Photoshop Fails Of 2012

Photoshop can work wonders. It can remove blemishes, nip in waists, get rid of red-eye and just about everything in between. Although we have come to expect that most images we see on the Internet and in magazines are given the Photoshop treatment, it is always jarring when photo retouching goes wrong.

Whether one breast was remarkably bigger than the other, elbows and feet were missing entirely or waist-whittling went completely awry, this year we've seen some pretty insane Photoshop flops.

See the pictures below for the funniest Photoshop fails of 2012:

In this ad for French clothing brand Camaïeu, a model wears a cozy sweatshirt and pajama shorts without incident. (Although, what's with the blurring near her belly button?). Scroll lower and you'll notice something a wee bit weird. Photoshop fail alert! What happened to her feet?

Victoria's Secret appears to have used its airbrushing powers to give a model a lift -- literally. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the Add 2 Cups Multi-Way Bra, part of the Bombshell collection, model Candice Swanepoel leans towards the camera and shows off her enhanced cleavage. But one side of her chest looks remarkably bigger than the other, as if the "Add 2 Cups" applied to one breast only.

This American Apparel ad is a study in Photoshop gone wrong. The image, ostensibly advertising the retailer's line of lace clothes, features a blonde girl cradling a horse's head that seems to be leading to nowhere.

Some Photoshop fails are subjective. Did the editor really chop off the model's arm? Or is that pose actually physically possible? But sometimes, the photo gods send us an airbrush misstep too obvious to be debated. This latest newsletter from Alloy is definitely a case of the latter.

Our friends over at PsDisasters tipped us off to the slightly off-kilter shot in the Gucci Resort 2013 ads. The fail in question has to do with poor Joan Smalls' leg-to-hip ratio. Her torso is twisted, but there's still something a little ... off about the way her legs are positioned. Does anyone else notice that her crotch doesn't match up to her body at all? That oversized snakeskin tote isn't hiding anything either.

In this ad, Victoria's Secret model Lais Ribeiro stands with her torso bent at an angle, but from our viewpoint, it looks like VS spliced two halves of two separate photos together to create one model. There's no way any human can have that small a ribcage, right?

Seriously, the shot of the actress makes her look ... different. There seems to be a glazed-over feeling to the cover -- like an intense retouching session gone wrong. It took a second for us to register that that was even Gwyneth's face. And anyone else noticing the strange juxtaposition of her foot and thigh? For a hot second we thought she was three-legged.

This Kohl's ad take waist-whittling to a whole new, er, planet. Our friends at Photoshop Disasters spotted this flop -- and boy were they right. The shape these frocks seem designed to flatter definitely doesn't look human. The woman in the white dress has some sort of inverted triangle alien body -- or is that a Ken doll-like physique?

Our friends at PsDisasters tipped us off to this one, and it's definitely one for the books. To sell their "Jackie Cardigan" on their website, J. Crew featured a model in their typical prep-meets-hip gear. It only takes about half a second to notice that chunks of the model's inner thighs have been erased. Could this be a case of Photoshop streamlining gone wrong? Or is there some photo editor out there who thinks that the ideal pair of jeans creates the illusion of cratered body parts?

Jezebel pointed out that in the advertisements for Aguilera's Royal Desire fragrance, something appears a bit off. Aguilera's wrist bends weirdly, her knee has a seemingly misplaced indentation and her face and limbs look incredibly ... chiseled.

The 38-year-old graced the latest ad campaign for Rimmel looking a little ... well, flat. Kate's wearing matte foundation in the ad, so it's understandable that she would look somewhat less shiny. But, aside from her signature wide-set eyes and a small semblance of her cheekbones, we can't seem to find the lively Kate we know and love (even without a stitch of makeup).

Lana Del Rey has a wide range of talents: babydoll vocals, pantomiming sex on pinball machines, twirling -- you name it. But we didn't realize the singer and model possessed "Alex Mack"-like skills as well -- morphing into ectoplasm, apparently, as she seems to do thanks to some Photoshop gone awry in her latest H&M ad. In this photo Del Rey's collarbone looks abnormally elongated, not to mention the stray wisp of hair that makes her clavicle look like a French baguette. And that car! She's in front of it! No, she's behind it! In the middle of it! No wait,