Photoshop Contest: "Girl with A Pearl Earring" by Vermeer

I love Photoshop Contests. This is a terrific modification of Vermeer's classic "Girl with a Pearl Earring" for a UK jeweler. Great source material, of course. Vermeer, the painting, and the girl were popularized by Tracy Chevalier 's book with the same title as the painting. If you haven't read the book yet...do! It's a spare and sensitive fictional look at the servant girl in the painting and her role in Vermeer's household. The small 17th century city of Delft is portrayed with masterful precision. Chevalier invents a beautiful back story. You'll enjoy it. I didn't see the movie with Scarlett Johansson. Any of you?



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Photoshop Contest: Marlboro Product Placement Ad and the Catholic Church

Catholicism and its traditions have dominated the news following the Pope's recent visit to the U.S (quite justifiably, all kidding aside). So now's the time to roll out the best product placement for the church I've ever seen. Advertising is a bizarre business (believe me I do it every day for a living) and product placements, in my mind, generally are obvious and annoying. That's what's so great about this theater of the absurd Photoshop. Thank goodness the Pope's advance men covered up every single Yankee stadium sign before Sunday's mass.

Photoshop Contest: Gandhi Product Placement for YSL (Yves Saint Laurent)

Here's another Photoshop Contest entry I love. It's subtle...and the original image is great to begin with. Yet another reason Gandhi was ahead of his time.

Photoshop Contest: A Crest Toothpaste Product Placement

Yes...I've been very busy (we've won three new accounts in three weeks). But I do have a ton of posts in my head to do. It's been awhile since the last Photoshop Contest entry. This one for Crest is an idea that the toothpaste brand managers should pick up and run with. And...it's another way for parents to help fund the orthadonture bills.

Photoshop Contest: A "Pirates of the Caribbean" McDonald's Product Placement.

It's Thursday night and time for the weekly Photoshop Contest. You deserve a break today so we've put together a match made in CAA heaven (or more accurately, CAA hell). McDonald's and Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp & Company meet the Big Mac. Without doubt, this is one of the best drive ups that McDonald's has ever had (of their 31,000 locations worldwide). You needed that factoid, right? More product placements next week. Tune in.

Trojan Condoms TV Spot "Evolve" Now on Google Universal Search.

Google's evolving Universal Search function which combines news, YouTube videos, books, images and more is becoming more and more helpful to me. I love getting videos when I just expect the typical written results. When I was Googling Trojan Condoms the other night for factoids for the Photoshop Contest featuring a Trojan Condom product placement, I ran into this fabulous spot which I should have seen but never did. What a way to break through the clutter. And what a great example of the importance of the music in a TV spot (see more above).

Photoshop Contest: Product Placements for Trojan Condoms in the Film Knocked Up.

Thursday night is Photoshop Contest night. We're looking at product placements. This is a terrific sendup of how overblown logomania can become. All to overcome Tivo. And even if you don't like the placements...you've got to love that Katherine Heigl. Gnite.

Photoshop Contest: The Abduction of Psyche: High Art Meets the Cartoon.

OK...it's late Thursday night and another weekly tribute to the power of Photoshop computer software...this time presented as before/after. Of course why not replace Cupid with your favorite cartoon character. More fun than rail thin fashion models and more engaging than the Dove women. Enjoy. Gnite.



The original "The Abduction of Psyche" by Adolphe Bourguereau.

Photoshop Contest: "Guess Who's Coming to Thanksgiving Dinner?" Norman Rockwell Reimagined.

It's Thursday night and time for the weekly Photoshop contest entry. Thanksgiving is three weeks from today! Early this year. So in anticipation of the joy of family reunions, that annual feeling of being overstuffed, wretched excess...and the anticipation of the midnight sales starting in a few hours...take a look. This is the true meaning of a Rockwell Thanksgiving through the lens of " Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." The Tracy/Hepburn/Poitier film was released 40 years ago on the 12th of December 1967. Gnite.

Photoshop Contest "The Inner David ": Making Art Safe for Children

So expurgated...so modern. Ah g'nite.

Photoshop Contest "Fig Art": Making Art Safe For The Children

I just love these as little baubles to amuse ourselves with at the end of the day. Enjoy. See what a terrific piece of software and an internet contest can do.

Photoshop Contest: Napoleon Reimagined

Sorry, I couldn't resist...this was just too absurd.
So much better than the Katie Couric photoshop controversy.
Enough...gnite.

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=16874

Photoshop Contest: Mona Lisa Biker

Or...you might prefer this Photoshopped Mona Lisa as a Harley chick.

For way more: http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=16874

Photoshop Contest: Fabulous Mona Lisa Goth

Mona Lisa Goth

Thanks to our intern Katie for the link. Check it out...there's tons of Photoshopped famous paintings.

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=16874