Charlize Theron Falls Victim To Photoshopping On 'Los Angeles Confidential' Cover (PHOTOS)

Charlize Theron looks California cool on the December cover of Los Angeles Confidential, but while we're loving her dress, there was one thing distracting us from focusing on the style.

Namely, her, uh, claw hand.

On the cover, Charlize sprawls on a white chaise lounge in front of a green screen "pool," bedecked in a black and white dress as she stares down the camera.

Time to put on our Photoshop goggles. Judging by the artificial-looking edges of her left arm, there's no way her arm was actually photographed in that position. Even worse, they appear to have digitally manipulated her fingers into a chubby baby hand. Check out her index finger -- way too short for an adult hand, right? And the way her hand is retouched, you can't even see a hint of where a thumb would be extending.

But we're not certified airbrushing experts. Where are those guys with the Photoshop detector when you need them?

Check out the (we think) weirdly Photoshopped pics below, and click over to Los Angeles Confidential to read the interview with Charlize.

Comments

[concretemadonna]

12:27 PM on 12/04/2011

If there is ONE celebrity in the world who requires little to no retouching it is Charlize Theron.
This is a statement made by my boyfriend who is a professional retoucher and has seen RAW files of Charlize and has worked on images of her before. The world he used to describe her skin and shape "flawless".

Her hand has been grossly photoshopped by someone who does not have the faintest idea of how to mask, let alone shape in PS5. Its a travesty when a photographers image is hacked to bits by some dip-sh%t who thinks they know how to retouch. It gives the few retouchers who actually know what they are doing a bad name.

Shame on Los Angeles Confidential's Editor & Chief, Art Director, Photo Editor for allowing this cover to go to press.

[kenomee]

09:01 AM on 12/04/2011

Chopped or not...Would love to have that hand touching me lol...just sayin

[Mjones2]

05:29 PM on 12/03/2011

I don't see anything obviously wrong with her hand.

[Lynda Filler]

02:56 PM on 12/03/2011

It's only a little disconcerting that there are no lines, wrinkles that would normally delineated a wrist. Typical mag cover.

[Doreen Mulman]

02:54 AM on 12/03/2011

Sometimes a bad angle creates an optical illusion. Franky, I don't think she was "PhotoChopped," her hand really doesn't look that bad! And I doubt men are looking at her hands, anyway!

[slamduncane]

06:55 PM on 12/02/2011

Sorry...she has hands??

[sindfetish]

05:25 PM on 12/02/2011

Mkay...so she lobster girl now

[spikemk]

04:59 PM on 12/02/2011

Who cares .. It's Hollywood!!!!

[Dwayne Robbins]

04:57 PM on 12/02/2011

I'm not convinced that is Charlize Theron, I think it is a photo shopped picture of Hulk Hogan.

[mothra4522]

04:25 PM on 12/02/2011

You Photoshop Sherlocks need to get a LIFE..!

[bertHertz]

03:55 PM on 12/02/2011

and like it's the cover of a oh-so-important magazine. as usual with Huff fluff, the care meter is on zero. lol

[Kaysea]

02:53 PM on 12/02/2011

How much do you get paid to find flaws on magazine covers and then write about it? Not much talent swimming in the Huff pool.

[diplobrat]

01:53 PM on 12/02/2011

You all are missing the point. We have come to rely on cheap, easy and illiterate means of creating that which heretofore required ACTUAL skill. Behold the "franken-photo"! Perhaps we can get back to the business of taking time to capture the image we want, instead of the one we can manipulate.

[Lylith]

05:58 PM on 12/02/2011

I understand and agree. Great comment.

[whoajack]

01:39 PM on 12/02/2011

okay, maybe, maybe not, but the "chubby baby finger" comment was funny

[itzy8940]

01:33 PM on 12/02/2011

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........