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Donald Trump Photoshopped into horror movie stills wins the Internet today
10.09.2015
02:11 pm
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Few horror movies have ever really scared me. Many have repeatedly startled me with cheap jump-scares, and plenty have mortified me with visceral gore, but not many movies have really, truly, haunt-my-dreams-for-years SCARED me. Reality scares the absolute living shit out of me every day,and I can’t go to the lobby for a drink or hit a pause button when the intensity gets ramped up. And few things in reality currently scare me into near-paralysis like the idea of President Donald Trump.

And that right there is the key to the humor in DesignCrowd’s recent contest, “Photoshop Donald Trump into famous horror movie scenes.” I’m always a sucker for a ‘shop contest, whether it’s for pros and advanced amateurs like on Worth 1000, or just for top shelf anonymous wise-asses like the users of Fark and Something Awful, but this one reaches some dizzying heights of prime Internet smartassery. We’ve selected some favorites to show you here, but DesignCrowd has several pages of contenders.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Via iHorror

Posted by Ron Kretsch
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10.09.2015
02:11 pm
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Classic album covers minus deceased band members


 
Over the weekend, when the sad news spread about the passing of Tommy Ramone, a really touching image circulated online, showing the Ramones debut LP, then the same cover with Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee Photoshopped out, and then, at last, Tommy removed as well. Dangerous Minds even shared it on our Facebook page.
 

 
The middle image, of Tommy standing alone in front of that iconic brick wall, seems to have come from a Tumblr called “Live! (I See Dead People),” which is devoted entirely to skillfully removing deceased musicians from their LP covers—sort of like “Garfield Minus Garfield,” but with a more serious intent. The subjects range from cult figures like Nick Drake to canonical rock stars like Nirvana and The Doors, and the results are often quite poignant. The blog hasn’t been updated in almost three years, so it seems unlikely the artists behind this project, Jean-Marie Delbes and Hatim El Hihi, will re-do that Ramones cover. Indeed, their Morrison Hotel still features Ray Manzarek, who passed on a little over a year ago.
 

New York Dolls, s/t
 

Ol Dirty Bastard, Return to the 36 Chambers
 

Nick Drake, Bryter Layter
 

The Who, Odds & Sods
 

Johnny Thunders, So Alone
 

George Harrison, All Things Must Pass
 

Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit
 

Jeff Buckley, Grace
 

The Doors, Morrison Hotel
 

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy
 

The Clash, s/t
 

Elvis Presley, s/t
 

 
Hat-tip to Derf for this find.

Posted by Ron Kretsch
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07.15.2014
09:21 am
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Citroëns make great hovercrafts
07.07.2014
11:08 am
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When I think of Citroëns, I think of the vaguely-VW-bug-like 2CV model, known in France as the “deux chevaux.” (It looks like this.) But just like Volkswagen, naturally Citroën has all sorts of models in their stable, and a few of the older models are quite sporty, lending themselves perfectly to Swedish artist Jacob Munkhammar‘s Photoshopped experiments in retro-futurism. He took a bunch of handsome photos of Citroëns and turned them into gee-whiz flying automobiles of the most adorable type.

The most poignant nostalgia is for a future that never was or will be, as these amusing photos definitely prove.
 
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via Fubiz
 
Thanks Alex Belth!

Posted by Martin Schneider
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07.07.2014
11:08 am
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Photoshop’s content-aware fill feature is surprisingly punk
11.26.2013
12:11 pm
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Content-aware Bowie
 
Italian designer Silvio Lorusso has hit upon a marvelous new design game that anyone who uses Photoshop can play. A few months ago he started a Tumblr called Content-Aware Typography in which he posted (and solicited from readers) images of iconic typography from famous movie posters, album covers, advertising logos and so forth after having deployed Photoshop’s “Content-Aware Fill” feature on them.

The point of it all is that the content-aware feature was never meant to be used on text—it’s used to fill in the space where the user has removed an object from an image. It does so basically by guessing what might be behind the object based on what is visible near the object and then covering it with visual snatches in a randomized fashion. If you’re talking about a forest or a horizon, it can work rather well. Text works in such a specific way that it reveals the content-aware process for what it is, a game attempt by an otherwise stupid algorithm to trick the eye through sheer repetition.

I like the Content-Aware Typography Tumblr so much because it does such violence to the words and visual elements while leaving the basic idea intact. You can usually guess what was originally there, after all. It also seems somewhat like a virus, as if something malign had gotten into our most recognizable icons and replicated itself without rhyme or reason, with an insatiable bent for visual real estate.

The images here don’t come from Content-Aware Typography; I asked a friend, Mark Davis, to generate a few for me (I don’t know Photoshop) and he did so with alacrity and élan. If you want to see more, by all means visit the original Tumblr
 
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Content-aware Beefheart
 
Content-aware Nirvana
 
Content-aware Bowie
 
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via WXN&MLKN

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Odd photoshopped vintage LP sleeves
Eerie album covers with deceased band members photoshopped out

Posted by Martin Schneider
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11.26.2013
12:11 pm
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Renaissance paintings recreated with modern celebrities
05.16.2013
02:52 pm
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Mama June, Honey Boo Boo’s mother
 
Worth1000’s “Modern Renaissance” contest is truly funny. As with all their contests, you kinda have to weed through the ‘shopped images to find some true gems.


 
Via Boing Boing

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.16.2013
02:52 pm
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Common People: Famous faces photoshopped to look like plain folk
07.19.2012
12:00 pm
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Planet Hiltron, responsible for turning the fab into “meh.”

I’m pretty sure some of these ‘shopped images were making the rounds on the Internet a few years ago. For whatever reason, they’re making a come back. So share again, I shall.

Via Nerdcore

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.19.2012
12:00 pm
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1950s Calendar Girls: The original victims of Photoshop?
05.14.2012
02:22 pm
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Source photos of pin-up girls next to their painted “after” image.

What caught my attention about these side-by-side comparisons is how they expose the 1950/60s version of photoshopping. Dig how painter Gil Elvgren, a noted American pin-up master, shaved the curves from real woman’s bodies to “improve” upon them, even back then!

Look at those itty-bitty waists and the exaggerated curvature of the feet! All of this crap has been around much longer than we’ve suspected!

And here I thought “duckface” was a MySpace phenomenon? Alas I’m proven wrong—apparently duckface was alive and well in the 1950s.

Elvgren produced many of his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow, the same company who also produced Norman Rockwell’s decidedly more wholesome Boy Scouts calendars.
 
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Via Retronaut

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.14.2012
02:22 pm
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What if Photoshop was an actual beauty product?
01.10.2012
12:26 pm
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I want to shake Jesse Rosten‘s hand, the writer and director of this awesome fake commercial titled “Fotoshop by Adobé.”

Jesse says, “This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.”
 

 
(via Nerdcore)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.10.2012
12:26 pm
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If only the rioters had started here…
08.10.2011
04:10 pm
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If only…
 
Via Looters vs Photoshop
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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08.10.2011
04:10 pm
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Madonna shills Adobe Photoshop Day Cream
05.21.2010
02:00 am
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Freakin’ brilliant!
 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Why God created Photoshop

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.21.2010
02:00 am
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