Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Pageant Photo Retouching

Pageant Photo Retouching

Today's website was featured on SomethingAwful.com a while back, but deserves to be mentioned again. Allow me to introduce you to Alycia Collins. Alycia makes a living removing the soul from touching up photos of little beauty queens.

Alycia, you DO know that the airbrush tool in Photoshop has a flow setting, don't you?

Alycia has a unique way of getting the desired result. She will sand off the cornea of the child, repaint them with an airbrush, remove the child's skin with a potato peeler and re-graft the skin with Silly Putty, and surgically graft the inside out skin that was previously removed on to the lips of the child. What you have left over resembles a post-op burn victim.

Now, when I do these write-ups, I normally include a sample, then forge my own mock-up (Today will be no exception), however when I did insert my overly exaggerated version, it turned out to be not too different from the actual sample. For shame.

Stop airbrushing people to the point of absurdity, and if you must, then please learn Photoshop, and if you can't learn Photoshop, then stop charging $75 for a photograph that looks like a drunken Norman Rockwell painting.

Pageant Photo Retouching... I hate you.

2 comments:

  1. Very professional image retouching!

    Do you provide image retouching service? How much you charge for your service?

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  2. Very impressive post. You image editing is quite professional. Most retouching are not as of order for most image editors. Your image retouching is quite good.

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