photoshop disasters.

i like this blog. partially because of the good-humored snark (probably actually funny or interesting only to those who are serious photoshop geeks or have a serious fascination with counterfeiting) and partially because of its low-key attitude about fakery. this blog gets it right: we want you to photoshop well, not so much because photoshop is cheating and we still hunger for the original article (so make your intervention as invisible as possible on moral grounds); rather, because a certain aesthetic has developed around pshop, and when its disrespected too flagrantly, the work gets laughable. maybe it's an obvious point, but i like what's going on here in terms of a relaxation of anxiety in favor of more craftsman-like criteria. it's not that it's fake that makes it wrong and bad, it's that the fakery is poorly done. that's probably true in most cases where construction is unavoidably at the fore, but i hope this sort of attitude is getting both more common and more explicit.