Beauty is only Pixel Deep
I’m not very good at Photoshop, but this portfolio of photo retouching projects by Glenn Feron nicely illustrates the disconnect between reality and the beautiful Photoshop-enhanced images that fill today’s advertising and print media. You can view his before-and-after images by moving your mouse back and forth, some of the differences are quite striking. These images were all part of various commercial projects, but if you have a favorite photo you can apparently send it to him for the full treatment. I’m not sure how well this works when you start with normal-looking people, though. All of the “before” photos are of professional models who look pretty good to start with.
For those who want to play along at home, you can read more about how to remove wrinkles, and blemishes, plump up lips, whiten teeth, tidy up loose hair, add contours, and generally glamourize your photos in these articles:
Maybe there should be a service splicing the Amazon Mechanical Turk with Gimp and HotOrNot to help people who need to boost their photo appeal?
Tags: photoshop, photography, media, advertising, beauty, culture
December 10th, 2006 at 10:33 am
I really appreciate the examples It’s very helpful to someone like me. I was introduced to Photoshop during 7th grade and I fell in love with it since. I also took photography during my senior year of high school and loved it! I’m planning on buying photoshop within the next six months along with a digital camera to start practicing at this and who knows one day I might be doing what they’re doing.