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Gillard and Abbott get a digital makeover

Paul Colgan

by Paul Colgan

21 Aug 05:00am

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Filed under: Body Image, Design, Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Magazines, Media, Photoshop, Politics, Retouching, Tony Abbott

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Warning: this has nothing to do with politics. We thought we’d see how the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader would scrub up under a digital makeover of the kind you might find in a high-fashion glossy magazine. They have each had a bit of a facelift, lip and hairline enhancements and skin tone improvements from a professional image retoucher. Here’s Abbott’s dramatic transformation:

Who is that? Tony Abbott, left, and his digitally remade self

Notice the ears got a little tuck? And here’s the Prime Minister:

The Prime Minister after a full service digital retouching

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    • MarK says:

      09:42am | 21/08/10

      Hahahahaha.

      Send them over to my place to put one of me on my mirroe.

      I could use the help that is for sure :D

      Reply

    • Joolz says:

      02:47pm | 21/08/10

      Not sure about the purple.

    • Barbara says:

      12:24pm | 21/08/10

      We have nothing to gain if Abbott wins.but so much to loose if Gillard looses.

      Reply

    • MarK says:

      01:05pm | 21/08/10

      Lets try and keep this thread sort of light and airy eh.

      Plenty of other threads where we can barrack away.

    • JulesG says:

      03:07pm | 21/08/10

      Barbara, so eloquently put, BRAVO!

    • Sven Gali says:

      06:27pm | 21/08/10

      I’ve heard it will be a TIGHT contest.

    • Max Redlands says:

      11:36am | 26/08/10

      why do people insist on spelling “lose” as “loose”

    • Rob says:

      08:21pm | 08/09/10

      Women of Australia will miss out as I will never see another female PM if Julia loses control.  It took 109 years to represent more than 50% of our population.  I am male but I can see this is ridiculous.

    • Les Pattinson says:

      03:01pm | 21/08/10

      Jeez, fair go cobber, Abbott looks like some bi-sexual arts grad, and Gillard looks like a Sex-in-the-City cougar wannabe eh?  Maaate, they’re quite good enough ugly as they are for the average punter, who can in real time watch one munching a meat pie & sauce, pastry crumbs around the cakehole, the other mumbling “shit”, when he spills something or other on his shirt, during a press grab. They’re just like us old son,  with the exception of my good self, who needs a full service, sheet size napkin tucked into the collar, when eating a cucumber sandwich quarter. Er, ‘scuse me I gotta go for a piss.

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    • Rachel says:

      03:04pm | 21/08/10

      If I send you over a picture of me, can you re-work it for my Facebook profile?

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    • Gregg says:

      04:10pm | 21/08/10

      Tony has a bit of character still, maybe not as scary as some would have him, about 15 years younger.

      Julia, errr well, sort of a granny putting on too much make-up for Tuesday night out with the seniors spunks!
      She might want to win Howes or Shorty Capone over!

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    • xyz says:

      05:33pm | 21/08/10

      Gregg, you need to get your glasses checked!

    • Reg says:

      02:33pm | 22/08/10

      Not at all seeking equal time but I think you’ve put a lot more work into Tony.

      You’ve narrowed the space between the nose and that frozen upper lip by enlarging his nose. Then you’ve reduced his jowls, flattened his face and , worst of all, reduced his laugh lines. The hair line isn’t worth mentioning.

      Laugh lines around the face and eyes should NEVER be minimized.

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    • Mark says:

      08:55pm | 22/08/10

      the person that did these edits is definately not a professional! They look like monsters in the “after” pics.

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    • Vicki PS says:

      04:56am | 23/08/10

      Julia is still unmistakeably Julia—the Womens Weekly cover shot version, anyway—but poor old Tony looks like the ‘after” shot of a cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong story.  He’s a bit like one of those Hollywood also-rans who have a radical makeover to fit the current template for beauty, then find themselves unemployable because no-one recognises them anymore.

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    • Daniel says:

      06:37pm | 23/08/10

      Eloquently put, Vicki.  But to me the Julia shot is only borderline human:  looks more like a Japanese greeting robot than an actual person.

    • Gregg says:

      08:32am | 23/08/10

      Can we now have a Geromino version of Tony complete with headress and a couple of PM scalps hanging off his belt, a human rawhise one of course!

      Reply

    • Lindy says:

      07:48am | 24/08/10

      Tony Abbott looks worse in his digital retouch.  That nose is just wrong.

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    • Mariah says:

      08:31pm | 24/08/10

      disgusting

      Reply

    • Catweazle says:

      05:04pm | 25/08/10

      can you remove this photo of Joolya from the Punch front page? My cat bites me whenever she sees this photo. I don’t blame her actually. I know what she is trying say.

      Reply

    • pavlo says:

      10:28am | 26/08/10

      Tony looks like Rove McManus.

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    • AHB says:

      02:33pm | 26/08/10

      Tony looked better before.

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    • jim says:

      12:20pm | 27/08/10

      They really did look better before the retouch. Julia looks great as she is, quite objectively, she has terrific skin
      and even Tony (dare I say it) looks more human in the before photo.

      Reply

    • Amber says:

      11:08am | 31/08/10

      She looks like a movie star - he looks like Paul Keating.

      Reply

    • Joe says:

      06:00pm | 31/08/10

      Amazing how many people in these comments don’t understand satire.

      Reply

    • ZSRenn says:

      07:04pm | 10/09/10

      What’s Satire?

    • Cindy says:

      09:17am | 03/09/10

      I hope they did the “digital makeover” for free. That’s a very dodgy job there.

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    • Jordee says:

      06:55pm | 07/09/10

      Tony’s didnt look like it loaded properly. Must have been done through his imaginary broadband network. I heard it was dodgey.

      Reply

    • Ash says:

      12:01pm | 14/09/10

      Forget the dumb digitals. Both feature much more attractive characteristics as originals.

      Reply
 
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