Topic: photo editing

What Photoshopping My Selfies Taught Me

What Photoshopping My Selfies Taught Me

What is the purpose of Photoshop?

If you’d asked me that question a few weeks ago, I know exactly how I would have answered: Fashion magazines use Photoshop to make people thinner, to airbrush skin imperfections, to make eyes bigger and teeth whiter. They use Photoshop to create an unrealistic standard of beauty that we can never attain and to assert “this is what perfect is and anything less than this isn’t worth looking at.” More »

Even Audrey Hepburn Got Photoshopped: A Breakfast At Tiffany’s Before & After

Even Audrey Hepburn Got Photoshopped: A Breakfast At Tiffany's Before & After

You won’t believe this previously unseen “before” shot of Audrey Hepburn in one of the most famous press stills from Breakfast At Tiffany’s: in which one draconian art director with a grease pencil deemed Hepburn’s legendary beauty not quite legendary enough. Yes, even women renowned the world for their unforgettable faces over have fine lines, stray hairs, even–gasp!–pores. More »