Gap: Wristful Thinking

Wristful Thinking PSD
So, is that your hand in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Thanks to Chris! Original is here!
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101 comments:

B Dubs said...

"hoof"otoshopped that one?

Lovise said...

It's like he's got a rubberhand and it got stuck in his pocket, and he's trying to pull it out, but it only stretches.

EW!

MM said...
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scascot said...

"Clone"ed one too many times...

WV: "Ancitone" - a chemical solvent known for it's ability to transform normal body parts into a Silly Putty-like substance. See photo for an example of a wrist treated with ancitone.

FxFarlakes said...

Trust me,I've seen worse

Oliver said...

I fear this blog is getting kinda lame. This is not a photoshop mistake. The guy is sticking his fingers in his pockets to his knuckles. So what?

Wali said...

More disasters here:

Freaky hand again with some nerves!?

http://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=11900&vid=1&pid=691302

Rubber:

http://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=11900&vid=1&pid=691295

Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist! said...

again, this is NOT a Photoshop disaster. Get your shit together, guys.

David said...

Are you serious guys? Not shopped? The hands weren't even in his pockets, or in these pockets, to start with. You can see where they've been cut.

SHAUN said...

shittington

creativenamechk said...

I think everyone who is saying "It's not a disaster" or "His hand is in to the knuckles, so what?" is looking at the wrong hand...

Thomas Westgard said...

DNFTT

Erin said...

Ewwwww...

wahnula said...

"They call him Flipper, Flipper..."

chad.schofield said...

Curse the effects of Etimodilf!

Femalethoth (Mal from xkcdsucks) said...

Nothing is ever a photoshop disaster unless it's, like, someone accidentally comped a giant flaccid penis into the shot. Christ.

Genevieve Primeau said...

that's just creepy

corbyz said...

Not photoshopped... On his right hand the thumb is being covered up by the shirt... and his other fingers are in the pocket... it just looks weird, but you could do this yourself in real life without any tricks (unless putting your fingers in your pocket and letting your shirt cover up your thumb is a "trick"). And yes, I'm talking about the correct hand... his right. This is also the hand others are talking about when they say it's not photoshopped.

David said...

From the Mr Tickle line of designer clothing.

Not a disaster... Jesus H Corbett.

corbyz said...

I think this site likes to mess with the commenters on occasion by posting regular photos, just to see everyone make claims that they can TOTALLY see where this was photoshopped or cut or pasted or cloned or whatever. You guys look like fools when you see things that aren't even there.

Rillion said...

Umm, either you're blind or this model is an alien, because his right hand should NOT look like that.

David said...

Look very carefully at his right hand, next to the pocket there is a thumbnail on the back of his hand. That is not natural.

Anyone who cannot see that needs new eyes

Tony Fouhse said...

love the site but, really, you guys got too much time on your hands. maybe you should go out and take some photos or something.

corbyz said...

Anyone who CAN see a thumbnail on the back of the hand needs a new brain. Especially if you can even come up with any plausible way a thumbnail gets photoshopped onto the back of the hand or why this hand would even need photoshopping in the first place... do you think his hand wasn't long enough to reach his pockets, so they extended it or something?

Kasey said...

Look at your wrist (which is covered by a thick horizontal tendon under the skin) and look at his left (our right) "wrist." See the long vertical tendons that belong on his hand? Wrists don't have those. This hand has been streeeeetched.

The other hand doesn't look good up close either.

wv:exatis

corbyz said...

That is not a tendon, it is the skin between the index finger and his thumb. He seems like he is extending his thumb out towards his belt loops, but it's covered by his shirt. His fingers are bent back slightly and in his pockets. Holy crap, people, you have another hand right next to it to compare against... look where the wrists are and everything else. There is nothing photoshopped about this hand. You guys are gullible.

David said...

This picture shows where the thumb is: http://i33.tinypic.com/21kro.png

The original photo must have shown his hands in his pockets just to his knuckles and for some reason they decided to shop it so that it looks like his whole hand is in the pocket, they achieved it by cloning some of his forearm downwards over the top of his hand

corbyz said...

David, you have highlighted his index finger... his thumb is not that far down. When you put your fingers in your pockets you don't put your thumb in there also... Look at his other hand and where the thumb is. I'm sorry you are so bad at basic anatomy, but I can't forgive it since you have a clear example of where the thumb is supposed to be right there in the same picture. Even without hands of your own, you should have been able to figure it out.

corbyz said...

Does this make it clearer? http://i34.tinypic.com/25twy95.jpg

David said...

His right hand was originally rotated slightly compared to the other, on his left hand the thumb is flat against the body, the right thumb was pointing slightly away from the body and the tip of it was resting on the top of the pocket. If both hands were originally in the same position it wouldn't have been altered, they altered it to make it look symmetrical

There is also a fine black line along a part of the border between the back of his hand and the pocket which shouldn't be there either

Phil Tomlinson said...

You can clearly see the solid black line at the edge of the pocket where his mangled hand was inexpertly cropped. There are none of the sharp shadows that human fingers create. Seriously, look at your hand. Where are those shadows and definitions on his right hand? Either his thumb is as long as his fingers and they have all been fused into a freakish lump, or his lower arm has been snapped and requires medical attention.

corbyz said...

I really wonder what amazing things you guys can see when you stare at a blank wall. I'm sure sane people could see it too, if we just... looked... harder. This is why people see the Virgin Mary in their toast in the morning.

ewaffle said...

The model's wrist is about 12 inches longer than it should be.

WV: juastona
I thought I would mess with this jaustona whim.

marc said...

this wasn't shopped, it should have been. put his hund is in his pocket just up to his knuckles and his wrist is partily hidden by the coat. looks odd, put defo not a photoshop disaster

corbyz said...

Some people look at oil spills, stress marks in glass windows, patterns in their wood doors, potato chip shapes, patterns in their burnt toast... and see the Virgin Mary or Jesus. They can even get other people to go "Ohhh, yeah... I see it now!"

There's no difference to that and staring at regular photos and squinting and seeing photoshop artifacts where they don't exist. Have fun convincing yourselves that it's really there, though. Groupthink inaction!

jambalie said...

"Nothing is ever a photoshop disaster unless it's, like, someone accidentally comped a giant flaccid penis into the shot."

Oh, ok, I see. So the giant penis they comped onto his wrist in this one doesn't count because it's ERECT. Ok, gotcha.

wormworldwide said...

CORBYZ!! you have wrote a ton of comments about THE WRONG HAND. Geez. Open your damn eyez

Colin said...

If you can't see the obvious problem with the right hand (and, for that matter, the pocket), you're spending too much time in front of the monitor and not enough looking at actual human beings.

Or the people you think are human beings are alien shapeshifters.

Fabio A. Correa said...

What a disaster. It reminds me of that old "The Fly" movie.

Zen said...

I think corbyz is taking this way too seriously.

And that guy's hands would make excellent fly swatters, don't you think?

Meg said...

I agree that corbyz is taking this a little to seriously, but it did take me a while to see the disaster. It's really not THAT bad. Or maybe this is just an extension of my disappointment with the previous post. Real disasters should scream out at you.

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Katie said...

I'm sorry. You have some of the worst readers/commenters on the internet. I don't know how that happened, but man. I totally appreciate you keeping up the blog despite the constant barrage of comments detailing exactly why everything you post on your site doesn't fit your site's premise.

ZaphodQB said...

You honestly can't see the PSD in this image?

Someones been eating paint chips!

katez_chan said...

Even if this is, in fact, not photoshopped (which I sincerely doubt) it would still classify in my book as a PD because it looks horrible and could be fixed by a skilled photoshop-er-doer-thingy-person. And the people who tell these guys to "get their shit together" need to lay off a bit-- it's a hilarious image whether it was photoshopped or not.

Echo said...

Meanwhile people like me send in PSDs that are as clear as daylight and this crap gets posted.

Kimberley O. said...

I'm just an amateur here, but I'd have to say that this guy's wrist/hand/flipper/ghastly abomination-of-a-limb-extension is one of the most obvious PSDs I've seen on this site.

I don't know - maybe this is one of those 'do you see an old crone or a young woman' things - I see a freakishly elongated veiny thing sticking into this guy's pocket and bending in a place that makes it looks like the guy's forearm snapped, and other people see nothing wrong whatsoever.

Funny old thing, life.

digitalcos said...

I actually just signed up for an account, just so I can back up corbyz on this one. In a world without photoshop, you'd look at this pic and go "Hmm, that looks weird. Oh, I get it. His whole hand isn't in his pocket, it's just his fingers", and move on. But, because somebody cried photoshop, the whole village comes runnin'.

Moira Lewelyn said...

@digitalcos

In a world without photoshop, you would have shrieked, passed out, claimed it was witchcraft then have the guy burnt at the stake.

Dave said...

corbyz is absolutely correct. How many different ways does he have to explain it? Look at the other hand. Look at corbyz's picture. Hang in there, corbyz.

NoJags Neil said...

Anybody who thinks his right hand is normal must also be an alien.

Herr Goldbach said...

I think, the model originally had a foot instead of a hand, but for some reasons the client didn't like it. That's how it's got to be...!

linnea said...

i cried faul when i first saw it - but i think it might be ok...

Anna said...

@corbyz

wow if he really put his hand like you show in your little pic he MUST be some sort of freakish alien. I refuse to accept that :/

David said...

Can I just have it on record that the David and Dave who think this image is clean are in no way connected to this David, who can see that the model's right wrist is made of chewing gum.

And Corbyz, the thumb and fingers diagram you made to "explain" the image just made it look more like he'd tried to repair a plugged-in blender.

Love Sex & Money said...

this guy beat chris angel...........

Photoxris said...

What the fffff

wv: suped

Erik said...

Seriously some folks must be blind. Those aren't fingers, they're a misshapen mass of mutant flesh drooling from what's pretending to be his wrist.

Miranda said...

SCREEEAAAMMMMM!!! That's grotesquely deformed.

photos said...

Since no one's mentioned it yet...

My transsexual girlfriend can do that.

And for all the others... It's the arm where you CAN'T see the entire hand...

ET phone home!!!


WV: geakers
Need not explain, right? Or do I, for the people who have been looking at the hand that's stuffed all the way to the knuckles into the pocket...

hadi.92 said...

poor hand xD

Gamebird said...

Photoshop or not, looks creepy and I appreciate a site that pokes fun at the people who decide to publish creepy pictures like this.

I am also tired of "my girlfriend can do that", "first!" and posts soley about how lame this site is.

Cathy Miller Burgoyne said...

Both hands look stretched and rubbery.

Hazel's Mom said...

why would they want to stretch his arm in the first place? what purpose would it serve?

Brian L Bloom said...

I don't see it either.

I looked at Corbyz picture, I looked at the original, I looked at the zoom on the original, I even turned my laptop upside down to see if maybe perspective would help.

Nothing.

A guy with his hands in his pockets up to his knuckles. I do that all the time, and it looks pretty much like that.

If some photoshop hanky-panky happened here, it's subtle at best, and certainly no disaster. Why was this posted to "PhotoshopDisasters" again?

narkej said...

His hands do seem really long. From where the wrist bends to the knuckes, my god! And then add a few more inches for the fingers. Whew! Go Go Gadget hands!

Alejo said...

I think I'd be more likely to listen Corbyz if he wasn't so obnoxious -- I can almost see what he's saying from his drawing -- but I gotta say instead that this is a scary PSD.

Meg said...

There's a joint in the middle of his right forearm, which is several inches longer than his upper arm. I.e., his "wrist" is like eight inches long. People just don't look like that, people.

Amy Lyn said...

It's weird looking and may have been over liquified but dunno that it's a disaster. He's got long arms. Is he free for dinner?

screamingmimi90 said...

If that is his hand just above the material, then the back of his hand must have broken bones in it. I am very familiar with human anatomy, and that is not correct. Not at any angle. Sorry.

wv: synutab As in maybe the pressure in your head makes it look normal to you. You should take a "synutab".

fernandoyanmar said...

was that your foot?

ewaffle said...

@Alejo

I agree. Corbyz forfeited any claim to be taken seriously with the blizzard of posts.

You think its not a disaster, cool. You want to create an image to show what you are thinking--fine, I'll click on it.

But if you keep posting over and over and over that there is one way and only one way to look at this image, then you are obsessed.

Trevor said...

Huh, whatever. I've seen longer , weirder hands than that. Take David Kessler, for example...

heath said...

corbyz is right, and his frustration is understandable. There is definitely a tendency with this crowd to see things where there isn't anything. I'm sure some of you stare at static on the tv and see ghosts...

iboB said...

Why don't you write to Jude Law and ask him to make the same posture again :) I'm sure he won't mind.

However, I'm backing up corbyz too.
This picture isn't shopped.

ambrmerlinus said...

Hey guys, let's fight over the internet about the validity of a Photoshopped picture! That sounds like good times!

tome said...

You don't understand. It is very important to be seen as an expert on the Internet. One's self respect depends on it.

Me, I think whatever did or didn't happen it looks like an erect penis. Which is the whole joke.

Agree or disagree you're just pushing up the post count on the blog and buying Cosmo another yacht. Go on... argue :-)

Jim said...

Opinion: PsD

No, the diagram corbyz drew doesn't help . . . in his drawing the distance between the thumb and index finger is inhumanly stretched. It just doesn't work--his right forearm has clearly been elongated.

No, I don't see the Virgin Mary in my toast or ghosts in the static on my tv. I'm not an anatomy expert and I don't do graphic design or anything like it for my job. I don't think you need any specialized expertise to see that his forearm has been elongated.

Tom Dougherty said...

This blog is getting ridiculous. There is nothing wrong with this picture.

Afonso said...

wtf.. the picture simply has some weird (but perfectly natural) shadows going on. if you see over the eye trick, all the proportions are correct.

heath said...

tome said: "Me, I think whatever did or didn't happen it looks like an erect penis."

Wow. Have you ever *seen* a penis? They don't look like that. Maybe you live near Chernobyl?

Stefan W. said...

Obviously, if you put both of your hands into your pockets, you have to put them in their to the same depth. That's the law. Hm.

No, I'm not in your buisiness, but have seen unmodified fotos, which looked weird.

On the other hand, I often looked here, and needed a second and a third look and hints from the comments, to find the problem.

It looks a bit weired, but not a PSD, imho.

zora said...

i just did this in the office with photobooth. i did not (could not) shop it. i'm hiding one of my thumbs under my sweater. my knuckles are exactly at the rim of my pocket.

http://i38.tinypic.com/30jrwj8.jpg

if there is something else wrong with the image, please point it out to me. what seems to be the issue here does not look like an issue to me.

David said...

Good call Zora.

I've suddenly got the urge to buy one of those jumpers you're wearing - can you tell us where you got it?

don said...

long time listener first time caller.
image looks strange, id call it a shop, but zoras image looks strange too. anyway.
it fits with this blog. good to see you got a sponsor. what is it about companies joining the party after everyones passed out? anyway enjoy, cos im over it. not even the comments are worth reading. you gotta give more in the descriptions to create a reason to care or say nothing but choose perfectly shopped images, id say a is easier to do than b, seeing as b doesnt happen that often and/or theres not the readership willing to take photos of it when it does. best of luck.

zora said...

@David: it must be the 8-months-pregnancy-belly that's doing the trick here. ;) because still it looks awkward. i wouldn't discuss that.

tome said...

Heath: "Wow. Have you ever *seen* a penis? They don't look like that."

No, darling, you're talking about your pee pee. Some are bigger than that.

CatLadyDiary.com said...

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Thank you for your feedback regarding young man's wrists in the photo.
We appreciate the time you've taken to contact us to share your
thoughts. We'll be sure to pass your message along to our marketing
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what our future marketing materials will look like.

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soon.

El Pollo Diablo said...

I DISAGREE THAT, DESPITE THE OBVIOUS NATURE OF THIS PSD, THAT ANY DISASTER HAS OCCURRED.

IT IS CLEAR THAT NONE OF YOU ARE AWARE OF MELTY HAND SYNDROME.

THE COMMONALITY OF A PICTURE WHICH I DON'T THINK IS A PSD EVERY... OOOH... TWO MONTHS MEANS THAT THIS BLOG IS RUBBISH AND YOU ALL SUCK AND I AM THE KING AND NONE OF YOU CAN EVER DISAGREE BECAUSE YOU ALL SMELL OF POO SO I'M JUST GOING TO SAY THAT THIS BLOG SUCKS BECAUSE OF ONE PICTURE OF MELTY HAND SYNDROME DESPITE ALL THE RECENT AWESOMENESS. I ARE BLOG READER.

WE ARE ALL LIVING IN THE MATRIX, DON'T YOU SEE?

Daniele said...

Photohrapher: "ok, here's my picture for the Fleece peacoat"

Director: "Geez. he should look like a casual pick for mild days. Why does this idiot have an erection?"

Photographer: "hummm... I... don't... know... but I'm sure I can fix it. I can put a longer right hand inside the pocket, it's gonna look like the hand goes up in the shirt"

Director: "are you also an idiot? do u want we fucked up on PhothoshopDisasters like Ralph Lauren?"

Photographer: "well.. that'd be great promotion for free"

Director: "right.. but we gotta find someone lame that starts a fight on their blog.. so it'll have more impact"

corbyz: "here I am!"





wv: ingenc = ingen(i)uous commercial

Burlesk Grotesk said...

A fleece peacoat that is 8 inches too short. Will this horror never end? Probably aimed at cockwranglers with trousers at knee-level.

corbyz said...

I'm really glad I came back to this post a few days later to check up on the discussion.

lorrwill said...

wow I see this disaster spawned a troll.

This is a creepy, flesh melting disaster (and no, I do not make my living as a GD).

JJH said...

More evidence of non-disaster:
http://i35.tinypic.com/50mkqx.jpg

btscl said...

This is not a Photoshop disaster as it has quite clearly been doctored using MS Paint.

Ezra said...

this is not a photoshop disaster! can't you people pick out the difference between actually distorted images and somone not being able to fit their hands in their pockets!?! his pockets are too small, so what your looking at is his forearm, wrist and hand with only his fingers in his pockets. look at the hand on the right; you can see where is thumb is! As far as I can tell, the image has not been altered in any way.

emrabt said...

i know i'm late with this but to all those saying it's not photoshoped.

you can see where his hand WAS before they cloned and streached it to put in in his pocket, including fingers and a few nails.
http://img215.yfrog.com/i/image11h.png/

Burnt Orange Wall said...

gross!

Joey JLo Lopez said...

It's Elastiboy

Mr. Billy said...

So I was scrolling through old PSD's and upon seeing this one, I had to click the comments just to be sure what exactley was wrong.

......

yeah.