Models Faces Before Photoshop

Check out this video and article at Jezebel showing the transformation of close-up shots of models used for advertising. I can't embed the video here, but its short and as always, kinda shocking how skewed are media images really are. No one's skin is as smooth and flawless as a Loreal ad, not even a beautiful model's.

Check it out HERE.

Photoshop's Hall of Shame

Checkout Jezebel's gallery of the Best & Worst of Photoshop's Hall of Shame HERE. I don't know why every time I see these side-by side comparisons, I'm still shocked. Its all fake people! But how "they" (they being the overlord masters of the image industry) choose to photoshop individuals is culturally significant. Take, for example, the lightening of Gabourey Sidibe's skin or the cinching of Christina Hendricks' waist or the air-brushing out of wrinkles or even smile lines. These things don't happen in a vaccuum and it isn't just about air-brushing out a pimple or a scar--its erasing race, body-type and age. Let's not also forget that in many instances, the photoshopping of images produces non-human bodies--limbs missing bones, limbs missing period, necks incapable of holding up oddly large heads, etc. In order to "idealize" these people are made into cartoons.

Photoshop Disasters: Broken Elbow Edition

Seriously, people? Seriously? I do love how Shakesville and Jezebel have been calling out the over-use of photoshop in marketing and media to give us "unreal images." Every image is photoshopped that is put in a glossy magazine, catalogue or high-end website. So, every once and a while we find these totally ridiculous mistakes (like the above dislocated elbow). Her legs look a little funky as well--right below the knee on her left leg--notice that non-knee like curve. Ugh. I understand washing out a pimple, but beyond that I find photoshop abuse to be a social plague.