With the creation of Photoshop in 1987, our lives suddenly changed - you could turn virtually any "ugly duckling" into a beautiful swan. When used with caution and in modesty, Photoshop can be a useful tool for enhancing our natural beauty and giving a self-esteem boost.
We often see photos of celebrities that look so flawless, it's hard to believe they're even real. Before you start comparing yourselves to them, keep in mind that their photos are usually the case of being photoshopped excessively. So don't worry, nobody looks like photoshop pictures in real life.
Celebrity photoshop takes it to another dimension by also setting unrealistic beauty standards to their young followers. Though sometimes, with a touch from an inexperienced editor, it can turn into an example of bad photoshop quite easily.
Below, Bored Panda had put together a list of celebrity photoshop fails and pics before and after the modifications - some of them were very scandalous, while others were simply photoshopped by people on the Internet. Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian - they're all there. Prepare to be shocked!
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Angelina Jolie
"Celebrities Before And After Photoshop Who Set Unrealistic Beauty Standards" Yes. Correct. Angelina sets unrealistic beauty standards. Both with and without photoshop :-)
Was Photoshop really necessary here? If they wanted to even her skin tone just put foundation on her, no computer necessary.
Again, there is so much natural beauty that I don't get why she was photoshopped to make her look like a latex dummy.
Candice Huffine
I disagree, The problem is not her body, it's the who idiot decided to put her in that suit. It's completely wrong for her body type.
Load More Replies...First pic was the one used in magazine about body positity/versatily. Second one is probably some jerk fooling around, not what the magazine put out...
They slimmed down the plus sized model? Wtf is the point of plus size if you knock it down to medium size?
To clarify what I mean I probably should add ...when they're going to remove her curves anyway?
Load More Replies...WTH? They made her almost half her size! No wonder we have unrealistic standards of beauty.
The original pic is better. She is so beautiful. The photoshopped made her look plain...
What especially sucks about these, is the model being photographed usually does not have a say in editing.
She's a beautiful woman, the after is of course the most body, but the first picture is by far the most beautiful picture.
Kim Cattrall
Can they just show women in their natural beauty! It's like getting older is a crime.
But that won't sell mags if they are on the cover, unless it's the "before & after" volume!
Load More Replies...She looked great in the first photo! Those are laughter lines that add character to her face. Why would they want to erase her experience? The retouched picture looks too plastic. These unrealistic images will just make women feel insecure about aging because it's difficult to find positive examples of it in the media. Of course a 60 year old will have wrinkles and there's nothing wrong with that!
Nice to see she has not had plastic surgery and she looks gorgeous
Madonna
time to get your eyes checked then!!! Cindy is merely 50, this scary sight is nearly 60. Cindy looks way better and more natural than this botoxed buffoon
Load More Replies...If I look like the original when I'm approaching sixty (!) I'll be having daily parties! A bit of additional soft light from the front and you wouldn't even need to retouch her.
The first one is more interesting. There's more expression in her face more life lived. The second just looks like a manequin in a store window
Left one: unreleased unedited photo. Right one: badly edited by a fan. It is not an official photoshop job ;)
The one on the right reminds me of Data (the android) in Star Trek the Next Generation. Her skin looks so smooth it could be plastic.
At 58 I mean it should be allowed to look like Madonna - without airbrushing and photoshop...
Britney Spears
I call fake on the left pic. That's definitely been edited to make her appear more harsh
Why is " tired" synonymous with "old"? She has two children and performs nightly in Las Vegas. The original is an exhausted look not "old"
the unrealistic is the left one; they photoshopped her 10 years older, and indirectly insulted every makeup artists/beauty products.
Agree! And I'm not a stylist, hair-makeup person/expert.
Load More Replies...I have a feeling both of these images might have been photoshopped, just to make a point. She didn't look that rough last time I saw her on tv.
I'm actually somewhat reassured that these celebrities look "normal" and that it's not just the non-celebrities skin that has flaws, with or without make-up.
All celebrities have hair extensions added for special occasions and photo shoots. So what? That's the business they're in. It's competitive and for a singer/dancer and celebrity who is followed by the paparazzi just waiting for a bad picture you should give the girl a break!
Load More Replies...Justin Bieber
I find it hilarious that they made basically every part of him bigger, except for the head :D
Well it makes since that he wouldn't need a bigger head 😂😂
Load More Replies...Beyonce
The only problem is that the first image is already photoshopped. Do you beleive she would begin a photoshoot with such a s****y make-up (foundation, random black dots) on her face?
Load More Replies...looks like she's got a bad makeup. with good makeup and photographer photoshop woun't be needed
That's what I was thinking when I saw it. Her make up looks messed up, if they had a decent make up artist, they wouldn't have need to retouch (and over do it).
Load More Replies...Not only they made her face skinnier (nose included) but they lightened her skin tone....she didn't need that
I don't mind if they take blemishes out, but why change the shape of her face?
So nice to see that even the mist beautiful woman in the world is not flawless 😊
Fergie
Madonna
Wow, they turned her into a complete different person...she looks like Madonna's younger sister on the right
Younger sister? Like grandma and her granddaughter!
Load More Replies...Actually the "original" looks like it may be a remake of an older photo from when she was younger
Agree, the photo on the right looks like 1990 Madonna.
Load More Replies...IS it even the same photo? The fingers are in a slightly different position, or have been lengthened, and the angle of Jesus on the cross is from a slightly different perspective.
The right photo is familiar, I think I've seen it as a teen in b/w. To me this just looks like a remake of an old photo when she was younger.
She's almost 60. She looks fantastic on the left. Same with her other pics. The fact that she is photoshopped at all is rubbish.
the older picture looks better edgy and artistic, the other looks like she cat-fishing someone.
Right hand, original pic when the album came out and she was in her early 20's, left hand is a recreation of iconic photos shoot, guaranteed.
Britney Spears
I agree she looks good natural. They did it to make her smaller. Also to make her darker.they turn the white celebrities darker and all the dark celebrities lighter seems to be their thing.
Load More Replies...Cindy Crawford
Thank God, I knew there was no way she could look quite that rough during a photo shoot.
Load More Replies...She still looks amazing this pic is fake. Fallow her on instagram you will see.
That left pic has a very harsh filter that makes her skin look really bad. Not close to the truth at all.
I don't think the original is real. Her body can't be that old. this is fake.
So not her in the original, i see her current exercise videos....she's looking great!
Why on earth post a pic that is false as her original pic bored panda!? That is just mean or ignorant!
Penelope Cruz
Katy Perry
Can my body look like her before photo? That'd be great. Kthanksbye.
Keira Knightley
She actually responded when this photo came out. She was really mad they made those changes, especially enlarging her bust, without telling her.
Someone has to stand up for us flatsies! Lol! Not everyone in Hollywood is a EEE
In this case I got to admit that I think she looks better with big breasts in this particular picture. I am a boob guy, maybe that is the reason... Its however little bit funny, to see all the women get really ofended that they enlarged her breasts, while they were laughing about Justin Biebers before picture, that his pakaged wasn´t big enough. It is like like we would be sayin "pretty flat aren´t Keira" .. Double standars alll the way.
Her skin is so beautiful in the first picture. I love is soft beautiful color.
I love her movie the duchess its my favorite and then the other movie the hole is also good
Faith Hill
OMG look at her arm. It's so skinny in the middle it looks like it could just snap like a toothpick
isn't that how men want their women? extremely frail and easily breakable, so they can feel manly
Load More Replies...She was just lovely before. They smoothed out her complexion, that's cool, but she's already slender, why make her arms and waist smaller? Even her forearm? Overkill.
Ever think photoshoppers are just paid to do this by magazine editors and they just look at the photos they're asked to do and go "I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. What the hell. I'll just play around with the liquefy tool and see if they like it."
unnaturally thin arms look out of proportion ...! Not sure why they would do this she has perfectly normal arms in the first place!
Jennifer Lawrence
There really isn't any, except if you look very closely you can see they slimmed down her hips. 😕
Load More Replies...They always make her thinner - what is a thing she hates. She has spoken so often about it.
She actually prefers curvy figure. I don't think she would like this. Read it in her interview.
Lindsay Lohan
Yeah, that was a pretty bad filter over her face.
Load More Replies...I don't think that's a professional job. I'm pretty sure that's a runway shot and thus a private individual did the work. No professional would ever make the whites of the eyes that white.
Whoever did this has no idea what they are doing, that is a horrible Photoshop job.
The "after" looks like an avatar! This was actually used in a publication?!
Miley Cyrus
The step and repeat isn't the same, and in the right-side photo the words are backward.
Miranda Kerr
She looks alive in original, like an actual human being, not a barbie doll!!!
Kristen Stewart
That's her permanent expression (had to use photoshop to close her mouth.)
Load More Replies...I LOVE that they photoshopped her with a CLOSED MOUTH!! LOL They realize that we are sick to death of seeing her with her mouth half open!
Is that even the same photo? A lot of these scream "Bulls*#@t" to me
they could at least photoshop her mouth to make her smile instead of closing it
Avril Lavigne
Around where? Your place? From *her* perspective, she's never left.
Load More Replies...I see her before and after shots identical except for the magazine cover
They removed half her jaw? It looks like they've shifted the angle of her face weird.
Kate Winslet
I hate the pale pink lipstick, she's so pale this makes her look washed out. And leave the eye color alone!
Kim Kardashian
Why is this looser even included in here? When will she go away??? lol
Didnt need photoshop . And why do they always completely smooth the skin of legs amd arms. And they made here waist smaller while her body is already curvy as it is. Why do people have to look like plastic dolls instead of human, whay they actually are.
kim is fake anyway ..so i would expect further falseness in her photo`s
Sheena Myrick, and lift her books, slimmed the arm, slimmed stomach, got rid of varicose and fixed her hair as a bonus 😉
Katy Perry
She already has the bluest eyes in the business! Why oh why do they mess with perfection? AARRRGGGHH!
Load More Replies...The after pics are the dating profile pics, and the before pics are who's waiting to meet you in person for the first time.
Gwen Stefani
It's like they can't help themselves. Even by changing the color of her hair slightly blonder. Why?
Only good editing. This one doesn't change her appearance, unlike the others.
Sharon Stone
Exactly. With or without PS she is still stunning.
Load More Replies...Sharon Stone looks fantastic on the left! She is a beautiful 64 year old woman! Why mess with perfection?
hmm m c`mon people just read the comments she looks at least 10 years younger in the 2nd photo ! Lets celebrate that reality ! She looks good for her age why try to make her look 35 ?
Leighton Meester
Agree, but she looks kind of drunk in both of them.
Load More Replies...beautiful without the addition of heavy makeup and a Barbie doll waist
Britney Spears
There's no problem with the first picture, but as a stage performer/dancer she should know how important is to hold in your belly. (Yep, there are exceptional dance stíles like belly dance...) This posture reminds me of a toddler :)
This was while she was completely off her rocker and during this performance, she didn't even mouth half the words or do any dance moves, I don't think she was worried about holding her stomach in.
Load More Replies...Catya Culano, being public is not an excuse for people attack her. She is still a human being and deserve respect.
Duh! This was supposed to be her "Comeback " performance after her famous breakdown, shaving her head, overdosing on drugs etc. She came out overweight, unable to lip sync or dance, a very embarrassing performance. But since most stars in the audience were rooting for her, they refused to trash her to the interviewers.
Load More Replies...She is a 41 year old mother of two, she looks fine in real life why slim her down? Let this poor woman be herself in peace!
Also, this was a "come back" performance. Maybe she should have covered up more and focused more on the choreography she was slopping through then the costume. Your britney we know you had babies!
of course anyone is going to look better w/thier body slimmed and smoothed
Sharon Stone
its ridiculous making a woman who looks great for her age ..look falsely younger .. lets celebrate her natural beauty and real age for goodness sake!
I like the way she looks naturally. She looks like she's lived and seen things.
Rihanna
I actually laughed out loud when i read this. They also slimmed/narrowed her waist,nose and arms
Load More Replies...LOL they made her forehead smaller or shorter 😂😂😂😂 that's so messed up. I'm sorry for laughing so hard, but it is pretty funny.
Weird. They elongated and narrowed her nose and then shortened her forehead, and also pulled in her waist. Now she looks just like a Barbie Doll.
Again... not realistic... and after that ppl blaming Barby dolls in their girls grown with wrong imagination of how girls have to look like o_O?
Meghan Trainor
She was pissed that they did this and made them return it back to the original.
In her defense though, she raised HELL when she found out this had been done. She pulled her music videos from several outlets. She wanted her juicy thighs to look like her juicy thighs!
What happened to "bringing booty back"? Not being weird, it's in one of her songs... 😐
Meghan Trainor, she was upset when this came outm made her skinnier than the dancers, ha!
Lady Gaga
I love Lady Gaga. The 1st photo is more like a photoshopped Donatella Versace.
O que mais me incomoda é a propaganda enganosa da cor da bolsa.
Zendaya
Anyone notice that her left leg is darker than her right? Or is that just normal?
Nina Garcia
Very drag-queeny look! Not a fan of "added make-up effects" to the after photo!!
Load More Replies...Yeah, because of course all these women come to an event without any make-up on... Sure... Take us for brainless shits bored panda, tss.
I don't think the photo shop is done very well on any of these photos. This one looks horrible! The natural photo is much, much better!
basically she looks better without all that slap and (orange skin tone.).hiding her natural beauty !
I find it hard to believe that these celebrities are actually posing for photos without eyeliner, or eye shadow in the "before" pics. I think they are both photoshopped.
Kris Jenner And Gordon Ramsay
Kris did that, not Ramsay. He posted the unedited version on his Twitter. I don't think he gives a s**t about his wrinkles.
Jennifer Aniston
Shrinked eyes? Who does that ? And that overkill blure.. in second picture she looks more like a man .. defo first one is much better... How can you ruin a fine picture.
looks very unprofessional. not that she needed any ps-treatment imho, but still, hire someone who can actually do a good job!
Load More Replies...This is total c**p. She looks perfect. All the bad photoshop job did was remove her lovely expressive smile
That looks like a man baby. Sorry Jennifer but it should be Jonnifer
looks better in the first .unnecessarily taking out or 'softening ' natural lines just makes the person look non human and loses the character of the face and what makes that face unique!
She's already beautiful. Why the need to photoshop her or anyone else?
Megan Fox
Goodness. I didn't know she had such bad skin. She's still gorgeous though, no matter.
That's what happens when every photo you see of her has been touched up... I think if you saw her in person, you might not see all the flaws she has cause most people are awestruck when they see celebs!
Load More Replies...These 'celebrities' look just like the rest of us when they wake up in the morning and before the graphic artist does his thing. They don't impress me at all - none of them.
Why didn't the Photoshop her mouth shut like they did with Kristen Stewart? Lol.
Lady Gaga
She looks like she has gas in the first picture. Not sure which is worse.
Load More Replies...The photo on the magazine looks like a cartoon, something like Jessica Rabbit!
Who did her hair in the first pick? It looks like George Washington's wig exploded
Não tinha como ficar legal, nem com todos os programas do mundo. Esse cabelo e o vestido mastigado... Por quê?
Miranda Kerr
Agree.... apparently the girl wasn't skinny enough.... and the matte effect doesn't hide what they did.... argh!
Load More Replies...Reasons of my body insecurity issues: right there... f**k this world...
They all look anorexic in the second photo what a fail the first one is way better
they all look too thin in both photo`s in my opinion ..but the middle one in the 2nd pic looks very weird ...there is an obsession with being underweight and skeletal ..its not healthy at all !.gives out a terrible message to young girls ........... and not attractive either !
Eva Mendez
I'm really surprised at some of these originals....a good photographer should know how to light their subject properly so any 'editing' should be minimal
Britney Spears
All things considered, that's a very good photo of her. Completely unnecessary to airbrush it to death.
... She looks like my mom with blond hair and brown eyes in the second... terrifying.
Lindsay Lohan
man in the background at the first picture is.. :D
Load More Replies...These photoshoppers do mot know what they're doing....they did not improve this picture in the slightest.
WHO ON EARTH IS THAT CREEPY DUDE also looks like she had no idea a photo was being taken
Haha the creeper in the back has been removed to reduce the creepiness. Failed.
Tyra Banks
is she relevant anymore? not being rude, just asking.
Kim Kardashian
Ok - so she's a person who sometimes doesn't wear make-up. No big shakes
I don't follow celebrities that much, but I had no idea that was Kim on the left. I never would have recognized her!
Kim Kardashian
I'm happy to see that in reality she has room in her body for all her organs... got me worried there for a bit :P
My dog came to make sure I was okay, I laughed so hard. LOL.
Load More Replies...no woman with that body has a waist like that unless she's been corset-training for years.
Look at what the waist reduction effect has done to her left hand!!! That's disgusting 🙈👽
Another photo where Enrico F has included his name with the background logos.
Prince George
What's wrong ? It's just a WhiteBalance increased.. Every single photographer does that so skin doesn't look dead blue because camera doesn't know what is the correct WB in current scene (That blue tone looks very bad when printed). And eyes are little brightened to bring out the true color.
Load More Replies...The only man in this list of people being photoshopped is a baby... Typical...
Nicole Scherzinger
can't get WHY would they need to retouch the picture! She looks awesome! I wish I had a bdoy like that!
trolls that will surely point out my mistake on the text: yes, I realize that I misspelled "body", but you get the point, right?
Load More Replies...Miley Cyrus
Seriously? Who does that? Photo shopping sponsors out of a pic? Someone has a beef with Elton John's AIDS Foundation.
It's right by her "money maker" making peoples brains subconsciously associate her derriere with stds. That is the first Photoshop I can understand
Load More Replies...What happened, did Elton John make anyone angry? Why taking his name off the wall?
This girl already weighs about 100lbs, and they slimmed her down? I think the "retouchers" just get bored and feel like they need to do something at work. And, yes, the background change is disturbingly priceless.
Uhhh.. Cathay Lowery cause she looks like an AIDS patient in the retouched photo?!?!
Madonna
This is the worst one I've seen so far,it's not even the same,and the after picture is waaaaaaay worse
Kate Middleton
So she grows three inches on her waist/hips behind her arms and bouquet? That is awful
Natalie Portman
She's so beautiful in the first one. In the second they made a photoshoped make up...
A lot of the "after" photos seem further photoshopped (from the original published) for shock value. That or the tabloid industry needs to hire better photo editors. Cheating is one thing, cheating badly is another.
Both before and after pictures have obviously been messed with. Anyone who has ever changed their pics with even a simple phone app knows that it's just as easy to make you look worse than it is to make you look better.
Happy to see I'm not the only one thinking every picture has been photoshopped, "before" and "after". What wouldn't they invent to make views... Pathetic.
Load More Replies...No one here wants to even believe the before photos....how funny is that?
To be honest, having done countless A-list celebs and models in the past, more than half of the 'befores' are totally believable. I won't name names, but you wouldn't believe what some of our beloved models and actors look like without us. And quite a few top fashion and cosmetic faces have absolutely terrible skin not unlike the Beyonce 'before'. That said, a couple of these 'befores' have definitely been worked over for effect, but don't kid yourself. Everybody at that level is heavily retouched, even if the ultimate goal is to look 100% natural. That's what we do : )
all those skin smoothing makes them seem like they are not photos but paintings why don't they just use the technic from avatar and replace all actors with cgi? I personally wouldn't know the difference anymore sometimes...
A lot of the "after" photos seem further photoshopped (from the original published) for shock value. That or the tabloid industry needs to hire better photo editors. Cheating is one thing, cheating badly is another.
Both before and after pictures have obviously been messed with. Anyone who has ever changed their pics with even a simple phone app knows that it's just as easy to make you look worse than it is to make you look better.
Happy to see I'm not the only one thinking every picture has been photoshopped, "before" and "after". What wouldn't they invent to make views... Pathetic.
Load More Replies...No one here wants to even believe the before photos....how funny is that?
To be honest, having done countless A-list celebs and models in the past, more than half of the 'befores' are totally believable. I won't name names, but you wouldn't believe what some of our beloved models and actors look like without us. And quite a few top fashion and cosmetic faces have absolutely terrible skin not unlike the Beyonce 'before'. That said, a couple of these 'befores' have definitely been worked over for effect, but don't kid yourself. Everybody at that level is heavily retouched, even if the ultimate goal is to look 100% natural. That's what we do : )
all those skin smoothing makes them seem like they are not photos but paintings why don't they just use the technic from avatar and replace all actors with cgi? I personally wouldn't know the difference anymore sometimes...
