By ALEXIS CAREY
Forget diet and exercise – this viral video shows just how easy it is to Photoshop kilos off in minutes.
The time-lapse video features well-known Japanese columnist, essayist, and TV personality Matsuko Deluxe, 42, being radically transformed by some quick but clever editing.
During the video, featured on the realretouch YouTube channel, Deluxe’s face and body are dramatically slimmed down.
Fat is digitally removed from her cheeks, chin and body. Even her hands are reduced.
Her eyes are widened, her eyebrows thickened and her cheeks contoured.
The video, which has been viewed more than 800,000 times, is fascinating but also reveals just how easy it is to manipulate images in magazines and advertising. The channel also features a number of other examples of the “Photoshop diet”, including an overweight woman in gold hot pants who is edited to become a much more slender version of herself.
Celebrities like Susan Boyle, Michael Jackson and Justin Bieber are also targeted.
Check out the full video below:
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Top Comments
I really dont understand the need for such extensive use of photoshop. It's not like there are no conventionally good looking people around. Im not even saying that "we are all unique beautiful snowflakes and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". I mean there are people in the real world who look very attractive, have the right build and skin tone. Im sure a lot of them enter the modelling industry. Why cant they just put a bit of makeup on those people, have them wear nice fitting clothes and take some photos. Why is there a need for so much retouching
Makes you wonder why we have human models at all, doesn't it. Just create them with CG and be done with it.