Is this real? Photo retouching

[ldelacruz]

Check this out and tell me what you think? Look at the before and afters...it will change when your mouse hovers over.

http://www.iwanexstudio.com/

[AndrewCCM]

Depends on what your definition of "real" is... But yes, I have seen many retouchers (especially fashion magazine clients) do some amazing retouching to an otherwise average face.

[brad]

Part of the ones I looked at was also starting with an under exposed image... its amazing what just a little brightening will do.

[Stacey]

I love the one where they actually fattened her up. LOL!

[jchooper12]

Must make those models really feel great about their bodies after seeing the retouches. Oh 24hr fitness and Dr. Plastic Surgery, here they come!!!

[ldelacruz]

Did you ever see the one of Andy Roddick on the cover of Men's Fitness? They put his head on a rather large muscled body and he ripped them for it. He is a tennis player so he is muscled but very lean...like Tiger Woods. ANyway I can't believe the editor approved this...it is obviously not his body.

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/...-pumped-me-up/

a real pic
http://lmplusar.zoomshare.com/my_ima..._r930styc1.jpg

[Toad]

Wow... I didn't realize Kelly Clarkson's booty was so............... juicy?........
It almost looks like the original images are halloween scary makeup images. It's crazy what can be done.
Toad

[xseption]

all these years I have been taking perfect pictures! I just needed a little touch up here and there ...

[Gordon]

Depends what you mean by real. Yes someone really did this. But from what I can tell that's all that's real. They are retouching previously published images - this isn't work that is done for any client. It is someone trying to put their retouching abilities out there for promotional purposes. Personally I think the images are really over done in the retouched versions, you don't tend to see that unsubtle work in print very often.

[GUER03]

Originally Posted by Gordon

Depends what you mean by real. Yes someone really did this. But from what I can tell that's all that's real. They are retouching previously published images - this isn't work that is done for any client. It is someone trying to put their retouching abilities out there for promotional purposes. Personally I think the images are really over done in the retouched versions, you don't tend to see that unsubtle work in print very often.

I agree he's just advertising his abilities, which are awesome. However, he's probably targeting magazines that use his type of work exclusively. About 99.99% of what you see in magazines are retouched like this and there is some great money in it.

I know I would love to land a gig like that since my background is graphic art in using Photoshop. Every image of Kelly Clarkson, or food, or musical instruments, or guns, dogs, everything is cleaned up for either web or print work. I've been doing it for the web for the past 7 years and that's what the clients want. It's all advertising.

You have to learn to separate 'art' from work. The images I clean up for web usage are not my artwork. My artwork comes from my heart. It takes great skill to do what he's doing though.

Albert

[Stacey]

Originally Posted by xseption

all these years I have been taking perfect pictures! I just needed a little touch up here and there ...

All this time I had a perfect bod... just needed a little post-processing here and there...