Sex, Lies and Photoshop

[johnastovall]

Why magazines should let readers know if images have been retouched.

Comments on this....

[CaptainTom]

Interesting. Just another intrusion into an individuals right and ability to make his own judgements about things.

"WARNING ! ALL IMAGES IN THIS MAGAZINE ARE FAKE"

"WARNING ! ALMOST ALL THE MUSIC YOU HEAR IS MANIPULATED"

"WARNING ! MOST FOOD YOU EAT HAS BEEN PROCESSED"

"WARNING ! DANGER WILL ROBINSON"

[kenw]

editing photos in magazines is older than I am.

Ever heard of an airbrush? Photostat? I watched my dad edit advertising photos all the time in the 60s. He learned it in art school in the 40s.

Who gets to decide what "negative body image" is? naturally skinny people or naturally fat people?

Next time the Germans invade France, can we just let them have it?

[johnastovall]

I think giving credit to the Photoshop tech is good idea.

[CaptainTom]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

I think giving credit to the Photoshop tech is good idea.

I like this idea... Photo by Tom Thompson
Photoshop by Bob, Paige, Mark, Sunyat Sen, Angel, and Mr. Winky

[johnastovall]

Hey even the "Best Boy" gets credit in a film...

[MicWayWal]

The Sky is Falling..........again!
Please please please, can't the government save us?

[Imagebuffet]

Well-meaning Liberalism, run amok.

Humanity will continue to portray its ideals of feminine beauty, and women will continue attempting to reach those ideals.

[Coelus]

After this you can only use natural, unmodified, lighting. The shadows may shape people to be more flattering than they really are. If people didn't want to see fantasy we wouldn't have artists.

[jonnydonut]

uhg! how could they? i had no idea. I feel like I've been lied to and deceived my whole life.

I couldn't understand why those diet pills, lotions, perfumes didn't make me look like the models. NOW! i know.

[darktiger]

I thought it was just implied that all pics that I see in magazines have some kind of retouching done...

[ka5txl]

Next someone will tell me that Jedi Light Sabers don't actually work say it ain't so

[photonewb]

Originally Posted by darktiger

I thought it was just implied that all pics that I see in magazines have some kind of retouching done...

oh come now..Playboy would never alter a photo to be more pleasing to your eyes

;)

[KD5NRH]

IMO, when you're retouching a photo for a cosmetics ad in a way that makes the product appear to do something that it doesn't do, that really pushes toward false advertising: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.c...-poor-man.html

Also, i like the idea of crediting the Photoshopper, so we can see (and ridicule by name) the people responsible for things like this: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.c...command-v.html

[kwhite]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

Hey even the "Best Boy" gets credit in a film...

Technicians have always received movie credits. They are below the line and are not artists.