Photo Retouching vs the Real Picture
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kuuipo1207
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It cracks me up how the tweaked Julia Stiles' picture...increasing her bust and her butt, which imo, gives an over exaggrated curve to her back that almost makes her look pregnant.
MAC_Pixie04
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Well, the photographers of the before shots SUCK. The makeup artists suck a little bit too. Maybe if they did a better job initially, pictures wouldn't need so much retouching.
What's funny though is that when you see them in stock news footage (which is so shotty it can't possibly have been retouched as much as a photo) they still look amazing. it's totally confusing...wdfxup???
What's funny though is that when you see them in stock news footage (which is so shotty it can't possibly have been retouched as much as a photo) they still look amazing. it's totally confusing...wdfxup???
jillianjiggs
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we all have bad photos of us taken
people who are pretty in real life, might not always be in photos. sometimes it catches you in a bad light, or the camera gets EVERY detail and imperfection... just because you look bad in a photo doesnt mean you arent good looking.
most of these ladies are naturally beautiful, just had some bad shots taken (possibly after a 16 hour flight? no sleep the night before? a stressful movie shoot? all can take a toll on your looks)
also, i feel like these shots were taken intentionally BAD so the photoshopper could show off his/her skills for their portfolio, or purposely chose the worst photo of the bunch, etc...
Originally Posted by MAC_Pixie04
Well, the photographers of the before shots SUCK. The makeup artists suck a little bit too. Maybe if they did a better job initially, pictures wouldn't need so much retouching. What's funny though is that when you see them in stock news footage (which is so shotty it can't possibly have been retouched as much as a photo) they still look amazing. it's totally confusing...wdfxup??? |
we all have bad photos of us taken
most of these ladies are naturally beautiful, just had some bad shots taken (possibly after a 16 hour flight? no sleep the night before? a stressful movie shoot? all can take a toll on your looks)
also, i feel like these shots were taken intentionally BAD so the photoshopper could show off his/her skills for their portfolio, or purposely chose the worst photo of the bunch, etc...
Beauty Mark
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I think the MUA might not put so much effort into it, because s/he knows there'll be digital editing.
BeautyPsycho
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Oh my... real women have curves? Who said that? 17 year old? You are not a woman yet...
Females come in different shapes and sizes, and this thread is supposed to show us how silly it is to try and make everyone look exactly the same! And then we have "0 is where its at" and "real women have curves"... Well, we come in different shapes and sizes, and we are all REAL!
I don't have big boobs,but I believe that my butt is really nice and juicy- does that make me half-real?
Females come in different shapes and sizes, and this thread is supposed to show us how silly it is to try and make everyone look exactly the same! And then we have "0 is where its at" and "real women have curves"... Well, we come in different shapes and sizes, and we are all REAL!
I don't have big boobs,but I believe that my butt is really nice and juicy- does that make me half-real?
spam_musubi_
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wow the only reason i read through this whole thread was to make sure someone said that. her before picture is so perfect. i loved it. this thread is crazy.
| Originally Posted by kimmy
i wish they didn't take the freckles off that last girl...she's absolutely beautiful with those freckles. |
wow the only reason i read through this whole thread was to make sure someone said that. her before picture is so perfect. i loved it. this thread is crazy.
SparklingWaves
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My mother always says, "If you want to find true untampered female beauty, go to the cradle." hmmmm
thestarsfall
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OH yah!!! My friend is a size 3 and is SUPER curvy...like if it was measured off her waist I think she would be a 0 or a 1 but she has 34 C boobs and rather wide hips...so totally...
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I've apparently worked in retail by your logic
haha...naw, I just have social anxiety so I would rather take things back myself than give them to the person there...i always feel I need an explanation as to why I am not going to purchase their merchandise
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Agreed!
my other thought is a lot of the time I find that people (on other sites...not hear) are saying all this "curves are beautiful, etc etc" and then they link pictures of Eva....uh....something wrong with that methinks...
| Originally Posted by flowerhead
You can be skinny and have a waist! |
OH yah!!! My friend is a size 3 and is SUPER curvy...like if it was measured off her waist I think she would be a 0 or a 1 but she has 34 C boobs and rather wide hips...so totally...
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| Originally Posted by Raerae
Seriously, you can always tell who has worked retail, and who hasn't. Because people who have, are respectful of how they handle clothing in stores. Wheras the ones who leave the dressing rooms with clothes on the floor, and leave things on the table in a messy pile, have not. |
I've apparently worked in retail by your logic
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| Originally Posted by kimmy
i wish they didn't take the freckles off that last girl...she's absolutely beautiful with those freckles. |
Agreed!
my other thought is a lot of the time I find that people (on other sites...not hear) are saying all this "curves are beautiful, etc etc" and then they link pictures of Eva....uh....something wrong with that methinks...
Azuresyren
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It's interesting to see how our perception of beauty changes when we see the unedited pictures - if we always saw unedited pictures of celebs, would we still see them as beautiful? To be honest, I wouldn't recognise many of those people without the photoshop - some almost look completely different compared to their original pictures.
kenmei
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Interesting...
But I actually thought that a lot of people in the before pictures didn't look too bad. Sure, the lighting was a bit off, and they might be chunkier than the before, but I thought that the majority of them looked pretty enough. But then again, pretty enough isn't enough for Hollywood...
But I actually thought that a lot of people in the before pictures didn't look too bad. Sure, the lighting was a bit off, and they might be chunkier than the before, but I thought that the majority of them looked pretty enough. But then again, pretty enough isn't enough for Hollywood...
PRiNCiPESSAx4
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i thought this too but couldnt tell if i was seeing things!
also halle berrys before photo is just amazing haha what a beautiful woman i cant get over how perfect the before was too!
| Originally Posted by kuuipo1207
It cracks me up how the tweaked Julia Stiles' picture...increasing her bust and her butt, which imo, gives an over exaggrated curve to her back that almost makes her look pregnant. |
i thought this too but couldnt tell if i was seeing things!
also halle berrys before photo is just amazing haha what a beautiful woman i cant get over how perfect the before was too!
lafemmenoir
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I thought I read somewhere cellulite is often genetic and THAT is why some thin women have it. Not because they are simply out of shape...
chako012
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Well not all of us need to me bullimic to be a size 0..what if you were born with genes that let you not put on weight! I eat all the junk food under the sun and still cannot put more then a certain amount of weight on. A friend of my is over 170 cm's tall weighs 47 kgs and cannot for the life of him put on weight even after goign to the doctor and drinking protien shakes every day...some of us MIGHT WANT curves and can't for the life of us put the kilos on to get them
| Originally Posted by Shimmer
yes size zero is where it's at. Let me go barf my high protein and complex carb lunch now, so I won't have the energy to walk my dog, chase my kids, or climb the ceiling tonight so I can fit into your ideals of beauty. In doing so, I'll go ahead and ruin my hair, my skin, and my nails, because the lack of nutrition will take its toll, because hey, size zero is where it's at right? And, having an athletic body that's actually USEFUL for something besides being a clothes hanger is obviously not attractive. |
Well not all of us need to me bullimic to be a size 0..what if you were born with genes that let you not put on weight! I eat all the junk food under the sun and still cannot put more then a certain amount of weight on. A friend of my is over 170 cm's tall weighs 47 kgs and cannot for the life of him put on weight even after goign to the doctor and drinking protien shakes every day...some of us MIGHT WANT curves and can't for the life of us put the kilos on to get them
user79
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^ Obviously most people aren't natural size 0's but some people are, and have difficulty gaining weight. I had a friend who was always rail thin and people called her anorexic, bulimic, etc. Which was hard for her because she wasn't! She ate perfectly normal but she didn't gain weight because of high metabolism. I think it's the same as calling an overweight person a "fat slob".
Beauty Mark
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Anyone who sticks out from what's perceived as "normal" gets made fun of. And it varies from culture to culture. One of my friends is Chinese and her family makes fun of her for being dark. She's about the same shade as most medium-toned Southeast Asians
