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French (Photo Retouchers) Don't Let Famous Women Get Fat

Remember the horror of that almost-unrecognizable atrocity at left? Turns out we can blame Pascal Dangin for that. Dangin, you see, is what writer Lauren Collins, in this week's issue of the New Yorker, calls "the premier retoucher of fashion photographs", a onetime hairdresser who so believes in reincarnation (symbolic, not metaphysical) that, when he moved from France to the U.S in 1989, he chose the first very flight out of Charles de Gaulle airport on the very first day of the new year.

Many women are transformed by Dangin's computer stylus, which sits in a basement laboratory at "Box", his four-story, Manhattan Photoshop fortress: In addition to Drew, there is the trophy wife with the "flat" face and "short" legs; the shoulder blade found "in a recent project at W"; the cast of the Sopranos; Prada models; "a famous actress in her late twenties"; a "crunchy"-faced model; "another well known actress"; "an actress with a movie coming out this spring"; Kate Moss; models Liya Kebede and Raquel Zimmerman; Madonna. And then there is model Christy Turlington, who, Collins explains, "needs the least help".

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12:00 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Anna
43,615 views, 97 comments

Latest by N/A: I don't hate Photoshop. In fact, I use it quite often. Good Photoshop is like makeup (hides zits, evens skin more »

PhotoShop Of Horrors Poor Hayden Panettiere is no stranger to PhotoShop. And though it's not immediately apparent just what the problem is, something is clearly amiss with her body in this Candie's ad (as seen in this week's In Touch.) Specifically: Her legs. Evidence shows that they are not made of plastic. So why does this ad make them look like Barbie doll stems? Also, her shins appear to be as long as her entire arm. Which, anatomically, doesn't seem right. (Click to see larger.)

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PhotoShop Of Horrors Awful Plastic Surgery has a side-by-side comparison of Kimberley Stewart on the beach and in a lingerie ad. While her body is similar, it is not the same. Click the picture for a larger view. [Awful Plastic Surgery]

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Liz Hurley, Sans Airbrushing

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Liz Hurley Loves Getting Airbrushed To Be "Thinner" & "Younger"

Another week, another airbrushing (mis)adventure. "Shooting bikinis is now my life, which as you can imagine is unmitigated hell," says Elizabeth Hurley, who has her own line of swimwear. "But if you signed on for the gig, sadly, you have to go and be jolly in a skimpy white bikini. So now I rely on nice photographers and a certain amount of retouching. I don't mind if you want to make me a bit thinner and a bit younger." In fact, Liz touches up her own snapshots — pictures of her husband, Arun Nayar and son Damian. "Everytime I download my holiday snaps I go over them," she claims. As always, Ms. Hurley is on-trend, because "airbrushing is here to stay," writes Nat Ives for Ad Age. Of Glamour magazine's treatment of America Ferrera, Ives claims "An actually ugly Betty just wouldn't be good for anyone's business, even if it might represent something relatable." But when it comes to magazine covers, is controversy is a good thing? More »

2:00 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Dodai
8,556 views, 54 comments

Latest by poogirl: Maybe it's just the Oz magazines, but the gossip mags LOVE having unairbrushed "stars without makeup" type pictures on the more »

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British Fashion Council Discovers Airbrushing, Becomes Appalled

The British Fashion Council, the governing board behind London Fashion Week, has come out against the overuse of airbrushing in England's magazines. (Dear BFC: we could have told you about this a long time ago.) BFC reps tell the Telegraph that it is writing a letter to the British Society of Magazine Editors and others about "digitally-enhanced body images and the part it plays in magazines in perpetuating an unachievable aesthetic." The Council is also concerned that the health guidelines for models that they recommended earlier this year are "not being implemented." The Guardian says that "the recommendations include a ban on models under the age of 16 and non-smoking and drug free backstage environments." More »

4:30 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Jessica
8,638 views, 32 comments

Latest by PetiteGal: I just wish that lesser-known designers who specialize in non-standard sized clothes would get more attention. I guess this'll never more »

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Kelly Ripa's Adventures in Airbrushing

If you saw Kelly "Ripped" Ripa on the May cover of Shape magazine, you saw her flat flat stomach, punctuated with an "innie" belly button. But Kelly's belly actually sports an outie. According to this week's Life & Style, Kelly's real belly button can be seen on the December cover of Fitness. Question: Why the fuck would you photoshop a navel? (Click the picture to see a side-by-side view.) More »

5:00 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By dodai
14,588 views, 37 comments

Latest by buggeroff: Mm, babies. more »

photoshop of horrors

America Ferrera's 'Glamour' Treatment, Revisited

Left, America Ferrera on the October 2007 cover of Glamour. At right, Ferrera at the Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards on Saturday.

[Emmy Awards image via Splash]

9:30 AM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Anna
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fucking penelope cruz looks better before she's airbrushed

Kelly Clarkson Has Junk In The Trunk (And Other Things We Already Knew) As Confirmed By A Professional Retoucher


Veteran Jezebel readers may remember how we once offered $10,000 of our boss's money for an original unretouched cover photo from a glossy magazine. [The offer still stands! We're just waiting for the money shot, people!-Ed.] Well, it looks like professional celebrity virtual liposuctor Ivan Palaez wants our boss to save his money and give it all to us, because we are both broke and kind of satiated after procrastinating extensively over his portfolio of those cool morphing Flash images of pretty-to-ugly celebs. In the video above, he explains the art of turning perfectly pretty photographs of the merely glamorous into the impossibly glowy virtual reality images that keep us company in the subway. The weirdest part is how much he fucks with their freaking postures. On the site, visual evidence that stars are a little more like us than we think! (Specifically, in the pores and mid-section!) Click Kelly Clarkson, Brittany Murphy and Naomi Watts first... if, of course, you're the sort of person who loves a little schadenfreude now and again.

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Earlier: Unretouched Cover Photos Wanted

2:21 PM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By Moe
10,413 views, 19 comments

Latest by ensie: Lohan looks like an alien in her "after" shot. more »

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It's Amazing What Kids These Days Can Do With A Computer And The Cover Of 'Playboy'


Video. Woman gets turned into stunning beauty via Photoshop. Going to get coffee. More »
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Revisiting Our $10,000 Magazine Cover Reward

Last week we informed you that we're offering a $10,000 reward for the best unretouched women's magazine cover you people can cough up. Since then, we've got lots of juicy emails and tidbits* (including one from a magazine staffer who says her particular publication is scared shitless... yay!). But we want you to know that our offer still stands. As always, we promise your identity will remain anonymous... whether you win or lose. Send your submissions to tips@jezebel.com (standard Gawker Media contest rules apply). And as we said before, may the best (meaning: the most natural-looking) woman win! More »

1:38 PM on Wed May 30 2007
By Anna
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How To Lose 100 Pounds In 4 Minutes Or Less


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In what can only be described as a less professionally-done (but no less effective) response to Dove's famous Evolution Of Beauty video, someone has created a video showing how technology can make a sample size model out of a plus-sized one... in just a few quick minutes. More »

3:33 PM on Tue May 29 2007
By Anna
1,788 views, 7 comments

Latest by sassybellaDOTcom: I love that clip, it's so outrageous but fabulous at the same time - i want that photoshopper to work more »

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Unretouched Cover Photos Wanted: $10,000 Reward

One of the things about the women's magazine industry that riles us up the most is that the images they feature bear little semblance to reality. This is especially true with regards to the covers, which, as we point out in our manifesto, are essentially female forgeries, what with all the computer-artistry involving airbrushing, contouring, and, sometimes, outright body-part swapping. But calling out magazine editors for their deception is one thing; showing it is another. That's why, as part of our effort to illustrate the magic (and magical thinking!) that goes into the production of the magazines we all love to hate, we're offering $10K to whomever wins our contest for the best un-retouched (that means unaltered in any way!) image to appear on a women's magazine cover in the past two years. As always, we promise your identity will remain anonymous... whether you win or lose. Send your submissions to tips@jezebel.com (standard Gawker Media contest rules apply). And may the best (er, most natural-looking) woman win!

11:30 AM on Mon May 21 2007
By Anna
30,467 views, 9 comments

Latest by Conrad: Don't most tabloid covers feature untouched photos of celebrities. That's how they make their money. more »