This is why fashion magazines and the advertising industry are evil

[chronicpaint]

Before and after photos of Jessica Alba before and after retouching:





Okay, if Jessica Freakin' Alba isn't hot enough to be in your ads, no one has a chance of a healthy self image

Comments

[cinnabari.livejournal.com]

Word. One of my students did her final project on photoshopping of celebrities and body image. Creepy stuff. Have you seen the Dove Evolution ad?

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that Dove ad was really brutal. So scary

[audiodubliner.livejournal.com]

Got a link? I am def interested. This is just crazy!

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

[audiodubliner.livejournal.com]

Man that is insane. She looked like a meth ad in the start in comparison to the end!

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Hell, that much retouching and photoshopping and I'd look like a supermodel

[audiodubliner.livejournal.com]

Lets be photoshop supermodels!!!!

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Yay! :D

[mattshortforbob.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that... hunt around the related youtube videos. There are some scary examples there, including guys to/from girls. Most of the "fat chick into supermodel" ones leave me thinking "pity, she was cute when they started...". But I'm a freak, I know that.

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they have very obviously made her thinner and changed the shape of her hips

[thefreek.livejournal.com]

i dunno i think consumers need to be smarter

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Oh, for sure. If people quit reading that superficial junk and treating it like it mattered, there'd be no need for it ;)

[bdouville.livejournal.com]

In the first picture, I totally prefer the "before" to the "after." She's a bit more coy, more mysterious. And I'm not going to lie...she is freakin' hot. (I have been known to play for both teams.)

Cheers,

Bruce

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the after isn't as good, and not just because it's so artificial

[mattshortforbob.livejournal.com]

Seconded on all counts (except for the going both ways thing).

[clockwork-zero.livejournal.com]

ew. its terrible.
lets make her arms and waist even thinner!!

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

No kidding. And erase the normal looking hips

[neo-prodigy.livejournal.com]

I'm using this for my Photoshop class.

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

Okay, MISSING THE POINT LOL

[neo-prodigy.livejournal.com]

Actually I'm not. LOL.

We were discussing this very issue about artificial and unrealistic images in class last week so this definitely warrants further discussion.

[chronicpaint.livejournal.com]

:) I should have known ;)