{"id":1890,"date":"2009-08-26T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2009-08-26T11:45:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T18:45:54","slug":"photoshop-enter-the-re-edit-the-microsoft-ad-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1890","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop: Re-Tool The Microsoft Trainwreck CONTEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/08\/26\/microsoft-photoshop-trainwreck\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1898\" title=\"Read the original Microsoft Ad Disaster article at Mashable\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_sidebyside.jpg\" alt=\"microsoft_sidebyside\" width=\"405\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_sidebyside.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_sidebyside-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest crime on <a title=\"Read the Microsoft article at Mashable\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/08\/26\/microsoft-photoshop-trainwreck\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Microsoft ad<\/a> isn&#8217;t versioning out nationalities for placement in different countries. That could be argued endlessly. No. It&#8217;s the horrible <strong>Photoshop<\/strong> job. The neck. The hands. Dear lord, the hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1896\" title=\"Fang's Photoshop with Ty's Caption\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_il.jpg\" alt=\"Fang's Photoshop with Ty's Caption\" width=\"405\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_il.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_il-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Umlaut <a title=\"Rich Merwath\" href=\"http:\/\/scrap-pile.org\" target=\"_blank\">Rich<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Pixel Revision\" href=\"http:\/\/pixelrevision.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm<\/a> took the initiative to instigate a good ol&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Photoshop contest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO ENTER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the <a title=\"Blank Microsoft Ad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blank.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">blank Microsoft ad here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Photoshop your best worst.<\/li>\n<li>Email it here: photoshop.king@hotmail.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post winners on Monday. <a title=\"Follow the Umlaut on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fredabercrombie\" target=\"_blank\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a> so you don&#8217;t miss out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENTRIES SO FAR:<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1893\" title=\"mj microsoft ad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mj.jpg\" alt=\"mj microsoft ad\" width=\"405\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mj.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mj-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1897\" title=\"microsoft_Ty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_Ty.jpg\" alt=\"microsoft_Ty\" width=\"405\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_Ty.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/microsoft_Ty-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/eddie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1894\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/eddie.jpg\" alt=\"eddie\" width=\"405\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/eddie.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/eddie-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cthulhu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1895\" title=\"cthulhu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cthulhu.jpg\" alt=\"cthulhu\" width=\"405\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cthulhu.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cthulhu-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Geneva;\">Cthulhu hates these meetings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Geneva;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Insert Tech Into Classic Album Covers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1271\">Photoshop: Insert Tech Into Classic Album Covers<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Gizmodo's Watchman Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=160\">Photoshop: Gizmodo&#8217;s Watchman Contest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest crime on this Microsoft ad isn&#8217;t versioning out nationalities for placement in different countries. That could be argued endlessly. No. It&#8217;s the horrible Photoshop job. The neck. The hands. Dear lord, the hands. Friends of the Umlaut Rich\u00a0and Malcolm took the initiative to instigate a good ol&#8217;\u00a0Photoshop contest. HOW TO ENTER: Download the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[146,634,780,60],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-advertising","tag-contest","tag-microsoft","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}