Worst Photoshop jobs on posters

MakeEmLaugh · 28-05-2014 8:28pm #1

What are the worst examples of Photoshop you've ever seen on a film poster? One that stands out for me is American Crude, a straight-to-DVD film that came out a few years ago.

Just look at Michael Clarke Duncan's head on that torso!

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 28-05-2014 11:41pm

Not sure if it counts or not, but these are not Julia Robert's legs:

fluke · 29-05-2014 7:16am

Takers is prettay awful

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Skerries · 29-05-2014 11:32am

what the hell is he even doing with his hands?

Skerries · 29-05-2014 11:39am

this is a recent one where they bizarrely stretched Falcon's body, someone has edited it back to normal proportions

Burgo · 29-05-2014 12:45pm

bellinter · 29-05-2014 1:07pm

world's longest arm

delbertgrady · 29-05-2014 1:07pm

Gamayun · 29-05-2014 8:11pm

What's up with Selma Blair's head?

Faces may have been touched up...

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weemcd · 29-05-2014 8:13pm

Looks like something I made when I first got photoshop, I was about 12

QikBax · 30-05-2014 7:04pm

Melissa McCarthy's face may have been touched up:

30-05-2014 7:58pm

Not sure where to begin

Frank Bullitt · 30-05-2014 8:05pm

This thread will be epic.

bnt · 31-05-2014 4:19pm

This has to be up down there:

edit: I see I've killed the thread with that monstrosity, Sorry.

Frank Bullitt · 01-06-2014 7:16pm

e_e · 01-06-2014 8:04pm

Rush job if I ever saw one.

mike65 · 01-06-2014 8:10pm

Photoshop - its ****e! Bring back actual artwork and design.

vidor · 01-06-2014 8:19pm

Well, no. Photoshop isn't ****e, the people editing the above posters are though.

ScumLord · 01-06-2014 8:59pm

Having some knowledge of photoshop and spending some time practicing making movie posters I can tell you that the vast majority could be thrown together in under an hour. It's shocking how little effort goes into the majority.

geraardo · 01-06-2014 9:03pm

e_e wrote: »

Rush job if I ever saw one.

Oh man there horrible, are they for real?

e_e · 01-06-2014 9:10pm

Yep!

Ape Lincoln · 01-06-2014 10:09pm

Wtf is Marvin's head?

krudler · 01-06-2014 10:36pm

Movie poster design for the most part is a lost art, now its all floating heads, the dreaded orange/blue pallette and dull dull dull concepts. I do like the poster for Interstellar though, simple and to the point.

Drew Struzan will forever be the king of movie posters, his work is amazing.

Yeti Beast · 01-06-2014 11:01pm

krudler wrote: »

Drew Struzan will forever be the king of movie posters, his work is amazing.

Would love a few of his classics in poster form (can't afford the signed prints from his website).

razorblunt · 02-06-2014 8:34am

Empire used to (back when I read it) do a "reimagining" of posters by some artist, some of those were absolute gems, I remember Scream 4 as having a far better 2.0 version than the original.

fluke · 02-06-2014 11:18am

razorblunt wrote: »

Empire used to (back when I read it) do a "reimagining" of posters by some artist, some of those were absolute gems, I remember Scream 4 as having a far better 2.0 version than the original.

It was an Olly Moss one.

razorblunt · 02-06-2014 11:23am

fluke wrote: »

It was an Olly Moss one.

That's the one, simplistically brilliant!

e_e · 02-06-2014 1:08pm

There are still some beautiful posters being made in fairness. Just look at Inside Llewyn Davis, Under the Skin and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

TiGeR KiNgS · 02-06-2014 1:22pm

bellinter wrote: »

world's longest arm

This is quite good.

vidor · 02-06-2014 1:34pm

e_e wrote: »

There are still some beautiful posters being made in fairness. Just look at Inside Llewyn Davis, Under the Skin and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Exactly. There are some terrible ones from years ago but I guess it's just a case of being exposed to many more films these days, so it becomes more noticeable. Most people are just aware of the classics, which generally have solid designs, so they won't even know about the bad ones.

vidor · 02-06-2014 1:37pm

Another recent poster that I'm fond of is Meek's Cutoff. Was so-so on the film itself but love the design.

johnny_ultimate · 02-06-2014 1:46pm

I'd almost say it's factually incorrect to say there's no good or interesting poster designs being made today - maybe not the bog standard ones you see on bus shelters, but even if you walk through the lobby of the IFI or Lighthouse on any given day you tend to be greeted with some gorgeous ones. Upstream Colour (sadly bastardised for the home release), Holy Motors, The Act of Killing, Like Someone In Love, The Great Beauty all stand out as having particularly memorable, eye-catching posters over the last few years. Even Frank at the moment has a great poster. Technically more cover artwork than posters, but also look at Criterion or Masters of Cinema who basically have beautiful art for almost every single one of their DVD and BluRay releases. And the latter made my favourite theatrical poster of recent years:

CatInABox · 02-06-2014 2:56pm

Mondo do some pretty good movie posters, including some classic films as well.

They're all limited runs, so the popular ones usually sell out in a few minutes. The massively popular ones sell out in seconds.

They organised Olly Moss to do a Star Wars run that I was very tempted by, but just thought that I couldn't justify a hundred Euro on three posters to my other half. They're now going for several grand

Their archive is here: www.mondoarchive.com

I've got several of their prints, with Jaws currently hanging in pride of place.

A little off topic, sorry.