17 March 2009

Jackson and Photoshop Roses

Jackson and Perkins sent me a catalog the other day. And they had this lovely photo of the rose Burgundy Iceberg:


Which is all very lovely... only I've seen Burgundy Iceberg before, and it happens to actually look like THIS photo of the same plant I found on the Treloar Roses website:


Been having a little fun with photoshop, have they? Nice way to instill confidence in your mail order customers. Browse through their catalog or website, and you'll see a lot of clearly faked images. Just lovely. J&P has been added to my list of companies to NEVER order from.
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7 comments:

  1. NotSoAngryRedHead10:46 AM

    Wow, thanks for the head's up! I figured they would use photoshop but only to make photos more true to color - cameras are funny things.

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  2. Joseph11:39 AM

    I'm sure they would argue that they are just altering the image to make it more true to life -- but once you start playing with images people tend to start making the look BETTER rather than more accurate.

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  3. Jennifer AKA keewee11:24 AM

    Mine too.

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  4. Victoria Williams1:38 PM

    Yikes. That's not nice.

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  5. Anonymous3:57 PM

    Most of these images look darker...

    http://images.google.com/images?q=Burgundy%20Iceberg&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

    Could your color have been affected by soil pH?

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  6. Blue Fox10:36 AM

    Lousy pictures I can forgive, lousy service, nah. My bad experience with my seed order for this year was with Henry Field, just because of the 'free shipping' offer. Yeah, sure, I got my order, finally, but they billed me for shipping too. No response from an email, so I guess I get on the phone. Sigh...

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  7. joco12:11 AM

    Hiya,

    and there was me hoping the title of this post would lead to MJJ and gardening :-)

    BTW, is that a tulip bulb-field you are posing in front of?

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