These photos are not what they seem. That’s because they are all Photoshopped.

Initially, I began merging photos together as a way to illustrate my posts — and because I couldn’t find decent photos of those artists together.

Take for instance, this photo of Tameka, Usher and Chilli. This photo was lifted from my blog and reposted — uncredited — on numerous blogs and message boards and even on a news site as a legitimate news photo. But the photo is fake. I Photoshopped Tameka Foster into the photo with Usher and Chilli.

A few sharp eyed readers among you guessed that the above photo of Jay Z and Selita Ebanks was a phony. So I had to step my game up after that one. :)

But no one guessed that I inserted Jay Z into this infamous pic of Beyonce. Or that I juxtaposed Rocko and his mic into the pic below with his fiancee Monica.

Beware if you lift a photo from my blog this year — it just might end up in my Best Photoshopped Photos of 2009. :lolol: