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Large Retail Store Bans Airbrushed Images

Trevor Dayley — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:36:08 +0000

It is one of those controversial subjects that has been covered many times before. Creatives, marketing directors, and consumers all fighting over whether or not we should be airbrushing photos of models used in advertising and the effect it has on our youth growing up viewing images of flawless unrealistic body shapes. One large retailer is finally putting their foot down announcing publicly that they will ban all airbrushed images and are asking other retailers to follow. [more]

Professional Retoucher Natalia Taffarel Shows Us Her Techniques And Workflow

Pratik Naik — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:52:28 +0000

You are probably familiar with Natalia Taffarel as we’ve featured her in the past. In case you aren’t, you can check out her work here. What I love about Natalia is that not only is she a great retoucher but she’s also very open and giving. Ever since I’ve known her when she started, she’s always had a great attitude about sharing and helping others grow. This video really shows her character come through. [more]

Sofles Infinite – Hyper Time Lapse Music Video Through Abandoned Buildings

David Strauss — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:07:24 +0000

With a brilliant display and talent and planning, street artist Sofles and Selina Miles from Unity Sound and Visual joined efforts to create an epic dubstep music video. While Sofles spray paints the walls of abandoned buildings, a hyper time lapse precedes him, wrapping around walls as he works through different areas. How did they do it?
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Famous Faces Blended With Modern Day Counterpart

Aaron Lindberg — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:34:45 +0000

Then & Now is a project from Marc Ghali, which explores the statures of famous faces from previous decades and infuses them with their modern counterpart.

Each generation has their own iconic faces of actors, politicians, musicians or celebrities. In this mix of throwback figures and current icons, Ghali creates a new look at comparing both of the individuals and blending them into one image. [more]

24 Animated Gifs of Celebrities Before and After Retouching

Rebecca Britt — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:56:24 +0000

The debate on retouching is definitely a heated one, and none so much more than the retouching done on celebrities. Just recently Noam Galai posted about the unrealistic retouching done on the new Beyonce ad from Cavalli. Keeping the topic open take a look at these animated .gifs of celebrities before and after the royal Photoshop treatment. Do you think retouchers sometimes go too far, or do they look acceptable to you? [more]

Cavalli Press Release Shows Bizarre Unrealistically Skinny Photoshopped Image of Beyoncé

Noam Galai — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:13:54 +0000

Designer Roberto Cavalli recently designed a gown for Beyoncé, exclusively for the Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. In an official press release that was sent out by the Italian fashion house on Tuesday, one very controversial photo of Beyoncé wearing that dress was attached. In what looks like a heavily Photoshopped image, the company behind this ad made her look very thin, unrealistically thinned and stretched her legs. As art it’s interesting, but it wasn’t received well by many viewers. [more]

Adobe Debriefs on Lightroom 5 Beta, Final Release and Perpetual Software

Jaron Schneider — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:33:03 +0000

Late last night Adobe announced Photoshop Lightroom 5 to much fanfare. Though some of course have complaints, the general consensus has been pretty positive. Following the release, we posed a few questions to Adobe, and they got back to us on what they learned from the Beta, new features and the differences between Creative Cloud and perpetual licenses. [more]

Retouching – Is Credit Due?

James Robertson — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:39:14 +0000

In the world of digital photography, retouching often plays just as much of a role in the final image as taking the photo(s). There seems to be an even split of professional photographers who do it all themselves vs those who hire it out, and lately I’ve been noticing some discussion based around where credit is due when a photo’s final appearance relies more on editing than setting up lights and pressing the shutter. [more]

Obesity Ad Photoshops Girl to Make Her Look Overweight

Chris Knight — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:11:15 +0000

First 5 is a government agency in California aimed at – among other things – curbing obesity in children. It’s a great cause, no doubt. They are, however, getting a little bit of backlash over a campaign that is currently featured on posters around California. The ad features an overweight, little girl drinking from a bag of sugar with the caption, “Sugary drinks like juice, sports drinks and soda can cause obesity. Choose milk and water instead.” But some people are a little upset over the fact that the girl in the image isn’t actually overweight – she’s been photoshopped. [more]

#CreativeDay Retouches Bus Patrons in Real Time, On the Street

Jaron Schneider — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:41:33 +0000

I love creative videos that are just plain fun to watch. In this video, one Photoshop “magician” uses hidden cameras and a specially rigged advertising board at a bus stop to entertain bus patrons with retouched images of themselves, done in real-time. I have to admit, if I was sitting at that bus stop and they did this to me, I would be pretty amused. [more]