Posts with tag photoshop

Kate Winslet is one of our most favorite actresses in the world. (Kate, next time you're in San Francisco, lunch is on us. Seriously -- we'll take you for a lobster club at Neiman Marcus that will change your life!) So we're firmly on her side in the "Vanity Fair Photoshop or not" debate.

If anyone can help Sarah Palin turn a wonky eye twitch and a thin resume into fame and fortune, it's Paris Hilton.

Now this is a group movement we can get behind! Dodai over at Jezebel tipped us off to this campaign to get a major magazine to publish a cover without any Photoshopping!

Considering the egregiously heavy handed state of retouching these days, this would be a radical move. Remember the big Faith Hill before and after Redbook cover? The weird gold Gwyneth Paltrow cover of W? The "Is that really Drew Barrymore" Vogue cover? And this Marie Claire cover of Tina Fey, where she looks great, but not quite like herself...

Seriously, when you have to make these women look "better" to sell your product, your standards of beauty are warped.

We have no idea who's behind Huaxing Classic Socks or if they make a quality product, but we're pretty sure they didn't pay Jennifer Aniston's head to endorse their "flaring panty-hose." We've been speculating on who this body belongs to for the last five minutes. Probably some random model -- but we like to think it's Cybill Shepherd.

The thing we like most about this example of unlicensed celebrity endorsements is the fact this hack designer's terrible Photoshop job will probably draw more attention to Huaxing's panty-hose than an unadulterated image of Jennifer Aniston ever could

The way Mischa's career has been going lately, this wouldn't be that surprising, but no, of course it isn't real. Clearly, the image is merely the actress' face plastered on of some random topless body.

But where did it come from?

The photo was snapped by a reader of the blog, dlisted, who writes: "So I'm going through the aisle and I see that this store sells everything, the kitchen sink, your moms, and panties. Below is the picture of the panties they are selling. I'm pretty sure Mischa Barton doesn't want you to know she's hawking 99 cent store panties."

Not exactly a stellar Photoshop job by the makers of Tyrone's 99-cent underwear -- but you never know, it might fool some people into dropping their hard-earned quarters on a pair of Mischa panties.

Either Jennifer Hudson's album team was working from a low budget or she's just a fashionista who likes a bargain. The dress for her album's cover only cost $36.00! How's that for a steal?

We're used to seeing celebrities reshaped and twisted into impossible poses using a little photoshop magic, but when it comes to tweaking lighting effects to ridiculous levels, Tatler magazine might be breaking new ground. Remember in the first Batman, where Jack Nicholson's joker invented a green gas that turned people into grinning corpses? That's pretty much the first thing we thought of when we say the cover of Tatler's August issue.

Perhaps the photo editor was actually trying to make some kind of reference to the latest Batman movie, but they probably should have given some kind of a disclaimer. This image is making people wonder if the folks at Tatler thought that Maggie was cast as the villan. Maggie does possess that quirky kind of beauty, especially those light colored eyes. When you crank up the brightness 300%, she looks kind of demonic.

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Poor Gwynnie. Her Vogue cover issue was their lowest selling issue of the entire year so far. Maybe that's because nobody realized it was a picture of her on the cover -- she was Photoshopped until she looked like a wax statue that just vaguely resembled Gwyneth Paltrow.

In this day in age, with Photoshop techniques so sophisticated that the public is routinely fooled, it's always surprising to see celebrities turned into porcelain dolls on the covers of major magazines. However, this recent Men's Style cover is so far from human it's ridiculous.

OK, it's no secret that just about every celebrity mug that graces a magazine cover gets an extra layer of reconstructive surgery thanks to the miracle of Photoshop. Most of the time, the idea is to turn the subject into a hyper-flawless sex goddess, or erase some dude's ugly zit -- but every so often, designers go into a trance and can't stop until they've literally created an inhuman monster.

We could kinda understand why an art director might try to push the envelope to make pre-surgical Ashlee Simpson look skinnier, or airbrush out some cellulite off of Phoebe Price's thighs -- because sex sells. But why go through the trouble for Eddie Van Halen on the cover of Guitar World?

If you were the kind of kid who drew on her converse high tops, and always aspired to put your designs into production, we found the perfect contest for you!

Between now and July, you can enter the Design Your Own Doc Marten contest and do just that -- the only limit is your imagination.

New Sex and the City promo pictures have just been released, and the ladies don't look a day over 20! We know that the magazine and movie people always seem to want to do some Photoshop, to make their superstars look, well, more superstarish -- because obviously no woman actually looks good as is. Of course, no matter how thin or beautiful, everyone needs to be airbrushed (ahem, total sarcasm). But, this time, the Sex and the City retouchers have taken things over the top.

Introducing the March issue of Vogue. You'll notice a very fresh-faced young lady adorning the cover of this month's issue, who looks eerily similar to Drew Barrymore -- just 15 years younger and just a little creepy. Oh wait, that is Drew! Thank you Photoshop for confusing the crap out of me.

The 32-year-old actress was shot by photographer Stephen Meisel (and airbrushed to death by some nameless staff graphic designer). No word on who morphed Drew's normally respectable coiffure into that unfortunate Jesse Spanno shape, or how to contact the doctor who replaced her the skin on her face with nice, shiny, extra-taut plastic.

All in all, it's your typical Vogue cover. Serene, sophisticated, and completely fabricated.

Drew, I expected better.

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Congratulations to Complete Woman magazine, for going above and beyond the call of duty in celebrity Photoshopping. It's not exactly a secret that no real person can live up to the carefully crafted images that appear on the covers of magazines -- but at least those mags are trying to make the photos look kind of plausible.

This photo of Ashlee Simpson, on the other hand, has been doctored so much that she looks more like a lifeless china doll than an actual human being. Looks like the magazine let their junior photo editor take a crack at this one -- and he went way overboard.

I think most people accept that this kind of photo manipulation is part of the game, but this is just stupid.


To make matters worse, it appears Ashlee didn't even pose for the cover. According to her publicist:

"Ashlee in no way posed for Complete Woman or ever gave them an interview. They apparently purchased outtakes from an old photo shoot years ago and elected on their own to retouch the photo as they wanted to. This supposed 'magazine' has never reached out to us and we did not cooperate with them in any way at all."

Lame.

So say you're a world-famous model or actress, and everyone is constantly taking your picture, telling you how beautiful you are, and including you on Top Ten Most Attractive lists -- how do you deal with it all?

Keira Knightley simply responds: "Thanks. I've got good genes!"

But beyond that, the star also acknowledges that much of her appearance is crafted by others. She tells People: "OK, I'm on the cover of a magazine, but somebody else does the hair, and the makeup, and airbrushes the f--- out of me -- it's not me, it's something other people have created."

We're used to seeing movie stars', and even politicians' images grossly manipulated by photographers who go crazy with Photoshop. It's refreshing to see someone in the public eye being so frank and down to Earth about what's becoming an increasingly ridiculous practice.