Photoshop Rules
Who hasn’t photoshopped their photos here? Anyone raise their hands please!
Ok, fine, I’ll start with myself.
Yes, I photoshopped my profile photos at Facebook, Friendster, instant messengers and many other internet personas that I own in the world wide web. And let me assure you, it’s addictive. I’ve even started photoshopping my beau’s photos before I post them online.
Got a huge zit with a yellow head right at the tip of your nose? Don’t worry - use the clone tool. Imperfect skin with enlarged pores? Whatever the blur tool is there for if it isn’t to make you look like you have flawless model-like complexion?
How about wanting a skin tone that is less yellow and more pink-ish? Play around with the hues and saturation, and voila! Instant glam skin that makes you look like you’ve spent all day in the tanning salon.
Facial skin tones looking too pale to your liking? Draw a rough shape with the lasso tool, drop a circular pink gradient on a new layer, position them on both cheeks, set the transparency to about 40% and there you go; natural blush-on like you’ve just had rampant sex with your boyfriend.
Yes, Photoshop is marvelous. There’s nothing that Photoshop can’t do these days - even an ugly ass photo can still look good with a little bit of editing here and there. There’s no need to starve yourself for that photo shoot yet - for the program can shed your weight out as much as you like. You can simply lose 20 kg without even trying anything. The computer does all the work - and we will stay beautiful in the virtual world, forever, and ever, until people see us in real life and stare in confusion like they’ve been duped, because they notice something different and yet they can’t quite put their finger on it.
But Photoshop can also kill you. It can make you look to die for, or it can also make you look dead. Or to be exact, strangely disproportionate.
1. Gwyneth
I’m giving you five seconds to stare before you go, “Haaaang on a secondddddd……”
2. Eva Mendes
This one takes only two seconds before you start thinking about penguins in a catsuit.
3. Mexican Maxim model
This one’s a no brainer. I wonder how all of her internal organs could fit into that super tiny waist of hers.
4. Kimora Lee
Tada!! Instant weight loss. Tolja Photoshop rules.
Thanks for Ingki who had given me the link to the site in which all those pictures are taken from. They are courtesy of Photoshop Disaster, and if you would like to see more hideous photos, just follow the link and prepare yourself for some Photoshop nastiness.
On the other hand; isn’t it a relief that even famous people like Gwyneth need to be Photoshopped or if need, have her body replaced by someone else’s?
To end this post, here’s a little virtual liposuction procedure that can be done via Photoshop.
June 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
wow!!! If only I can do that!!!!
Unfortunately I only use photoshop to change the tone of my photos, and blur or sharpen plus to resize the image and crop. I dont think I have and am able to manipulate pictures like that. must. learn. to. make. myself. look. great.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Agree, to much manipulation in soto sop (pick this term from you) will make weird image. I’m a frequent user, but only for resizing and touch up here and there. Had I known those expert tricks, I would have changed my look younger. LOL.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
not all my photo were manipulated by photoshop or any other similar program (still photoshop is the best for image manipulation and Ilustrator for vector graphic).
btw ther, do you know any amazing miracle plugins that could manipulate my real face become more attractive?
More less painfull than the one on the face off movie….
June 20th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
beib.. ajarin dong sotosop, biar gue bisa tiba2 lebih sexy daripada angelinah jolih….
(kaya nama pembokat gak sih? angelinah, dipanggilnya mbah jinah)
June 20th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
The only photo shopping i have done was a little hair removal but the result was very tasteful you must admit.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
i dont… never ever. what is photoshop?
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 am
Therry…
So, the opposite is true as well, right? I can take a photo of one of the beautiful people and turn them into an ugly-arsed version of their former beautiful self, right?
I need to learn how to harness the power of the technology and the software. I really am a technological no hoper at the moment…
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Cool Site!
eh U photoshoped ur pic?
but I don’t?
June 25th, 2008 at 10:34 am
after think about it, I photoshoped my avatar to the MAX too..
** vectorizing can be considered a photoshoping since it get rid of unwanted details
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June 25th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
mwahahaha…i wonder if thomas and john knoll also “sotosop” (mwahahaha, i must admit that i like this “sotosop” term) their private photos..well, i “sotosop” some of my captures since adobe released its 5.0 version (thanks to all of board members at my previous university and my friends for allow me to install “sotosop” and its gank on their computers..that’s include when i broke some of those cpu’s and no one sue me for that..and sure, for taxpayers during that period for their unofficial permission for me to destroy lots of cpu’s..i thank god once again that no one sue me for that)..being good moments lover, i have always been amazed with “sotosop.” especially with “sotosop” ability to show me the meta-data from those photos..well..you know who is the icon with his (ups) meta-data theories..thanks for “sotosop” for “sotosop” my life..if you feel unhappy, then it’s the time to start “sotosop” you life..(ther, you must go to the patent office then “sotosop” this “sotosop” term)
June 27th, 2008 at 8:57 am
The New Yorker has an interesting article about hi-calibre retouch artist:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_collins
July 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
“Who hasn’t photoshopped their photos here? Anyone raise their hands please!”
Well I’ve never photoshopped any of my own photos… since I plan to enter the journalistic world in the future (I’m 18 yrs old today), I consider it unethical to tamper with any pictures…
but I’ve found a good website which gives an alternative for anti-photoshoppers like me:
http://en.photofun.od.ua/
^_^
toshi’s last blog post..A full year has passed…