Perfection? or Photoshop

tashjs21

I get so angry when I see obvious Photoshop jobs.

Jennifer Lawrence, looks amazing in the original photo and very fit. Yet, they felt the need to remove all the muscle from her arms, remove her butt and take in her torso. I thinks he looked way hotter in the original.



Then this one...





**edited because the first pic is too big but second is too small to see the detail of the original.

This is why women have unrealistic views on their tummies. She has a slight "roll" to her belly in the original even though she is far from fat. I am not saying flat tummies are unattainable but these images give women unrealistic goals.

Fatal1ty2k5

Agreed

neverstray

Yeah, well, the magazine decides what sells. The buyers support it by buying it. Unfortunately, that's how it works.

BAMFMeredith

I don't really care too much, I mean, I do think Jennifer Lawrence looks beautiful in the before picture too, but I DO get irritated when it's something super ridiculous, like this:



Or like washing out a woman's beautiful skin tone to make her lighter, that shiz makes me mad, a la Beyonce---no need to lighten this girl's skin, she's gorgeous!

Il_DaniD_lI

Sooo much better before the photo shop. I'd be pissed if I was photo shopped and it turned out looking worse.

VictorianJade

This sort of thing is on my list of pet peeves. LET WOMEN BE REAL WOMEN!

I play with contrast a bit on my photos, but none of the photos end up making me look thinner. Photoshop can only do so much, there. Heh.

alias1001

That's the best one ever. Barbie lady.

xnikkixsikkix

She looks a million times better in the original...The second photo she just looks sickly. The girl is flawless, she shouldn't be photoshopped for any reason.

virichi08

Id love to hve her body in the 1st pic... major difference in the 2nd one

myLittleVoice

i'd like to see how they would photoshop me! then i'd throw it in their faces and walk out! photoshop and this industry is disgusting!

tashjs21

That's the best one ever. Barbie lady.

That one is just scary. :noway: Somebody was drunk photoshopping. :laugh:

trulycrazed

This makes me kinda sad... I actually think both woman have VERY sexy bellies in the before pictures.

tashjs21

This one freaks me out too

asdfzxh

wrg,doesn't

kuftae

I agree, the original pic of Jennifer Lawrence looks better. That's just a poorly done job.

Although, I don't see a problem with using photoshop. A still image of a person attracts scrutiny, it invites it just by its nature. Still images don't exist in real life without cameras since things are always in movement. If photoshop makes a hot girl more attractive in a photo, looking at the photo still doesn't compare to the feeling I'd get meeting her in real life. So, in a way, the "lie" tells the truth better than the original.

jenovatrix

tashjs21 wrote: »

This one freaks me out too

Aw, who doesn't love weird boobs and noodle arms?

Iguessicandothis

Imagine how the celebrities must feel-basically being told they're not good enough in themselves.

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lithezebra

Yes, she looks way hotter in the unedited photo. I don't know why the second photo "sells." It's boring, and less attractive.

lithezebra

vinegar_husbands wrote: »

What makes it bad, though? Photoshop is about as unnatural as makeup or taking misleading photo angles, all of which most women do.

Cameras make most people look worse than they really do, blotchy, with deep shadows, lipless, with little piggy eyes. Strong makeup makes lips and eyes show up, and evens out skin tone. A truckload of makeup looks unnatural.

wilsoncl6

I never take those photos seriously to begin with for various reasons:

1. Celebreties tend to have enough money to pay plastic surgeons, cosmologists, dermatologists and every other oligist you can name to make themselves look better than the normal every day working stiff.
2. Every photo shoot is a setup and doesn't convey the natural look of the person to begin with.
3. Makeup, lighting and the right camera angle/settings/lense can make anyone look much better (a la Kaitlyn Jenner).
4. In the end, they'll just make the model look how they want with a good computer program anyway.

No one should look at a picture in a magazine or catalog and have any inclination that the person in the pic really looks like that in real life.