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Photoshop Of Horrors
This item about Scarlett Johansson on the cover of Cosmo focuses on her waist. Specifically: The waist the magazine's art department whittled for her. Is ScarJo curvy? Yes! Does she have, as seen here, a waist that is only a smidge wider than her neck? No. And we know this because M. LeBlanc at Bitch Ph.D. did the research. When seen "in the wild," Scarlett's midsection is that of a normal, fit human being. It's only on the cover of Cosmo that she takes on the dimensions of Betty Boop. Oh, and, as commenter TheGarlicSong pointed out, on this cover, her left arm is smaller and shorter than her right arm. WTF. (Click to enlarge.) [Bitch Ph.D.]
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Jennifer Garner's rep says that reports reports of Jen and hubby Ben Affleck splitting are "100% fabricated." "There is not one ounce of truth to it," the flack adds. You can now start pasting together your shattered dreams. • Raffaello Follieri was hospitalized today for a sinus infection after his court appearance. And those reports of his opiate ingestion? Quoth Follieri's flack: "He was on a prescription and cough medicine from his doctors that contained codeine before retiring to bed that night." • This Justin Timberlake for Givenchy ad is perilously Photoshopped! It seriously looks nothing like him. [Us, People, Dlisted]
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Um…ooohkaaaay. Eddie Van Halen is on the cover of Guitar World looking like, uh, very unEddie Van Halen. We're well aware that the Photoshopping of celebs is not limited to women, and we're well aware that Photoshopping often aims to make subjects look younger or thinner, but really, who is Guitar World's demographic that the magazine's editors felt the need to paste some fucked up version of Eddie's face onto some other body? (Click image for larger version.) [Photoshop Disasters]
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A retoucher for Maxim Mexico went a little loco on this model's waist. The thing about it is that it's not just offensive for like obvious objectification reasons (because really, only objects like action figures or Barbies could ever be proportioned like that), but it's also just a completely piss poor job with the "liquify" tool. I took it upon myself to "fix" her waist, using the same liquify filter in Photoshop. (Click image to compare Maxim's version and Jezebel's version of this image.) [Photoshop Disasters]
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A reader points us to this picture from PhotoShop Disasters. It's a shot of two magazines, side by side, each featuring Lily Allen on the cover. Each magazine manipulated the same photograph of Lily. We found the original image. Is she actually wearing a yellow dress? Or black dress? Is her lipstick pink? Or red? And did both magazines make her face longer and less round??? Click to see the magazine covers larger, as well as the original, untouched image. [PhotoShop Disasters]
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Look, Clive Owen is great. Awesome, even. And hot! He's not exactly craggy or jowly but he is NOT the smooth, baby-faced manbot seen in this Lancôme ad. Found in the "Hommes International" issue of Paris Vogue, this ad renders Clive positively poreless. Isn't his rugged, wizened mug what you like about him? At least they put his name on the photo, so you know who the hell he is. (Click to for a larger view.)
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Photoshop Of Horrors
An eagle-eyed reader pointed us to Kel's Photo Creations, where someone (presumably named "Kel") will take your pageant baby's face and turn it into something that looks like, in the words of said tipster, "airbrushed street art of Bratz dolls." One such example is to the left, but you can find some more Lisa Frank-ish creations here. We thought that perhaps this was the invention of some performance artists, but if you peruse the rest of the site, it seems that Kel is not fucking around. You can get the full Photoshop treatment for $35. A bargain! [Kel's Photo Creations]
Dove has finally issued a statement regarding allegations that the models in its "Real Beauty" campaign were subjected to a little Photoshop of Horrors: "Dove's mission is to make more women feel beautiful every day by widening the definition of beauty and inspiring them to take great care of themselves. Dove strives to portray women by accurately depicting their shape, size, skin color and age. The 'real women' ad referenced in recent media coverage was created and produced entirely by Ogilvy, the Dove brand's advertising agency, from start to finish and the women's bodies were not digitally altered. Pascal Dangin worked with photographer Annie Leibovitz (Ogilvy has never employed Mr. Dangin on the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty), who did the photography for the launch of the Dove ProAge campaign, a new campaign within the Campaign for Real Beauty. There was an understanding between Dove and Ms. Leibovitz that the photos would not be retouched - the only actions taken were the removal of dust from the film and minor color correction." More at the link following. [Jolie Nadine]
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Pray For Marc Jacobs
- "It's out of control. There's always a different boy and everyone is worried he's going to pull a Halston." That's an anonymous friend of Marc Jacobs on the increasingly-erratic fashion designer. [Page Six]
- Ouch: David Lauren was not invited to his girlfriend (of three years) Lauren Bush's cousin Jenna's wedding. You know, Jenna Bush: Daughter of the POTUS. Apparently the Bush clan think David is too old for Lauren. Oh, and also too Jewish? Awkward. [Rush & Molloy]
- Kristin Davis is pissed about the injustices she faced making the Sex and the City movie: "It's in the contract that we get to keep our outfits, which is a fantastic thing, except that, for me, all of my outfits were samples. I kept my running pants, which I love and wear them a lot, but I was like, Where are my clothes?" [E!]
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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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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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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 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 »
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Photoshop victim Faith Hill is not pregnant. According to Us, she set tongues wagging about the state of her uterus by wearing a flowy top to the CMT music awards. • Ashton Kutcher dishes about losing his V-card and it's sort of charming: "I was 15. It was out in the woods with a girl I had just met who my buddy set me up with. The whole thing lasted two seconds. It was really awkward. Two years later I had sex with her again just to show her the first performance was a fluke and I'd gotten better." • TMZ is making fun of Tom Brady for being whipped by Gisele Bundchen. They call Brady her "wife." Because being in a monogamous relationship is soooo emasculating. Jerks. [Us, ICYDK, TMZ]
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Magazine Editors "Consider" Discussing Airbrushing Guidelines
As previously reported, there's talk of banning magazines in the UK from digital photo enhancement. Meanwhile, The American Society of Magazine Editors is considering a "panel discussion" about retouching guidelines, reports Folio. Cindi Leive, ASME president and editor in chief of Glamour, says there will not be a ban. "Given the ubiquity of retouching technology these days—think of brides and their wedding photos—it seems unrealistic to forbid all digital manipulation of photos in any magazine." Wait, brides are doing it, so it's okay? Folio points out that Leive is no stranger to PhotoShop controversy. Still, she says, "Readers should never be misled about what they're looking at." And yet! More »
Photoshop Of Horrors
Check out the box for the diet cereal Curves. The midriff of the woman jumping is a little...wrong. (Click on image to view larger version. [Photoshop Disasters via Slashfood]
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