http://www.iwanexstudio.com/

There was a killer site with about 20 celebrity mouse-over before and afters that I can't find. But this site has some examples you can mouse over as well. This pic really demonstrates how radical they can change pics.

It's kinda cool to see what they didn't change in some of the ones that sciurus linked. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, for example. His upper arm needed punching up, but his lips? They were fine. Eva Longoria was really modified! Cate Blanchett? Not so much.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

I hadn't seen this before. I mean, you know they do it, but....sheesh.

The weirdest ones, for me, are not the ones in which they change the skin tone and lighten wrinkles, but the ones in which they've actually changed the contours of the body. No wonder regular people can't achieve model bodies. Even models can't achieve model bodies.

The skintones bother me- they look like they've been made over by the funeral parlour for their viewing, not like live humans. Ugh. If I had to look at pictures of myself done up like that I'd be creeped out.

$100k checks WOULD help me get over it, though.

That website is certainly along the lines of what I was looking for, but there's another one as well, if I recall correctly. The one I remember shows more dramatic changes in terms of weight and body airbrushing.

There's this too.

I was thinking the same thing Miko. Even the "hottest chicks alive" tm are unable to look hot. Poor things. Imagine how hard it is for them.

Sometimes I worry that I have daughters to raise.

I liked that last one a lot, sciurus. A good one to use with teaching. "Almost all real waists are straight" -- I didn't know that, but I saw that change made in a lot of the photos in the first link and wondered about it.

This catagory on the Gawker subsite Jezebel has a lot of great examples, too.

The Penelope Cruz before and after look basically the same.

Except that they lowered her neckline, triggerfinger.

This is creepy. On some of them (like that woman in the middle of the bottom row -- a Desperate Housewife, I think) they actually put weight on.

Also, as off-putting as this is, if the originals are actually originals, a lot of them were terribly lit to begin with.

No wonder regular people can't achieve model bodies. Even models can't achieve model bodies.

I thought the same thing, Miko. Yeesh.

And mudpuppie is right- some of the originals are really bad photos.

BP and mudpuppie are both right, of course, but I wonder if the reason the designer chose such poorly lit photos was just to illustrate how good his wizardry really is. The whole point of that site, after all, is to sell his artistry, which is, after all, retouchery.

I highly doubt any celeb photog worth their salt would make those mistakes, especially not shooting those celebs for money. It takes a lot less time to set it up and shoot it correctly in the first place than correct it in post. Some of those photos look like they may have been candid snaps from interviews or whatever.

Since you're on the subject, you might enjoy this, amro. I especially enjoyed the comment pointing out that my "raw" photo was not raw and would never have made it out of the studio if it were.