Rolling Stone: Set Smudge Tools To Kill


Dear Rolling Stones Magasine, I am awesum @ PhotoShop! I wud like to do your cover! Cn i? Pls pls pls? Awesum! I am nine and a hafl.

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22 comments:

Oscar said...

my girlfriend can do that.

Dino said...

Mine too!

jambalie said...

is the disaster that they left that "i am a braindead, mouthbreathing moron" expression on her face? because the part that looks like her collarbone is made of her hair is clearly just the matching tattoos she and russell got of each other's locks.

Omar said...

And original is here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/188135

Jihad Punk 77 said...

maybe it's just how the photo was sized for the blog here, but the hair and the face look so out of focus and terrible!

also, she looks like a Megan Fox bot.

Carly said...

Her arm, near Wall Street, looks like a barbie arm. Plus I wonder if they smudged away stretch marks just above her bikini line. Or :::shudder::: hair.

FxFarlakes said...

Well Carly
that WAS the secret..she had a c-section...and out came errr...the blurring-tool

wv fatiev..that's the faulty way to write faulty in another language

Alex said...

We call it sfumato, Da Vinci used that technique extensively.

Also, never knew a forearm could be joint to hips like that, very artsy.

Celine said...

That's not Katy Perry, it's an android made to look vaguely like Katy Perry.

wv. const (..ant use of the smudge tool)

Sir Lemming said...

It looks okay AT FIRST, but then when you try to piece together how the arm meets the torso it just gets... ugh...

PoPSiCLe said...

The arm is probably not shopped. She's double jointed, and the arm just bend the wrong way at the elbow (she can bed her elbow slightly in the wrong direction, making it look twisted) and then the lighting makes it look like the arm and hip is joined due to the skin-tones. As for the smudge on the hairline, not sure why they did that - rush job, probably, and not too good - but I wouldn't characterize this a disaster...

AcemanJones said...

Shinier. They said I could get them the shiniest! Shinier. No, shinier!
NO! I'M KATY PERRY AND I WANT SHINY LEGS!!!!!!!!!!!

Donna said...

I want a belly-button shaped just like hers.

myxstew said...

I can see hint of nipple - so this will sell like hell regardless. welcome to reality - which this picture has nothing of, ironically.

Her left (picture right) armpit is really big, isn't it? Lovely hair.

Sorry 'bout that car accident that messed your arm up beyond belief. But I like it that you didn't insist they should fix that in Photoshop to look more natural.

WV: Joint (sic!) Someone has had too much of it; or is it just me?

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Lou said...

It's pretty mild stuff here. Small, normal photoshopping. But when you click through and see the same photo uncropped from the cover you can see how badly the photo was shopped on her left arm.

cattypex said...

Also it looks as if her head and neck are sinking into the cavern behind her clavicle...

1 Buddha's Mom said...

Do arms really turn that way? Does hair and bra straps actually mold to a body in that fashion? Are armpits really that cavelike? WOW! Hollywood really IS a magical place full of unicorns and glitter!

Tara said...

Rolling Stone seems to be infamous now for PSD, the lady gaga cover was horrible. UGH, terrible.

apad said...

What was her agent Mitch Rose thinking? Maybe he was busy doing blow on the contacts when they came in and he had to make a select.

Yikes. A first year college photo student could do better than this.

Not only is the photo baddddddddd the post work ranks up there with what my 6 year old son can do.

Mark said...

I don't think they expected anyone to look beyond her cleavage.