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This undoctored photo is part of an art project--and possibly
also an awesome assassination scheme--where they
meticulously paint clothing to match the surroundings.
We can't imagine how much time they must have put into
creating photos that, after all that effort, will be dismissed
as Photoshop by nearly every single viewer.
This looks more like a painting than Photoshop, but it's
actually an enormous, elaborate set from the opera Ein
Maskenball with a scene depicting Death reading from
the book of life.
Sadly, this is a woman in England with a growth abnormality
causing her legs to reach enormous size. It's a debilitating
condition and we're not going to make fun of her. But still,
look at those shoes.
Of course, in reality, the photo just captured this guy a split
second before tumbling horribly into the water at inhuman
speeds.
Yes, an actual living dog. The above monstrosity is from the
Super Groom competition, where the boundaries of animal
abuse get relaxed, if only for a day. It's basically the Ace of
Cakes of dog grooming, complete with what appears to be
an airbrush paint job.
Behold The Uno: a one-wheeler motorcycle invented by an
18-year-old. That's right, while you spent your senior year
of high school trying to get a peek up the cheerleaders'
skirts at basketball games, this dude went out there and
completed some engineering slick enough to make every
Segway owner jealous.
 
Yes, that's a real iceberg and no, it hasn't been painted.
These icebergs were observed off the coast of South Africa.
It turns out those stripes are caused by sediment or even
dead krill getting trapped in the ice in layers over time.
This might look like a lazy father's hastily photoshopped
answer to the question "Where do baby goat's come from?"
But in fact, it's a real photograph taken of real goats in in
Morroco.
This has gotten passed around the internet with titles like
WORST INTERSECTION IN THE WORLD OMG. While
it's not Photoshop, it's not a real traffic signal either. It's
a
sculpture found in a roundabout in England. The sculpture
obviously means, "We hate out-of-towners, and wish to
distress them."
If The Daily Mail can be believed, the Dwarf Gecko up
there only grows to be a half inch or so long. And that's
really gross for some reason.
Ostrich racing is an all too real sport in several countries,
though we admit these photos seem to portray frat guys
enjoying the sport ironically.
What appears to be a simple application of the "blinds"
effect in Photoshop is actually the steps of the Philadelphia
Art Museum, decorated for the Dali exhibit and to terrify
passers-by. Wait, Philadelphia Art Museum? Where's
the Rocky statue?
No need to avert your eyes, you are not in fact witnessing
the world’s largest up-skirt. These bizarre, lens shaped
lenticular clouds form in upward gusts of wind that naturally
occur around mountains. These winds, known as "wave
lifts," are so powerful that sail plane pilots have used
them
to glide 1,864 miles without a motor.
Venticular clouds are often mistaken for UFOs, which
sounds stupid until you see one of these hovering over
your town.
This melting building is actually just a regular building
covered in a huge tarp with the Dali-esque design painted
on it. It's covering an apartment building undergoing
renovation in Paris.
While this looks like a pretty ingenious photoshop mocking
the Swiss Army Knife manufacturers, the reality is far, far
stupider: it's an actual Swiss Army Knife so huge as to be
utterly useless for any task. It features a whopping 85 tools.
This billboard from Indonesia is a creative effort by the
Formula Toothcare company to illustrate the fact that their
toothpaste builds strong teeth, though there's a special
bonus message for very young children: people in pictures
can only come alive if they're very big and hungry enough
to eat you.
This mess of tacky trailer homes isn't a Photoshop, but it's
not a living complex either. It's a set for a play in Amsterdam.
What sucks about magic is the tricks are always incredibly
lame once you know how they're done. This one is no
different: it's supported by a pipe running up through the water.
This sculpture is by some inventive artists making shadow
art using garbage, carefully positioned to form the silhouette.
Something this groan-worthy can only be real. A photo of
this restaurant in China made the rounds over the summer
during the Olympics.
Apparently restaurants there made a big push to get English
on their signs to cater to tourists, but at least one business
didn't have a single English-speaking friend they could ask.
So they plugged it into Babelfish and ... you can imagine the
rest of the story, which must involve at least one sign
company who just didn't care.
Man, just imagine all of the uses.
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