Famous faces like Jessica Alba and Jessica Simpson know that when it comes to digitally enhancing your photos with programs like Photoshop, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Jessica Alba went under the digital knife for her Campari calendar shoot just months after giving birth; in one of the articles below, we can compare the ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots side by side. And after seeing months of Photoshopped images of Jessica Simpson, newspapers and tabloids were shocked to see the real Simpson perform live over the weekend.
For all the good that Photoshop can do--covering up post-baby bloat, erasing a pimple or stray case of blotchy skin--it sure causes a lot of trouble. Just as the media has zeroed in on Jessica Simpson and Jessica Alba for their respective ‘weight gain,’ so too have they railed on Sarah Palin, Brad Pitt and Madonna for releasing photos and magazine covers sans Photoshop.
Is Photoshopping worth the headache? See for yourself by clicking through the controversial articles in the slideshow below. Just for fun, we’ve also included three celebrities besides Jessica Simpson and Jessica Alba who have come under fire in recent months for being either too thin (Megan Fox) or too fat (Eva Longoria and Britney Spears).
25 Controversial Photoshopped Celebs
From Jessica Alba to Jessica Simpson, Artificial Thin is In:
Marissa Brassfield — Jan 28, 2009 — Pop Culture
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Exposing Airbrushing
Excessive Before and After Pictures
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Disastrous Uber Editing
Famous Photoshop Bloopers
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Extreme Digital Makeovers
The Photoshop Diet
20
Digital Pubic Hair
Sienna Miller's Virtual Extensions
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10 Photoshop Disasters
From Missing BellyButtons to Giant Heads
18
Natural Boobs
Keira Knightley Rejects Cleavage Airbrushing
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Fattening Requests
Megan Fox Ordered to Beef Up for Robots
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Rebelling Against Photoshop
Flawed Brad Pitt Exposed by Chuck Close in W Magazine
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Photoshopped Normalcy
‘Less Idol' Shows Famous Faces Sans Famous Features
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Celebs Photoshopped For Domestic Violence
New Women's Aid Campaign
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Post-Baby Photoshopping
Jessica Alba's Before and After Campari Calendar Shots
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Unphotoshopped Magazine Covers
Sarah Palin on Newsweek
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Belly Button Airbrushing
Photoshopping Karolina Kurkova's Mystery Navel
10
Racist Photoshopping
L'Oreal Denies Whitening Beyonce
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Body Builder Photoshopping
Pumping Up The Stars
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Fighting Photoshop Rumors
Kim and Khloe Kardashian Defend PETA Ad
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Scrutinizing Skinny Girls
"Fat" Eva Longoria is Latest Victim
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An Airbrushed Life of Scandal
Kate Moss for Longchamp
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Photoshopped Amputations
Tatler Magazine Cover is Totally Borked
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Airbrush Arguments
Kate Winslet Protests Wrinkle Removal in Magazines
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Photoshopped Album Covers
Kelly Clarkson Expresses Her Approval of 'All I Ever Wanted' Pics
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Anti-Republican Photoshopping
John McCain as Warmonger
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Photoshopping For Evil: Fox News Makes NY Times Reporters Ugly
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Photoshoot Recycling
Megan Fox's FHM UK July 2008 Spread is FHM US 2005
Supermodels Gaining Weight
Will Karolina Kurkova's Controversy Spur Acceptance?
Body Image Double Standards
Advertising Age Suggests Women Want Skinny Models
10 Photoshop Disasters
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Vinegar for Weight Loss
Megan Fox's Diet Secret
Australia's Next Top Model Debate
Is Alice Burdeu Too Skinny to Compete?
39 Examples of Extreme Photoshopped Celebrities
Unmasking Celebrities
Shakira, Hilton & Jolie Without Plastic Surgery
Skinny Stays
Underweight Models Still Hot in UK
Madrid Bans Skinny Models From Catwalk
Rebelling Against Photoshop
Flawed Brad Pitt Exposed by Chuck Close in W Magazine
Celebs Photoshopped For Domestic Violence
New Women's Aid Campaign
Vintage Aspirations
Megan Fox Wants to Recreate 1930s Cinema - Naked
Robot A-List Actresses
Photoshopped Celebrity Cyborgs
Post-Baby Photoshopping
Jessica Alba's Before and After Campari Calendar Shots
Unphotoshopped Magazine Covers
Sarah Palin on Newsweek
Distracted Media
Megan Fox More Buzzed Than Ellen DeGeneres
Digital Dress Up
Celebrity Photoshopping Contest
Belly Button Airbrushing
Photoshopping Karolina Kurkova's Mystery Navel
Self-Taken Family Magazine Portraits
Brad Pitt Shoots Angelina Jolie For W Magazine
Reverse Photoshopping
Celebrities as Zombies
34 Ways to Scratch Your Photoshop Itch
A Year of Fairy Tales
2008 Campari Calendar to Feature Eva Mendes
A-List Monsters
Photoshopped Celebrity Ghouls
Drinking Blood for Attention
Angelina Jolie Inspires Megan Fox & HBO
Racist Photoshopping
L'Oreal Denies Whitening Beyonce
29 Madonna Innovations
Showing The Fabulousness Of The Boomer Pop Diva
Body Builder Photoshopping
Pumping Up The Stars
Pop Icon Outtake Pictures
Madonna Releases New Photos from 'Hard Candy'
$1,000 Night Creams and Body Bags
Madonna Diet and Beauty Secrets to Looking 30 at 50
Controversial Photoshopping
Modified Tom Cruise Contest
Skinny Sitcom Stars
The 90210 Girls Fuel Body Image Woes
550% More People Retouching Photos
Photoshopped Faces Becoming The Norm
10 Photoshop Shadow Illusions
Sinister Super Villains
Photoshopping Celebrities' Dark Sides
Photoshop Gore
10 Eye-Popping Images
Screen Siren Calendars
Jessica Alba in Club Campari 2009 Calendar
Life in a Photoshopped World
NL Architects Redesign the Planet
Extreme Halloween Photoshopping
Worth1000 Jack O' Lantern Contest
PhotoShopvertising
Butts With Eyes and Ears with Teeth
Ultra Sarcastic Political Ads
McCains' "Hot Chicks Dig Obama" Campaign
Photoshop for Video
Video Editing Research from the University of Washington
Movies About 'Unaging'
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Controversy Political Comparisons
Madonna Likens John McCain to Hitler
Political Cruelty 1
When You Think John McCain, Think Cu_t
Bad Taste Campaigning
John McCain & Sarah Palin Use 9/11 in Ad
User Generated Politics
The Shocking Correlation of McCain and Bush Approval