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Why not just go completely CG. ?
FYI, The photograph of the girl making a face is not the same as the photograph used for the photoshopping (the same girl though). He just gradually morphs from one to another.
What bothers me is that they never mention The GIMP, which is a free, superior image editing program.http://gimp.orgPlease, do not pay money for Photoshop when youcan get something better for free!
These “demonstrations” are inherently fallacious because they attempt to “prove” an untrue hypothesis; that because it is possible to edit an unattractive photograph SO HEAVILY that you can make it into an attractive photograph, then all people in photographs must start out remarkably unattractive. This is plain silly; of course editing is done to lend the subjects better-than-humanly-possible perfection (in the same way makeup and lighting have for years), but to start with someone who is objectively unattractive is just plain counterproductive. Why not just find a pretty girl? It’s not like they don’t exist.Obviously with celebrities the edits are often more heavy, since you can’t just stop taking pictures of Madonna even though she has (oh my god!) wrinkles now. But particularly with, as this video suggests, women such as PlayBoy models, Hef’s folks aren’t going to say “hey, let’s find some busted broad and photoshop the hell out of her just because we can.”Incidentally, those celebrity morphs at the beginning are tremendously unfair as well; they morph from edited, studio / publicity shots to similarly posed but altogether different paparazi shots. There are going to be tremendous differences in these even before editing. Hell, I’ve got plenty of pictures of myself, none of which have been edited, and in some I look great and in some I look busted. I suspect mine is not an isolated incident.For a more egregious example of this, check out the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign video from the sidebar on the YouTube page.
You can do it. It just takes practice.
superior to what? not to photoshop I hope..