With great power comes great responsibility, and unfortunately, the work of those featured on Photoshop Disasters severely lacks some of the former, and most of the latter.
The site is a collection of professionally Photoshopped images that skipped a round or two of quality control, because the end result is often a monstrous concoction of inhuman impossibilities that will make you question your day job. (Get paid to erase butt cracks from the covers of magazines? Sure!)
Sadly, these types of images fed the world a definition of literally unachievable beauty, so keep this site in mind the next time you find yourself saying “I wish I could look like that”.
[Via: Format Magazine]
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I *adore* articles that highlight photoshopped women, and cock-ups like these are just plain amusing.
Thanks for giving my thighs and I a boost. ^_^
No problem. I think that it’s terrible that images like this are put out into public and women strive to reach these unattainable levels of beauty; because after a bit of Photoshop work, even the women in the pics wish they could look like the women in the pics.
If we found a way to prevent the media from doing things like this to photos, I bet the world’s self-esteem would get a nice/needed boost.
It sucks and it’s stupid, but at least we *know* they do it. I may be in the minority, but I would say that any woman who gets hang-ups after seeing a perfect-looking model/celebrity in a magazine going to get those hang-ups anyway.
Loving the web hands though, I’m so tempted to do that to some pics of myself just for the amusing David Icke conspiracy factor :)
The web hands are ridiculous! I can’t believe no one notice that. (Or maybe they did and just wanted to see what would happen!)
While I agree that most women know that magazine photos are retouched, I don’t think that most people know how much retouching you can actually do to a photo. Plus, when it’s the same Photoshopped images seen day in and day out, I still feel like it starts to effect everyone, even if only a little bit.
I’d gladly be wrong about that though.
I’d be lying if I said I’d never photoshopped little bits out of images of myself sometimes (pimples, unruly eyebrows, perhaps a bit of high contrast and soft focus), I mean, hey, this is the Myspace age after all, and everyone wants to look good in photos, but I don’t think it really affects me to the degree it affects some.
We’ve become conditioned to think ‘normal’ is boring or not beautiful enough, but I do beleive that those insecurities have got to be there already. I don’t know how it happens, never having been affected by it to such lengths myself, but there are people out there, specifically young girls, who steep themselves in misery because they don’t believe they can compare to this fake image the media too often portrays.
Do you think it affects you?
PS pics that is good for fun.on the contrary,i hope they R healthy
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