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Before/After Photoshop of Madonna?

After Kim Kardashian’s latest whoopsie, it is very likely that this is not FOREALZ.  This is the internetz, and everyone  is always looking to 1UP the latest buzz.

That being said, no one can run from age, and it can be a bitch.  Let me know what you think?  Real or Not?

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If the left pic is real, ooooh Kabbalah you need some surgery.

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This post was written by: PhillyD.

151 Comments For This Post

  1. Fenrir Says:

    lol…. the power of photoshop

  2. greg Says:

    murked

  3. Mysticnz Says:

    im going with real

  4. JR Says:

    LOLZ I GUESS THIS IS REAL?

  5. Lindsey Says:

    i honestly think it could be real

  6. tonmarie Says:

    i say they are real

  7. str1keeag1e Says:

    Fake, there is one with hitler I think.. and bruce lee D:

  8. Dara Says:

    Being a photographer, that is 100% possible. Photoshop has been a help and killing of photography at the same time.

  9. Josh Says:

    I’m gonna have to say the one on the left is probably just as, if not more photoshopped than the one on the right

  10. Minifreak88 Says:

    lol i think the left one is real. photoshop is amazing.

  11. TheHolyThief Says:

    Photoshop’s new tagline:

    “Can make even 100 year olds look sexy.”

  12. Evan Says:

    Just put a bag on her head and your ready to go!

  13. louster200 Says:

    Freakin’ sweet.

  14. alex Says:

    imma say real

  15. daniel Says:

    i like the before version. its like shes dieing pretty awesome lol

  16. Someguy Says:

    The one on the right looks stupid anyway, she looks like a doll. And i do believe the one on the left IS real…age is a bitch :)

  17. Josh in DFW Says:

    Honestly, I think the left is real. She’s a hard working performer but only so much lighting and makeup can stop only so much wear and tear. So much for feeling like a virgin ever again…

  18. Adam Says:

    This is frighteningly easy to do. A recent version of photoshop, a few tutorials, and 15 minutes of clicking around is all it takes for anyone to be able to do this.

  19. linefly11 Says:

    yeah I’m going to say real also…
    looks like just some good skin work, some drastically good skin workand fooling around with the shading.

    also, look at the left part of her hair. on the left picture, there is a little loop of hair. On the right picture, its gone.. and the wall in the background kinda looks weird where the hair should be…

  20. Dexterfl Says:

    hahahaha 100% real look at her belly! Photoshop is great hahahahaha

  21. bobert Says:

    yea i think that is totally real, she’s old now, lol and photoshop makes everything purrty.

  22. Chastity Says:

    I’m pretty sure they’re real. She looks just like any 50-something woman does, except she’s Madonna haha.
    And Kim’s thighs look like most womens’. I say screw photoshop.

  23. Courtney Says:

    i think they’re real, they’re just pushed up a lot.

  24. stephanie Says:

    thats real and nasty

  25. jessica Says:

    heck yes it is real!!! have you seen the wonders of photoshop? its amazing what people can do! no wonder we have an altered sense of self because our models have photoshop artists…

    this is sick… but watch it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFwFOH6h4lo

  26. Peter Rallis Says:

    Why is she wearing a diaper?

  27. speedy Says:

    Outsource the pictures are real, there is no such thing as a fake photo. The photograph might be enhanced, but not fake. Being a photographer this is how the business works. It’s all photo shop. By the way, all the girls in the Victoria secret ads…all photoshoped, everyone of them.

  28. Jennocide Says:

    I am pretty sure that they are both uber photo-shopped in the opposite direction. She probably falls somewhere in between. I mean come on, isnt she 50 or something?

  29. david Says:

    I’m thinking those earrings look pretty fakee.

  30. Peka Says:

    Well the question is which one is more realz ;) the one on the right where she looks like a 20 yr old.. or the one on the left where she looks 50 something – ps she is 50 something ;P Idk what is up with our society that everyone has to be perma-20 to look good – but I admit I am waaaay more attracted to the photo on the right…but I think all that glossy eye candy is the point ;0)

    my vote: both fake :)

  31. blissbaby. Says:

    its not even that bad…
    isnt she like fifty.?
    i think she looks pretty good considering.

  32. Large fry Says:

    I LOL’d hard

  33. lauren Says:

    FAKE! both have been photoshopped. but this is madonna people, and considering the half-assed job on the “after” picure (look at the hair on the left side of her head, cut off all in a straight line compared to the before picture) i doubt she’d let any professionally taken photo of herself be released to the public looking like that. Also, she is the queen of the face lift, her skin looks more waxen and overly taught then wrinkled like a pug.

  34. Alejandra Says:

    Real..she is ‘effin 50! she can’t have such a smooth face.

    Why are her boobs so big? Wonderbra? lol

  35. Caroline Says:

    I think they are both photoshopped, but she is probably closer to the left photo.

  36. davidinabox Says:

    Neither of them are the original. Madonna may be 50 but she looks nothing like the left one and the right one is just photoshop genius. Unphotoshoped pictures of her at the Vanity Fair Oscar party show the true Madonna. Her Diamond face peel is good but not to the extent of the right picture.

    link to madonna at the vanity fair party. http://www.madonnalicious.com/images/extra/2009/gala_260209.jpg

  37. Paige Says:

    I think I’ve seen the one on the left somewhere else (recently, her tour pics have been showing up and terrifying!) and for the most part, her pictures from day to day life mostly resemble that one. The one on the right is obviously doctored, just like her shoots… And people say she looks good!

  38. Emily Says:

    she looks pretty good for her age in the left one, if it’s real.

  39. fano777 Says:

    Holy Shit! That’s it. That’s all I have to say!

  40. nedusmc Says:

    Nice Tots…

  41. Adam Says:

    don’t you love the power of photoshop it can do almost anything for you!

  42. box-a-milli Says:

    i think that both of the pictures are photoshopped

  43. TwsitedKnight(mare) Says:

    Wow =0

  44. sebastian Says:

    i have to agree with you while i doubt that the one on the right is completely natural i really don’t think Madonna looks like that yet

  45. Abbyyy Says:

    wowwww.

  46. Chelsea Says:

    Stars are always gettin their pics touched up!!

  47. ammmber Says:

    pahaha sucks for her

    everyone knows that pics forreal

  48. tarmaie Says:

    The one on the right has obviously been severely airbrushed, however I’m sure she doesn’t look as terrible as the people that doctored the ‘before’ pic would have you think.

  49. Joel Says:

    I too am going with real…rough baby, ROUGH!!

  50. Daniel Says:

    Fake and the kim kardashian one wasn’t that big of a deal they looked the same. This is fat people getting angry because they eat to much.

  51. Sakamoto Says:

    that could be her….she is old…she isnt THAT hot

  52. Johnathon Says:

    The left is fake.

  53. Jaimielyn Says:

    It’s plausible the one on the left is real, but I’m not sure. I didn’t think she was looking THAT bad these days.

  54. SimonTheSnowman Says:

    Well the first one could be photoshopped. o.o

  55. LeaArr Says:

    Either way, she sure looks good for 80.

  56. SkarrKrow Says:

    Why the hell would any professional photographer take a photo like that if they didn’t want to risk being a scumbag in the public opinion? I don’t even care for her but come on now, would YOU allow that shitty of a picture to be taken? Even if the left one were real, I’d monitor the touch up and make sure the original was destroyed. Use your brains people.

  57. Shay(DizziKatz) Says:

    …I actually think that it’s real. I mean, she’s like 50 years old. I dunno, I never thought she looked THAT bad, but I knew that she couldn’t look as good as the picture on the right. If it is real…she’s definitely in need of some plastic surgery….

  58. Suarga Says:

    I agree with this. Can you imagine yourself at eighty?

  59. dark dump Says:

    fake holms

  60. bob-a-loo Says:

    it’s plausible. the right pic is definitely airbrushed. to what extent, i can’t say. you can run from a lot of things, but both time and the reaper are always gonna catch up, sooner or later.

  61. CJ Says:

    I vote real because I don’t want to believe she can still be that hot at her age… I’d feel so much worse that the rest of us won’t be able to

  62. The Lion Says:

    I am going on record to state that the left one is photoshopped (a bit) to make her look worse and the right one is photoshopped (a lot) to make her look better. Damn she has the skin of a 20 year old in that right picture. Doubtful since she is – what? – 110!?

  63. Peter Says:

    =.=’
    lol photoshop sure is amazing….
    damn, cant trust any dating website anymore :))

  64. jenny Says:

    if the left one is real…why are you ppl saying she needs surgery? she’s just old. it happens to all of us… her aging is just in front of a camera and for an old lady she doesnt need surgery. all the surgery she needs can be done on photoshop, like the right pic shows.

  65. iccecream Says:

    wow you are dumb. she is 50!!

  66. Lindsay Says:

    yeah she’s definitely been around since the dawn of time so i’d love to believe it’s real.
    but realistically, probably neither are real.

  67. kal3idosc0pe Says:

    The left one probably is ’shopped to make her look worse, but she is getting up there in age. I mean realistically, this is MADONNA. She must have access to all the plastic surgeons in the world to make her look beautiful.

  68. TheGeek Says:

    I think its a real before and after Photoshop job, but I don’t think it’s Madonna.

  69. Brian Says:

    It’s the same picture. They just Photoshoped it. Look at the wrinkles in her clothes (near her crotch, and the way her shoulder strap splits in two). And her necklace and the zipper on her boots are in the exact same place. They just cropped it closer on the right.

    Furthermore, they increased the contrast on the right (easily done on any program, including Photoshop) and fixed the wrinkles and veins in her skin (using things like the cloning tool and the band-aid tool).

    AND you can totally see how they fixed her hair! The background was just painted over (probably with the cloning tool) so the hair looks neater, but the background looks blotchy (if you look at it for a second.

    Ok, lol I’m done =)

  70. Rapthi Says:

    i hope it’s real! =D
    haha. cause seriously – who looks as good as the pic on the right at 50?

  71. olivia Says:

    are you people serious?
    she is 50.
    she looks fucking amazing.

  72. Brent(Over 9000) Says:

    May i infer?
    Jennifer Tilly Enough Said

  73. venus Says:

    um. they are both fake.

  74. john Says:

    i would fuck the girl on the right lol

  75. Galfurion Says:

    Sad but true!!!

  76. jeffry meda Says:

    They’re both airbrushed. Although the left one is the one has some inconsistencies which gives it away that it was done to make her look bad

  77. Mary Says:

    Both pictures have been altered.

  78. alo Says:

    you’re dumb for thinking that we legit thought she was 80. glad you can smell the sarcasm, dumb fuck.

  79. sh{M}it Says:

    I would have to say that the left one is shopped if any…

    the overall desaturated is fairly constant and that leads me to believe that color was altered…and honestly If I was Madonna I would not be caught dead with the lifeless color hair and make up because real life is not shopped.

  80. KateS Says:

    really? you think shes 80.. really?

  81. Noelia Says:

    i think both photos are fake.

  82. nashgurl14 Says:

    WOW she looks like and 80yr old prostitute in one and the other doesnt even look like her! But damn that look is ‘Prosti-Glam!’ By the way I don’t think either is her, both looked photo shopped to me.

  83. Yamonie Says:

    lmao
    Phil don’t promote surgery!!
    Bad.
    True.
    But bad.

  84. Katie Says:

    She doesn’t look THAT bad in the left. She looks real, unlike the right picture.

  85. Brandi Says:

    I don’t think the first one looks that bad to be honest. I’m not a big Madonna fan but I could only hope to look that good in my fifties. Just my opinion.

  86. anonymous Says:

    I think it’s amazing the xtent people will go to look young !

  87. Lacye Says:

    I know it’s been mentioned like 800 times but she IS 50 and honestly, if she looks like the picture on the left at 50 I don’t think she is doing horrible for her age. I know we all WANT to believe we can look great when we’re our parent’s ages but no one does. Some people age better than others and no matter what if it hasn’t been photoshopped (which we know the one on the right has) all it takes is bad lighting to make someones flaws really stand out.

  88. bullet proof soul Says:

    aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ….wth ! im scarred

  89. ryan Says:

    it is the web people cant tell if you being sarcastic so who is the dumb fuck now eh

  90. Jayross Says:

    still you.

  91. oblaskins Says:

    probably both photoshopped, ill say she’s really somewhere in between

  92. DavidI Says:

    Yeah still you for sure. Lol.

  93. Worraker Says:

    I don’t think that shit’s fake…

  94. Jennergy Says:

    i agree that both photos are most likely shopped…

    …but honestly…

    whats with all these people saying that if she looks like the left one forealz she needs plastic surgery…

    my god people, she’s 50! she doesnt need plastic surgery, she needs to be able to live her life to the fullest with the way she looks naturally if she happens to be happy with that.

    what has this world come to when a famous person cant age without being ridiculed for it???

  95. Severin Says:

    the one on the right it’s nearly impossible to look like that 50 or 80 whichever it is

  96. DavidAskew Says:

    Wasnt that hag voted Most beautiful in the world in like 06 or something?
    Some people are retarded.

  97. RION Says:

    Yes. You lose this one.

  98. bKizzle Says:

    For starters people these days all photos that are taken for public use of celebrities are airbrushed in photoshop to fix well, flaws. So in my opinion both photos are fake because I don’t believe she looks as horrible as the one on the left shows her to be and i don’t think she looks as good as the one on the right. But maybe i realize this because I am a freelance graphic designer but hey who really cares?

  99. Martina Says:

    Why would that be? Sure, I believe the left one’s been slightly color-modded, but why would it be “nearly impossible” to look aged and wrinkled? Her skin looks a bit dotted, but that’s not unusual, it’s just pigmentation acting up. I’m betting she’s had tons of surgery in her time and, as Jackson’s nose showed once upon a time, that’s not always so good for you.

  100. Kydora Says:

    Well you know the one on the right is definatly photoshoped. As was the one on the left. I mean she is beautiful, but lets be realistic, who can look that good at her age. No matter how much surgery one can have its just not possible. So I think both pics are PS’d!

  101. LeaArr Says:

    Oops. You’re right. It’s the interwebs and I forgotz my lol at the end of that. My bad…dumbfuck.

  102. edward91 Says:

    I think both photos are fake. She should be in the middle

  103. jbg Says:

    The one on the right is defffffinettly retouched a lot. As for the one on the left idk, looks pretty real to me.

  104. Shawna Says:

    Why is it that when people get older and their “beauty fades” that everyone screams get surgery? What is wrong with you people? I personally think she should SKIP the surgery, eat a couple hamburgers and fill out a bit, then maybe she wouldn’t look so gaunt. She’s 50! Actually 51, but whatever.

  105. mallorie Says:

    Isn’t she like 50 or something? Even if the pic on the left ir real she looks damn good for how old she is and how much she works

  106. supercanadiandude Says:

    need high res to know for sure. and the fact that it strangely doesn’t exist leads me to believe this has been tweaked a bit.

  107. guy4jesuschrist Says:

    I can’t agree with you more!

  108. Jen Says:

    Well actually… photoshop does every celebrity wonders. Every magazine cover is photoshopped. I’m pretty sure thats what she actually looks like. (on left)

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  110. aciel Says:

    actually, I don’t think the left one looks that horrible… Why should she need surgery if she looks like that? I think anybody would kill to look so young with 50-something. We’re all just blinded by hollywoods so-called “perfection”, we can’t see what’s real and beautiful…
    and the right one looks awful…

  111. Ashley Says:

    Obviously they are both touched up… on really good and one really bad.

    her skin is not that luminous nor is it crazy vein-y.

    In all honesty she may have a few laugh lines, may have dark circles but she does exercise a lot and is apparently pretty healthy.

    I vote both Photoshoped.

  112. zachary Says:

    she’s 50

  113. Appo Says:

    Their BOTH Photo shopped. If you go on the inter webs and look at photos of her she doesn’t look AS bad as the picture on the left. Yet, she doesn’t look that GOOD for the picture on the right

  114. Rush-2112 Says:

    Both just scream FAKE.

  115. Zack Says:

    Arguing online is like competing in the special Olympics, even if you win, you’re still a retard.

    Also,
    Sometimes it is wiser to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

  116. Zack Says:

    Why on Earth would anyone think that was real? Use thy brain momentarily please… and consider some facts:

    Madonna is 50. 50 is slightly old. But, 50 year old individuals do not look THAT old in this day and age, even if they abuse their bodies, especially in her case, living in luxury for so many years.. Also, consider, Madonna has lots of money. Money affords surgery, it affords fine dining, it affords personal work out trainers, and any form of device/object/or item which one can use to beautify, etc…

    Aside from the fact, that one can easily tell that if it were real, the photographer who originally shot it should be fired and black balled.. It is dim, terrible lighting, it’s resolution is poor.. the makeup is bad, and it’s all together just shoddy. I think both the pics were photo shopped, the one on the right photo shopped slightly by the magazine/photographer, etc…. and the one on the left, photo shopped from the original to look absolutely terrible. The photo touch up or touch down… can go both ways. It’s a simple publicity stunt by someone.

  117. Alisongrrl Says:

    As a photo re-toucher myself… shit ain’t that fricken surprising!!
    Every model and non-model in the world needs some type of minor tweak here and there.. Some MAJOR. So what if it is real or not… the woman is pushing 50, I can only hope that I can look as good as a normal 30yo at 50!!

  118. Kristen Says:

    Doesn’t matter. She’s old, and she looks hot, photoshop or not. :/

  119. jabs7386 Says:

    They both look kind of fake.. like someone made her look older, then made her look better…. i dont know..

  120. Einahpets Says:

    I don’t think it’s real.. I don’t think she looks that old now, but who knows.

  121. Rawry Says:

    Her eyes changed colour from green to blue.
    Spooky.

  122. Wacom#1 Says:

    The left looks consistent with a source photo (down-sampled, obviously). Makeup is light enough to Photoshop after, while skin’s been powdered to keep flash (even with diffuser lighting) and lines to a minimum.

    The chick is fifty… she’d look like that for sure.

    Grandmadonna is getting old… no amount of Photoshop’s going to help her ass in the coming decade. :-)

  123. Kate the Awesome Says:

    I think it’s totally fake. Madonna totally has enough money to get plastic surgery to fix wrinkles. And she seems like the type of person who would. As far as the random Invisible Children comment goes, you should all participate. It’s a problem that needs to be fixed.

  124. Zdecent Says:

    As much as i don’t dispute the fact that she may in fact look that way in reality, there is no way she would do a photo with THAT little amount of make-up… but this kind of improvement through “Photoshop-like” software probably isn’t too far from the truth…

  125. ryan Says:

    both the pics look fake in my opinion

  126. anus Says:

    I think both the pics are photoshopped. The one on the right doesn’t quite suite her age and the one on the left is too poor of quality to have come from madonnas high caliber photographers.

  127. Mike Says:

    I’m adding myself to the list of people who say both are fake.

  128. Marie M Says:

    The right photo deffinately looks re-done, but the left is ALL original.
    Here is the link: http://theblemish.com/2009/01/calling-all-photoshop-experts-madonna-needs-your-help/
    To the COMPLETE set of photos taken at that photo shoot. Alot of them are like this.

  129. Fran Says:

    LISTEN! Don’t be naive people! Madonna is human and she is old. There is no cure for wrinkles, so cut a grandma some slack. BUT, I do think that the photoshop technology is pretty awesome!

  130. NisslMissl Says:

    now I think the left one’s real or at least not based on the right one
    could be though that someone got the original image in their hands and used that to make her look older
    but I’m sure the right one would be the one which would be in a magazine or used as Album art or something of that sort
    but if you look at the top left corner on the right Image there’s a gradient which everyone would have thought was in the background (as a lighting effect) but in the left image there is no gradient what so ever

  131. GigiAUT Says:

    Thats definitely some photoshop. I can see the contrast and saturation have been adjusted a little. The colour is a little more vibrant and the shaddows stand out more. And then skin texture? Its too smooth. If you look on her left shoulder, you can see some stray strands of hair, and in the photoshopped pic….nothing. her hair is perfect. If only there was a way to do this in real life cos the photoshopped madge isn’t bad looking at all :P

  132. in_ur_mouth Says:

    WOW! homegirls’s getting OLD!…

  133. qadrian Says:

    Left side and rigth side are photoshop. Anyhow she looks great (real life )for her years.

  134. anna Says:

    what do you expect? shes 50! even if the left one is real, she still looks pretty damn good for her age…

  135. annie Says:

    Sooo real, she’s an old fogey!

  136. Jevette Says:

    Not real. Her boobs and collar bones would look different.
    The person who photoshoped the wrinkles put them in places that normal people wouldn’t have them, and forgot to add wrinkles to certain necessary places.

  137. Bee Says:

    If she has that much money to afford plastic surgery, why can’t she fix the damn gap in her teeth??? lol

  138. Whitney Says:

    She looks amazing for 50 and what, just because she has wrinkles, does she have to have plastic surgery. Plastic surgery is just real like photoshop. If you saw her as is on a magazine cover you wouldn’t buy it, that is why it is done. We want to see celebrities as perfect humans. Why else do you think all the Ok and US magazines offer “Celebrities, just like us” OMG THEY BUY GROCERIES LIKE ME AND THEY EAT FOOOOOOOD!!!! HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!!

    If she is happy with herself why can’t you accept that? Stop progressing that plastic surgery craze. I support plastic surgery only if it is for you and no one else.

    AGE GRACEFULLY PEOPLE…. there is nothing wrong with wrinkles

  139. MasturCheef Says:

    EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW thats Disgusting!! thanks for the common sense Phil!

  140. TheDeagler Says:

    I agree. Another point to the lefts reality is the hair – notice how each hair is longer than the pic on the right (in the right pic, its edited out).

    Man… she really is old.

  141. sangichan Says:

    true dat!

  142. Megan Says:

    They’re both photoshopped.

  143. nessarokk Says:

    I have no idea what I’m looking at…

  144. GnightGracie08 Says:

    I agree. I do a lot of PhotoShopping, because I’m a photographer. The picture on the left looks very real to life and the one on the right is just full of PhotoShop tricks.

  145. benjyjoe Says:

    Epic Failure, both are photoshopped. You can’t photoshop her in concert!!!! – and she looked damn good! :D

  146. Cecilia Says:

    Well I still think she’s pretty for an old fucker, i mean I’d be so relieved if I looked like that at age fifty.

  147. MiTHMoN Says:

    I’m with Whitney.
    But that picture is so photoshopped – even people with surgeory and chemicals in them have at least some facial wrinkles…

  148. keither420 Says:

    Man she should just give up lol shes getting ancient lol

  149. me>you Says:

    i think both are fake as well
    i mean. c’mon. M grandmother is 65 and she looks WAY better than that.

  150. martinhaa Says:

    my grandmom looks better than her… madonna doesn’t want a plastic sugery ’cause will look artificial like the others…

  151. Stickman Says:

    AAAAAHHHHH!!!! BINGO WINGS!!!!
    if she waves her arms fast enough she probably could fly

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