Digital airbrushing, often just described with the brand name Photoshop, has limitless options for advertising companies, the media or for the personal home user.
On Trend Hunter, we have been astounded at the popularity of articles containing obviously Photoshopped images. We have featured everything from celebrities put on photoshop diets (both to fatten them up and make them rib-showingly skinny) to contests that integrate Olympic athletes or challenges to make Megan Fox ugly. It seems no celebrity has been exempt; we've seen Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise and Faith Hill; Paris Hilton and Angelina Jolie were made old and, also fitting under this heading, Sarah Palin was left unphotoshopped on the cover of Newsweek.
The slideshow below highlights the best of photoshop. However this makes you feel, whether you get a twang of schadenfreude, or it stimulates your own creativity to have fun with Photoshop, it should remind us physical perfection is objective, and we can't take appearances too seriously.
To see more on what can be done with digital image manipulation, check out this article to scratch your photoshop itch.
39 Examples of Extreme Photoshopped Celebrities
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Exposing Airbrushing
Excessive Before and After Pictures
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Extreme Digital Makeovers
The Photoshop Diet
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10 Photoshop Disasters
From Missing BellyButtons to Giant Heads
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Unmasking Celebrities
Shakira, Hilton & Jolie Without Plastic Surgery
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Evil Celebrity Clowns
Famous Faces Digitally Repainted at Worth1000
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Re-Appearing Celebrity Hair
Jude Law No Longer Balding in Dior Homme Sport Ad
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Celebs Photoshopped For Domestic Violence
New Women's Aid Campaign
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Robot A-List Actresses
Photoshopped Celebrity Cyborgs
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Unphotoshopped Magazine Covers
Sarah Palin on Newsweek
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Digital Dress Up
Celebrity Photoshopping Contest
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Making Celebrities Ugly
Planet Hiltron
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Photoshopped Body Commentary
If Tattoos Told the Truth
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Humanized Cartoons II
Jessica Rabbit Untooned
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Killer Olympic Photoshopping
The Worthympic Games
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Reverse Photoshopping
Celebrities as Zombies
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A-List Monsters
Photoshopped Celebrity Ghouls
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Skewed Celebrity Schadenfreude
Unfoxing Megan Fox Photos
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Political Shockvertising
"Hillary Obama" to Promote University
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Racist Photoshopping
L'Oreal Denies Whitening Beyonce
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Humanizing Famous Portraits
Untooneds by Mataleone
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Brand Killing Cross Promotions
Photoshop Marketing Fun
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Controversial Photoshopping
Modified Tom Cruise Contest
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Photo Retouching Studios
iWanex Features Before & Afters of Hollywood Stars
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Political Fashion Spoofs
Harper's Bazaar & Robin Givhan Dress Mrs. President
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PhotoShop Time-Lapse
Aging Angelina Video
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Sinister Super Villains
Photoshopping Celebrities' Dark Sides
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Political Drag Contests
The World's Most Powerful Men As Women
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Political Fusion Portraits
Obama-Lincoln
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Celebrity Star Wars
Victoria and David Beckham as Princess Leia and Luke
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Reinterpreting Movie Heroes
Discontent Artist Remakes Incredible Hulk in Photoshop
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Non-Voters as Muzzled Murderers
Celebrities Encouraging Youth Vote
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Animal Olympics
Wild Worth1000 Olympic Photoshopping
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Anti-Republican Photoshopping
John McCain as Warmonger
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Facial Remixing
Political Face Morphing
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Digitally Doggified
Celebrity-to-Dog Photoshop Fusion
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Reality TV Feuds
The Hills Stars Photoshopped Together In Promo Pics
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Photoshopping Blunders Made Viral
Washington Post Embarrassed on Reddit
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