This is a photoshop - signed, a graphic artist. (with pics)

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  • ctpeace
    ctpeace Posts: 327 Member
    Gimme more! This is really an education! This is why those tabloid shots of celebs at the beach looking "terrible" are so shocking, we never get to see the real thing in print! I can't imagine what it's like as a model to see what the photographer "fixes".
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member

    I know that sounds awful, but, there is racism still and we know this because it drives the market. Just like we are all shocked how extreme the photoshopping is. Bottom line the Dove "real woman" campaign got a lot of attention, but the sales simply didn't improve. There is no evidence women want to see healthy normal women, not according to the sales. And thats what drives the race war in advertising as well.

    I wish there was more justice in that, I hate anything that shames people into buying. But that shame, gosh its a powerful emotion and we just eat it out of their hands.

    That's really sad that the Dove women ads didnt generate sales. I guess we want the plastic white fakes since ultimately our dollars are what drives sales and advertisements...sigh makes me sad.
  • _kimberly
    _kimberly Posts: 57 Member
    thanks for posting all the photoshops. more please!
  • J_Dragonfly
    J_Dragonfly Posts: 15 Member
    Bump for sure!!!
  • viser_haut
    viser_haut Posts: 97 Member
    LOVE this thread!

    Although unfortunately it's not a 'modern' problem - think the painting of Anne of Cleves which looked nothing like her ;p
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    Gimme more! This is really an education! This is why those tabloid shots of celebs at the beach looking "terrible" are so shocking, we never get to see the real thing in print! I can't imagine what it's like as a model to see what the photographer "fixes".

    I am sure they can photoshop some of those beach photos to make them look even better or worse than they're.
  • SexiBayBeezy
    SexiBayBeezy Posts: 14 Member
    This is crazy and im addicted.... MORE!!
  • Showmm
    Showmm Posts: 406 Member

    I know that sounds awful, but, there is racism still and we know this because it drives the market. Just like we are all shocked how extreme the photoshopping is. Bottom line the Dove "real woman" campaign got a lot of attention, but the sales simply didn't improve. There is no evidence women want to see healthy normal women, not according to the sales. And thats what drives the race war in advertising as well.

    I wish there was more justice in that, I hate anything that shames people into buying. But that shame, gosh its a powerful emotion and we just eat it out of their hands.

    That's really sad that the Dove women ads didnt generate sales. I guess we want the plastic white fakes since ultimately our dollars are what drives sales and advertisements...sigh makes me sad.


    That's not true. In 2005, when Dove first launched it's Real Beauty campaign, sales went up by 20%. (source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2011/10/20/beware-the-hidden-traps-in-cause-marketing/) Quite a significant number in an already saturated beauty product market.
  • 36jessica
    36jessica Posts: 319 Member

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    Hilarious!

    That is. How lazy & cheap.
    ...and very very disturbing. I'm starting to become kind of attached to some of my many flaws...
  • AnderMama88
    AnderMama88 Posts: 49 Member
    Bump!
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    Bump!
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    Bump!
  • mtnstar
    mtnstar Posts: 125 Member
    Just read both of these threads from beginning to end and couldn't stop! I knew things were photoshopped but just never realized the extent of it! How enlightening and empowering this thread has been for me. I will never look at another magazine picture without seeing it. Our society is pretty twisted.

    On another note, I was feeling kind of down about myself because so many of the women I went to high school with seemed to look just incredible on their facebook profile photos. I actually thought I was doing something really wrong because I had so many wrinkles compared to them. Only after recently seeing some close ups from the HS reunion did I realize they had photoshopped their facebook pics! LMAO!

    Thank you OP and everyone else who has shared!
  • littlelouis
    littlelouis Posts: 54 Member
    bumping for later!
  • ZoeLifts
    ZoeLifts Posts: 10,347 Member
    Bump!! This needs to stay at the top!!
  • CalypsoNi
    CalypsoNi Posts: 44
    I hate this on fitness magazines. On this one I can't decide if they were add or removing muscle.
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    Oh dear god she's got a man's body. =/
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    I hate this on fitness magazines. On this one I can't decide if they were add or removing muscle.
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    Oh dear god she's got a man's body. =/

    Those are the nicest moobs I've ever seen!
  • PixieGoddess
    PixieGoddess Posts: 1,833 Member
    Just read both of these threads from beginning to end and couldn't stop! I knew things were photoshopped but just never realized the extent of it! How enlightening and empowering this thread has been for me. I will never look at another magazine picture without seeing it. Our society is pretty twisted.

    On another note, I was feeling kind of down about myself because so many of the women I went to high school with seemed to look just incredible on their facebook profile photos. I actually thought I was doing something really wrong because I had so many wrinkles compared to them. Only after recently seeing some close ups from the HS reunion did I realize they had photoshopped their facebook pics! LMAO!

    Thank you OP and everyone else who has shared!

    Yeah, I've definitely noticed that trend on my fb feed too - and we're not even to our 10yr reunion yet! WHY do you need to photoshop a friggin profile pic?!? :huh:

    MOAR!! :laugh:
  • TiaFerrera
    TiaFerrera Posts: 93
    WOW! I didn't realize this thread was still going!! Its hard to keep up with you guys! Lol I'm so proud of everyone posting pics and impressions, I hope everyone is seeing the truth now. I crack up every time I see the Kim K magazine cover saying "you call this fat" lol Just awesome!
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I hate this on fitness magazines. On this one I can't decide if they were add or removing muscle.
    3531183.jpg
    Oh dear god she's got a man's body. =/

    Please be joking. Please be joking.

    :noway:
  • naseak
    naseak Posts: 98 Member
    bump
  • TiaFerrera
    TiaFerrera Posts: 93
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    Someone asked about this photo from H&M featuring their plus sized model
    The suit does a good job of puling her handles in but along the suit they did smooth it out further. theres no indent along the left side. The breast on the left, the shadow over her arm is unrealistic and that is a pretty sharp line under her breast along her rib cage too.

    But I have to give them a lot of credit. As a GA I personally would have evened out the shadow off her right shoulder or darkened her skin where its very bright. It doesn't make her more or less attractive - it but it is a distraction from where you want your eye to go.
    Her breasts are a little big and awkward for this angle, I would have been tempted to edit them myself to flatter the product better, but they didn't. they didn't draw in cleavage, they didn't lift them, shrink them, or anything,
    I'm very proud of them for leaving her curves mostly in tact, along her legs you see those funny lumps we have, as well as the armpit bulges. There is the usual color enhancing but you're going to get that anywhere. I'm really impressed with this really,
  • lwoodroff
    lwoodroff Posts: 1,431 Member
    The thing that strikes me is the thigh on the left which is a bizarrely smooth line compared to the other pic as though her hip bone has been shaved!
  • krickeyuu
    krickeyuu Posts: 344 Member
    Bumpity-do dah
  • ShortStuff35
    ShortStuff35 Posts: 15 Member
    Bump
  • fiberartist219
    fiberartist219 Posts: 1,865 Member
    It might be fun to take some of these and photo-chop them even further to make a mockery of the cartoons that they are.
  • WickedGarden
    WickedGarden Posts: 944 Member
    thanks again for this thread!

    Previously I had been sucked into reading and subscribing to Shape/Fitness magazine, I wanted to look like the models in the magazines, alas, now I can see that they are photoshopped. So disappointing.
  • MissingPixies
    MissingPixies Posts: 316 Member
    Bump
  • glynda66
    glynda66 Posts: 184 Member
    ***bumpity bump***
  • mellyish
    mellyish Posts: 253 Member
    bump!

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