This is an interesting look at celebrities photos before and after photoshop. These can give you a feel of what it takes for a person to look beautiful at all times. No wonder we, ordinary people, are left with a great deal of pressure of looking our best at all times, a high goal that is impossible to reach. Impossible even for our God-like role-models.
These are mostly used in magazines, posters and given the photoshop treatment from their original source. As you can notice these are small tweaks that were applied on photographs and the end results are astonishing. The reality of the models of these photo sessions is less so…
The Jessica alba pic looks like it is a different shot. Her pose looks slightly different.
If it wasn’t for Photoshop, Madonna looked exactly like a worn-out whore.
I’ve heard the retoucher Bianca Carosio has worked on some of these celebrities..even though they’re not on her website I can imagine what the original images must of looked like by just seeing her befores/afters. Some of the examples shown on this post are pretty bad though for my taste though.
Wow, Kim Kardashian sure have lots of love handles!!! No wonder all her goodies are so big; she has some extra baggage, but still, she looks great. Better looking like that, with some love handles, than having a waif, child-looking body.
Don’t blame the artists blame the industry!!!!
am a girl and i dont get the f*** why jessica alba or kim kardashian’s waists were shrunk. theyre both incredibly s**y women whose curves i’d like to have, and also im crazy over cameron’s abs(dnt have a clue why it was editted), and madonna still looks gorge for her age and so does demi moore and dat women in the 10th pic has the most fabulous ass with her curves. without her curvy hips she looks like every other regular model on tv. why r ppl so ashamed of curves?
having curves is not a flaw. id love to have more of them!!! that woman from the nitro magazine looks s**ier natural and basically mariah carey is getting on a bit theres no way she cn maintain her figure from those “hero” and “always be my baby” and “honey” years. its just like britney spears after having her baby. she cnt return to her “i’m a slave for you” form because she’ll still have stretch marks whether she likes it or not. she still looks s**y now and gaining weight is part of getting older, male or female.
the reason why women have so much pressure in society is because of these stupid pictures. the only difference between avril’s before and after pics is that her skin looks unnaturally flawless in one whereas she looks normal in another- big deal. u cnt get rid of your physical flaws and you definitely CANNOT get rid of your curves if you’re a woman- unless you become a skeleton in which case you’d be dead soon anyway if thats what it takes! durrhh stop trying to “re-do” nature man.
our society is so f*k*d.
but of course u get the extremes in the hip hop world with ppl like nicki minaj and lola monroe getting butt shots to make their bums bigger, feeding the machine’s idea that all blk women shud look like dat and have fat asses to look good or get jobs in the p**n or music or whatever industry, and with beyonce bleaching her skin and rapper lil kim doin numerous surgeries “enhancing” her looks when there was nothing to change in the first place. if you look at her in the 90s she looks mad hot but not anymore..:O shows how distorted our society’s idea of beauty is!
mariah’s pic is from different years.
As a person who advocates LESS use of photoshop on men and women celebs (especially when selling a product) – I have to say that people need to calm down and get their facts straight.
PHOTOSHOP the tool is NOT the problem. the problem here is a consumerist society that is weak and willing enough to feed into the corporate machine the pumps out these ‘enhanced’ images.
Someone else already said it, but airbrushing did exist and was widely used.
The majority of the people who blame photoshop outright have never even used the tool (or if they have, gone beyond the filters) and have no idea why it exists.
I am a photographer and I dislike the fact that so many celebs, who look just fine, are being over-edited. I can also tell you I don’t want to get into the sheer number of clients who request additional editing in their photos to remove things they don’t like about themselves (despite the additional cost).
No, the problem isn’t the tool – the problem is people.
Penelope cruz and jessica alba look better in the before photo
to be fair, professional cameras and even consumer quality cameras, add a lot of definition and detail that you would not see in real life. Sometimes the original image isn’t an accurate representation of what the person looks like, so photo shop is needed.
@ Jade:
Where can i get me some of those hip/waist/thigh thining strobe lights?
They should make photoshopping illegal for anything they are trying to sell! It’s not right that they are lying, especially when they are using their bodies to sell a product!
Don’t blame Photoshop. There was a thing called airbrushing back in the day. Some of these didn’t need Photoshop. A few did.
most of these didnt even need photoshopping they looked good without it, what a shame
I think if for example the photo of Avril Lavigne wasn’t photoshopped to that point, she would just look normal. Not that there is anything wrong with that or having imperfections but the magazine wouldn’t be bought by as many teenagers looking for someone to look up to and aspire to look like.
Reality is body image matters and these celebrities are beautiful anyway even without the touching up, even if it is taken a bit too far sometimes.
The “Before” photo of Jessica Alba was before the strobes went off. The “After” image was lit by strobes and has some post-production work. Just sayin’.
Nobody knows what REAL people look like anymore, due to Photoshop. Every person, male and female are photoshopped in every magazine; so never try to look just like them, because its really NOT them!
They’re clearly real. Who, in this day and age, doesn’t know the awesome power of the push-up bra?
And her rack is fantastic either way.
Both ways…