Another Disturbing Photoshop Trend - Making Sickly Thin Models Look Healthy

Lets face it, when we look at magazine, we want to see pretty picture and a certain amount of photoshopping to fix imperfections is expected, but how far is too far?

A disturbing trend that I read about at Daily Mail that I had never heard of before is using Photoshop to make sickly thin models look healthy.  The above is an example and Jane Druker, the editor of Healthy magazine admitted to retouching a photo of a model that showed up looking like the 2nd photo and retouched to look like the first photo.

It also quotes that "Self" magazine has admitted: 'We retouch to make the models look bigger and healthier and that the creative director for Vogue, Robin Derrick, admitted: "I spent the first ten years of my career making girls look thinner -and the last ten making them look larger.". 

It also quotes Vogue's Shulman saying "a big part of the problem is that the designer's sample sizes - the catwalk prototypes of their designs - have got ever smaller" .

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1279766/Former-Cosmo-editor-LEAH-HARDY-airbrushing-skinny-models-look-healthy-big-fat-dangerous-lie.html#ixzz0obzpxou7

What are your thoughts on this trend?

PHOTO EDITED WITH PICNIK

This is a photo that I took of my son at the guitar shop and it was very ordinary, until I used Picnik's free online (they do have where you can upgrade with more options for around $25 a year) editing tool using the Sephia and Vignette options and it gave it a historic, classic look.

You could play around by uploading your own photos and check out how they would look, or check out using the demo photos they have at the following website.

http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome

Photoshopped Art - Celebrities at Planet Hiltron

http://planethiltron.com/
The above site has several cool photoshopped pics of celebrities and show what they might look like had the gone into other professions and not have become famous.
Here are a few of my favorite:
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck:

Jennifer Lopez and Mark Anthony:

Gwen Stefani:Sarah Jessica Parker:

Pam Anderson:

Do you have any photoshopped photos to share? If so, email me at uniqueunusualinterestingart@yahoo.com.