Space isn’t actually colorless , I just made that up so people who only read the headline go spread misinformation and hopefully lose bets. But for the rest of you, nothing but the facts . My penis could feed an entire village for 18 months. Plus NASA uses Photoshop to manipulate shots from the Hubble Space Telescope to make us think space is actually cooler than it really is (SPOILER: I’ve been there, it’s a shit-ton of nothing). This time lapse shows how the image of NGC 3982–a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years from Earth, in the Ursa Major constellation–was made using seven grayscale images captured using three of Hubble cameras. The processing job took 10 hours of scaling, rotating, aligning, color processing and missing pixels and artifacts restoration. Scientists have to choose how to represent this information in a way that we can observe directly. Sometimes they will use a natural representation , which is very close to what we would see if we zoomed there inside the Enterprise. Other times they will choose representative color , which helps them see invisible features of the object–like those that can only be captured in infrared or ultraviolet light. And sometimes they show the image in enhanced color , a hyperrealist mode that brings a lot of hidden, subtle details. There’s 10-hours of edting packed into a 2-minute video after the jump, that talks you through the process. Basically the style of Photoshoppery depends on a particular photo’s intended use. Which, to the best of my knowledge, ranges from ‘look cool’ to ‘look really trippy’. Unfortunately, for those of you who were hoping for some insight, there was little talk of how they faked the moon landing, but my guess is in a giant underwater tank. “Like…the kind with a cannon?” *kicks you in the nuts so hard you cry sperm* Hit the jump for the informative video.

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Because Space Is Actually Colorless: How NASA Uses Photoshop TO CREATE LIES

This is a little gallery of video game box-art reimagined with God of War’s Kratos as the protagonist. They’re all part of a user-submitted Photoshop contest from some Hungarian video game blog and surprisingly well conceived. Not unlike my son. JK JK — total accident. Hit the jump for a bunch more of my favorites, and a link to the original contest with a whole bunch more.

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Kratos As Protagonist In Other Video Games

Would totally catch ‘em all. (Does that make me a hoarder?) This is actually a friend of a friend’s cat that was amazingly born with the color and markings of Pikachu . KIDDING YO THAT SHIT IS SHOPPED TO FUUUUUUUUUU. It is a friend of a friend’s cat though. I might steal it. Picture Thanks to Wehrwolf, who used to have a dog that looked like Squirtle. UGLY DOG WAS UGLY. And to the Candy Queen, who can produce all-red Skittles with a single wave of her scepter. OMG your majesty — pleaaaaaase hit me in the mouth!

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WOULD CATCH, SNUGGLE: PokKitty

Hey, I warned you. NOT UNSEEABLE usually means you don’t want to see it . Remember that time you climbed on top of the bathroom counter and bent over to peek between your legs and get a closeup of your butt in the mirror ? Well it’s just like that. Except all these have two eyes. ZA-ZA-ZA-ZING! Hit the jump for a couple more and a link to the scarring blog.

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NOT UNSEEABLE: Muppets w/ Human Eyes

BP recently admitted to Photoshopping a picture of their Houston-based oil spill command center to make it seem like the workers there don’t just play Minesweeper and make dead sea turtle jokes all day. Little did they know. You can’t fool the American public. ROFLOL! BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command center in Houston. The picture posted over the weekend showed workers monitoring a bank of 10 giant video screens displaying underwater images. Spokesman Scott Dean says Tuesday that two screens were blank in the original picture and a staff photographer used Photoshop software to add images. He says the photographer was showing off his Photoshop skills and there was no ill intent. Damn, Mr. Photoshop! Copying an image from one monitor and pasting it on another? NOW YOU’RE JUST SHOWBOATING. Has Adobe approached you about teaching classes yet? No? Shocking . Kidding, it’s because you blow. BP’s altered photo distorts spill center activity [comcast] and BP moving into Photoshopping? [jcjanderson] Thanks to Lord Tarl and Jim, who Photoshopped a picture of themselves cutting BP’s peener off with a pair of lobster claws. I’ll admit, it’s erotic in a BSDM sorta way.

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BP Photoshops Picture To Make Oil Spill Command Center Look More Command-y

Note: This pic is small and doesn’t do the piece justice so to see the whole thing click CHEER . Oh shit, oh shit — spirit fingers! DeviantARTist gottabecarl went and mashed the Futurama and X-Men universes together. This is what he got. Oh really — then what about the superpowers you’re not telling us about?! ARE YOU X-RAY VISIONIN’ MY NIPPLES RIGHT NOW?! You wanna? A friend of mine suggested one day that it would be cool to see the characters of Futurama as X-Men and so I drew him Fry as Cyclops. For some reason I couldn’t just stop there…and what came of it was a pretty extensive illustration with some of the most obscure characters from both the X-Men and Futurama universes. Great job, Carl. It’s times like these I wish God would have given me some sort of artistic talent. But alas, all I got was a face that could make Adonis cry and a wiener that NASA wants to use as a ladder to the moon. Still, I wish I could draw. Carl’s deviantART Thanks to Martin, who once mashed Batman and Robin together and got, well, Batman and Robin rubbing twinkies.

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Mashup!: Futurama Characters As X-Mens

In a case of art (programs) imitating life, here’s the real adobe photo shop . Get it? Because it’s an adobe photo shop. Now let’s head in there and get some old-timey pictures made. I get to be the whore in the bathtub with a shotgun! Adobe Photo Shop Spotted [techeblog] Thanks to Erica, who always poses at the card table with a Jack Daniels bottle. Ah yes, classic.

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I Smell A Lawsuit!: The Real Adobe Photoshop

This is a picture of two people with the images of their profiles reversed. It’s a terrible misuse of Photoshop and I don’t like it. Not one bit. I don’t care if the chick has tits on her back, she’s giving me nightmares. And, if I play my cards right, a hug. Reversed Profiles Are the Next Photoshop Weirdness [gizmodo]

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Cousin It, Is That You?: Reverse Profiles

For those of you who haven’t heard because you live under rocks or in the middle of haystacks, Adobe dropped a new version of Photoshop earlier this week. And one of the big features it’s hocking is a new “content-aware” filter that lets you select and delete objects out of a picture, and the program will use the information surrounding the object to effectively fill in the missing data (video demo after the jump). Unfortunately, it didn’t work to remove Olivia Munn’s top. Well, technically it DID, but only if you’re into boobs that look like fleshy pancake batter. Which I’m not (funnel cake titties FTW). Hit the jump for an Adobe employee demonstrating the content aware filter on the world’s most boring picture.

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Curses!: Photoshop’s New Content Aware Filter Is Good, Unfortunately Not That Good

Aside from Geekologie and The International Jurassic Park Erotic Fan-Fiction Writer’s Association , Lazertits might very well be the best site to ever hit the web — and my retinas . HAPPY EYES! For centuries the female bosom has been wrongfully held in the prison of maternal duty and frat boy motor-boating. The time has come to blow the cell doors open for breasts! Howl for hooters! Terrorize for tits! Bomb for boobs! LAZERTITS looks into the past and changes the future one broad at a time. What will YOU say when your kids ask where you were during the revolution? Don’t burn your bra, BLAST IT!!! The site consists entirely of women, with, you guessed it, PEW BOOBS. Unfortunately, because of all the awesomeness the site is probably regarded as NSFW . Actually, it definitely is — I just spotted a woman with a nonfunctional laser vaj on page two. MEDIC! NSFW NSFW Lazertits NSFW NSFW Thanks to Lea C, who is a woman and thus makes my posting this entirely okay. Some would argue even noble.

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