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A teenager from Maine is petitioning Seventeen to print images of real girls, without any photoshop enhancements, in an effort to help young women accept themselves exactly as they are. Julia Bluhm, a 14-year-old from Maine, has started a petition on change.org asking the youth publication to print at least one photoshop-free spread per month, and she’s getting enough support behind her to really make a difference.
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We’re already fans of actress Cate Blanchett for her blockbuster talent and unfailingly elegant style. Now we have another reason to love her: the 42-year-old star recently appeared on the cover of Intelligent Life magazine without any photo retouching. If you’ve been following our blog, you’re familiar with all the crazy Photoshopping that goes into magazine photos and advertisements, so you know that this is a big deal. The Wall Street Journal blog has already weighed in, as have Beauty High and other beauty sites. Our take? Blanchett looks gorgeous. We’d love to see more covers like this.
What do you think? Tell us in the comments!
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Another dispatch from the seemingly never-ending Photoshop debate. Britain’s Advertising Standard Authority has banned Rachel Weisz’s new ad for L’Oréal Revitalift Repair 10 due to, of course, too much photoshopping.
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Beyoncé’s new ad promoting her album “4” has added more fuel to the Photoshop fire (for reference, see here, here and here). The singer, decked in a crocheted bikini and rolled World War II-style hair, appears to have digitally lightened skin to make her look more porcelain.
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Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
Whether it’s makeup companies getting busted for enhancing eyelashes or beauty ads making a splash for refusing to retouch, Photoshop has been getting lots of attention lately. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before someone made a spoof video of the situation. A big thanks to Liza from FOOD CURATED for sending us this clip, which is well done and hilarious. We especially love the tag line: This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.
—Lorelei
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Quick on the heels of two Photoshop debacles that blew up our blog recently (see: The Great Photoshop Debate and H&M’s Scandal), here comes another. Last Friday, Procter & Gamble, the parent company of CoverGirl, pulled one of their NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara ads featuring Taylor Swift. The company made the move after the National Advertising Division (NAD), a watchdog agency and part of the Council of the Better Business Bureau, launched an investigation into their photoshopping practices.
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A few days ago The Great Photoshop Debate really heated up on our blog when we pondered whether a label on a photoshopped picture could remind us that no one looks as perfect in the flesh as they do in magazines. Now, there’s an even crazier controversy on our hands: how virtual is too virtual? For their new lingerie campaign, H&M took real model’s faces and photoshopped them on top of computer-generated bodies.
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Photo: The New York Times
Take a look at any fashion magazine, and you’ll see countless images of airbrushed perfection. Even the most gorgeous celebrities and models have their pictures altered by professional retouchers using Photoshop. The software does what no makeup artist can: it erases every blemish, lengthens limbs, and sculpts inches off the waist. All of us know that the flawless pictures we find in glossy mags have been enhanced. Yet it’s still hard to convince ourselves that the pictures we pore over are fantasy, not real. Seeing is believing.
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