intensityjunkie
Cathlete
Just ran across this and it is all too true. I just put my photo business on the backburner for a few years. I can do all this stuff with photoshop easy as pie. I know it must be really strongly used for celebrities if even your average photographer can do this stuff. and I WAS using it on photos to a certain degree but not really drastic cause clients want to look like themselves.. but I'm sure celebs/models want "perfection".
This is a topic that comes up on photographers forums.. some are really heavy into using it others try to be as all natural as possible. I think its hard to be the top in the business if you DON'T use it nowdays. Clients expect it. They always ask for teeth whitening and freckles etc softened. Sometimes even taking lbs off which is all to easy to do with the liquify tool. Sometimes photographers do it without saying also and the clients don't even know all they did to the original.
Anyway.. point being do we compare ourselves to models in magazines? even probably fitness magazines use the tool to make people look perfect even if they are very fit/good looking. You'd be amazed at how even an attractive person can be made even more so with photoshop. I know I've looked at fitness mags and was amazed at how perfect someones skin is etc but I'm sure its half photoshop. I can take someone with pimples and make them go "poof!". A good example is this video. That girl looks great. but with photoshop she looks "perfect".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM&feature=user
This is a topic that comes up on photographers forums.. some are really heavy into using it others try to be as all natural as possible. I think its hard to be the top in the business if you DON'T use it nowdays. Clients expect it. They always ask for teeth whitening and freckles etc softened. Sometimes even taking lbs off which is all to easy to do with the liquify tool. Sometimes photographers do it without saying also and the clients don't even know all they did to the original.
Anyway.. point being do we compare ourselves to models in magazines? even probably fitness magazines use the tool to make people look perfect even if they are very fit/good looking. You'd be amazed at how even an attractive person can be made even more so with photoshop. I know I've looked at fitness mags and was amazed at how perfect someones skin is etc but I'm sure its half photoshop. I can take someone with pimples and make them go "poof!". A good example is this video. That girl looks great. but with photoshop she looks "perfect".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM&feature=user
