[Pic] Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Is the Worst Photoshop I’ve Ever Seen

[Pic] Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Is the Worst Photoshop I’ve Ever Seen

Ok, maybe it’s not the worst Photoshop I’ve ever seen but it is probably the worst Photoshop I’ve ever seen on the cover of a national magazine. It’s definitely the worst Photoshop I’ve ever seen on the cover of SI. I thought the SI Swimsuit addition was supposed to be about natural beauty shot with natural light in exotic locations.

Kate Upton’s face has either been completely replaced or they airbrushed the crap out of her chin and removed all realistic shadows. How could this have happened? What do you guys think? Am I over reacting or is this offensively bad?

SI [Pic] Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Is the Worst Photoshop Ive Ever Seen

February 16, 2012

Lee Morris

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http://profile.yahoo.com/AZCNA76673PVDWV6V6R3QQNAO4 Rob Mills
and one more p.s. – I don’t think Kate Upton is fat at all !!! My fat comment just comes from the way she is directly turned towards the camera… it makes her look bigger in my opinion.
C Hwang
**edition
http://www.facebook.com/paulferradas Paul Ferradas
Wow, now that you guys mention it, I’ll have to grab my magazine and take a closer look. To be quite honest, when I grabbed it off the shelf, I didn’t see anything unusual about it so I’m putting myself in the perspective of a regular consumer. I do retouching myself (see my swimsuit shot attached) so i should be able to catch some abnormalities but I would have to pay attention which the average Joe probably doesn’t do.
http://twitter.com/SeagramPearce Seagram Pearce
Do you *really* have to use the word “airbrushed” when talking about retouching? This is the 21st century.
As for the cover, it will always be generally more retouched than inside images. Not the greatest image choice for cover IMHO. Which was the start of a bad downward spiral.
http://twitter.com/danamezcua Daniel Amezcua
Those are awful! If you look at image 2 of Natalies photos you will see that Peter Hurley should have shot or at least directed the models. Thats the worst chin to shoulder photo I think I have seen in a while. :p
http://www.facebook.com/blueh2osurfer Robbie Mills
Just came across this and thought I would share… though this thread is probably done:
http://www.walteriooss.com/portfolios/73 (The original – first photo in this portfolio)
http://twitter.com/grafichouse Martin Ellard
I did a beauty / makeup shoot recently and when i had edited the pictures the model COMPLAINED !!! she could see the pores in her skin and asked if I could ‘photoshop’ her skin clearer !!
I use the spot tool to remove blemishes and do a pretty good tidy up but I draw the line at this kind of paint shop retouching, it just looks like some local wannabe took a crap shot of an fugly model and relied on his ‘skill’ at painting to save the day.
Jobbys
I put a little animated Gif together to illustrate the point.
(The Gif doesn’t seem to work here, you can see at: http://jobbys.tumblr.com/post/21077246034/a-touch-here-or-there-bit-heavy-on-the-old )
http://twitter.com/Jimmy_Schaefer JimmySchaefer
Good find! Although this could just be a water mark for the image as its still owned by someone online!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KGIHBUQPQNYO4DHTY233WCSDYQ Jacques
The retouching could have been a little better, but you are overreacting to it. It sounds like you are a bit jealous of sort that they are publishing work that are ‘below’ your standards and that your work could have been there instead, or?
http://www.facebook.com/shannon.wimberly1 Shannon Wimberly
maybe if she leaned forward, the M&M effect i am seeing would have been a little less pronounced…. :/
Michael Murphy
the armpit job is more offensive to me than is the shadowing. imho.
http://vikireedphotography.com/ viki reed
Retouching high-end (pardon the pun) magazine photos meant to grab men in the you know what has NEVER been about realistic retouching. Men already like to think that chicks don’t go the bathroom, don’t ever have body hair unless there’s something wrong with them, zits, cellulite, wrinkles or crinkles. The only time a real woman meets that criteria (because of a horny fog) is when a guy’s wearing beer goggles or is about a key turn from entering their apartment after the third date.
Also, I don’t know that SI is every specificially been touted as natural light and natural beauty. Loads of behind the scenes videos show a variety of shooting styles. One year it was a guy with a point and shoot consumer end camera, other times elaborate reflectors being held and dangled by a cabal of assistants, definitely speedlights and softboxes…sure, natural light and settings are exploited but this is far from real beauty. Most grown women can’t wear a 12 year old’s bikini. She does look like every hot chick warrior in every XBox or Playstation game though…..
peter25253
well you are a liar.. i bet my nuts that is not the worst photoshop job you have seen…..
and yes.. that happens when you have cameras with to much DYNAMIC RANGE… the shadows will look faked..
ROTFL…..
http://twitter.com/DevAmbardekar Dev Ambardekar
The image below the featured image isn’t loading for some reason. It shows a broken link.
http://twitter.com/intensitystudio Antonio Carrasco
And old media companies like Sports Illustrated and Playboy wonder why they are going broke.
They fly the models, photographers and crew all over the world to shoot pictures and then come back home and ruin the photos with awful retouching that looks like cartoons.
http://www.thomaslawn.net/ Thomas Lawn
This one is the worst. Look at her right leg! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/swimsuit/modelfeatured/nina_agdal/2012/model/14/31/index.htm
It looks like a vector drawing!

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