Photoshopped

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I'm not sure who this celeb is, Teri Hatcher maybe?


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I really intended for this to be a thread demonstrating how magazines air brush the crud out of women to the point they look unrealistic, covering bulges/ wrinkles/ cellulite, etc., but I guess any photoshop related type topic will work.

20 Emo & Goth Celebrities Pictures (Photoshopped)
-some of the images are poor quality, but it's still fun to look at.

I didn't think the Nicole Kidman one looked anything liked her; they airbrushed her to the point of no return. Same for the Winona Ryder one.

I also thought that the one of Madonna was pointless:
they chose an early 1980s shot of her, and that was back when she already looked somewhat Goth, if you're using heavy eye liner, etc. as criteria.

Madonna also did the heavy/dark eye shadow with dark lipstick and jet black hair routine to one of the premieres (Los Angeles) of her stupid "Truth or Dare" movie years ago (you can view those images here).

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Pupils' faces put on porn images

Excerpt:

Police have started an investigation after faces of pupils and teachers at a school were superimposed on pornographic images on a website.

A man was arrested in connection with the images of staff and pupils from Cowes High School on the Isle of Wight.

The 18-year-old was held on suspicion of possessing and publishing pseudo-indecent photographs and bailed.

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12 Worst Photoshop Mistakes ever

[SheSucks]

Madonna looks like an alien in her photo.

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Edited to Add:
After doing a Google search on her name, I see from recent photos that she has gotten rather chubby / chunky lately.

(See also:
There's More To Love Of Kelly Clarkson, Clarkson Tubby Photo)

Was Kelly Clarkson overly Photoshopped?

Kelly Clarkson: Skinny and Svelte on Cover of Self, Thanks to Airbrushing

Kelly Clarkson Photoshopped to Hell and Back in Self Magazine

This was on Yahoo's home page:

Singer's airbrushed cover-up

Singer looks "suspiciously skinny" in Self magazine's body confidence issue.

The Buzz Log: Kelly Clarkson Cover Controversy Rocks The Web

Kelly Clarkson hasn't lost her voice. But she seems to have lost a few of her curves in her cover photo for Self magazine. The songstress is gracing the September cover of Self's "total body confidence issue." But is it all just lip service if the cover girl is being digitally covered up?

Self magazine admits it did airbrush the singer, but no more than they do every other cover model. The editor-in-chief argued, "Our picture shows her confidence and beauty."

Fine, but some are griping that Self magazine doesn't have the confidence to show the singer's real body-booty and all. A Fox blogger asks, "Was Kelly Clarkson overly Photoshopped?" then compares the cover pic with her recent more bodacious appearance on "Good Morning America."

One person who doesn't have a problem with her weight is Kelly Clarkson herself. She tells the magazine: "When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't...I'm fine! I've never felt uncomfortable on the red carpet or anything."

Cover buzz has sent plenty of people to the search box looking for the real Kelly Clarkson. Queries on "kelly clarkson self magazine" soared up the charts 100% in the last 7 days, along with searches for "kelly clarkson pictures," "kelly clarkson photoshop," and "kelly clarkson photos."

Comments on the Fox blog ranged from the cheerful to the conspiratorial: While one person gushed, "Kelly rocked the cover"; another lamented, "Trying to sell a magazine with cheating on photo. How can you trust the magazine to help you when they are doing that."

One thing is for sure-suspiciously skinny photo or not, the Self cover is getting its share of the spotlight.

[noone3]

SELF is truly a sham. This isn't the first time they have airbrushed someone thinner. Pretty much all celebrities featured on their magazine have abs sculpted on them, torsos lengthened etc. I'm sure they'd photoshop me out of existence with my big boobs, tiny & short waist and huge hips. I'm funny looking.

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This is actually about a photo that was NOT photoshopped, and it's caused a lot of debate.

The lady in the photo looks normal to me (might be slightly NSFW - there is no nudity, but some workplaces might not approve of the image):

Too fat to be a model? The picture that caused a storm in the fashion world

Someone in the reader comment section on that page said that this is another photo of the same woman, but in a different pose. I don't know if that's her or not.

[Mihoshi Marie]

That woman is not too large to model plus size clothing. I've seen plus size models who were a LOT larger than the woman in the pic.

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France may slap warning on retouched fashion photos

French MPs want health warnings on airbrushed photographs

Should Retouched Fashion Photos Carry Warning Labels?

French parliament to debate retouched fashion photos

France mulls "health warning" for fashion photos

Page has sample photos:
French Officials Propose Disclaimer on Photoshopped Ads

Written by Dana Oshiro /
September 22, 2009

French member of parliament Valerie Boyer recently proposed a law to include a disclaimer at the bottom of all enhanced press, political, art and advertising-based photographs.

Backed by 50 other French members of parliament, Boyer's efforts aim to reduce the instances of eating disorders across the country.

While the attempt is certainly a noble one given France's influence on the fashion world, enforcing the legislation may be another story.

While Boyer has already managed to pass a charter against inciting skinniness, policing image doctoring may prove to be a much tougher task.

According to Reuters, if the bill passes, failing to add the disclaimer "would be punished with a fine of 37,500 euros ($54,930), or up to 50 percent of the cost of the advertisement."

In the case of Fashion Week advertisements, this could add up to millions. And trust me, it's rare that any fashion, celebrity or campaign photograph hasn't been retouched unless purposely made to reveal the subject's flaws.

Dartmouth computer science professor and forensic imaging specialist Hany Farid is convinced that photo manipulation isn't just a 20th century phenomenon as employed in a Polish Microsoft ad last month, but rather something that has existed since at least the 1860's.

He cites an image of Lincoln as being a composite of the President and of another politician's body.

Says Farid in a recent issue of the IEEE Spectrum, "Even as experts continue to develop techniques for exposing photographic frauds, new techniques for creating better and harder-to-detect fakes are also evolving. As in the battle against spam and computer viruses, it seems inevitable that the arms race between the forger and the forensic analyst will continue to escalate, with no clear victor."

Farid points to abnormalities in quantization (or image compression) and multiple points of light as telltale signs of image tampering. As services like Picnik and Fotoflexer continue to power the editing features in common photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket and Picasa, it will be interesting to see how many forgeries are actually detected should the law pass.

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The Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Time

View Sarah Michelle Photo

Seventeen, May 2003: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Zombie Arm

This horrendously manipulated stock photo of Sarah Michelle Gellar made the mag send an expensive purse by way of apology. Gellar returned the purse since she didn’t wear leather. While the practice of using stock photos for covers is common, flagrant abuse of Photoshop is something that the art department and editor usually catch before print time.

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Related thread:
Models are Too Thin

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About Face > Gallery of Offenders

Image of ultra-thin Ralph Lauren model sparks outrage

Click Here to View Photoshopped Image (freakishly thin model)

Ralph Lauren photoshop disaster spawns lawsuit threats and fair use

Ralph Lauren in row with website Boing Boing over 'Photoshopped' model

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Following two links:
What you have here is a slide show.

Click the "next" button on the bottom right of each photo to progress to the next image.
To the right of the photo is text telling you what it is you're looking at.

Untouched celeb magazine covers
-celebrity photos that have NOT been photoshopped or air brushed (has total of FIVE photos)

Worst Photoshop Disasters (slide show has total of EIGHT photos)

[Mihoshi Marie]

That Palin cover was left untouched on purpose, to make her look bad (the article was also really nasty too). But I think, in general, covers should not be as retouched as they are these days, since they all look so fake and bizarre.