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Adbusting with Photoshop Palettes
(via brainstorm9 and Gizmodo)
Some clever political designers in Berlin have emphasized the shallow and plastic nature of a subway ad campaign for Britney Spears, Leona Lewis, and Christina Aguilera by the addition of Photoshop palettes - often themselves tweaked for further effect. We see a History palette, showing nothing but instances of the "Clone" tool; the Layers palette offers gems like layers named "Nose -20%" and "Fat -20%" and a top layer named "****Consume****".
Check out Epoxy's flickr set to get a closer look. Kudos to these German Adbusters! As Photoshop becomes more and more familiar to average folks, creative détournement like this becomes more powerful. I'm sure we all see ads on a regular basis we'd love to add our own menus and palettes to. So what's stopping you? Get a printer and some sticker paper and go for it!
