FluidEffect’s before-and-after celebrity pictures
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Celebrities may have the raw material in the looks department, but photographers have to mine that and do a lot of work in the Photoshop refinery before coming up with those shots of pure gold that make it into magazines.
The FluidEffect website has some great galleries of illuminating before-and-after pictures showing just how much work gets done after the shot’s been captured. (Click on Portfolio, agree that you won’t steal the photos, and then check out the “before/after” and the “composite/manipulation” galleries: it’s a Flash site so I can’t link to anything particular.) There are some terrific photographs there, to be sure, but I’m much more impressed with the PS skills.
[Via fredmiranda.com.]
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2006.02.24 (Fri) • 13:09
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Posted by curson 2006.02.24, 19:43
Oh, that is fun :D
Indeed, I must admit, I found some of the retouched pictures to be less interesting/nice that the original ones.
Of course, it’s always amazing to see how you could change things with just the click of a mouse.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2006.02.25, 06:59
Technically well done. However, very disturbing. So it’s not enough to airbrush the blemishes and smooth over some of the facial wrinkles. They make the whites of the eyes completely white, re-ink the lipstick, take out any rounded hint of shoulder, arm or belly, delete the folds where the body bends at the waist, or beneath the arms, and shorten earlobes.
Now it’s not good enough to be young, gorgeous, and thin. You need to be inhumanely plastic, too. (I think it was the super-white eyes that freaked me out the most.)
Posted by Kristen 2006.02.25, 21:09
I think what disturbed me most is the removal of skin texture: no pores, gloss or down. That and the whole pivoting of a body to remove thigh, hip and ass. Geeeeesh.
Posted by Jeff 2006.02.26, 03:20
I now feel good about having pores.
It’s interesting how accepting I am of both the before and after truths. The before seem nicely human and I appreciate the skill of the retoucher of the after (I’ve done a bit of retouching and it is an artform).
Posted by red river 2006.03.01, 12:50
When my wife saw the site, she immediately said, “I’m a TEN!”
All her friends have seen it now and none can look at any magazine photos again and not wonder what has been retouched.
Posted by happy bunny 2006.03.05, 12:55
Dang it, the site won’t work now. And, they have a typo on their “our site is down right now” warning…dang it. I want to see it!
Posted by Krystyn 2006.03.07, 02:12
Site’s down, but I found it humorous that it says “please bare with us.” Should we all strip down to our skivvies while we patiently await for the site to return?
Posted by vvbsobg 2006.03.10, 23:18
When is this site going to be back up and running? The typo said it’s down temporarily but it’s been a WHILE now. Any info for us anxiously wait to check it out. PLEASE!!!
Posted by Bay Chica 2006.04.20, 08:24
Wow!! I will definately never look at celebrities in magazines the same way. That’s crazy. There are people who kill themselves to try to look like models in magazines and those models don’t even really look like that. I think that they shouldn’t airbrush photos, so maybe the public could stop worshipping these celebrities and realize that they are just real people who have real flaws…
Posted by Erin 2006.04.28, 03:37
That is crazy! I always knew obviously that celebrity photo’s were airbrushed - but to that extent! So many people push themselves to the perfection of the models in these magazines, and its just unattainble.
Posted by model wanna b 2006.05.26, 09:18
great pics and nice touch up. Is that Sara from cycle 6, america’s top model in the celebrity section. (i think it was the second or third picture) ???
Posted by Sabrina 2006.06.05, 07:24
No, it’s not sara. It’s Scarlett Johansen or however you spell it.
Posted by Practical1 2006.12.16, 03:55
Wow makes me feel so uch better about my flaws. No one is perfect as that magazine shot whew!!!! I got to show this to my husband!
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