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It's becoming increasingly difficult to know just what is real and what isn't when browsing the internet. We're not just talking about fake news either, but the millions of photoshopped images, often very far from reality.

Take a look at these incredible before and after photo manipulation examples to see what we mean. They were Photoshopped by a Weibo user who goes by the name of Kanahoooo, although Chinese social media prefers to call her "Photoshop Holy." Why? Because her photo editing skills are nothing short of Godlike, which is why she has over 430,000 followers. Whether she's altering guys or girls to match the beauty standards, or even turning guys into girls, there seems to be nothing that the skilled image editor can't do. Kanahoooo, whose day job, according to MSN, is to make people look "shiny" and live up to their high expectations, apparently provides Photoshopping services to people who want to look better on their online profiles. "Don't believe the perfect thing you see online!" she says. "If you want to find out about somebody, then see them in real life." Check out some of her best images below, and let them act as a cautionary reminder that, when it comes to the internet, there's a very thin line between fact, fiction, and the ugly truth.

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Tiu Tau Tilhi
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, I don't even see the point here anymore - could have just created a whole digitized person to begin with.

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Maham Salar
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG you actually cropped and pasted a whole other face XD

PARANOIDANDROID
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

thats on all of them, she just pasting some elses face and matching it with the body position

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Famille Jacelon
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The point of the post is not to bash the original photo and say that the photoshopped version is better. The point is that many times we see these pictures of "perfect people" on the internet and buy into it believing that's true. Many persons beat themselves up about not looking a perfect as someone they've seen on social media.

Ged Maybury
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry ... what ... but ... Whatever happened to the remarkable *Human Being* I could see in the first photo?

Jilltdcatlady
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the reason I can't tell asians apart. By photoshop they all have one face, no matter their country.

Neli Moruţ
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a chinese actor, and the tv show is called Go Fighting. It's a game show and they have frequent costumed game challenges.

Charles Pickett
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG! This is what happened in GOT with the Red Woman! 🤣🤣🤣

Nancy A Clark
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can tell the face has been changed in the second picture, it looks pasted in. these can't be accomplished so well by the average person. The work on most of these are professional level work!

Fred Burrows
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omigod I'm going to finally meet my dream girl from the internet .

Wendy Yim-Wong
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why was this pic taken in the first place? Looks like Jackie Chan in a wig lol

marvinqy
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Huang Bo, a top movie star in China. And it is a He not a She !!!

Jason H.
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One on the left is naturally beautiful already. LMFAO JUST KIDDING WTF??;!

Allana Rose
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhmmm This goes beyond photoshop when you change a man into a woman!

Victoria
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like a man in the first photo and a young girl in the second.

Jean
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

replacing a face with another is easy in Photoshop...a little more work would be taking the original and improving it...which can be done in Photoshop.

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Hans
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why not shop the ice to be bigger? It is the first thing i looked at...

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Diksha Deshpande
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I personally think that she looked way better in the first one. She doesn't even look like the same person after editing!

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Donna J Howorko
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mibo-I agree, don't like them either. the first-real are beautiful and awesome. the others white washed for what? ug I hate that.

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Judh Palcon Domo
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He does not need to be photo-shopped. He already look good on the first picture.

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Diksha Deshpande
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They photoshopped out the features that made her herself!! She's adorable before and after, but the original one has more natural beauty...

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Hana Cheaib
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Photoshop nicely done but not necessary, you're amazing on your natural way!

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Hans
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who would guess when seeing the lower photo that it would even show the person from the upper photo?

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Hans
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Two different persons wearing the same things by the looks.

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Kerri Russ
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does anyone else think the re-done faces are the same? Very little differences once you make the eyes more Western, narrow the nose and face, and accentuate the pointed chin. They all end up looking the same.

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Jhoa
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, none of the photoshopped versions are ugly, but they're just nothing like the original. A different 'person'. Also, these are some mad photoshopping skillz. What in the...

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Morgan Brock
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are they asking to be given egg heads? Because that is exactly what all these pictures have in common.... a flawless egg head.

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Connie Mabary-Hyde
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She looks like a sweet young girl on the first pic. On the second pic, I keep thinking I'm seeing the same girl in pic after pic.

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Connie Mabary-Hyde
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least you can tell it is the same girl. Guess she just wanted to look thiner.

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Neli Moruţ
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another one of the chinese actors on the Go Fighting game tv show.

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CelSlade
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I'm starting to repeat myself because this is a common theme here - interesting, human, characterful faces changed to flat, emotionless, cookie-cutter dolls.

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Dyallen Efendi
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if all females in asia look like anime character, then i am scared to go back home.... lol

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Sven Mom
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The entire point people is just that; how photos can be changed so dramatically and these days seeing should not necessarily amount to believing.

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Bruce Kunde
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

most photos here just needed flash fill, That cell phones don't offer ....yet?

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Debbie Detmer
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Slightest change of them all. Looks like the only thing done was thinning her right cheek. Still imo first pic looks a bit better

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CelSlade
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such a fun, almost wistful first picture - made completely bland and uninteresting.

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Hana Cheaib
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't need to loose weight! The second one is too skinny for me! I prefer before

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Izabela Nowak
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The unphotoshopped version has really nice legs. Genarally, she looks better before.

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Debra Starr Moon
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look at that great smile and those beautiful cheeks in the first one. The second one is one dimensional and flat.

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Debra Starr Moon
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It makes me sad to see these people changing what makes them so unique and beautiful into something so generic and one-dimensional because of their perception of today's trendy (and unrealistic) beauty standards. Beauty standards change with time, but the beauty these people were born with is timeless and should be embraced and celebrated, not completely obliterated.

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Wendy Yim
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These big eyes, V shaped and pale faces makes me thinks Aliens are breeding with us eeekkk

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TheRubyFalcon
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They lost all of the dimension -- look at her upper nose! Much better before.

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Marietta Tyks
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They all look prettier before the transformation. They were original, after they all looked the same and toooo skinny.