ANewBadlyPhotoshoppedPhotoofMichaelCeraEveryday
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About
ANewBadlyPhotoshoppedPhotoofMichaelCeraEveryday is a photoshop project dedicated to superimposing a cut-out image of American actor Michael Cera's face over a variety of fictional characters and other subjects depicted in iconic photographs and paintings. Launched by Imgur user with the eponymous handle in August 2015, the project ran a new iteration of a photoshopped image featuring the actor every day for a year before its retirement in August 2016.
Origin
In January 2012, a mustachioed Michael Cera was photographed at the Nintendo 3DS Experience Lounge at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (shown below, left). On August 21st, 2015, Imgur[1] user ANewBadlyPhotoshoppedPhotoofMichaelCeraEveryday uploaded a photoshopped picture of Leonardo da Vinci's 15-century portrait Mona Lisa superimposed with a cut-out of Cera's face from the Sundance photo (shown below, right).
![Original Photo of Michael Cera at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/162/400/06a.jpg)
![Mona Lisa Photoshop](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/162/401/88c.png)
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On August 27th, user ANewBadlyPhotoshoppedPhotoofMichaelCeraEveryday posted the Annoyed Picard image with Cera's face superimposed over Jean-Luc Picard (shown below, left). In September, he launched the "Ceramon" photoshop project, inviting other Imgur users to photoshop Cera's face on to pictures of Pokémon (shown below, right).
![Annoyed Picard](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/162/403/f95.jpg)
![CeraChu](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/162/399/406.png)
On October 20th, the official Imgur blog[2] published an interview with the creator of the photoshop project, who revealed that he started the project to improve his photo editing skills using the open-source raster graphics editor GIMP. In November 2015, the Imgur user created a charity page on the Movemeber Foundation,[6] which gathered upwards of $7,800 donations for cancer research over the next eight months.
![Movember Foundation Page Badly Photoshopped Every Day My Motivation To grow a cancer-fighting Michael Cera moustache, have some laughs, raise awareness for men's health, and hopefully fundraise a couple of dollars along the way. - Badly Photoshopped Every Day $7,826 My target: $10000 18 t Like](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/162/406/335.jpg)
On November 1st, The Daily Dot[3] published an article about the Imgur user. Later that month, Smosh[4] published an article highlighting several notable examples from the photoshop series. On August 21st, the creator of the series uploaded a photograph of himself sitting in front of a computer announcing the end to the project (shown below).
![My actual face when I post the last badly photoshopped photo of Michael Cera every day!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/162/407/8d5.jpg)
"But, as far as a new badly photoshopped Cera every day….that has come to an end. I will still be on imgur, and may from time to time drop into usersub with a little Cera surprise, but I have several other projects I would like to focus my attention on for a while."
Search Interest
External References
[1] Imgur – MRW I post the same photo of Michael Cera
[2] Imgur – Spoitlight on an Awesome Imgurian
[3] The Daily Dot – Why one man posts a bad Photoshop of Michael Cera every day
[4] Smosh – This Dude Posts a Bad Photoshop of Michael Cera Every Day
[5] Imgur – So Imgur? You wanna play a game?
[6] Movember Foundation – Badly Photoshopped Every Day
Top Comments
Gabenus Trollucus
Aug 22, 2016 at 04:25PM EDT
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Aug 22, 2016 at 09:32PM EDT