Most people know that magazines airbrush and touch up photos of celebrities and models. But it's becoming more common to cut and paste different photos of a celebrity onto each other to get a picture that "pops" on newsstands. Redbook's photoshopped Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts' cover photos drew fire from the actresses for both looking badly out of proportion and for not being real. Is this a fair practice? Or does this kind of image manipulation cross the line? What do you think?
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i don't really understand what the 'cut-and-paste' part means...sorry. :( but I DO know that photoshopping pics of models and celebrities to make them look better is horrible. --Posted by broadway_chick94 11:52PM EST 01/03/08
Well
Obviously if the stars them selves are pissed off they crossed the line. --Posted by lily_ann_sabrina 05:53PM EST 07/06/07
omg
i hate this... why can't anyone be happy with the way they look doesn't anyone stop to think about how it makes them look... all it says to me is that she has low self esteam!!!!!!! --Posted by death_by_mascara 01:40AM EST 07/02/07
Double UNH--UH!
Isn't that kind of like "stealing" the pictures? If they don't have permission from the stars? And editing without permish, too. Shameful. But they [the magazine companies] will do anything to sell. --Posted by lollypopxangel 08:45PM EST 05/23/07
He...
Kind of ironic taht it says "The Real Julia" on the cover....
Anyway, the only problem that I see with it is that it isn't good for teh star. They don't wanna be some frankenstein on the cover of a magazine. --Posted by spiffyelgato 12:53PM EST 02/27/07
nope, no it's not
It's insulting to have your image used and then have it completely warped. It's like being recognised for your idea and then someone making little alterations to the point of your idea being unrecognisable to you. It's just not fair. Not to mentnion it makes the magazine uncredible because you can tell that she wasn't posing for them and that it was probably a cut and paste.
How ironic though that the headline says "the real julia". --Posted by sicilica 11:06AM EST 01/25/07
UNH-UH!
It's okay to give someone some make-up or a push-up to make them look a little better but cutting and pasting makes girls think they need to cut and paste themselves into something they only think they want to be. Stardome isn't that great and it has bad effects... and I think this cover does too. --Posted by bandvolleychic27 02:40PM EST 10/31/06
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