Photoshop daddy: 'I’m not happy with body image issues it creates for a lot of women' This week we looked up to the stars, scrutinised a spectacular security cock-up and speculated on a quarter century of photo-doctoring. In the process, we ended up with some great quotes. The biggest story of the week was the discovery of flaws in Superfish, a little-known image analyser Lenovo had slipped into its consumer …
Mostly, there's a tweak to the hue (possibly also the colour balance). The point is very valid however, for a fashion shoot there would be a lot more work done. Eyes would be brightened and saturation increased (the technique for touching up eyes often involves just working on a small 'pie slice' then duplicating and rotating it to fill the full eye, saves time). Any skin blemishes would be removed then the skin softened and lightened with a tweak the the hue if needed. Lips are reshaped. Teeth are whitened and straightened. Hair is tidied up. There would also be substantial tweaks to overall shape, tummy tucked, balloons inflated etc.
It's not something I ever felt I wanted to do. I know some photogs make some pretty amazing pictures even better in post, but usually by highlighting what it already there, i.e. removing superfluous information to highlight the focal point. Personally I haven't used photoshop since lightroom came out. That said, it's all down to what people buy \ want to see.
There has been some quite serious tweaking of the colour balance. Also look closely at the model's forehead.
That said - Mr Knoll is surely aware that "airbrushing" used to involve - well, actual airbrushes, right? Photoshop makes it less skilled and less messy, but he didn't create something new here.
"That said - Mr Knoll is surely aware that "airbrushing" used to involve - well, actual airbrushes, right? Photoshop makes it less skilled and less messy, but he didn't create something new here."
Now come on: he could have compiled "Krita" first, and used that to do the touch ups. Now that would require some effort and asbestos legs whilst the compiler does its stuff on his laptop.
Maybe he simply scragged some stock fots from somewhere instead and used MS Paint- who knows.
Cheers
Jon
He didn't create a new concept, he did however increase the range of what could be done and make it a lot more feasible. Minor work could be fine in a dark room, dodging and burning, colour balance, even using vaseline on the enlarge lens to blur detail. To go beyond that required huge amounts of skill and time. If you wanted a tuck in a waist it wasn't just a minor tweak and magic fill, you'd pretty much have to print it (very) large, manually cut and draw then shoot your doctored image. It is possible (especially with e6 or slide film) to draw directly on slides, easier with an 8x10 than 35mm, but still requires an amazing artist. Any hoon can doctor an image now, just move a slider and click a wand. It's massively abused at all levels now unfortunately, it's the tobacco / star filter of the modern age.
Not to mention the fact that the colour isn't that important (or hard) from a design point of view. Making sure your phone's aerials can't be bridged by holding it normally, now that's a design issue.
Also: iPhone C comes in different colours. What's the difference?
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