How The Presidential Candidates Will Look In 4 Years: See Photos

The gurus at PopPhoto have digitally altered photos of John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton to show how they might look after four years of holding the most stressful job in the country.

Below are photos of each candidate, and an explanation of how PopPhoto achieved the aged look (click here for larger versions of the images):

Aging takes time, even when you make it happen artificially with software. Each candidate took about four hours of retouching. To mimic the ravages of time, we did the following:

- Used the Burn and Dodge tools to deepen wrinkles and paint in age spots.
- Cloned the eyebrows and moved them lower.
- Used the Liquify filter to hollow out cheeks, make jowls, thin out lips, and enlarge ears and noses.
- For Clinton and Obama, brought in forehead wrinkles from separate photos and used the Match Color tool to blend them in.
- For Obama, painted in gray hair on top of his current hair; for Clinton, desaturated with the Sponge tool to make her grayer.

Comments

[orangedude]

That's ridiculous. They won't look anywhere near that with Botox out there today.

[Yokel]

On the positive side:
if McCain looks like that, America might lose its lust for oil, instead lusting for brains, delicious brains!

[ccmd]

You guys are bonkers if you really think Obama will look that old in 4 years.

[NU81]

This makes me laugh. McCain and Clinton look like that NOW. Obama won't look like that in four years--too dramatic. Black skin ages well.

[Wiam]

Pleeeze Huff, don't post this kind of crap. You're a news source, not a fad magazine. Sure, you made your point, the two older candidates will look much worse. So what?

Quit the ageist tactics; it's beneath you.

[VivaZapata]

must be for mccain. the older you get, the faster the aging process seems to move, except in the case of these phony photos.

[Tyrione]

Wow. That's some really bad genetics software.

[Dan1967]

Why are the major news channels trying to tear down Barack Obama? What is their true motivation?

It makes me sad to see Hillary Clinton brown-nosing the Republican hate machine. Barack Obama is the only candidate who can take our country away from the politics of fear and hate, and in to a new era of hope and change.

BARACK OBAMA ONLY NEEDS 295 DELEGATES TO WIN THE NOMINATION!

The voters in North Carolina and Indiana, with a win for Obama in their primary's, can put this marathon Democratic primary to an end by voting for Barack Obama.

Barack has 1,730 delegates as of today. He needs 2,025 to win the nomination. I want every Democrat and Independant in Indiana and North Carolina to get to the polls and vote for Barack Obama. Don't let the media spin and the right wing conservative media conglomorates win this election.

Barack Obama is by far the strongest candidate against McCain. Go to www.pollster.com (type it in if the link does not work) and check out the state by state polls. Barack Obama is leading McCain in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, Minnesota, and even Colorado. Hillary is losing to McCain in Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Colorado and she is tied with McCain in Minnesota. If Hillary can't win Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Oregon in the general election, then she can't beat McCain.

VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA IN NORTH CAROLINA AND INDIANA, AND LETS GET A DEMOCRAT WIN IN NOVEMBER!

[ruthinking]

At the last "debate," Hillary Clinton looked as botoxed as each female "newscaster." Have you noticed that they all look like each other? (The botox did cut down on the if-looks-c­ould-kill-­glares that Hillary Clinton gave Obama; or at least they didn't show). Anyway, without the botox, Hillary probably already looks like her "after" photo here.

[missionimpossible]

yeah the Hildabeast definitely looks aged. I think that Bill will become younger frolicing around in the West wing.

[reelcobra]

I thought the second picture of Obama was taken at his press conference yesterday.

[Dan1967]

BARACK OBAMA ONLY NEEDS 295 DELEGATES TO WIN THE NOMINATION!

The voters in North Carolina and Indiana, with a win for Obama in their primary's, can put this marathon Democratic primary to an end by voting for Barack Obama.

Barack has 1,730 delegates as of today. He needs 2,025 to win the nomination. I want every Democrat and Independant in Indiana and North Carolina to get to the polls and vote for Barack Obama. Don't let the media spin and the right wing conservative media conglomorates win this election.

Barack Obama is by far the strongest candidate against McCain. Go to www.pollster.com (type it in if the link does not work) and check out the state by state polls. Barack Obama is leading McCain in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, Minnesota, and even Colorado. Hillary is losing to McCain in Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Colorado and she is tied with McCain in Minnesota. If Hillary can't win Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Oregon in the general election, then she can't beat McCain.

VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA IN NORTH CAROLINA AND INDIANA, AND LETS GET A DEMOCRAT WIN IN NOVEMBER!

[realtalk]

Obama is not going to look this old. He is going to have a few grey hairs on his temple, and MAYBE, one very shallow wrinkle on his forehead, that's about it!!

[akt4pay]

so in 4 years Obama's going to look like Bill Cosby, John McCain's going to turn to stone, and Hillary's going to lose in a fistfight?

What's your point?

[smartcookienyc]

Ready to bake those cookies yet, Lady Hillary?

[Tyrione]

The point must be that people using genetic simulation software aren't qualified to use it.

[LeeinJax]

A more accurate candidate evolution can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/59sys9

[Yokel]

Love it. Sad but too true.

[ladybroadoak]

Hillary already looks dreadful. The pictures that you see show her heaviliy made up and the photos are air brushed. The only way I'd care to see this faces in four years is BEHIND BARS, all of them.