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rag trade
Psychedelic Rainbow Monogram Madonna Louis Vuitton Campaign Leaks
- Madonna's fall campaign for Louis Vuitton leaked online, and the star — captured by Steven Meisel and 23 psychedelic Photoshop layers — sort of looks like a marble statue. [Fashionologie]
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mag hag
Why Is "Toothy" Sienna Miller On The Cover Of Vogue Again?
Sienna Miller is in the new shitty-looking GI Joe movie, so naturally she's on the July cover of Vogue. Honestly? The fact that Sienna's on the cover (again) — and the story inside — is why Vogue is so nauseating.
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badvertising
Photoshop Of Horrors?
There is definitely something off about Carolyn Murphy's trapezius in this Estee Lauder ad — try drawing a line from where her neck connects on the left to where it connects on the right. [Photoshop Disasters] -
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Photoshop Of Horrors
The New York Times' Thursday Styles section calls the Photoshop debate "so five years ago," and yet! Their story is in today's paper! And they just ran this video in March. [NY Times] -
cover lies
Marie Claire: This June, Celebrate Halloween With A Photoshop Of Horrors
Beyoncé is featured in the June Marie Claire wearing the costumes Thierry Mugler designed for her superwoman-themed world tour. Think this disco-glam sheath on the cover is a bit much? Wait until you see what's inside.
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Combatting Photoshop Of Horrors
Dolly, the Aussie teen mag, has an "airbrush-free" issue as part of a "Heart Your Body" campaign. Many of the models have no wrinkles… because they are 16. Excellent analysis here. [Girl With A Satchel] -
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V's Supermodel Swimsuit Issue: Photoshop Of Horrors
A raft of one-namers nabbed the six covers of V's first swimsuit issue. So how did Kate, Claudia, Daria, Eva, Naomi and Gisele come out looking so bad? More » -
crap email from rude
Furious Faith Hill Fan: "Why Don't You People Get A LIFE"
We love it when we get emails from drive-by readers - they are often older, usually female, and definitely conservative - about posts we did years ago. Take these missives from "Jacky7777" last night: More » -
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Kim Kardashian Takes A Stand Against Airbrushing Photos
Today on The View, Kim Kardashian announced that she posed for the cover of Life & Style (out tomorrow) in a bikini, totally unairbrushed, saying, "You know what, I have cellulite. Who doesn't? Who cares?" More » -
mag hag
Photoshop Of Horrors?
There's something off about this picture from Elle magazine. Is that model (yes, she's from ANTM) actually there, standing next to that guy, or was she pasted in? Larger image after the jump. [Photoshop Disasters] More » -
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Faith Hill Lets Redbook Alter Her Again
How did Redbook get Faith Hill back after that Photoshop of Horrors cover we unveiled (which Redbook's EIC called not a photo but an image)? They let her pose as other women. [WWD, People] -
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Stars Without Makeup!!! Is The New French Elle A "Step Back"?
Political blogger Matthew Yglesias on the stars without makeup issue of French Elle: "In some ways, I think this might actually be a step back."
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Shape On Jenny McCarthy: "We Can't Change The Shape Of Anyone's Body"
Mere hours after we posted Jenny McCarthy's comments about her Shape cover (she called it "a crap load of airbrushing)", we got an email from the PR Director of the magazine: More » -
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Jenny McCarthy's Shape Cover: "A Crap Load Of Airbrushing"
"It is definitely…touched up. I have freckles and stretchmarks that you do not see here, and they add shadowing to make these muscle things happen that don't exist on my body." [Daily Express] -
ray of light
Photoshop Of Horrors
In the post-Photoshop pictures from Hard Candy Madonna is bathed in a strange alien glow that obscures every line on her face, but she looks pretty good in the "before" pictures too. [World Of Wonder] -
beauty myths
Nefertiti Was Airbrushed?
"The royal sculptor at the time may have smoothed creases around the mouth and fixed a bumpy nose to depict the 'Beauty of the Nile' in a better light." [Daily Mail] -
weighty issues
Girls Who Think They're Fat Want To Kill Themselves
Researchers have found that girls who think they are fat are more suicidal. More » -
photoshop of horrors
New York Barbie-fies First Lady
The new NY Mag cover of Michelle Obama gives her a makeover Mattel-style, adding in fuchsia eyeshadow, overdone blush and lipstick. Are they trying to kill her image as a style icon? [New York] -
mag hag
The Times Calls Out Photoshopping Magazines
In an op-ed video about a subject we monitor very closely, Jesse Epstein explains why magazines should let readers know if images have been retouched. Check the Lucky cover made from four different images. [NY Times] -
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Photoshop Of Horrors?
There is something "off" about Katie Holmes on the April issue of Glamour. Have her eyes ever been so clear blue? Greenish-hazel, maybe or brownish, but Caribbean blue? Nope. [Just Jared] -
coat tales
Photoshop Of Horrors?
Did you catch the coat, only on one side of this Annie Leibovitz portrait of Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet? Perhaps Leibovitz deftly assembled two images but forgot to "sleeve it out." [Photoshop Disasters, Vanity Fair] More » -
photoshop of horrors
Retouching Child Beauty Pageant Photos
There's another child pageant show: Little Miss Perfect. On last night's episode, one loathsome mom defended pageants, saying, "I guess maybe you would think we were doing something wrong if you had an ugly child." More » -
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Photoshop Of Horrors
Is Isla Fisher a mermaid? This blog thinks that is the only explanation for her off-kilter, spine-wrenching, torso-angling pose on the cover of In Style UK. Click to enlarge. [Shakesville] -
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"Feminist" Vandal Defaces Berlin
A subway poster in Berlin featuring Britney Spears, Leona Lewis and Christina Aguilera has been altered in a strange and interesting way: it has been defaced to mimic an open Photoshop window. More » -
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Bill Paxton Big Love Ad
Why does Bill Paxton look younger in this Big Love ad than he did in Weird Science? More » -
badvertising
Campari's Calendars: Fairy Tales & Tales Of Force
Remember Jessica Alba's heavily Photoshopped Campari ads? There are more where that came from, and Eva Mendes and Salma Hayek are in some bizarre scenarios. More » -
the year that was
2008 Photoshop Hall of Shame
From anatomically impossible appendages, to hovering hands, to skin as smooth as a Botoxed forehead, this year presented us with a not-so-little shop of digitally enhanced horrors.
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photoshop of horrors
Photoshop Of Horrors
Jessica Alba is in a Campari campaign shot by photographer Mario Testino, but it seems her normal, "real" body wasn't good enough. As you can see from the before and after images, the actress's waist was whittled for the ad. Because although she is gorgeous, she just doesn't have the ribcage-less hourglass shape required to shill alcohol! Click to enlarge. [Huffington Post, via Daily Mail] -
marie claire
Photoshop Of Horrors
In the September 2008 issue of an international edition of Marie Claire, some of the staff at the top of the masthead — creative director, photo director, deputy editor, associate editor, acting features director — posed for a photo in what looks like the office conference room. They all look fresh-faced and wrinkle-free. However, as Photoshop Disasters points out, the reflection in the conference room table suggests a different reality. (Click on photo to enlarge.) [Photoshop Disasters] More » -
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Picture Perfect: Why Everyone's So Anal About These Magazine Covers
Hey! Remember when Sarah Palin was on the cover of Newsweek and Fox News got up in arms because the close-up hadn't been retouched? (Given that it was only last week, I'm gonna go with yes.) Megan very correctly diagnosed this a would-be tempest in a battered teapot, but the fracas sparked a discussion of the ethics of the Photoshop: Is there even such a thing as an objective portrait? What are the responsibilities of the photographer? For that matter, why should it even matter what a politician looks like? Well, says The Atlantic's Virginia Postrel, it's because "accuracy is not the same thing as truth." And at the end of the day, which one do we want?
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nicole kidman
Photoshop Of Horrors
Is Nicole Kidman's face "touched up" on the cover of Elle? Michael K at DListed thinks so. He calls her forehead "polished marble" and writes: "Nicole actually deserves a little credit for holding up her face on the cover. If she let go, her whole mug would just fall to the floor." (Click to enlarge.) [DListed] -
kirsten dunst
MagHag
Dodai here. When I was buying this issue of Bazaar, the young lady working the cash register did a double take at the picture of Kirsten Dunst on the cover. "Damn, they fixed her teeth!" she exclaimed. I took a closer look. Kiki has famously said, "messed-up teeth are sexy." Do her choppers look as though they've been altered? (Click to enlarge.) More » -
britney spears womanizer
Photoshop Of Horrors
Have you seen the cover artwork for Britney Spears' single, "Womanizer"? "Artwork" is an interesting word. These images do not seem to be based in reality at all. Britney's body has been stretched and manipulated to comic-book ridiculousness. Her legs are miles long; her ankles are bone-snappingly thin. Her hair seems to have been drawn on; her waist whittled. Even her wrists are out of a Salvador Dalà painting: Surreal. The more you look at these images, the more you will marvel at the sheer preposterousness. (Click to enlarge and see additional pictures.) [The Sun] More » -
christina aguilera
Photoshop Of Horrors
Christina Aguilera has a new fragrance, Inspire, and it seems the art department may have been inspired to give her an unbelievably tiny waist. Christina's shape is lovely! Why does her middle need to be whittled down to the width of her neck (Ã la Scarlett Johansson on the cover of Cosmo)? It's disturbing. Click to enlarge; and to see a side-by-side comparison of Christina with an unretouched paparazzi photo. More » -
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Would You Buy A Women's Magazine With An Unretouched Cover?
You may have heard of a site called The Point. Here's the gist: You use the site to start campaign (get people to pledge money or do something collectively). You spread the word on the site by sending a link about your cause; members who support your cause "join." It's kind of like adding your name to a petition. The members don't have to give or do anything until the campaign reaches a "tipping point" of support. Once the campaign tips, members take action, confident that they will actually make a difference. Sounds good, right? Consider this: Clare Ondrey has started a campaign for which the objective is to "get a major magazine to publish an issue without airbrushing or Photoshopping the models in any of the features or the cover." More » -
Me! Me! Maternity
Be My (Photoshopped) Baby
One could argue that a woman who goes to a site called "Classy Announcements" gets what she deserves. Nevertheless, the site's newborn retouching services took us aback. Explains Classy Announcements, "Blemishes and flushed faces are common on newborn babies. We professionally retouch your photos, enhancing baby's skin color and surface." Oh, okay. Because God forbid anyone should suspect baby just came through a birth canal! Why not just hire a pair of three-week-old twins to play baby, like in the movies? Because, let's face it, baby's really let himself go — can we get some makeup over here? And while we're at it, baby's hair's looking a little thin — how about a toupee? And baby's legs would probably look longer in some heels. Okay, that's better. [Classy Announcements] -
september 2008 vogue
MagHag
Behold! The September issue of Vogue, with shoulder muse Keira Knightley on the cover. What the fuck is up with her hair, you ask? Good question. Michael K at DListed thinks this was Photoshopped in that they "added some meat to her bones." Thoughts? It's interesting that the words "lean" and "fitness" and "lose inches" appear on the "fall fashion" issue. Vogue never misses a chance to remind its readers that they are fat. (Click to enlarge.) [DListed] -
beyonce
L'Oreal Denies Beyonce Whitewashing • Grandma Takes Kid On Death Proof-Style Joy Ride
Re: The Beyonce L'Oreal skin-lightening accusations, L'Oreal denies lightening Beyonce. This isn't the first time that Beyonce's possible whitewashing has been attributed to her naturally light skin, what do you think? • Speaking of beautiful women: Researchers have found that beauty salons are an effective place to spread awareness about strokes. Using beauty salons as a place to raise awareness is so hot right now. • Cross-species friendships sure are a popular theme for children movies. More » -
The Invisible Hand
Photoshop of Horrors
Thanks to the reader who tipped us off to this latest case of Photoshop dismemberment, courtesy of Walmart. In case you don't recognize the victim of this tragic balloon accident, it's Rumer Willis. She looks so different! But don't worry, we found this picture of Rumer (and her hand) taken at the same photo shoot. (Click to enlarge.) For more of Rumer's disappearing jaw bone and a mysterious sun spot that obscures most of her bikini-clad body, check out the rest of Walmart's ad campaign here. [JustJared]






































