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15 Reasons It Matters If Magazines Use Photoshop

15 Reasons It Matters If Magazines Use Photoshop

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Photoshop is a controversial tool and some countries seek to make laws that limit its use on certain images. There are arguments for and against its use in magazine images. Here are 15 reasons it matters if magazines use Photoshop.

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Webneel.com

 

Eva Mendes

The editor in this photo shoot seems to have taken away some of Mendes’ ethnicity. They’ve lightened her skin and even narrowed her nose.

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Radaronline.com

Britney Spears

It would be unsafe to give women the impression that they can work out as intensely as Britney Spears does every day, and still eat a diet that would leave them as svelte as a lingerie model. The before image is of a strong, real woman. The after is of something else entirely.

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Happygirlsaretheprettiest.com

 

Zack Effron

Here’s one for the men out there: before you lift weights to the point of a cardiac event, know that the definition you see in a man’s arms on a magazine may not be real.

 

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Hegy.com

Katy Perry

Any woman anywhere any size knows that when you sit down, your tummy wrinkles a little bit. Nobody would have held it against Perry if this photo showed that her skin moved like a human being’s.

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Trendhunter.com

 

Kim Kardashian

There is not one dimple on the reality star’s entire body once the Photoshopping is done. What sort of message does that send to women who believed Kardashian was an advocate for “real bodies?”

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Huffingtonpost.com

 

Cameron Diaz

Diaz is already naturally very fit and toned. But for some reason the photo editor here decided she is not allowed to have bones or muscle—all definition has been removed from her stomach.

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Gamberen.com

Madonna

It’s OK for Madonna to look at least close to her age. Really, nobody will be shocked to find out that at age 56 the megastar no longer looks 26.

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Memesapp.com

 

Kourtney Kardashian

Just months after having a newborn, Kourtney Kardashian apparently wasn’t allowed to show any baby weight in this photo shoot for OK! Magazine.

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Obeimtolko.deviantart.com

 

Kiera Knightley

Nobody should be led to believe that if you get down to the teeny, tiny size of Knightley that you won’t see some bone and muscle.

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Morethanflesh.wordpress.com

Avril Lavigne

As an advocate for being open about skin problems, Lavigne of all people shouldn’t appear in photos that turn the model’s skin into porcelain.

 

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Poweredbygirl.com

Tara Lynn

Isn’t Lynn supposed to be a role model for women accepting their bodies as they are? And yet the photo editor has taken several inches off of her waist.

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Hellomia.deviantart.com

 

Whitney Thompson

Another “plus-size model” almost removed from that category after photo editing.

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Svet.rs

 

Miranda Kerr

In this case the model and the Photoshopper are one and the same. Plenty of people were outraged after the Victoria’s Secret model released a photo on her Instagram and when that same image was seen live from a fashion show, her waist was noticeably larger.

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Msmorphosis.com

 

The Ralph Lauren scandal

The brand actually had to release an apology after publishing this photo. On the left is the real model and on the right is something even the makers of Barbie would be too afraid to release.

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Malebodypositive.wordpress.com

 

Lady Gaga

What we start with an already petite woman with some curves. What we end with is almost a cartoon version of the pop star. The skin has been turned into porcelain, contours have been added around the collarbone where there are none, the waist has been cut in half and even the dress has been altered.