With the creation of Photoshop in 1987, our lives suddenly changed - you could turn virtually any "ugly duckling" into a beautiful swan. When used with caution and in modesty, Photoshop can be a useful tool for enhancing our natural beauty and giving a self-esteem boost.
We often see photos of celebrities that look so flawless, it's hard to believe they're even real. Before you start comparing yourselves to them, keep in mind that their photos are usually the case of being photoshopped excessively. So don't worry, nobody looks like photoshop pictures in real life.
Celebrity photoshop takes it to another dimension by also setting unrealistic beauty standards to their young followers. Though sometimes, with a touch from an inexperienced editor, it can turn into an example of bad photoshop quite easily.
Below, Bored Panda had put together a list of celebrity photoshop fails and pics before and after the modifications - some of them were very scandalous, while others were simply photoshopped by people on the Internet. Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian - they're all there. Prepare to be shocked!
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Angelina Jolie
"Celebrities Before And After Photoshop Who Set Unrealistic Beauty Standards" Yes. Correct. Angelina sets unrealistic beauty standards. Both with and without photoshop :-)
Candice Huffine
Kim Cattrall
Madonna
time to get your eyes checked then!!! Cindy is merely 50, this scary sight is nearly 60. Cindy looks way better and more natural than this botoxed buffoon
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If I look like the original when I'm approaching sixty (!) I'll be having daily parties! A bit of additional soft light from the front and you wouldn't even need to retouch her.
The first one is more interesting. There's more expression in her face more life lived. The second just looks like a manequin in a store window
Left one: unreleased unedited photo. Right one: badly edited by a fan. It is not an official photoshop job ;)
The one on the right reminds me of Data (the android) in Star Trek the Next Generation. Her skin looks so smooth it could be plastic.
At 58 I mean it should be allowed to look like Madonna - without airbrushing and photoshop...
Why did they do that thing to her face?! She looks like a CGI monster! Of course she aged, but why the hell have they smoothed her so much!
The right one looks like a blow up doll that just had the chin wiped off.
She doesn't look anything like one on the right. She knows it, we know it.
Age gets us all if we're lucky. Photoshop portraits are the same thing as lies.
The after's here are someones amateur retouch attempts. They are not the real images.
This is what happens when celebrities are expected to stay eternally youthful. Except you Stephen hawking. You're good
If I was her, I would be photo shopping myself. She looks hard in the face, as if a life of drinking and smoking.
somebody needs to tell Madonna, that she needs to stop doing that....
wow Madonna has got such a beautiful face. i wish she would care for her health more, so her tired eyes would brighten and her face would fill with its natural plumpness again.
She needs to accept the fact she's old Af. And needs to put a damn shirt on too
She always stays very fit but I think putting on 20 lbs would help get rid of that guant look
I think she is brilliant. I can't believe a woman who has done so much in her career and in the world can be so disrespected.
Both images have been photo shopped including the one on the left. I saw her live and she doesn't look that.
Anybody else thinks she looks like a female Voldemort. In both pictures?
Who cares! Let's see how we all fair at 58 - doubt we'll be dancing on stage for endless hours with a bunch of 25 year olds that's for sure. She doesn't dictate who sets the standards in beauty culture - we do!
Britney Spears
Justin Bieber
Beyonce
Madonna
Wow, they turned her into a complete different person...she looks like Madonna's younger sister on the right
Britney Spears
Cindy Crawford
Penelope Cruz
Katy Perry
Keira Knightley
She actually responded when this photo came out. She was really mad they made those changes, especially enlarging her bust, without telling her.
Faith Hill
Jennifer Lawrence
Lindsay Lohan
Miley Cyrus
Kristen Stewart
Avril Lavigne
Kate Winslet
Kim Kardashian
Katy Perry
Sharon Stone
Leighton Meester
Britney Spears
There's no problem with the first picture, but as a stage performer/dancer she should know how important is to hold in your belly. (Yep, there are exceptional dance stíles like belly dance...) This posture reminds me of a toddler :)
Sharon Stone
Rihanna
Meghan Trainor
Lady Gaga
Nina Garcia
Kris Jenner And Gordon Ramsay
Kris did that, not Ramsay. He posted the unedited version on his Twitter. I don't think he gives a s**t about his wrinkles.
Jennifer Aniston
Megan Fox
Lady Gaga
Miranda Kerr
Eva Mendez
Britney Spears
All things considered, that's a very good photo of her. Completely unnecessary to airbrush it to death.
Lindsay Lohan
Tyra Banks
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian
I'm happy to see that in reality she has room in her body for all her organs... got me worried there for a bit :P
Prince George
Nicole Scherzinger
can't get WHY would they need to retouch the picture! She looks awesome! I wish I had a bdoy like that!
Miley Cyrus
Seriously? Who does that? Photo shopping sponsors out of a pic? Someone has a beef with Elton John's AIDS Foundation.
Madonna
Kate Middleton
Natalie Portman
A lot of the "after" photos seem further photoshopped (from the original published) for shock value. That or the tabloid industry needs to hire better photo editors. Cheating is one thing, cheating badly is another.
Both before and after pictures have obviously been messed with. Anyone who has ever changed their pics with even a simple phone app knows that it's just as easy to make you look worse than it is to make you look better.
Happy to see I'm not the only one thinking every picture has been photoshopped, "before" and "after". What wouldn't they invent to make views... Pathetic.
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No one here wants to even believe the before photos....how funny is that?
To be honest, having done countless A-list celebs and models in the past, more than half of the 'befores' are totally believable. I won't name names, but you wouldn't believe what some of our beloved models and actors look like without us. And quite a few top fashion and cosmetic faces have absolutely terrible skin not unlike the Beyonce 'before'. That said, a couple of these 'befores' have definitely been worked over for effect, but don't kid yourself. Everybody at that level is heavily retouched, even if the ultimate goal is to look 100% natural. That's what we do : )
all those skin smoothing makes them seem like they are not photos but paintings why don't they just use the technic from avatar and replace all actors with cgi? I personally wouldn't know the difference anymore sometimes...
Goes to show thay miley cyrus and katy perry f*****g look amazing even without Photoshop
Wheres the REAL selves? the before photos probably went through lots of make up and surgery ;^;
I think we can all agree here that natural beauty is better than digital.
The title of this post should be 'The worst photoshops of all time!' or similar.
like it or not a lot of these standards were actually societal standards of beauty centuries before the existence of Hollywood/Bollywood/ and the International Entertainment Industry. And so therefore Cindy Joseph of the Pro-age movement will have to resist the mindset centuries/millenia of beauty history. so really these celebrities are stuck in the same cultural beauty standard that ordiary people are stuck in just to be fair to the celebrities that ordinary people view that the celebrities set. https://www.scienceofpeople.com/ideal-body-types-throughout-history/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s https://www.teenink.com/hot_topics/what_matters/article/145008/The-1960s-Youth-Movement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/nov/15/1966-trip-good-vibrations-pop-revolution http://intothegloss.com/2015/03/history-of-anti-aging/
may I just take a moment to applaud the man who photoshopped Kristen Stewart's mouth closed? I swear her upper must have a restraining order on her lower lip.
miley cyrus, katy perry, kristen stewart and jennifer lawrence.. don't see any difference at all
Pathetic! It's sad that all these people that ordered these changes think the woman weren't "good enough" before! It hurts their campaigns more than helps them!
I like your photo editing, good effect , But Photoshop is too hard for me to learn :) For such effects I just use apps or I send my photos to online photo retouching services like FixThePhoto
I think we can all agree here natural beauty is better than digital.
Is it really important ffs. If we were all pasteurised the world would be dull
how do we know that the pre. photo also hasn't been photo shopped? How do we know they are genuine ? Who releases these pre. photo's?
Read the comment before yours by someone in the industry, Tony Morabito.
Load More Replies... Am I a terrible person to be glad I'm not the only one with a shity skin no matter what I do (apart from photoshop, it's too depressing to see myself with a perfect skin I'll never have ^_^ ) ?
This seems to be a BS article. Hell, I could make anyone look different using my 'Shop skills. There's also no proof which was the before image. And were they published, or just ham-handedly 'Shopped?
goshh.. does american people really that old instead their age? we're asian even 50 y/o our looks still young as well
I have noticed that Chinese and Japanese people don't age as fast as white people. British and American people are aging very fast these days. Men are losing hair at an earlier age than their fathers did. Most adults are overweight and obese now and that includes people aged 18 to 40. At one time only most middle aged adults were overweight or obese. The more make up women wear and the more they dye their hair the more they quicker they will ruin their face and hair.
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If this would be YouTube comments at least five people would have posted "so do you!". The others would just keep on posting generic insults. ;)
Load More Replies... A lot of the "after" photos seem further photoshopped (from the original published) for shock value. That or the tabloid industry needs to hire better photo editors. Cheating is one thing, cheating badly is another.
Both before and after pictures have obviously been messed with. Anyone who has ever changed their pics with even a simple phone app knows that it's just as easy to make you look worse than it is to make you look better.
Happy to see I'm not the only one thinking every picture has been photoshopped, "before" and "after". What wouldn't they invent to make views... Pathetic.
Load More Replies... No one here wants to even believe the before photos....how funny is that?
To be honest, having done countless A-list celebs and models in the past, more than half of the 'befores' are totally believable. I won't name names, but you wouldn't believe what some of our beloved models and actors look like without us. And quite a few top fashion and cosmetic faces have absolutely terrible skin not unlike the Beyonce 'before'. That said, a couple of these 'befores' have definitely been worked over for effect, but don't kid yourself. Everybody at that level is heavily retouched, even if the ultimate goal is to look 100% natural. That's what we do : )
all those skin smoothing makes them seem like they are not photos but paintings why don't they just use the technic from avatar and replace all actors with cgi? I personally wouldn't know the difference anymore sometimes...
Goes to show thay miley cyrus and katy perry f*****g look amazing even without Photoshop
Wheres the REAL selves? the before photos probably went through lots of make up and surgery ;^;
I think we can all agree here that natural beauty is better than digital.
The title of this post should be 'The worst photoshops of all time!' or similar.
like it or not a lot of these standards were actually societal standards of beauty centuries before the existence of Hollywood/Bollywood/ and the International Entertainment Industry. And so therefore Cindy Joseph of the Pro-age movement will have to resist the mindset centuries/millenia of beauty history. so really these celebrities are stuck in the same cultural beauty standard that ordiary people are stuck in just to be fair to the celebrities that ordinary people view that the celebrities set. https://www.scienceofpeople.com/ideal-body-types-throughout-history/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s https://www.teenink.com/hot_topics/what_matters/article/145008/The-1960s-Youth-Movement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/nov/15/1966-trip-good-vibrations-pop-revolution http://intothegloss.com/2015/03/history-of-anti-aging/
may I just take a moment to applaud the man who photoshopped Kristen Stewart's mouth closed? I swear her upper must have a restraining order on her lower lip.
miley cyrus, katy perry, kristen stewart and jennifer lawrence.. don't see any difference at all
Pathetic! It's sad that all these people that ordered these changes think the woman weren't "good enough" before! It hurts their campaigns more than helps them!
I like your photo editing, good effect , But Photoshop is too hard for me to learn :) For such effects I just use apps or I send my photos to online photo retouching services like FixThePhoto
I think we can all agree here natural beauty is better than digital.
Is it really important ffs. If we were all pasteurised the world would be dull
how do we know that the pre. photo also hasn't been photo shopped? How do we know they are genuine ? Who releases these pre. photo's?
Read the comment before yours by someone in the industry, Tony Morabito.
Load More Replies... Am I a terrible person to be glad I'm not the only one with a shity skin no matter what I do (apart from photoshop, it's too depressing to see myself with a perfect skin I'll never have ^_^ ) ?
This seems to be a BS article. Hell, I could make anyone look different using my 'Shop skills. There's also no proof which was the before image. And were they published, or just ham-handedly 'Shopped?
goshh.. does american people really that old instead their age? we're asian even 50 y/o our looks still young as well
I have noticed that Chinese and Japanese people don't age as fast as white people. British and American people are aging very fast these days. Men are losing hair at an earlier age than their fathers did. Most adults are overweight and obese now and that includes people aged 18 to 40. At one time only most middle aged adults were overweight or obese. The more make up women wear and the more they dye their hair the more they quicker they will ruin their face and hair.
Load More Replies... If this would be YouTube comments at least five people would have posted "so do you!". The others would just keep on posting generic insults. ;)
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