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Aug. 26th, 2005 10:14 amGlenn Feron's Art of Retouching
He has forty some-odd pictures of models, with the retouched versions - and then, if you roll over, the untouched versions.
Some of them, it's a very dramatic difference, but all of them have the same features - colors brightened, shadows lessened. There's also no small amount of changing breast, stomach, and butt sizes. (In one really dramatic case, I think Halle Berry is wearing a strapless dress in the mouseover, which is replaced by boobs.)
The weirdest to see, I think, is the facial change - getting rid of shadows and smoothing out skin almost necessitates that cheekbones disappear. Seeing the difference really highlights how unnatural these touched up photographs are. The other big one is the eyes - how they're made to seem wider, how colors change.
Funny enough, for two of my favorites, I prefer the untouched versions.
He has forty some-odd pictures of models, with the retouched versions - and then, if you roll over, the untouched versions.
Some of them, it's a very dramatic difference, but all of them have the same features - colors brightened, shadows lessened. There's also no small amount of changing breast, stomach, and butt sizes. (In one really dramatic case, I think Halle Berry is wearing a strapless dress in the mouseover, which is replaced by boobs.)
The weirdest to see, I think, is the facial change - getting rid of shadows and smoothing out skin almost necessitates that cheekbones disappear. Seeing the difference really highlights how unnatural these touched up photographs are. The other big one is the eyes - how they're made to seem wider, how colors change.
Funny enough, for two of my favorites, I prefer the untouched versions.
