no wonder...

[athene]

No wonder we have such a distorted perception of what is beautiful...

1. Go to http://www.iwanexstudio.com/.
2. Click on portfolio.
3. Pick a celebrity picture from the thumbnails.
4. Mouse over to see what the the photo looked like when it was taken. Mouse out to see what the final photoshoped version (that was printed in a magazine) looked like.
5. Click on the picture to make it go away & pick another one.
6. Repeat until fully disgusted with print media and how it distorts our perceptions.

Feel free to pass it on.

Comments

[syhira.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of cool things you can do with adjusting skin tones and softening wrinkles, brightening eyes and such in Photoshop - BUT I keep finding that I like most of the originals more than the "after" images. Mostly because the "after" images are too high contrast and the color is over-saturated almost to a point that hurts my eyes.

Also, I get a kick out of it when they "adjust" the model's body (See Salma Hayek's ribcage for one) into the "right" position - even though the anatomy was right in the original! :D

Not To Be A Pain, But...

[msbutterpecan.livejournal.com]

That's actually Penelope Cruz not Salma Hayek. (I am in love with Salma...)