Photoshopping and airbrushing?

u_ne_korn · By u_ne_korn. 05/11/09, 11:53 am

In low angle shots my nostrils always get really prominent and my second chin comes out to play. Ew. Not a fan of those.
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Personified Insanity · By Personified Insanity. 05/11/09, 04:11 pm

I'm going to be controversial and say that I don't mind altering of body shape, I've had it done to photos of me before, making my thighs and hips smaller and I'm glad it was done, it probably has something to with me dabbling in the modeling world a bit last year and getting used to the idea that the photo is the end product and if it needs to be altered to look best then that's what should happen. I don't know, I'm just fine with it, if a photographer wants to make my ass smaller and my boobs bigger that's fine by me, I know I have flaws
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Izzybelle · By Izzybelle. 05/11/09, 04:39 pm

Personally I don't really care. It's not my problem what some dude wants to do with my photo. If they want to photoshop it then fine. Whatevs.
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Selphiroth · By Selphiroth. 06/11/09, 06:49 pm

It's one of those YMMV situations, from the look of it. If there's anything that really needed to be nailed home here for my own future reference is that it pays to ask the models.

JVCA, Static, U_Ne_korn and Zari. The point over body morphing is certainly a principle that should be adhered to. However I am still not sure about whether it's acceptable to remove the extra bits added by the camera, the chubbiness that are false anyway; or is it better to leave it as people expect photos to be a bit rounder?

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**JVCA** · By **JVCA**. 06/11/09, 06:59 pm

I think I would have to see photo examples to be able to give my opinion on this.
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Rikki-Leigh · By Rikki-Leigh. 06/11/09, 07:00 pm

I think, if you're unsure on what you should change or not, you can talk to the model in the photo about it.

For cosplay photos, it can also depends what look you're going for. I know when editing photos of myself - because those are the only photos I tend to edit - I usually shoop out the little folds at the corner of my mouth at the bottom of my cheek, generally because of the character I am cosplaying - specifically for Yamamoto. I took them out because he has a younger face and the folds make me look so much older.
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**Aurellion** · By **Aurellion**. 18/11/09, 11:32 am

Mainly I think it's fine as long as it doesn't become a case of someone from the net seeing you in person and thinking - huh. They look noooothing like those pictures...

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n283/aurellion/photoedit_demo.jpg?t=1258497048

^ That's as far as I'll ever go with an edit, and even then I'm wondering whether or not I've gone too far. The specific edits were changing the levels and saturation of the photo, changing eyebrow colour, removing under-eye bags, blurring the background and cropping out unneeded bits. The only thing I have an issue with looking 'fake' is my edit of getting rid of under-eye bags, so now I have resolved to try and learn as much as I can about make-up and concealing the damn things BEFORE resorting to editing. (Or just trying to up my hours of sleep to 10 instead of 8. Razz

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**JVCA** · By **JVCA**. 18/11/09, 01:31 pm

See, that's about as much editing as I think of as acceptable! :3
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azeria · By azeria. 18/11/09, 01:33 pm

I don't really see anything wrong with it, as long as it doesn't go as far as that Kelly Clarkson one.

That was kind of scary 0_0
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