Photoshop Master Reveals Why You Should Never Trust Photos You See On Social Media

what's the point in looking unrecognisable?

I can spot most of the changes; can do this stuff myself in fact (if it ever occurred to me it was needed) and BTW I don't use Photoshop. My critique of this is that by creating more 'light' on the lady (lessening the shadows), the artist has bleached out a lot of the other important details. Look at the soup, for example. The table top: the inside of the cup. Delicate details bleached out of existence. One more minute to bring back the rest of the scene in its original quality would have done this pic a lot of good!

The same results can easily be made with makeup. Hardly ever is the person you meet online living around the corner, so goodluck with stalking someone halfway around the world

It's easy to see these are manipulated because they all look fake. Also it's like the artist (and probably her entire culture) imagined the western ideal of a narrow chin and big eyes to be attractive. It's sad because it's a Disney-fied ideal, when even Disney characters look better when they are normalized. I find this to be a sad commentary on society. If the artist is reading this, please know that the original photos with possible tiny improvements are way prettier. Throw away everything you think you know about beauty that you learned online from America and from Disney. You will do your clients a greater good by not changing them so much. Reality is way prettier!

Did anyone else look to see if they changed the food?

I personally think she's absolutely beautiful in the first pic. She needs no retouching at all. She has natural beauty!

How sad; turning a real person with an interesting face - into a Concept-Clone.

The remake is still not quite right, if the Golden Ratio is observed. He should have left the face just a wee bit fuller. http://www.intmath.com/numbers/math-of-beauty.php

the one on the right looks like one of those early Japanese humanoid robots.

this is awful! she was lovely and you made her into a Barbie :(

Where to start with this one??

Now this is REALLY over the top.

I like how he didint even try shaving the happy trail :(

Is that a dude on the left!?

This can't be the same . The dress looks at some points completely different... Like the white thing under the arm. Or the flower thing that looks tilted. Or the glove in front of the body...

What's sad is how often young ladies like this will have plastic surgery to achieve the "after" ...

Original is better

Ow c'mon, I like the original better

but you have put some distance in between her eyes

she actually looks a little cross eyed in the second one.

The first is better. It's as if she is hiding something and it has more depth

I prefer the first one!

but she looked so beautiful why change?

Looks like two entirely different people. But then, I guess that was the point.

Got yes they really need retouching, so ugly before.

Did she just photoshop a smile on her face??? XD

I need to do this to my photos. LOL

In the first picture, I thought she was super cute and I looked at the second picture and realised, oh.

Photographer: "Smile! Or don't. All the same to me, I can just get you Photoshopped."

how could this happen?

OMG you actually cropped and pasted a whole other face XD

The point of the post is not to bash the original photo and say that the photoshopped version is better. The point is that many times we see these pictures of "perfect people" on the internet and buy into it believing that's true. Many persons beat themselves up about not looking a perfect as someone they've seen on social media.

most of the afters don't look human