Long before she went under the knife

Cher, 1967/Arnaud De Rosnay

Creatures from the wax museum

A wedding photographer inveighs against Photoshop abuse.

The images of celebrities on the covers of magazines are another source of irritation to me. In most cases the people responsible for creating them have used the Photoshop “heal” tool—or whatever it’s called; I’m not a Photoshop user—so aggressively to smooth away any inhomogeneity in their subjects’ skin that the women (it’s usually women) they depict might as well have been extruded from a rubber mould.

I hate the way the women on those covers look, particularly their skin. It no longer looks like skin. In this photo, for example, doesn't the before look much better than the after? She doesn't look like a living human being in the after. The same thing is true here. It's absolutely creepy.

Rosie O'Donnell goes on the photoshop diet

I'm thinking we need the technology to enable people's pictures to gain weight while they stay skinny.

Via Drudge.

"How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!"

--Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray

ADDED: Karl Rove loses wieght the old-fashioned way: A wacky crash diet.