Real Beauty

Great work from Anna Hill showcasing how deceptive ads are when it comes to beauty (well and probably just about anything other ad). I think a lot of people now realize that *every* magazine type image is photoshopped, but I don’t think many people realize just how much things are photoshopped. Or, more importantly, just…

Great work from Anna Hill showcasing how deceptive ads are when it comes to beauty (well and probably just about anything other ad).

I think a lot of people now realize that *every* magazine type image is photoshopped, but I don’t think many people realize just how much things are photoshopped. Or, more importantly, just how easy it is.

There are countless YouTube videos and NAPP tutorials that you can watch — all that walk you through quick and easy steps to make (usually) women look more “inline” with magazine models. Some common ones that I can think of off the top of my head (ones that would take me no more than 10 minutes to do on a slow day):

– Disproportionately scale the image size so that you shrink the width of the image by 1-2%. This gives a thinner/trimmer look to the face/body and is hard to perceive even if you know the model well in real life.
– Add a Gaussian blur over the skin to make it porcelain smooth. (For men you do the opposite, looking to add contrast and sharpness to make more pronounced “manly” stubble.)
– Obvious: remove any blemishes, moles, and stray hairs.
– Whiten teeth to match white of the eye, which the white of the eye has had most veins removed from it.
– Isolate the iris on the eye and boost the vibrancy to get more colors/contrast/pop.
– Isolate the eyes and make each one bigger.
– Isolate the lips and make each on bigger.
– Grab the liquify tool and shape to Barbie like perfection.

And on, and on…

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