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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).

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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).

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.

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).

"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."

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