“JUST” the bare facts… or Brit and Lindsay with no Photoshop
May 17, 2007
During a recent visit to Finland I discovered an Estonian { and not Russian magazine as I mentioned earlier, thanks to a note from Mikhail Smetana from Afisha Magazine Moscow, Russia} called JUST. It is a celebrity weekly magazine, as we call this type of magazines in the States, or a gossip weekly as they refer to this type of magazines in the rest of the world. I bought two weekly issues, but I was lucky enough not to open the magazines until I arrived back in the States. What a surprise. Remember those photo-shopped pictures of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan coming down from the car without underwear. Well most of the magazines in the States and in most of the world opted not to scare their readers and either edited or blurred the pictures using the magic of Photoshop. Not JUST magazine. They published both pictures as is. No editing, no Photoshop, no blurring… Pictures that I can’t even show on my blog (yet with some Google help you can find them on the web), however you will thank me for not showing the pictures if you see them. I am not a fan of altering pictures and or using Photoshop to add or delete parts of pictures, but at the same time I am a big believer in the power of editing… as in edit the pictures out… those pictures are the biggest exception to the theory that a picture is worth a 1,000 words… in the aforementioned pictures, trust me a 1,000 words would have helped me and many other readers avoid a few nightmares…
Mr. Magazine 
Dear Samir,
Although it may be not really relevant – JUST is not a Russian magazine, it’s most probably Estonian.
Otherwise – 100% agree with you. Unedited images of that kind belong to a different kind of magazines.
Mikhail Smetana
Afisha Magazine
Moscow, Russia
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