Why Photoshop is a Privilege Not a Right

[AcadieLibre]

Is it really that hard to find two models and a kitchen set and take a proper photo and not need to photoshop it. That is not even a photograph, at best a collage. I had a chat with a fashion photographer at a fashion show I went to with my daughter and her friend who were going to their first function for their employers, anyway back on topic. He went into the talk of how great photo shop is, and I made if perfectly clear my position and his response well look at fashion magazines and they all photoshop, my response well that in itself tells you everything that is wrong with photoshop and where potentially photography is headed, and it is not good.

[casil403]

Funny, I saw a magazine recently where Jaime Lee Curtis was on the cover page and it looked like it had been photoshopped in some areas as a while back she did a story in another magazine where she refused to be altered and you could see how she really looked without the touchups...which I thought was awesome! And she didn't look like she did on the cover of the magazine I saw her on 2 days ago....funny part was the title was something to do with her being 50-something and how great life is and how great she looks...which she does anyhow without the touching up...she actually looked better in the unaltered photos I thought.

Recent cover:
http://www.more.com/2049/17242-jamie...-s-memories-of

Past cover:
http://www.more.com/2049/2464-jamie-...s--true-thighs

Edit: Looking at the two of them I guess it is not as bad as I thought but I still think there was some enhancing going on.

[Greg_Nuspel]

CS5 has features just for the fashion industry. Sure they try and make it look like it's for scenic work, but now flaws and waistlines are much easier to fix. It's my conspiracy theory for the day

[crystalb]

There's a botom of a door under the table yet only blinds above ... etc etc.

That's not a door, its a radiator with a cover

[Iguanasan]

That's not a door, its a radiator with a cover

Look a little farther left. There's definitely a door there. Not sure, though, it could be a french door?

I didn't realize I was going to start such a buzz with this one. I have the PSD site in my RSS. Some of them are truly amazingly bad. Some are iffy. I think this one has a bit of both.

The angles just don't look right to me but maybe that's what they were going for? Looking at the photo I said, that's amazingly bad but after all the conversation I began to look a little closer. My high school french sucks but doesn't that say something along the lines of "Under 7 years old it's 100% reimbursed so maybe they're trying to fool the doctor?

[JAS_Photo]

I think that is it exactly, Iggy. It's basically a cartoon strip with real people. The joke is, that they are trying to fool their doctor. Even if it were photoshopped which I doubt, the clumsiness is on the part of the two trying to pull off the charade and not on the part of the photographer.

[kat]

I'm thinking along the lines of JAS.

I still don't understand how they make a waist smaller..lol. Or boobs bigger without altering what the people are wearing. I just can't wrap my mind around how that can be done.

Either case.. I leave my wrinkles alone. They define who I am..along with my flat butt :P

[Iguanasan]

...snip...I still don't understand how they make a waist smaller..lol. Or boobs bigger without altering what the people are wearing. I just can't wrap my mind around how that can be done.
...snip...

Go to YouTube and search for Extreme Photoshop Makeover... You'll find a few videos which demonstrate what they do... pretty amazing skills:

YouTube - Photoshop Extreme Makeover - Angela Talbot´s Old Lady

YouTube - Extreme Makeover Photoshop

[kat]

holy cow.. scary how they change. i don't have sound so not to sure if there was talk with it..but none the less..omg

[Michaelaw]

There's so many things wrong it couldn't have been a serious attempt to fool.

The man's foot is a left foot but in the girls right foot location.

There's a botom of a door under the table yet only blinds above ... etc etc.

I'm still saying no manipulation here MA, just clever arrangement. If you look at the PDF of the original, you'll see that the lower door panel extends slightly above bench thing they're sitting on. The bottom of the window clearly begins at that point and would make the furnace air return consistent also. Dad's right leg is beneath the dangling coat and the girls left leg is under the coat to her left, if you see that then the toe is on the proper side. Maybe I'm wrong but the closer I look, the more the arrangement looks perfectly well crafted with zero need for manipulation in PP other than levels and sharpening