Photoshop of Horrors

[Eden]

there are limits to what Photoshop can achieve without it looking pretty obvious (just as airbrushing used to look pretty obvious when taken too far in the days before computers...) It does mean that makeup artists, stylists and photographers can afford to be a bit more sloppy these days... you can fix it later...., but most of the tricks they use these days have been done before. It just took more effort.

I won't argue that it gives a sense of beauty that is basically not achievable.... if even the women who are already deemed to be the most beautiful in the world end up getting digitally enhanced.... I would be much more interesting to see a comparison of the actual original shot to see what was really changed. With the lighting difference and that they really smoothed out and pinned back her shorts its a little harder to tell. (you want faked, that might be some of the worst of it... those shorts are so pinned back that she probably can't move from that position.... that's why clothes on store manikins look so good too and so often don't look nearly as nice when tried on.... safety pin tailoring....)

[OakLeaf]

Dang. I like Campari.

I agree it's not the same shot though. Things like the eyes, the expression of the mouth, the folds in the shorts, yeah they COULD change it all (read a Photoshop User magazine sometime), but at some point it's less work for the photographer to just shoot the dang thing over again.

[roadie gal]

There's a lot of "photoshopping" in the pictures, but I agree that they're 2 different photos. Even the background is different... along with the lighting, etc. that people have pointed out.

[Eden]

the background is probably dropped in.... that you can do with relative ease... the hardest part is getting it all behind the hair without making it look fake. The photos really are too low res to take a good look.

Maybe with a huge amount of work you could smooth out the shorts as much as has been done, but it would be a big job to do it without making it look really unnatural...

The lighting could never be changed so drastically.

[Zen]

Smoothing out those shorts is easy, like taking wrinkles out of a face.
Highlights can be added giving the effect of different lighting.
I'm not great at Photoshop but I know some and I'm pretty sure it's the same shot.

[Eden]

Smoothing out those shorts is easy, like taking wrinkles out of a face.
Highlights can be added giving the effect of different lighting.
I'm not great at Photoshop but I know some and I'm pretty sure it's the same shot.

I'm a professional photographer, I can assure you that it is not.

[Zen]

I'm a professional photographer

As am I.
We'll just have to disagree