The 3 Webbie Award-winning series You Suck At Photoshop concludes its second season (and 20th episode!) with this season finale. Perhaps needless to say, things do not end well for Donnie.
Behind the scenes, wedding photographer/blogger David Ziser has posted a podcast inteview with series creator Troy Hitch (for whom things seem to be going much better; YSAP boasts 13 million views and climbing).
In India, she said, it is a tradition to cut-and-paste head shots of absent family members into wedding photographs as a gesture of respect and inclusion. "Everyone understands that it’s not a trick," she said. "That’s the nature of the photograph. It’s a Western sense of reality that what is in front of the lens has to be true."
In India, she said, it is a tradition to cut-and-paste head shots of absent family members into wedding photographs as a gesture of respect and inclusion. "Everyone understands that it’s not a trick," she said. "That’s the nature of the photograph. It’s a Western sense of reality that what is in front of the lens has to be true."
From mumus to Cheetoes to paternity tests, you never know what insanity you’ll get. You Suck At Photoshop returns, offering a typically bizarre take on Smart Objects. [Via]
(Speaking of sucking, what’s with Fox News using Photoshop to caricature those who report on it? Makes me think of the Iranian propaganda in Matthew Winterburn’s Flickr set. [Via] )
You Suck At Photoshop has picked up a Webby award (People’s Voice in Comedy: Long Form or Series; trips right off the tongue, doesn’t it?). Congrats to Troy, Matt, and all the Big Fat Brain folks. The spin-off series Snatchbuckler’s Second Chance continues on My Damn Channel.
In other Photoshop-related humor:
So… Dane Cook, or not Dane Cook? Final wagers, please.
Time Online’s got the answer, along with plenty of other background on the the guys behind You Suck At Photoshop. Says series co-creator Matt Bledsoe,
"We had both been in the agency business so long that after a while we’d seen every kind of person in the advertising world." One of those stereotypes, he said, was the "insane designer, basically. He has horrible social skills and horrible things going on in his life and the only thing he has going for him is he can out-Photoshop the guy in the cube next to him."
Matt & Troy Hitch are now back in action with Snatchbuckler’s Second Chance, picking up with Donnie’s tastefully named WoW comrade. [Via Scott Valentine]
Tangentially related, as it’s Photoshop-based humor: depending on political leanings you might get a kick out of this. [Via Adolfo Rozenfeld]
Ah, so it all comes down to this: Vanishing Point in every sense. [Via Gary Savelson]
By the way, in the vein of funny vids, animator Jim Geduldick points out this expert parody of the motion graphics clichés of car commercials (loaded with profanity, so don’t click if that’s not your bag).
"Hooray for the big boy!" Donnie gets "too surly for the horde" in the latest installment, this time featuring Curves. The season finale is due soon.
Heh–in the vein of sites like AwfulPlasticSurgery.com, now we’ve got the Photoshop Disasters blog–chock full of image manipulation mishaps. It’s good to indulge in a little schadenfreude now and then, and with phrases like “the culturally-ravaged, post-wardrobe-malfunction neo-fundamentalist, sexual dystopia we live in,” it has to be good. (Wasn’t that the Smucker’s slogan?) [Via Lori Grunin]
Speaking of sucking, You Suck at Photoshop #8 has been posted, getting Fergilicious with 3D layers.
“Nicole Richie’s head on a corn dog…” Wow, even as just a mental image, that’s something I can’t easily un-see. Enjoy. [Via Gary Savelson]
Heh–in my line of work I’ve seen a lot of Photoshop video tutorials, but never one quite like this:
Let’s hear it for facilitating emotionally abusive relationships the world over! (Russell Brown interjects, "And I thought my demos were crazy!") 😉 [Via Doug Nelson & others]
On a more straightforward video training note, the pros at Total Training are running a special on CS3 training. You can save up to 35%, but you’ve gotta be quick as the special ends tomorrow (Jan. 8) at midnight.