...

Shouldnt that mag just be called EMO?
Or to make it fresh for the kids, E.M.O. Much better.
Just because you look like a girl and love yourself more than your fans do, don't mean I'll give you the steam off my piss when the time comes and it will come.

gwy9etc said...

Is it just me or is that face "Le Tigre"? Nah, you're right, it's definitely, "Blue Steel".

Illy, you're right, I should not have used the word "kindergarten", the term in about a dozen countries besides the US, including, you know, Germany, where the word comes from - or, really, assumed you'd had any sort of formal education at all.

What I should have said was OMGSTFUPLZKTHX

Manticore Pinion said...

@"CrazyAwesome"

AP does quite often feature punk bands. REAL punk bands, not just Green Day. they also feature various metal and indie bands. it's not all emofaggotry.

lonelyroad665 said...

to further give an example for this.

no one else in the band besides the faggy singer has hand tattoos.

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/48/l_ff2b641f74be4c3a9706783f81412f39.jpg


so...the hand in the background...was taken out of another shot...and used.



lame.

dana said...

hahah wow! i had never noticed that!

erica said...

That band is awful. I'm very glad that I got the Thursday cover of this issue instead of this one.

the other side of the crash said...

wow from what i read , i read nothing but ignorant assholes that talk so much shit for no reason , get a life and stop talking shit about a bands photo . and to those that still use emo to categorize some one , fuck off your just hating on a band thats done more to society then you have

Jess said...

Aw, he's growing a little mustache! Cute.

Becky... said...

In all honesty though, the PhotoShoppinh is a DAMN sight better than their music.

jinxeh13 said...

Oh, man. I love the magazine, but their covers are just the worst. One of them, from a few months back, photoshopped all of the guys so much they all looked like plastic. I couldn't even believe they thought that looked good.

L. said...

"seriously. they're nice guys, stop being shitty." - illy.


Sweety, just because a band is nice, doesn't mean their music should be heard by anyone.

This band is the biggest joke I have seen in a very long time.

Stacey said...

The hand is Oli's (the guy at the front) I know this because he has "drop dead" tattooed across his knuckles. so it really is a psd.

Rick Wait -Photographer- said...

That is totally olies hand (guy in front) back there on the drummers shoulder. Whoops. I'll have to have a talk with the photographer who did this lol.

Jonny Dade said...

Not only is the fact that the photoshopper left the band in (which is a disaster in itelf) - what's really scary is that people have heard of these guys, even worse know their names, and think they're "nice guys" - i'm unsubscribering now, bye.