PSD Update

http://twitter.com/mallpress Matt Allpress

do not want.

kelseigh

That explains the sharp drop in quality, then. Can’t say much for the addition of the “You might also like” section linking to much better PSD’s. Calls the lack of quality into sharp relief, don’t you think?

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Thanks for the feedback Kelseigh
- Me
  
  ‘Bot.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DKKNIM6L277UAPYREA5JG2235Y jeff stass

While I don’t want to sound quite as harsh as Kesleigh, I do agree that the site has become extremely cluttered. Perhaps instead of a “You Might Like” beneath each one, just have a “site map” you can navigate to with all of the major “labels” that have been applied to the various PsDs. Or maybe just a link that says “Other ‘anatomy fail’ PSDs” or something like that.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Thanks Jeff for the suggestions. I am going to look into it over the next week.

http://eagleapex.com/ eagleapex

CHANGE MAKE ANGRY
[smash laptop]

BuxomBess

But I didn’t want fewer unprompted insults leveled at the homeschooled! I wanted many many more! I will miss the snarky wit.

Korscha

Hey, that was fast; I just sent an email to Cosmo, return to the main page and presto, the news everybody knew are up.

To Vernon: If you are planning to “not make any radical changes”, perhaps you should start by not deleting comments. Sorry, but it had to be said. And please, I know you want to get as much traffic as possible, but there’s no need to whore up the tags; if it helps, take a look at the origins.

Greets.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

I read and continue to read all the comments that hit the site. I felt that a lot of the members were over doing the complaining on the comments and ruining it for others. I had planned to get the PSD update post up on the site earlier but that didn’t happen for one reason or another. We will change the tags and try and revert back to the old method.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A42G3NICOY6H3SIPVMDQIFY74I GEOFF
  
  psidisasters – “revert” means “to go back”. Please look it up if you want. If you’re going to “revert back”, are you going to go back back? As for the gist of most posts, I agree with them. Didn’t someone once say “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”?
- Anonymous
  
  You do understand that complaining comments have always been a part of PSD, right? You did actually read the blog once or twice before you took over, right? If people don’t like complaining comments, then they shouldn’t read the comments. As long as it’s not ad hominem (look it up), I don’t see any reason it needs to be censored. But then, you haven’t posted anything worth reading above the comments. The pictures don’t seem to be PSDs, your comments about them aren’t entertaining, and your categorizations are not appropriate to the blog. You do understand that the tag is supposed to classify it by the nature of the disaster, not by what’s in the picture, don’t you? Because a “Mad Men” tag doesn’t put the similar disasters together. But I suppose you think that a “Mad Men” tag will get you more traffic. Guess what? It’s going to get you less traffic.
  
  Unsubscribering. And this time, I’m not just kidding around.

Waldobaby

Hey! Can we get this new comment editor to delete? Does it HAVE to be a tree?

Tilman

Well I liked the unprompted insults leveled at the homeschooled, although I wouldn’t say that was the reason I was here.

The main problem with the new “owner” is that he can’t set the labels properly. These labels are a classification of what type of disaster it is.

Tilman

As a start, I’d suggest that “the new guy” use the existing labels to reclassify all his own past postings.
- http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon
  
  I agree. It is a problem for us now.

Tome

oh poo, no Google ID. I’ll just be ‘anonymous’ until I work out which one of these is least nasty. (Please God not Facebook)

Hey everybody let’s just let the new boss settle in, the old boss must have other things to do now and let’s give him a nice send off. (Sound of one hand clapping). Geez, you’re a hard audience.

But seriously how many more years was the ‘my girlfriend’, ‘small owl’, ‘home schooled’, ‘fatties’ jokes going to last? You know, things move on, kittens become cats, all that. Let’s just give it a go and see if a new culture breaks out.

I think the main thing is the You Might Also Like. It’s a just a bit heavy, Can we try without it?

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

We have just removed “You might also like”

Electro

Can we at least know why this change of ownership has happened?

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

It isn’t really for me to say. I am the new owner and extremely excited about what the future holds.

Latita

So, welcome Vernon
but, let me ask this question: why did the owner change?
Expand a team is what i understand, but leaving without some declaring words? hm :/

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

I’m not really able to answer that question.
that guy

“Leaving without words” usually means “got a fat check.”

Kakoiuzhas

For some of us, this site’s appeal stemmed from the combination of intelligence, idiosyncrasy and nastiness in its humour. The word play, the labels and the random attacks on the home schooled and so on were all signs that there was a real person writing this thing. Now it reads like each new entry is being dashed off in about 30 seconds, with no thought going into making it funny. I suppose you know what you are doing with respect to building a broader audience and raking in more cash by, for example, not alienating the fatties, but the bland new tone means you are fast losing a certain percentage of your new property’s more loyal fan base.

So…adios…

PS Someone above complained that the site was getting into a rut, relying on jokes about girlfriends being able to do that, small owls etc. Respectfully, this confuses the blog with the comments.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Thanks for the feedback Kakoiuzhas.
- BuxomBess
  
  Point proven about the dashing things off in 30 seconds so it no longer seems likes this blog is upkept by a human…
Homeschooled Graphic Designer

Those of us who were homeschooled resent the constant homeschooler-bashing, though. I graduated grade school a year early, got a 1960 on my SATs, and graduated college Magna Cum Laude four years later. I was homeschooled since preschool, and now I’ve been working for a graphic design firm for a year and I’m making $40k.
My best friend, who was also homeschooled most of his grade school life, graduated from Lafayette with high honors – and now owns his own mechanical engineering and design firm, which he started himself.

My point is that every time someone makes fun of homeschoolers, it’s because occasionally there’s some idiot who gives us a bad reputation. Wherever you go, be it Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, or Northeastern, you’re going to run into stupid idiots.

Also, there’s another category of people that you might want to look into: “Unschoolers.” Do some research there, and you’ll realize that most of the time when homeschoolers get made fun of, we’re not the ones that should be targeted.

Thank you.
- Cynthesised
  
  @Homeschooled Graphic Designer
  The “homeschooled” comments are a part of the ambience of the site which you appear not to “get”. You not getting them is what makes them funny. Had you wanted a group-hug warm-feeling all-good-pals-together sort of place, this was never going to be it. Your opening sentence above is rather significant though – when exactly were you designated to speak on behalf of the home-schooled? I appear to have missed the election notification.
  
  Other news just in: “you might like” – gone (thanks) and soon forgotten.
- Phlegmbot3000
  
  Shut up, fatty.
- Waldobaby
  
  I homeschooled three of mine. They were just plain not learning in school. Actually, I “unschooled” one of them and that worked only because she’s god-awful smart. Her fondest memory was the book I bought called “GED for Dummies”. She suddenly is no longer interested in this place. She said (roughly) “A lot of people buy a business because it’s run so well, immediately change everything, and wonder why it all doesn’t work.”Anyhow, two basic facts are 1) he is a tough act to follow, 2) this site is legend, and 3) you DID walk into a room full of sharp vicious snarks, you poor bastard. Pick two.
- Amber Anon
  
  Oh man. You had me until you seemed proud of making $40K a year. Seriously, if there is more than one person in your household, and you are the only one with a job, you are under the poverty line. Congratulations. Lame, man. I know high school janitors making more than that. Ask for a raise or lie about how much you make.
  
  Also suggest YOU do some research on unschooling. Actual research indicates that parents who are doing this as a choice (that is, that are consciously unschooling rather than neglecting to school) are having extremely reliable success with their kids. People make fun of homeschoolers on this site for the sake of funny irony – almost as an inside joke, like unsubscribering and tiny owls. It’s a thing this site has. Get over it.
  - What?
    
    You know janitors that make more than $40K a year? Seriously? Where do you live, El Dorado?
- Vertical_movement
  
  HOLY CRAP STOP WHINING
  - Agustawind
    
    Thank you!!!!
    My god people, if you don’t like the new site, fine but, quit whining like a bunch of toddlers.
    
    Thanks PsD, this site is great!
    Good luck to the new owners.
    
    myra manes
- Brad
  
  Homeschooled Designer: I tried a few times to read your post but can’t make sense of it.
  
  New owners: Bring back a good writer. Without good writing this is just a blog with bad Photoshop work in it. Cosmo was bordering on genius (“What is a joint like this doing in a girl like you ?” still makes me laugh months later at random moments in the day)
- Willowest
  
  You got a 1960 out of a possible 1600 on your SATs? Impressive.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MBEJXX3UNGCIRMO74J7SLAZYZI Mushroom

I for one embrace our new Photoshop snarking overlords. (Please unclutter?) Welcome aboard!

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

We are currently removing some of the clutter as I speak.
Guest2

Last week I had a hard time tweaking my AdBuster to remove all thad Facebook stuff and the Ad overload. Now I know why…

Nysha

Just as long as the new guy isn’t from gorram cheezburger, which appears to have been eating all my favourite sites of late, I can live with it. I know how much work keeping something like this going is, so I wish Eddie a less stressed and more productive retirement.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

I’m not from Cheezburger. My office is Tully’s and my sofa although Cheezburger is located down the road from where i live.

Real Gone

For some time, I have been wondering What I Have Been Missing in images where a model’s neck is a tiny little bit too long or the foot is behind the leg, and What Is Going Over My Head in captions where the writer doesn’t seem to be saying anything much beyond “this isn’t very well done, is it?”, so I suppose it is nice to know that I haven’t been missing anything, it’s just not there any more.

Real Gone

Oh, and I was homeschooled and I can categorically say that We Have It Coming.

http://atwistedblog.blogspot.com/ Agjhgf

Isn’t this the worst disaster ever appeared on this site?

Oh, crap..

http://atwistedblog.blogspot.com/ TwistedTool

Some mistake on the username above..

Also, farewell Cosmo..
Hiredhand_uk

yup, that’s a PsD

Damien

I wish Eddie all the best, and welcome Vernon. Keep those disasters coming!

I honestly use this site as a resource, in a warped way. Whenever I’m retouching, in the back of my mind a little voice is saying “Check and double-check. Don’t end up on PsD. Check and double-check. Don’t end up on PsD. Check and …”

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Thanks Damien. We are going to do our best.

gxip

I never really cared for the badly photoshopped pictures. I can easily find and spot them myself too. I came here only for the witty remarks about them as my own wit fails me. That is the only content that is really made for this site. If that is lost, I will sadly have to remove PSD from my RSS feed list.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Well hopefully it wont come to that.

Melisa

Well Cosmo, whatever the reasons are for your leaving, just wanted to say you did a great job… Loved your sense of humor, this place without that humor doesn’t really do it for me. *sniff* It’s just that there’s a small owl in my eye right now. Can’t type anymore.

http://twitter.com/deedeewarren dizzle

Hmm I don’t think blog commenters are owed explanations as to why someone decided to leave, sell, or whatever. If the person decides to say, fine, but that’s their business.

That being said, I do see that the political incorrectness such as, well, the one that prompted the meme “person of heft”, are a thing of the past, and for that reason, I probably will no longer visit.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Sorry to hear this. I wish you all the best in the future.

Byebye

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Site officially deleted from RSS.

http://nigelcoldwell.co.uk nigel

good luck with the change over. try not to cock it up.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

We are going to do our best you can be assured of that.

anon

Hopefully you will think about Gap and what happened to them recently; it wasn’t broke and people didn’t like ti when they fixed it. So they did the right thing and changed back. Lose the ‘You might like’ links. There’s no way you can reproduce Cosmo’s style of comment but you can be a bit less formal than you are being at present. Time will tell.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

I know how Gap feel
- Spacklerz
  
  FEELS*
  
  FFS dude, proof-read your text.

Another anonymous. Sorry.

I’m using the “Anonymous” username, but that’s just because I have been lurking on this site for a couple of years and haven’t felt the need to comment before. Cosmo’s comments and those of the contributors used to make me laugh and I didn’t feel the need to add to them – as you can read here, I’m not very funny.

However, I’d like to add my voice to the people fast becoming disenchanted by this site. It’s looking more and more like every other moderately successful blog of its kind, with the content hidden in the middle of a sea of vacuous ads, links to various social networking sites and general clutter; the curse of the cheezeburger / fail network or whatever they’re called.

I’m not going to check this site regularly any more. I know this won’t make much of a difference to you or anyone, but in case you’re keeping count of the people fed up with dilution and selling out of this site, you can count me among them.

WDI

It’s pretty shit now. Who would want to visit and comment on a site that immediately deletes all negative comments?
Well done Cosmo, you did a good job but selling out to a dictator will be the ruin of PSD.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

We didn’t delete negative comments and they will still be a fundamental part of the site. The problem comes when you have a lot of people complaining and ruining it for others is when you start to delete.
- Hoffi
  
  I think when you have a lot of complaining you should not delete the complains, but answer to them or listen to the suggestions they contain. Last but not least, these are the people that loved the blog in the past.
  Just my opinion…
  - http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon
    
    Point taken. We wont delete any comments in the future unless they are of a nature that just don’t fit with the site.
    - Josin
      
      Short of advertising spam, that SHOULD mean that you won’t be deleting ANY. I really get the sense that you don’t “get” the community of this place… and by the time you might, it’s going to be gone.
    - Anonymous
      
      This site is fucked. Newfag can barely wrap his head around the proper use of English grammar. I don’t expect him to do much more than fly this site straight into the ground, creating an explosion of deleted comments, poor writing, social site buttons, and advertising space.
    - Anonymizer Bunny
      
      I love you man, I still giggle whenever I think of this comment a month later.
    - http://twitter.com/bschildt Bauke Schildt
      
      DOESN’T.
      
      Jesus Fucking Christ on a stick.
- http://actonthat.livejournal.com/ Act
  
  I must be missing something here, because I don’t remember anyone christening you with the ability to decide for others what “ruins” the site for them.

emma

thank’s cosmo, you did a great job with this site!!!

and for the new owner, good luck! i hope this site will one day be great again. one request: please, please give us the “original is here” back!!!

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

We will add that back. I wasn’t sure whether people wanted it given some of the posts didn’t have it.
- emma
  
  thanks! that was quick!

annstarrr

I’ll stick it out for a while. But I really hope that this site starts putting up *actual* disasters, not vaguely-maybe-it’s-not-perfect photos. You know, the ones where I have to stare for two minutes before I notice that a dimension is a little off. I’ll give the new guy a chance, if only to correct the mistakes of the old guy.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

You can help us out by submitting some of the disasters that you see around the web. PSD tries to do it’s best to find images.
- PSD…D
  
  ITS. Ok. A short lesson in apostrophes.
  
  It’s = it is. Do not use an apostrophe with possessive pronouns for goodness’ sake.
  
  Please see here for more details:
  http://grammar.about.com/od/punctuationandmechanics/tp/GuideApostrophe.htm

http://pixeldough.blogspot.com/ Pixel

not so much a disaster as just an everyday occurrence in the would of image making these days

Mail

Sorry, this site has gone from “PSD Disasters” to “Images that might not meet the highest professional standards” a long time a go already. It might be that this is a natural thing to happen if you’re under the pressure of publishing 1,2,3 updates each day instead of once or twice a week as it was in the beginning.

PSD Disasters made me laugh in the beginning, but these times are long ago – the day they stopped showing disasters…

Good bye – this might be an appropriate moment to leave this site.

Kathy

I never really read the captions under the photos, so I don’t care about “no more fat jokes” thing.
My only concern is that I can hardly tell what the disasters are anymore. Even if I read the caption and skim the comments, sometimes I still can’t figure it out. I enjoy the site and I still check on it every few days, but it seems lately that I look at the picture, think “What’s the disaster?” and move on to the next one when I can’t figure it out.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

This will be the second thing we are going to fix on the site.
- PSD…D
  
  No no nonononononono don’t do that! That’s part of the appeal. I know what is going to happen. You’re going to spell it out for everyone and ruin it even more in the process! The whole fun of the thing is reading peoples’ comments as the days unfold as they try to debate what exactly is wrong.

Hoffi

I don’t get this blog anymore. I thought, you are running out of real PSDs. But since I sent in a real horrible example from the title-page of a big German magazine (obviously pasted the same stuff about 10 to 20 times to fill up the picture), I don’t get this blog anymore!
I thought, it is about real professional desasters: pictures where a professional did a horrible job. But during the last weeks and months, there are more and more pictures, where you almost cannot see the “desaster”. I don’t like to see some subtile errors in picutures, but real desasters that come from the real world. Please return to these!

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Thanks for the feedback.
- M00
  
  my girlfriend can autoreply

http://twitter.com/CharlieSchorner Charlie Schorner

Welcome, Vernon! I guess I never took the blog quite as personally as many of the old-timers seem to have, so I’ll continue to enjoy the breathtaking images. I just hope to never find one of my own featured here!

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

I’m Gone

Ah…I’m deleting the bookmark. No longer funny. And Vern, you can’t have it both ways; either you do delete negative comments, or you don’t.

You do. That’s lame.

Cosmo — thanks for years of laughs! Good luck!

http://twitter.com/arcanasphere MrAndrewJ

My dog’s girlfriend can do this.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Send in the dog’s CV and I will be sure to give them an interview.
- http://twitter.com/GregGifford Greg Gifford
  
  see? there’s a bit of the snarkiness we all come here for… how about putting more of that in the captions?
- PsD…D
  
  Why should you give the dog an interview solely on the basis of what the dog’s girlfriend can do? It’s this attention to detail that I believe you are lacking, sir.
  
  I used to think this blog was eye-wateringly funny. As George Harrison once said three times, “All things must pass.” Goodbye, PsD. Good luck.
  - Bob
    
    The dog’s girlfriend is most likely a dog too. Sir nitpicking Sir.

Starfighter

If the last week is any inclination of what’s to come, I’m sad.

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Well let’s hope next week you will be happy.

Wefferson

hey psd. I’ve loved the site for a while now – the terrible work was interesting enough, but what made me return so frequently was the humour in the captions – really witty – i often laughed out loud. and the irreverence was the genius of it, not something to be erased and apologised for.

the ones from the ‘new guy’ display zero wit – just ‘look what a bad effort at photoshop this is’. i can’t see how, unless you can hire a copywriter with similar flair, or unless Eddie can be persuaded to take it back up, you can possibly hope to engage new readers, let alone keep your devoted ones.

i’ll check back in a few weeks and see what you’ve come up with. Good luck!

kirvi_inci

I’d say don’t screw it up, but I am too late for that. :/

Ewaffle

The ads and other clutter don’t bother me–very easy to ignore. Clean, streamlined web sites are nice but not necessary for me to continue coming here. Funny content is and much of that was in the comments. Cosmo set a great insane tone with his tags and headlines–and if you spend your time looking at bad photoshops you will either start from an insane point of view or develop one quickly.

I hope Cosmo/Dave sold PSD for a lot of money–that he made out like a bandit–and wish him continued success.

For the current owners, best of luck–being funny is hard as hell. I will continue to drop in from my google reader for a while to see how it works out. If you can approach the former quality of PSD I will even click on an ad occasionally.

Gabriela

New guy, by removing all the sharp humor, you’re removing this website’s soul. I used to love the nonsense tags such as “you so fat” or “i’m meeeeellltiiiingg” or whatever. Now what’s up with “lady an” tag? And the captions? I don’t get it, really. I’m gonna miss the old tags, captions, jokes on how one’s girlfriend can do anything, jokes on the homeschooled, the commenters saying they were unsubscribing at every entry for every stupid reason they could find. I used to be one of those, btw hehe. Now I’m really unsubscribing, this site has become plain boring.
Add to the fact that the humor is gone, I don’t really see any photoshop disaster on the last few entries, probably minor mistakes, but then again, not funny anymore.

Penelope

Many times I’ve watched angry people in the comments saying what I’m about to say, and I never thought I’d be one of them, but…Unsubscribing.

Gabriela

??

Kate

Hi Vernon!

Welcome to your new job. I see you’re recieving a fair amount of flack in the comments section. I’ve been reading PSD for about 2 years. It’s natural that a lot of folks here are very fond of PSD and don’t want to see it change, even if those changes may be for the better sometimes (although, honestly – don’t delete comments. It always looks bad.) As the newbie, you’re always going to have an uphill slog to gain people’s trust.

But y’know, for the record, I’m keeping an open mind and wish you the best of luck. It’s admirable to see you responding to people on here – especially when we all know the comments sections on the internet aren’t usually the friendlist of places!

So GOOD LUCK! Hope you have a great time and this site goes from strength to strength

http://www.www.psdisasters.com Vernon

Thanks for the words of encouragement. The comments can be a scary place but i tend to learn a lot from reading through them.

http://actonthat.livejournal.com/ Act

You can start by learning the English language properly. Jesus. I read the new captions and thought Cosmo had had a stroke or something. Things we learn in grade school: whose = possessive, who’s = who is. I’m pretty sure even homeschoolers have that one down. And seriously, capitalize band names. Commas won’t hurt you.The writing on this web site was dry, snide, and intelligent. It made something that could have been standard into an entertaining and vivacious web site. Put some actual thought into what you write, instead of throwing up unfunny one-line grammatically disastrous nonsense that you pulled out of your ass in some misguided quest to pump out as many posts in one day as possible.Also, it’s the internet. If you don’t like debate and negativity, you are in the wrong place. Leave.PS: Learn the memes on your own site. It will be pathetically hilarious if you don’t, admittedly, but still.

I’m Gone

I guarantee you he doesn’t know what “memes” means.
Erica

If the writing on this site was even half as good and witty as the writing on this comment, I would be satisfied enough to check this site more than once a week. Too bad. I’ll have to go procrastinate somewhere else…

David

Liked:

1) The many, many genuinely dreadful photoshop misjudgements this site has uncovered over the years.
2) The snarky, take-no-prisoners comments under each submission
3) The almost 100% complete absence of comment from Cosmo other than his labels
4) The comments threads, for all its heat and nonsense, was the second (and a close second) best reason for coming here.

Disliked:
1) The occasional image that, for marketing purposes, actually worked, but was perceptible to a tiny coterie of readers with enough knowledge to see that it was shopped – though they rarely had any skill in imparting this knowledge to anyone without their level of expertise
2) “You may also like” – glad that didn’t suffer long as it died.

I’ll keep watching. Just remember you’re looking after an audience with a hair-trigger unsubscribe tendency. Nothing too jazzy and we’ll be fine.

Anon

Unsubscribing.

Anon

Let me guess, rich kid offered Cosmo a sack of money for his site. Cosmo went ‘uh okay’. Kid is hopeless, site dies. Am I getting close yet?

Anonymous

Sorry, but your new guy just isn’t up to it. I wondered why there’d been a significant drop in quality of posts recently (the lack of humour etc, – just because there’s a mistake in the picture doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worthy of posting). The newby is in dire need of an editorial eye.

Spiffulus

My advice: hire a writer. A clever one. Quickly. Otherwise, in a few months’ time, when your readership has plummeted and you’re trying to work out how your purchase of a solid, successful blog has gone so badly wrong, consider this: a blog, any blog, is about writing.

Cosmo was witty, intelligent and dry. I’m sorry, but nothing you’ve written so far gives me much cause to smile, much less laugh. This, combined with an apparent lack of understanding of Cosmo’s clever categorisation system (baroque anatomy? Comping trip gone awry?), an unawareness of why people come to the site (Clue 1: snarky comments are a plus, not a minus. Clue 2: deleting comments unnecessarily is seriously uncool), and a lack of basic grammar and punctuation skills (this may seem trivial, but consider that your readership will tend to be on the nitpicking side. After all, the whole premise for your blog is pointing out the flaws, sometimes quite minor, in others’ professional work, so your own work should really be above reproach), give me very little hope. And that’s without even mentioning the crass sale of every empty space on the page.

I know you probably think people on here are just being trolls, but it really is nothing personal. It’s about quality. This used to be very good, and since you’ve been writing it, it hasn’t been. It’s as simple as that.

I would read a blog written by Cosmo any day, regardless of the subject. I don’t suppose there’s any chance of knowing what he’ll be doing now? There’s a new vacancy in my daily web trawl…

anon guy

I gotta say… I agree with a lot of the comments on here.

Cosmo’s wit, humour and acidity is what has made this site funny. I guess I didn’t realize it until now. The last few entries were … well… missing something.

Most of the time, I didn’t know what was wrong with the image until I saw the comments, or read the tag. Cosmo had this site down to a science, and it was hilarious.

I gotta parrot some of the other comments – this new guy is just tossing images up, and putting nonsensical, pointless tags that don’t contribute (seriously, wtf is with the ‘lady an’ tag)? The updates always made me chuckle, to the point I would only visit once every week so I could save up the entires and have one big laugh fest. Now, it’s a pale, grey paste of a website, seemingly
devoid of effort.

Sorry… I’m gone. Best of luck in the future, but Cosmo was the heart and soul behind this site – the new guy got off to a lazy start, and has lost it.

Vaya con dios

Dd

There’s sharp humor where you’re making fun of the people who did the photoshopping, and then there’s just being an ass by making fun of others. Stick to the first and you won’t come off as a pissant.

lamety-lame-lame-lame

I can’t believe how quickly a good blog turned into rubbish. It’s like the new guy never even read the old one, or if he did, he didn’t get ANY of it. This is just lame, lame, lame. Won’t be checking back.

Bob

Well then, I see the homeschooled has taken over. I await its demise.

Madeleine Isaacs

noooooooooooo

Lily87

As Vernon said, the new people are coming in next week, and then it may be back to normal. So why don’t you negative people wait and see what it’s like then instead of jumping to conclusions?

Good luck, Vernon. I’m sure you know you have big shoes to fill, but I know you’ll work hard to make the site great I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Quizzling3

Reading the comments here lately makes me furious. Cosmo got trashed up and down on a daily basis for being too obscure and now the new owner/writer is getting nothing but shit from the self-appointed critics. Were you all so damn good at everything you do during your first week? Did anyone ever cut you some slack while you found your voice? PSD has opened my eyes to a really funny and frightening phenomemon and thereby earned my appreciations. Good luck new guy, I’ll keep reading.

Josin

The point of this site IS being self-appointed critics. Where have you been?
PSD…D

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Anonymous

I’m outta here.

-AnonymousLurker

ZaphodQB

Cosmo, thanks for the laughs. Bye

http://www.google.com/profiles/105244251826134520993 Lilithn

I would like to agree with most of the above comments, I wont repeat that something has gone horribly wrong with this site, but I would have lingered here for a while to give it a chance, except for deleting comments….there is no excuse for that. I’m already fed up with that on other sites – especially profit – centered sites – where no critic of the product is tolerated and immediately eradicated, but here..? The heart and soul of this site were the witty, sarcastic remarks from readers and the everlasting amusement by the indignant notes from the stuck-up (homeschooled) humorless people.

Cosmo, thanks for the enjoyment while it lasted. Hope to see you somewhere else.

Lilithn

Me

What?! I wasn’t homeschooled; I was in Montessori. Get it right.
goodbye

maybe it’s similar to little man syndrome…that’s all i wanna say about that…

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BVQLGRO2AK7L3S5GXHAFK6LFFI Vic

You’re trying to fix something that ain’t broken. We got used to the site under Cosmo and a new owner will make changes, but try to think of those who visit, what they want to see. And no more psd where we have to scrutinise the image with a magnifying glass or scour the comments to find what is meant to be crazy about it.

David

I’ve just noticed that you removed the Just as Beautiful post with Cosmo’s fat homeschooled caption and a string of brilliant comments. Tell me this was because the publishers raised a copyright issue and not because you wimped out on the possibility that you might offend the terminally hypersensitive. That is *not* the way to start here. I hope you haven’t missed the appeal of this site already (hint: it is NOT because it indulges in gratuiously offensive remarks).

Korscha

Wait, he did what????

….Ok, Mr. Vernon, that’s plain bullshit. If this is the game you’ll be playing from now on, I’m way outta here; I don’t need any more politically correct crap cluttering up the internet. Like someone said earlier: You don’t like some comments? TOUGH SHIT, buddy, that’s life! That’s what comes with freedom of speech, you know?

Shame on you. Seriously.

Cynthesised

Perhaps the site has been purchased by a person of heft to prevent teasing of said underclass by the leaner minority and their small but ever-watchful owls. Discerning anons need to know – pics or gtfo.

Disaster has struck
Cosmo has deserted us
PSD is sold

(Before anyone berates me because I should be teaching my kids at the moment, it’s their lunch break.)

goodmood

Cosmo, thanks for the laughs. I’ve enjoyed your witty comments and if you’re still out there in the blog universe…slip us a link? I know I would love to keep reading your stuff

And good luck to “the new guy”. You have a tough act to follow and I’m hoping the next few posts will be closer to the standard we’ve come to expect on this blog.

bother

I’m only a casual reader (just came here today having forgotten about it for months and been reminded by something in a newspaper), but I immediately spotted a sharp decline in the quality of posts. The writing is embarrassing. It used to be witty and self-aware, and now it’s… not.

I don’t think there’s any question of that. It doesn’t seem as if the readers who are expressing disappointmen here are doing the usual kneejerk ME NO LIKE CHANGE thing – sometimes change is actually and manifestly for the worse. I hope it gets sorted out – I’ll come back and see but evidently many won’t, having been put off by an extremely wobbly hand on the tiller.

bother

Oh, and I just looked at your new Facebook page and er, it’s called Photo Shop Disaster.

There’s no excuse for this. You really, really need to get shit right – especially on a blog about stuff other people have done wrong, and especially when you’ve just taken over something that has built up naturally over years and acquired a lot of loyal fans. I’m not even one of them, but this makes me angry. Take care of what you’re doing and of what you’ve taken on, goddammit.

Thanks for the goods Eddie. You’ll be missed.
Anon

I entirely agree. Eddie, did you sell this site to an overzealous high schooler? Because the writing quality, both grammatically as well as the humor itself, has been beyond mediocre as of late. RIP, Photoshop Disasters… Or should I say Photo Shop Disasters?

@marfan2009

Since a great website in Brazil mencioned this blog, almost 2 years ago, I’ve been a huge fan. I’ve seen ALL posts, not ashamed to watch them over and over… Sorry, Vernon, it doesn’t look like the same blog, and I’m deleting you from my Twitter / RSS for sure… Better luck in the future!

al

Clearly all of the witty and brilliant unprompted insults leveled at the homeschooled were the reason why we all come to PSD on a daily basis! You will definitely be missed. All we can do is hope that the new blog writer is as clever as the old one!

Guest

Hi Vernon. I’ve been reading some of these comments – pretty harsh I have to say. I know from experience that whenever you put yourself out there you’re going to open yourself up to criticism. The internet is the sounding-board for the whiners of the world – and the comments section on this blog is your local whiner trash-talking meet-and-greet. I thought the “unsubscribing” remarks where funny – people have been threatening to unsubscribe since I started reading this blog about 2 years ago, so I don’t think anything you do or say will make one iota of difference to that fact. I don’t know about the future success of this blog – many readers may not visit again, but this doesn’t change the fact that there will always be good photoshop disasters out there, and there are tons more new readers who have yet to discover this site. I encourage you brush off the spiteful comments and focus on the useful suggestions you get to make this blog even better. And I wish you nothing but success. Good luck.

lolabel

Hi. I’m usually a lurker, only inclined to comment when somebody is wrong on the internet. But this is sad. I wish you luck, new guy. However, I (and many others) LIKED the off-colour humour at the expense of fat chicks and the homeschooled and owls and whatever else. In the overly politicially correct world we live in, it was nice to have an intelligent website that didn’t try to cater to every last person/moron/fatty on the internet.

So…I’ll come back and check out the progress next week, but my hopes aren’t high. Comso, you’ll be missed.

Adlerski

goodbye, Cosmo. i’ll be missing you.
anyway, i’m unsubscriberiberiziring.

cafegrrl

Welcome aboard, Vernon! Good luck with your future endeavors, Cosmo7!

My two cents…. I loved the old PSD snarkiness BUT, as of late, it got to be downright mean-spirited! All the bashing on the heavy set was just mean mean mean. BTW, I’m a petite and slim, so I wasn’t taking the comments personally, but I thought it was really spiteful and bordered on crass.

WITTY snarkiness is much appreciated. Emphasis on WITTY.

Looking forward to more PSDs….

Thanks for making the announcement.

Buffalowins

What happened to the photos? This site sucks, unsubscribe.

http://twitter.com/arnoen Arno Enzo

Kudos to all the Anons, Guests and aghadh. Very brave. Big mouth and such…
Give the new guy a chance. So he screwed up the first week, thinking he was improving. Shit happens.
All you homeschooled clearly don’t see from his replies that he’s very willing to work with the readers. If you’re only here to anonymously whine about things… that’s just a waste of bandwidth. Learn from the people who give constructive criticism.

@Mushroom: AdBlockPlus. Not one single ad. And no need for (re-)tweaking.

Arnonymouse

Yes, your fake, trolling, spamlicious, poorly spelled Twitter account is SO. MUCH. BRAVER.

Wordwhore1

This site really is a disaster now, with or without pictures. And shame on you, too Cosmo…not for selling your business, which you had every right to do, but for leaving us without warning. I know you got insulted a lot, but you also know there were a lot of people who stood up for you more than a few times. Oh, well. So long and thanks for all the shif.

Anon

Been reading this side for a few years now, but first time replying.

You people complaining should get a ffing life. Really.

Good luck to the new owner.

Phlegmbot3000

Another fatty with a big mouth. Suggest you stick to tricking the homeschooled out of their donuts and let the normal-sized people get on with their conversation.

blah

I like the PSD site for a while I admit, but recently the posts have been lackluster and the old editor came off oftentimes as a dick. But yes, I get it’s all humor but it seemed like the descriptions of the images were “trying” too hard to be funny that it came off dickish. Good luck!

Oh and please accept more interesting PSD’s on the site. I can recall I sent like 10 submissions for the site, and I would say I was really thinking 3 would at least make it onto the site because they were pure PS FAIL, and were from very recognizable big companies.

Me

If V is only deleting the spam posts, I won’t complain.

Adios

Censorship Disasters? Yes.
Grammar Disasters? Everywhere.
Photoshop Disasters? All gone.

Unsubscribing.

bleah

I noticed the difference in writing immediately but had hoped it meant you were on vacation. Nothing against the new guy (meh..) but NOBODY has your particular wit! You confused me at times but it was a good confusion. I am NOT. PLEASED. At this substitution. NOT!!!!

Ghoster8

But the homeschooled are weird. And too many damn adds.

http://www.google.com/profiles/alirat153 Alirat

Sad to see you go Cosmo. You have a brilliant sense of humour and your obscure references have always been fun to crack. You will be very missed.

New guy – what can I say? Deleting comments, spelling and grammatical errors…boy you sure are doing it hard. Best you could do is keep quiet for a few months.

I’ll miss the word verifications too – they were fun.

But on the bright side this isn’t the cheezbugger network….yet.

Seb

2 things for me:
- possibility to zoom the picture
- an explanation of the disaster (sometimes, we can’t see it, and we are not, all of us, english speakers)

Kuroneko

I suspect our new person was home-schooled (perhaps a fatty too), as result we’ve now got poor grammar and punctuation (home-schooled part) to contend with, as well as a lack of humor (fatty part perhaps)?

http://twitter.com/deedeewarren dizzle

No, no, it’s “person of heft.” And possibly blond or blonde.

http://twitter.com/deedeewarren dizzle

I was curious to see if the owner had responded to my comment, and he did, although in a vacuous way. However, I think this site may have new appeal. I am immensely entertained by the atrocious grammar of the new owner. Seriously, it is almost as good as Engrish Funny. Park on my privates again? No!!

Howard

Am I the only person here to suspect that this ‘new guy’ stuff is just another ruse by Cosmo who’s going all out for the maximum number of unsubscriberators? Okay Cosmo, joke over – you can come out from behind that tree now…

And Thanks For All The Fish

Reading all of these comments has been the most fun I’ve had on this site since “the guard” apparently changed…I really love watching every single grammatical error get called out and corrected. Bravo! But seeing posts and comments deleted is a turn-off, and, as a plethora of other homeschooled heft haters pointed out…$%@ ain’t funny no mo’! Bye bye PS disasters…I will miss you.

Peter

Sites die. Sad. Move on.

Vickychris1

Nothing of this is real. Vernon is Cosmo!

anothar lurker

well, can’t say i am a die-hard regular – come here every two weeks or so for, erm, year plus. can’t comment on all your homeschooler business per se, but the idea, when newcomers come and start delete/moderate already existing community is VERY bad idea.

and someone mentioned bad punctuation and spelling – this is tolerable for visitors [especially us, non-english ones], but original poster should always triple-check his writing.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Anellia-Stefcheva/1459105162 Anellia Stefcheva

We will miss you, Eddie…

Stay strong, Vernon and welcome

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackWyrmDesigns TrillianDW

Welcome Vernon! Good luck with the new gig and hopefully all the whiners haven’t gotten you down. I like the tags and the hints.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RNTRYPMG2FABQWU4RD5HAZEKXY Dnise Ivyblaze

Maybe I’m just too old, but I don’t know where you all are coming from about Cosmo being “witty and smart”. He wasn’t either of those just because he threw insults around that ignorant, closed-minded conformist people enjoy. His “comments” weren’t difficult to do.

Cosmo’s skill lied in the pictures he chose. He *did* actually use pictures that were photoshopped badly, at least a vast majority of the time. And THAT is where Cosmo will be truly missed – I haven’t seen any true “disasters” since the change of hands.

Hereforder

You mean that the creepy little racist hate-spewing ultra-bigot is gone? Good riddance. I hope he never has to put up with one-tenth of the painfully unfunny crap he spewed.

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