Check out these images and links to learn about how programs like Photoshop are used to make models and celebrities look the way they do in magazines.

Click on image to see Dove's "Evolution of a Model" video which shows how photos of models are produced:

Below is a fake magazine cover with a young girl whose photograph was edited on the computer for the purpose of revealing how much a computer can be and is used to transform what’s real into an “idealized” image. Click on the “reveal the bluff” image and then click on different parts of the model to see the before and after images.

Some more before and after photos by digital artist Greg Apodaca. These images were edited on a computer program that can make models appear to have thinner bodies, smaller pores, fewer blemishes, larger breasts and longer legs— the way we often see them in magazines and on billboards. Click on the image to see the artist's website. Once you are there, roll the mouse over the image to see the image before it was edited on the computer:

Here are some before and afters of some celebrities you may recognize: