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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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#1
Angelina Jolie
Adam Doroziński 9 years ago
"Celebrities Before And After Photoshop Who Set Unrealistic Beauty Standards" Yes. Correct. Angelina sets unrealistic beauty standards. Both with and without photoshop :-)
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#2
Candice Huffine
#3
Kim Cattrall
#4
Madonna
#5
Britney Spears
Melissa Neese 9 years ago
I call fake on the left pic. That's definitely been edited to make her appear more harsh
Holly Rossmaier Newingham 9 years ago
Why is " tired" synonymous with "old"? She has two children and performs nightly in Las Vegas. The original is an exhausted look not "old"
An Ng 9 years ago
the unrealistic is the left one; they photoshopped her 10 years older, and indirectly insulted every makeup artists/beauty products.
Aurelia Grey 8 years ago
Agree! And I'm not a stylist, hair-makeup person/expert.
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Annette Felix 9 years ago
I have a feeling both of these images might have been photoshopped, just to make a point. She didn't look that rough last time I saw her on tv.
Bree Lebran 9 years ago
I'm actually somewhat reassured that these celebrities look "normal" and that it's not just the non-celebrities skin that has flaws, with or without make-up.
Margie Ring 9 years ago
All celebrities have hair extensions added for special occasions and photo shoots. So what? That's the business they're in. It's competitive and for a singer/dancer and celebrity who is followed by the paparazzi just waiting for a bad picture you should give the girl a break!
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Silvia Yiyi 9 years ago
I always wonder if they make them look worse, I don't think she looks that bad 🙀
Haejae Lee 9 years ago
My goodness. Her true self looks burn out and old. Worse than Lindsay Lohan.
Sara Ann 9 years ago
Something isn't right about this. Why does she look like such a mess in the first one?
Margie Ring 9 years ago
Do you look perfect in all of your pictures? She looks tired but I don't see any wrinkles or anything "not right"
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Margie Ring 9 years ago
Where? I see no wrinkles or evidence of sun damage. I've heard her say in interviews she uses sun block and gets spray on tans to prevent sun damage.
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Nick Faruzzi 2 years ago
She looks pretty in both. It looks like she is just scrunting her eyebrows in the first Pic and that's why there is some fine lines on her forehead, not necessarily permanent.
Potato McJerry 2 years ago
ewwwwww she only mid 30s why she look so old blegh i hate that gurl
Twinkle Cal 9 years ago
DANG! Did she not realize she was going to a photo shoot?!! #CourtneyLoveSecondGen
Stefán Atli Jakobsson 9 years ago
She looks like she has been abusing alohol for many years... Maybe she has.
Jaci Cuddy 9 years ago
Highly doubt it's the smoking alone. She's led a pretty hard life by choice.
frederic eeckman 9 years ago
I saw pictures of her without make up where she didn't look that trashy ! I think the make up they used made it really harsh... Look at her cheeks on the photoshoped picture, to come to that you see that they used a LOT of make up, giving her this rough aspect I guess...
Sara Counts 9 years ago
More importantly, her photoshop looks like a completely different person. More like JLo photoshopped.
Margie Ring 9 years ago
I don't know what the crack whores you've been hanging around with look like but that comment is really sick. She has a beautiful smile which you can't see here. Why are you so mean?
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Ildiko Wildeman-van Lunteren 9 years ago
Thanks a lot! I'm 45 and even I look younger than she does on the first photo. :-) LOL
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#6
Justin Bieber
#7
Beyonce
#9
Madonna
Naomi Patricia 9 years ago
Wow, they turned her into a complete different person...she looks like Madonna's younger sister on the right
#10
Britney Spears
#11
Cindy Crawford
#12
Penelope Cruz
#13
Katy Perry
#14
Keira Knightley
Laura Gillette 9 years ago
She actually responded when this photo came out. She was really mad they made those changes, especially enlarging her bust, without telling her.
#15
Faith Hill
#16
Jennifer Lawrence
#18
Miley Cyrus
#20
Kristen Stewart
#21
Avril Lavigne
#22
Kate Winslet
#23
Kim Kardashian
#24
Katy Perry
#27
Leighton Meester
#28
Britney Spears
Csipai Betti 9 years ago
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 :)
#29
Sharon Stone
#30
Rihanna
#32
Lady Gaga
#34
Nina Garcia
#35
Kris Jenner And Gordon Ramsay
Victor Vakaras 9 years ago
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.
#36
Jennifer Aniston
#37
Megan Fox
#38
Lady Gaga
#39
Miranda Kerr
#40
Eva Mendez
#41
Britney Spears
Catalina Ioan 9 years ago
All things considered, that's a very good photo of her. Completely unnecessary to airbrush it to death.
#42
Lindsay Lohan
#43
Tyra Banks
#44
Kim Kardashian
#45
Kim Kardashian
Petra Steenput 9 years ago
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
#46
Prince George
#47
Nicole Scherzinger
sunnyrei82 9 years ago
can't get WHY would they need to retouch the picture! She looks awesome! I wish I had a bdoy like that!
#48
Miley Cyrus
Cathy Lowery 9 years ago
Seriously? Who does that? Photo shopping sponsors out of a pic? Someone has a beef with Elton John's AIDS Foundation.
#49
Madonna
#50
Kate Middleton
#51
Natalie Portman
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Catalina Ioan 9 years ago
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.
Ems 9 years ago
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.
Jeanne Deaux 9 years ago
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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Joyce Brazel 9 years ago
No one here wants to even believe the before photos....how funny is that?
Tony Morabito 9 years ago
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 : )
Luna Crescent 9 years ago
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...
Demetris Christodoulides 9 years ago
Goes to show thay miley cyrus and katy perry f*****g look amazing even without Photoshop
Your Local Lizard 5 years ago
Wheres the REAL selves? the before photos probably went through lots of make up and surgery ;^;
Charlotte Cui 9 years ago
I think we can all agree here that natural beauty is better than digital.
Katinka Min 9 years ago
The title of this post should be 'The worst photoshops of all time!' or similar.
Keith Conlon 6 years ago
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/
alex march 8 years ago
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.
Mary Ann Cajuelan 8 years ago
miley cyrus, katy perry, kristen stewart and jennifer lawrence.. don't see any difference at all
Violet Oliveira 8 years ago
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!
Alissa Tipton 8 years ago
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
Charlotte Cui 9 years ago
I think we can all agree here natural beauty is better than digital.
Kerry Martini 9 years ago
Is it really important ffs. If we were all pasteurised the world would be dull
Robert Farley 9 years ago
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?
Margie Ring 9 years ago
Read the comment before yours by someone in the industry, Tony Morabito.
Load More Replies... Jeanne Deaux 9 years ago
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 ^_^ ) ?
Clayton Adams 9 years ago
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?
clever_monky 9 years ago
goshh.. does american people really that old instead their age? we're asian even 50 y/o our looks still young as well
Teresa Lewis 9 years ago
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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Hans 9 years ago
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... Catalina Ioan 9 years ago
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.
Ems 9 years ago
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.
Jeanne Deaux 9 years ago
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... Joyce Brazel 9 years ago
No one here wants to even believe the before photos....how funny is that?
Tony Morabito 9 years ago
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 : )
Luna Crescent 9 years ago
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...
Demetris Christodoulides 9 years ago
Goes to show thay miley cyrus and katy perry f*****g look amazing even without Photoshop
Your Local Lizard 5 years ago
Wheres the REAL selves? the before photos probably went through lots of make up and surgery ;^;
Charlotte Cui 9 years ago
I think we can all agree here that natural beauty is better than digital.
Katinka Min 9 years ago
The title of this post should be 'The worst photoshops of all time!' or similar.
Keith Conlon 6 years ago
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/
alex march 8 years ago
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.
Mary Ann Cajuelan 8 years ago
miley cyrus, katy perry, kristen stewart and jennifer lawrence.. don't see any difference at all
Violet Oliveira 8 years ago
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!
Alissa Tipton 8 years ago
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
Charlotte Cui 9 years ago
I think we can all agree here natural beauty is better than digital.
Kerry Martini 9 years ago
Is it really important ffs. If we were all pasteurised the world would be dull
Robert Farley 9 years ago
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?
Margie Ring 9 years ago
Read the comment before yours by someone in the industry, Tony Morabito.
Load More Replies... Jeanne Deaux 9 years ago
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 ^_^ ) ?
Clayton Adams 9 years ago
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?
clever_monky 9 years ago
goshh.. does american people really that old instead their age? we're asian even 50 y/o our looks still young as well
Teresa Lewis 9 years ago
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... Hans 9 years ago
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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