15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. It's hard to be amazed by anything you see online, when you know any teenager with a computer and a pirated copy of Photoshop can cobble together a fake photograph in minutes. Unfortunately this means there's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping yet real pics that the internet declared "FAKE! " the moment they appeared. A couple of times a year we collect the most amazing/ridiculous examples. Enjoy the first 15 images below, be sure to follow the link at the end for the rest of our mind-boggling library. The Machine Apparently Made to Saw the World in Half What appears to be some normal-sized machine cropped and pasted onto a skyline is actually a gigantic machinized monstrosity designed for excavation by some Germans.
If this thing's secretly a transformer, we're screwed. Yes, this push-pop made of "Macaroni & Cheese in Chili Sauce With Beef" is very real, part of a "convenience meets nausea" movement to provide your favorite foods on the go in a microwaveable, cardboard tube. "We're Moving. 15 MORE Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. Sometimes, real life is stranger than Photoshop. This is the second in our series about jaw-dropping pics that make you shout "FAKE! " the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were ... We couldn't tell if this was the most horrifying or most adorable thing we'd ever seen, until we learned the backstory.
Look people, we're going to say it extra slow this time, and we're going to link every word to evidence: Germany. Hannah Montana Gummi Cocks Speaking of disturbing food, what is clearly a gummi dong to our eyes is supposedly a guitar. Miners from Lilliput Explore the Interior of a Geode Okay, that doesn't even look like a good Photoshop. It's believed that the combination of mineral rich water and high temperatures resulted in super charged growth of the crystals.
The Streets As Seen by Salvador Dali This melting building is actually just a regular building covered in a huge tarp with the Dali-esque design painted on it. 16 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. As we established in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series: Sometimes, real life is stranger than Photoshop. This is the third edition in our chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout "FAKE! " the moment you see them, but in fact are not.
Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were ... The Predator Checks a Map 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.
The Scene of the Most Hardcore LARP in the World 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. Have you seen Quantum of Solace? Man, why couldn't they have shown Bond chasing bad guys through that? 17 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. This is the fourth installment of our series where we prove that sometimes, real life is stranger than Photoshop (see Part One, Part Two and Part Three).
So enjoy our continuing chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout "FAKE! " the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were ... A Glitch in the Matrix That car rendered from what looks like vector graphics from an old-school arcade game is a wire-frame sculpture by artist Benedict Radcliffe. And we mean an actual frame made of wires. Reportedly, it received a ticket for being illegally parked, though if we had been there we'd have quickly gotten another ticket for climbing inside, picking it up and running down the street making engine sounds. And in Season 6 of Lost, They Reveal That the Island is Actually an Ocean What appears to be the background for a cheesy 80s album cover is actually an untouched photo from Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world. Why? 15 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. Welcome to the fifth installment in our never-ending quest to bring you the craziest, realest images on the web (see Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four).
We know some of you folks out there are going to scream "Fake" no matter what anyway, but we figured we'd stress one more time that these images are, unfortunately, completely real. On the Set of 2 Ark, 2 Furious: Noah's Revenge Everyone's reaction to this one can be summed up as, "What's the big deal? It's just two pics, one of a giant oil tanker and one of a peaceful little town--OH HOLY FUCK THOSE PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO BE CRUSHED. " That is in fact one photo, of the The Pasha Bulker, a ship that famously ran aground in 2007 within spitting distance of that little Australian community there. The accident was due to bad weather while the captain was "eating breakfast. " It's the Tasmanian Devil, Get in the Car This spontaneous tornado photo looks like the kind of CGI you see in made-for-TV movies. Prostitution in the Deep-Sea World. 17 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped.
As we've demonstrated many times before, sometimes the truth is stranger than Photoshop. For those of you still unconvinced, we present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, and isn't. In case you missed them, here's Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five. And now... God's Dropped Kleenex There appears to now be a whole genre of sculpture based entirely on making people scream bullshit when they see a photo of it. See? God Accidentally Clicked the "Desaturate" Button This too-out-of-place-to-be-true Santa is actually just a woman in costume and makeup (if you look close, you can see where some rubbed off around her neck).
Source The greyscale Santa herself actually showed up in our forums to explain how she did it. OK, if that isn't a terrible Photoshop crop job, then it's time to play a game of, "Giant Head Sculpture or Tiny Cars? " It's the second one. No, it's not a time lapse photo. Well, sort of. 17 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 6) As we've demonstrated many times before, sometimes the truth is stranger than Photoshop.
For those of you still unconvinced, we present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, and isn't. In case you missed them, here's Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five and the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous editions. And now... "What, So It's Just Two Photos Cropped Togeth- HOLY SHIT! " This photo isn't terrifying as long as you think it's just the bottom half of one postcard glued to the top half of another one. It's the Marina Bay Sands Skypark, and it's 55 stories (and 600 feet) above street level. These pictures aren't from some sci-fi movie, and they're not some wishful thinking mockup from one of those bullshit futuristic issues of Popular Science. Are you thinking what we're thinking? Look, Honey, He Impaled Himself on the Utility Pole! Dammit, Guys, I Just Painted that River Vases?
17 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 7) As we've demonstrated many times before, sometimes the truth is stranger than Photoshop. For those of you still unconvinced, we present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, but isn't. In case you missed them, here's Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous editions and Part Six. And now ... #17. To Join This Fraternity, You Must Swallow a Goldfish Whole... This goldfish looks like it's a crappy rubber movie prop. . #16. These weird clouds are called rolling clouds and sometimes precede thunderstorms and a lot of soiled pants from anyone on the ground who's never seen one before.
If wacky conspiracy nuts go crazy over airplane contrails, we can't wait to see them talk about the weather-control technology cloud highways that the government is using to send messages into space. #15. Who says models portray an unattainable standard for women? #14. . #13. . #9.