Acknowledging ones flaws and putting them out to show the world is not what today’s superstars are branded for. Since photoshop and photo editing were created, it became hard not only for the photo loving mass to distinguish what’s real and what’s not.
When every magazine ad or cover is showing the throng a full color glossy of a perfect, beautiful woman or man, you start to adore and admire their beauties and start to question yourself and ask if you measure up, only to realize later that these images are altered, touched up or digitally manipulated.
Whether it is heavy airbrushing, zapping zits, brightening those baby blues, contouring or more aggressively removing some unwanted back fat and pushing the eyes two inches apart so that the face appears more doll like- it happens. Some editors even go the other way and make the image worse than it originally was.
Magazines that run these doctored shots believe it gives them an air of exclusivity or originality, but sometimes they are shown as the fakes they are. We have some ads and covers that really push the pixels on a photo and others that do it with a more subtle approach.
JINKEE PACQUIAO AND CHARICE PEMPENGCO
“Charice [Pempengco] for Preview or Jinkee Pacquiao for Mega? Sino mas maganda pagkakaedit?” asked one netizen who posted a side-by-side comparison of magazine covers featuring Charice and Jinkee on Twitter.
The two celebrities are featured on the covers of the January issues of fashion magazines Preview and Mega, and reactions online vary from admiration to outright disbelief. The debate has been so hot that Jinkee Pacquiao and MEGA Magazine trended locally on Twitter, as has Charice Pempengco.
Both magazine admins said that the editing they made on the images were “not too major”, though the crowd outrightly disagreed.
KC CONCEPCION
A supposedly unedited photo of Rogue Magazine’s Jan/Feb 2012 issue featuring KC Conception on the cover was leaked online, where certain aspects of the cover was allegedly “photoshopped”.
On the original cover, Concepcion is shown wearing a white swimsuit sporting a shorter hair. On her arms is KC’s pet python Coco and on her hands, she is seen clutching a fake head bearing great resemblance to actor Piolo Pascual; whom she recently broke up with and even shared the details on national television. But on the final cover, the resemblance was removed and on its place is a generic looking head.
HEIDI KLUM
Nope, not even Heidi is as hot as she seems. Worse was that her ghostly white complexion and that unnaturally flat and physically impossible rib cage made her look like a candidate cast in those vampire movies.
TAYLOR SWIFT
This is what Taylor would look like after three lip injections, two face lifts and a nose job – all done with a really poor Photoshop job.
Here are some other magazine covers evidently photoshopped.
