Remember Jessica Alba’s heavily Photoshopped Campari ads? There are more where that came from, and Eva Mendes and Salma Hayek are in some bizarre scenarios.
via Jezebel.
Excerpt:
Actors, models and television personalities are accustomed to leading on-air lives in soft focus. But with the advent of all-digital television next month, the stage is set for unforgiving high-definition broadcasts, and even everyday people want to look airbrushed to perfection.
In our hyper-magnified world where HDTV, HD camcorders and point-and-shoot cameras with auto-airbrushing functions are becoming the norm, a blemish here, a pockmark there or even a wisp of a wrinkle is unacceptable.
In theory, the sharper images transmitted over high-definition digital television mean the skin has to look almost perfect. Which is to say that it has to look natural, fresh and dewy, not powdery and masklike as it did in the analog days.
Full article here.
via Jezebel & Photoshop Disasters:
In the September 2008 issue of an international edition of Marie Claire, some of the staff at the top of the masthead — creative director, photo director, deputy editor, associate editor, acting features director — posed for a photo in what looks like the office conference room. They all look fresh-faced and wrinkle-free. However, as Photoshop Disasters points out, the reflection in the conference room table suggests a different reality.
Life & Style Magazine!
Take a look:
“Jessica Alba lost 40 lbs. in three months.”
Compare the photo above with the one below:
They used the retouched photo!!!
via Jezebel.