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This year, there’s an added wrinkle
in the annual ritual of “making your friends and acquaintances
green with envy thanks to your vacation photos”. Though,
perversely, the aforementioned wrinkle is actually a lack of
wrinkles (or the sudden appearance of washboard abs, enlarged
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DO WE RETOUCH? YES!
Last Friday, the Internet was abuzz with the fact that I answered the question, did you Photoshop the September issue cover photo of Kelly Clarkson? with the answer: Yes. Of course we do retouching (though it's technically not Photoshop, but that is…
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On the heels of the French
Elle's no-makeup or retouching issue,… Read More »
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The Daily Mail is reporting this morning that, in her new ads for Campari, the gorgeous, sexy, semi-real-looking actress Jessica Alba's body was airbrushed to appear small-waisted, big-boobed and essentially like my a first Barbie doll. Or a rib-less woman wearing a torture-device corset. Or a comic-book heroine. Or basically nothing like an actual, walking-on-the-planet now female form. After the jump, check out the before and after ads. It seems photo retouchers slimmed down Alba's thighs, chin, waist and added more makeup to her face and flesh to her boobs. Sigh. Read More »
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Some people (well, those who have drunk the Palin Kool-Aid), are in a tizzy about the latest Newsweek cover that depicts a close-up of Saint Sarah, wrinkles, facial hair and all. The horror! GOP media consultant Andrea Tantaros went on conservative news agent Fox News and vented her rage--not concern--unabashed RAGE--about the fact that Sarah's image was not airbushed. "It's a slap in the face!" she ranted.
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H*ll hath no fury like a woman scorned. It seems like ladies everywhere are taking out their frustrations on an industry that insists on visual perfection when it comes to the female sex. (Are actors airbrushed too? Sure, but not nearly as often...) Enter Detouching, a Photoshop contest brought to you by those creative kids over at Worth 1000, a kind of ridiculous site that's um, probably really popular with junior high boys. Still, the sentiment behind this particular contest is sort of novel: Read More »
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