Bad Photoshop work on dental product website

The website for DenSheild contains a lot of information about the product, but I can't stop staring at the unusual photo of the model on its website.

I wonder how much they paid the designer for this? DenShield on Photoshop disasters

[#1 posted by grimc , October 13, 2008 4:31 PM]

Not a photoshop. Side effect from using DenShield. Consult your dentist before using.

[#2 posted by OM , October 13, 2008 4:36 PM]

...You know, she *could* actually look like that in real life. I've seen some heads in my day that made that one look normal. Not that they were in anyone's ads, natch.

[#3 posted by dbarak , October 13, 2008 4:37 PM]

"No no no no no! I said I wanted to WHITEN my teeth, not WIDEN them."

[#4 posted by Frank_in_Virginia , October 13, 2008 4:41 PM]

But, she does have nice teeth. :)

[#5 posted by dbarak , October 13, 2008 4:44 PM]

This kind of explains what happened...

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/7110/denshieldfh1.jpg

[#6 posted by Tom Hale , October 13, 2008 4:56 PM]

Try new Denshield!
WARNING! Some facial displacement may occur.

[#7 posted by iandberg , October 13, 2008 5:02 PM]

This and more, of course, at:

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

[#8 posted by sammich , October 13, 2008 5:10 PM]

American teeth, British face...

[#9 posted by EH , October 13, 2008 5:17 PM]

Do not taunt DenShield.

[#10 posted by rushkoff , October 13, 2008 5:20 PM]

I've seen that happen before when images are resized the wrong way for different width/height ratios.

[#11 posted by PaulR , October 13, 2008 5:41 PM]

I guess the Photoshop 'artist' wanted to find out what the Flatten command did, eh?

[I slay myself!]
I'll be here till next Tuesday, try the veal!

[#12 posted by Anonymous , October 13, 2008 5:41 PM]

That's David Schwimmer, right?

[#13 posted by Anonymous , October 13, 2008 7:36 PM]

Being able to move your eyes around independently on your face is freedom indeed, my friends.

[#14 posted by Not a Doktor , October 13, 2008 8:00 PM]

Rob Liefeld'ed

[#15 posted by william , October 13, 2008 8:47 PM]

It's like a Necker cube; I keep flipping between seeing it two different ways. One is that she has a really distorted face. The other is that she's a flat billboard print with 3D hair streaming out of it at a weird angle.

I guess that's what happens when a face transplant goes wrong.

[#16 posted by Nwallins , October 13, 2008 9:02 PM]

This post from the same site has some great commentary. Exhibit B kills me!

[#17 posted by BBNinja , October 13, 2008 10:11 PM]

The prob is they replaced the models face with that of another woman shot at a different angle. When they pasted it they didn't rotate crrectly and also the blend is horrible. Can't believe they woulfn't realize how retarded that looks.

[#18 posted by BBNinja , October 13, 2008 10:13 PM]

Actually to clarify, they pasted over the top part of her head, eyes mostly and position/rotation is all wrong.

[#19 posted by Buckets McGaughey , October 14, 2008 3:24 AM]

Reminds me of nothing so much as Sarah Jessica "foot with teeth" Parker.

[#20 posted by Halloween Jack , October 14, 2008 7:11 AM]

Looks like Shannen Doherty is getting modeling work.

[#21 posted by Art Carnage , October 14, 2008 7:57 AM]

WHy is this assumed to be bad photoshop? Maybe they just decided to use a real person, instead of a model?

BB, this just comes off a cruel. You're usually better than that.

[#22 posted by zanbowser , October 14, 2008 8:11 AM]

@Art Carnage: PLEASE tell us you're being sarcastic: both women, i'm sure, are perfectly "normal" and/or "attractive" on their own; however, this *obvious shoop* (is obvious... pixels... etc.) combines them into some horrible creature dimension-shifted into our plane.

And, I'm with Anon @ #12 - it *does* look sort of like him.

[#23 posted by mrgaric , October 14, 2008 9:06 AM]

This is a real ugly job, BUT....
I must admit that at one job or another I have been asked/ordered to create some really ugly stuff and given a choice between paying my bills or defending all that is good and right aesthetically I have always chosen to pay my bills. That's just life, and no....I am not the person who created that graphic.

[#24 posted by samuraizenu , October 14, 2008 2:17 PM]

So this horse walks into the bar and the bartender says "Why the long face?" ba-dump cha! I'll be here all week ladies and gentlemen!

[#25 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator , October 19, 2008 6:58 PM]

Doktor @14: If it's Liefeld, shouldn't she have her mouth open wider?

BBNinja @17, I'd guess it was two shots of the same woman.

Art Carnage @21, looking at the face in that ad doesn't make you feel like you just plowed into the Uncanny Valley at forty miles over the speed limit? Because that's how it affects me.

Here's how to see the problem: Go back to the picture. Better yet, print out a copy of it. Lightly trace the irregular line formed by the top of the model's cheekbones. Then, hold up your hand between your eyes and the printout so you can selectively blank out the top, then the bottom of her face. Compare the two back and forth several times.

What should become evident is that the upper and lower portions of her face don't point in the same direction. The lower portion is pointed more toward you.

People have different degrees of sensitivity to facial details. If you're within the normal range, you should be able to see that there's something wrong with the picture if you look at it closely for a while.

If you can't see the strangeness no matter how hard you try, and you've had this same kind of problem with other people anda pictures, you may be faceblind -- i.e., have prosopagnosia. About two percent of the population has it. Check out the info if you think it might be relevant.