Editor: Run this picture!
Art Desk: Right boss, run the picture with some messing around.
Editor: Wot?
Art Desk: You know, mess around with it in Photoshop.
Editor: No. Just run the picture normally.
Art Desk: Right, run the picture normally.
Editor: Thank you.
Art Desk: ...after chopping it up into layers and pasting it back together.
Editor: No, don't do any Photoshop.
Art Desk: Right. Hardly any Photoshop at all.
Editor: No! No Photoshop!
Art Desk: Whatever you say, boss... Just clip a bit out and move it.
Editor: What?
[continues forever]
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Original is here!
136 comments:
Wow. The guy taking a picture with his phone pointed at NOTHING doesn't help the believeabilty of this picture either. Not that a half erased guy does either....
I thought maybe the guy just has pants that match the runner carpet...
The original even has a cropped close-up of the half-erased guy!
Good Grief! Just how many layers ARE there in this one?!?
that guy looks like Edward Furlong.
Umm... What? That guy's not half erased. He's leaning forward. Look at the close up. His legs are hidden behind the guy with the red and black striped shirt. The black on the left side of the "erased" section is the security guy's black pants.
I see no photoshopping at all in this one. Just a weird angle.
It seems ok to me.
Arguably not a PSD because he's obviously Invisible Man below the chest.
although deceiving at first, this isn't photoshop. the guy is leaning forward. the other black strip is the guard in yellow's pants.
don't see the disaster here. Agree with Otto!
I like that dialogue.
Too bad the picture actually is perfectly fine.
Failblog Fail.
If you look, they are restraining him which has made him lean in an awkward way. No Photoshoping, just your eyes playing tricks on you.
Yeah upon closer inspection (in the article there is a close-up) it appears to be real, just weird-looking. You can see his belt.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I dont see any photoshopping here. The guy's legs are behind the person to the right of him. He is also leaning forward while his shirt is being pulled on from behind.
WTF are you people talking about? Look at this - he's not leaning forward awkwardly. That's not humanly possible.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/20/article-1200828-05C628FA000005DC-665_306x423.jpg
Sorry everyone, but it's not shopped.
Ok, after staring at the close up, I take back my WTF comment. It's such a weird set of angles/colors, but def not a photoshop. But the fact that is chest sticks out so far makes it look wonky.
Looking closely at the close-up (close-close-up?), you can just see the top of his camouflage pants.
That's some good camo - it made the whole lower half of his body disappear. How come our guys in Iraq and Asscrackistan don't have that stuff?
Ok. I hate to say this but I just don't think this is a PSD but it is a really awkward angle.
Look at the close up. You can trace the security guys pants behind the guys arm. The guys shirt is being pulled back so tight as to be holding him up. He's leaning so much that he'd fall forward if there wasn't guys restraining him. Since the neck of the shirt is distorted it looks like he's standing straight.
Which is more believable? That the guy's leaning forward funny (which is right arm doesn't agree with at all) or that it's shopped. In the real photo of this dude, he was still up in the stands.
Aw. And I feel I should say that the kid in the yellow, the one holding the paper and pen looks like he just got his heart broken by Beckham (Bekam?). Nice going highly paid professional athlete dude.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01446/beckham_jeer_1446331c.jpg
Same event, different pic. Pretty sure theres no 'shopping there. There was no one else even there that needed to be removed.
You can see in this pic the same guy a moment or two later as he's pulled away from the security guard... Plus in this video you can see the fan coming down ~0:19
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Put. Down. The. Drugs.
Seriously... not photoshopped?? Are you guys just all trying to be trolls? His shirt just happens to be exactly the same color and texture as the tan dirt on the sidelines?
You can try to use leaning/awkward angle to justify his missing legs but that does not justify why I can see through his torso
More importantly: Is that a Baader Meinhof lyric reference in the title?
And why is my word verification "azzligha"? Seems a bit strange...
@stephanie: He's leaning forward. His t-shirt is just black. The tan and blue really is the background. He's not occupying that space at all. Take a look a the close-up in the original article.
sorry, no. totally not shopped. the blue runner there is exactly where it should be. the guy's shirt is pulled taut on one side, giving the illusion of a misshapen/photoshopped torso. but that's all it is: an illusion.
Haha. I am actually a big soccer fan, but this is really wierd why would they make such a big mistake on a major even picture like this and then post it onto the internet, makes no sense to me.
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this is NOT photoshopped people!
he is leaning forward, twisted - that's all. sorry, but if u can't see that, then you must be on glue.
Maybe he was wearing green and the camera was set to ChromaKey?
No?
@Kirvi Inci: The guy taking a picture of nothing is actually taking a picture of David Beckham.
That's nice of David Beckham to reach out to fans like that.
Everyone who thinks this picture is fine was clearly homeschooled.
Maybe we need to split this blog into four categories:
1) Actual Photoshop Disasters
2) Design Fails
4) Optical illusions
3) Funny pictures of cats with poorly spelled captions.
Am I the only one who notices that the security guards' shirts all say "LAX" on them? I don't think you'd want to advertise that you have lax security.
I didn't know they were making a Hallow Man 3?
Yes! Every time something looks the least bit odd, it's a photoshop disaster, naturally.
Glad I happened to check in today after giving this site up for a month... it's always entertaining to see people finding photoshop errors where there are none. And being so self-righteous about it, too!
I saw this in my RSS feed, spent 5 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong, had to come here to read the comments and now realize, this is not Photoshop'd.
Even if the fan is just leaning forward really far, where is the left hip of the man behind him?
Hey it was actually convincing until you see the flaw :P You can't really see any bad outlines and bad cropping effects... he's just not there.
Quite amusing :)
People should read prior comments before posting their own. Then you might see the error of your ways and stop posting embarrassingly bad comments.
Only upon reading other people's comments and looking back at the closeup that I realize that most people who have posted here are right, not a PsD.
it took me longer than i'd like to admit to find what was wrong. I just kept thinking it was a weird focal length/aperture issue. Then I saw the fan is missing a chunk of his torso...
Definitely not messed around in Photoshop, just like many other 'Photoshop Disasters' that have been posted on this blog. Sometimes things just look weird to our eyes.
And please, don't believe in everything they tell you around the Internet. You got to reason things by yourself too.
It certainly looks like those two pictures were taken only moments apart from each other, yet a whole bunch of people shifted positions yet retained their exact (almost) poses.
Which looks to me like the artist charged with producing the pic for the Daily Mail was trying to move the action closer to Becks, but then got into trouble filling in the missing bits.
Or they were on a moving platform which travelled a few yards between photos, either will do.
Next person to say the fan is missing a part of his torso receives an e-slap.
I think the torso missing can or cannot be a PsD, but there is a pair of legs wearing navy blue pants, top left corner of the picture, where the right foot (from my perspective)melts with the blue rug or whatever is in the floor, the right foot is just not there, I can see an ankle and the beginning of a sock and that is it.
well regardless of whether there is an optical illusion, something has been done to the picture because whatever was done left a large black line on the inside of his left arm.
I am just amused that one of his arms reeks of pop-eye like proportions.. and the other one.. more of an olive oil girth.
Oh well, it seems that you guys at PD rushed a bit into things:D. It's clear as daylight the reason for that "gap"
Mr. Half-Invisible looks a lot like Rafa Benitez' cousin from south central Madrid.
I see no PS here, the picture is ok.
the insane shape of the guy is not due to a crop but to the other guy that's pulling the shirt
One of the basic things in conspiracy theories is to concentrate on one detail and forget all the other points.
If youthin the man is just standing there in a weird way, just look at the feet of the person in the upper left corner
@rheker: You mean the person facing away from the camera?
What the fuck? How are people claiming this not to be a PsD?!
You're all retarded.
Also, Americans know fucking nothing about football.
Evidently not PSD. Look at the neckline of his T shirt and how it is pulled away at the back of the neck. That shows the tension the shirt is under and so how it is being pulled back to conform to the shape of his body. Have him lean forward, have the black trouser leg of the guard complete an apparent "hole" in the image and you get the illusion. But not PSD.
Perhaps the site needs to have a retraction service
HEY GUYS LETS ARGUE ABOUT SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET HURF DURF HURF DURF.
seriously, the reason this is a "failblog" is because immature idiots enjoy arguing a point rather than looking at the pictures and getting a good chuckle. If you don't like it gtfo, don't make a big deal out of it and be a drama whore.
This isn't even a photoshop error, never mind a photoshop disaster.
What about the guy in the white t-shirt (middle, with the sunglasses hanging out of his shirt), without any legs? Is he also 'leaning forward'?
hmmm it seems no photoshop at all.
"What about the guy in the white t-shirt"
Yeah, what about that guy?
just look at the feet of the person in the upper left corner
The woman? What about her?
I don't think that there's a "hole in his torso", but the guy's arms look shopped. Look at the closeup in the link, and look at the security guard's hand on his left arm.
Not to mention that his left arm is much smaller than his right. Either he jerks off, a LOT, with only his right hand, or it's shopped.
I needed some persuading because the shot is so odd-looking. Perhaps it's because we expect Americans, generally, to be obese. The official's legs are the same colour as the guy's T-shirt and, freakily, the outline of his trousers fits very closely to the outline of the guy's T-shirt - like the South Americac coastline fits into Africa's.
So much as this is a wtf? image on first sight, what we see is a skinny guy being restrained while leaning forward next to a guy with the same colour trousers as his t-shirt. I also thought those who didn't think this was shopped had to be on drugs. Turns out the editor had his way.
Incidentally, in the video posted by Damia, the same still image can be seen at 0:30. Weird image. But not shopped.
Exactly, BJ. Your capitalisation obviously puts you on a level way above the rest of us.
The reasons people are arguing are beacause; 1) It is fun 2) There are still absolute morons who think there is a peice of torso missing form that man.
That should, of course, be 'because'.
@David: right... *sigh* because everyone over here's an enormous fat bastard. And *we're* the people accused of generalization- being that we're all the same, of course.
Is it just me, or if you're looking at the large size image here:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/20/article-1200828-05C62938000005DC-133_634x365_popup.jpg
Is there not a person in the middle of the image, right behind the guy with the red and black striped 'bwin' shirt, who's feet don't appear to be attached to their body?
My hat's in the ring of not photoshopped.. After reading the comments, I started to see what did look totally freaky -- that the right portin of the fan's chest appeared to have a triangular shape "tear" in it, and as if he's striding forward with his right leg facing us.. but really, the right side of this "hole" is the fan's black shirt, the left side is actually the one guard's left leg.. the fan is actually striding forward with his left leg (that's hidden by the guard with his hands on him) and is being pulled back by the guard.
what confused me, actually, is what the hell is on the fan's shoulders? at first i thought they were very elaborate braids (wtf?) but I think it might be ablanket?
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Did I mention that Americans are also generally known all to be hyper-touchy, oversentitive, self-victimizing AND obese? Sorry if I forgot.
And of course humo(u)rless.
yeah that's no mistake. he's just leaning.
"-security? get this guy off the stadium!
-affirmative.
-but make it discreetly!
-yes sir, we'll make it look like he was photoshopped."
adler's last comment made worthwhile my reading of the comments. Otherwise, not a PSD. Has anyone seen the blog owner admitting they were wrong (when they were)? Just curious.
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No, but I've seen him laughing at the comments.
My reaction to this photo was something like "well I don't see what's the matter with this pho-OH MY GOD there's a rift in time and space emerging from that guy's torso!" Seriously, what is this photo anyway?
PSD Editor: Run this picture!
PSD Trainee: But its not a Photoshop Disaster
PSD Editor: Doesnt matter - they;ll think it is!
PSD PSD Trainee: But it isnt??
PSD Editor: Look, we need content and this will have them fooled.. run it!
PSD Editor: ermmm... okay then
Is it just me, or is the disaster in this one more like the old dude with the glasses in the middle of the screen? The man's hips are missing.
@commercialism: thanks for linking the full picture, as it does prove that it was Photoshopped - just not where people are looking now.
Take a look at the woman's legs in the top left that were previously mentioned. In the full view that commercialism supplied, you'll immediately notice that this woman's legs are attached backwards.
If you check the fan's left (our left) shoulder and bicep, you can see the duplicate layer from the PSing - there is a duplication pattern from the erase back. It's visible on the larger size image on the website. The sleeve, braid, and bicep are duplicated.
There's also a hand holding that shirt back - you can see it over the shoulder - but whose hand is it? Someone has to be restraining/pulling that shirt that excessively but no one is there in that image. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/20/article-1200828-05C628FA000005DC-665_306x423.jpg
Braiding? Blankets? Have you people never seen a football scarf before?
the guy in the white T shirt with sunglasses hitched on his neckline clearly does have legs. And no women have their legs on "backwards"
"you'll immediately notice that this woman's legs are attached backwards."
You're kidding.
"The man's hips are missing"
And you are, too.
@Andrea—I'm not sure where you think the scarf/braid is being cloned from; from a distance it appears cloned, but when you look at the zoomed-in image that pattern isn't anywhere to be seen. And his arm appears to be a mixture of unfortunate angles and shadows.
And as for the mysterious hand at the back of his shirt, commercialism posted a link to the full image above, but I'll repost it as well: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/20/article-1200828-05C62938000005DC-133_634x365_popup.jpg
The hand does have an owner, once we see the full picture.
Compare the before and after pictures. Notice that everyone else in the picture has barely moved (with the exception of the guy running in the black and red shirt). Yet our man, despite being apparently restrained in the first picture, has moved his torso and legs a good four feet.
The thing that really doesn't make sense in the before pic is the location of the guy's legs. He appears to be held back behind a barrier at ground level, as his legs do not extend beyond the hips.
The dialouge reminds me of the one between King of Swamp Castle and his guards outside the prince's room in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
No shop here.
Not a shop, the area that is visible is between his front and the pants of the yellow jacket guy to his immediate right. No shoppy, sorry.
Worthy of Bob Groden some of this is.
I note in the "after" picture that the women with her legs on backwards hasn't got them on backwards at all.
Worthy of Bob Groden some of this is.
I note in the "after" picture that the women with her legs on backwards hasn't got them on backwards at all.
Too funny. I actually listened to that Monty Python sketch on the weekend.
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One of the best things about this blog is that the owner just posts the pictures with (generally) very funny captions/cut lines. It seems the commentariat has a free run of things after that--a "never complain, never explain" type of outlook perhaps.
If you look at the video this shot is right before the guy is taken down hard, like, ouchy type hard by mr. firm but polite security... This tends to explain a move of a piddling 4 feet.
Also it has been proven, (by science!) that most bystanders tend to.. stand by... as shit goes down. This often explains why they in fact do not move, flail or generally streak about for the camera and remain firmly planted standing in the same spot for a long eonic couple of seconds.
Video is awesome. Pictures steal your soul.
his shirt is un-tucked, and leaning over caused the shirt to stick out at the bottom, legs pulled behind by security guard. gravity vs shirt. photoshopped? on what planet?
I thought maybe the guy just has pants that match the runner carpet...
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Definitely photoshopped. Look at the enlarged section via the link. The restrained guy's shirt fades into nothing, while the boundary of the young kid's shoulder strap is much too clean a curve to be real. The Mail must be employing unpaid interns for the summer months.
Is it me or you can actually see the drop shadow in the security guy's hand over the sleve of the other security guy?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/20/article-1200828-05C628FA000005DC-665_306x423.jpg
I can do that when i get mad.
I think they managed to secure half of him...
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About the guy talking a picture with his cell phone:
How is that evidence of a mistake!? In case you're to stupid to notice, that's DAVID BECKHAM that he's pointing the camera at! Not just some random security guard...
Also they are walking down a staircase (evidence by the angled hand railing at the top right of the image) which accounts for the blurred crowd that seems to be to high in the image.
He's leaning forward, someone's pulling on his shirt--maybe a PSD, but not clearly one, which I guess itself invalidates the claim that it is a disaster.
But checkout his right arm--there is something wierd going on about the elbow, which makes me wonder about his legs all over again.
Oh my god this is so funny! i really love PhotoshopDisasters!
PSD has jumped the shark.
Has anyone else noticed that the old guy with the sunglasses still has an appendix which was actually removed in 1976. More poignantly, however, is that David Beckham seems to have had his brain Photoshopped out..oh, wait..
Photoshop Disaster Distaster!
There's no obvious Photoshoppery anywhere in that picture, although there are two spots that you could just about be forgiven for visually misparsing if you don't look closely enough.
What impresses me the most about this picture is that people seem to find photoshop errors EVERYWHERE in it. :)
As for the guy with the black t-shirt, he is obviously leaning forward in an oddly non-photoshoped way, and I really can't think of any reason why any editor would try to make his legs disappear and replace them with a texture that looks exactly like the ground behind him.
I think my favourite thing about this is the way that everyone who doesn't agree with everyone else is apparently retarded or on glue or crack.
Not mistaken, or anything like that, but ON GLUE OR CRACK. Welcome to a discussion on the internet.
And all the people who start their posts with "sorry, but": are you really sorry? Really? Or are you just trying to sound snarky?
Also, not Photoshopped, you are on crack if you disagree.
Sorry, but glue-sniffing crackheads who think this has been 'shopped should be jailed. For life. And then killed. And buried in jail.
Idiots.
Not 'shopped, just weird angle, awkward leaning, shirt pulled around sideways, all contributing to the illusion.
Dialog reminds me of Hey Arnold.
"And whatever you do, don't stop for chocolate."
That was nice, Nice one hahaha.
Wow, and this is what you get paid to do? Wish I had your job of doing utter bollocks!
Wow, wish I had your job! Like someone mentioned, changing picture around???
FAIL
Ack!™ They've ripped him in half! Not shopped? You've got to be kidding. You can see the dirt and blue carpet right through his missing chest!
Definitely shopped! Look at the dark blue painted railing between the two guys on the far right of the large photo (between the plump guy in the red shirt with the earpiece in his ear and the guy in the blue shirt with "CSO Security Super..." on his back), that railing should not be there. I believe it is part of the original scene which was located somewhere further to the upper right in the stands. What say you?
You can see the blur on the edge of the shirt. That's not a ripped shirt, that's a blurred shirt. Oh, and the video where you see it? The video contains a copy of a still, not a live action shot.
Hilarious. Lost in all this is the fact that there are a bunch of people who were actually there and saw this go down. All of you "It's obviously a fake" people look like paranoid schizophrenics to those who witnessed this bit of American soccer history...
the fan and his torso is moot at this point. The most important thing is that this is a piece of journalistic fraud. The photograph is a combination of at least two images. as other shots from similar angles show a bit of a different scene.
People seem to have decided this is not shopped, but I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet:
Why is the red guard's right hand putting a hole through the yellow guard's leg? It's not a natural way for the trouser material to fold, and the hole quite closely matches the shape of the hand.
The reason everything looks weird here is not because of Photoshop, it's because it was shot from the stands with a very long lens. When you do that, all the distances in the photo get very compressed. You can see an example of how zoom compresses distances on the Wikipedia article on dolly zoom (also called the Hitchcock Effect).
The real travesty is that the 'original' story has two 'pullouts' from the larger photo placed above it:
At the moment the player was taunting and pointing, the guy on the right grimacing and straining to get to him.
Erm, wait, no.
At that moment, the player was extending his open-palmed hand as a friendly gesture.
Ah, but that won't sell papers!
Sorry, i don't see photoshopping in this one. The fan is angled forward so that his lower body is blocked by the security guy. Watch the video in the original. It's a mess, but everyone here is in place there.
I didnt think this photo was photoshopped but if you go to the link of video with the guy who claims to have been called out by Beckham, he looks dark skinned, is not wearing a cap, has an official club shirt on and doesnt look anything like the guy pictured so something is off somewhere...
this picture has no photoshop on it at all as im looking at the original from splash.
so whats the point of still having it up as a post then?
Fail photoshop disasters FAIL!
so wtf is wrong with this picture? :o
I can't see anything wrong. There was no photoshopping here.
Absolutely nothing wrong with this picture. Some of you need new glasses.
Yes, the guy just happens to have a floor mat and stadium stairs perfectly visible through his midsection, but NO, there's no photoshopping going on in this picture!
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