[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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Mark Kauzlarich
I didn’t notice it when I took a cursory glance at the cover earlier, but, yes, that chin looks ridiculous.
mary k
YESSSS. A piece of my soul and every other retoucher’s soul died when this cover was released.
http://www.rlmorris.com Lee Morris
I’m not even convinced that face goes with that body.
http://www.facebook.com/schoquette Stefan Choquette
It appears they either did a replacement head or they did a “digital fill flash” on her face because the shadows were too dark. The shadows on her face don’t match the tonal value of the shadows on her neck. You just ruined this for me.
James Campbell
Ha ha forget the chin! Look at the blue from the sky on the lettering behind her head.
http://profile.yahoo.com/EVA7PGWY7BSIBU3ORBGJBWNR3A Ceferino
she has a face?! :)
http://www.facebook.com/ifarias2 Ignacio Farías
that head looks like a barby… if you pull it out you have like a plastic round thing… am I the only one noticing something bizarre with her bathing suit? WTF
http://twitter.com/Swelltv Dan Dawley
lets hope her boob job wasn’t as bad
Donny Zaltzberg
This woman is a Goddess, I understand the need for retouching but …seriously?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Pongsathorn-Chalermchuang/100000029153935 Pongsathorn Chalermchuang
Check out Maxim magazine (Thailand edition) a lot worst than this one.
http://www.facebook.com/jonmakcharoenwoodhi Jonathan Makcharoenwoodhi
It was the first thing I noticed and I was shocked that SI would have went with that
Robert Simpson
Either she’s had the miracle waxing of the century, or the retoucher also spend a lot of time removing “fly-aways” at the “bottom of her belly region”, too! Looks like plastic.
http://profile.yahoo.com/AKO5CHQQ3AUQTN42O4NUY63SAQ James
In all honesty, and no offense, but is anyone really looking at this to see her face? No. I’m certainly not looking at her face.
gmarley
The whole thing is completely absurd:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012_swimsuit/models/nina-agdal/12_nina-agdal_6.html
That’s not skin. Sorry guys.
http://www.rlmorris.com Lee Morris
lol, that one is just as bad! What is going on this year?
ReeseMoore
The creep factor is ridiculously high. What art director thought that would entice people to buy that magazine? Bleah!
James Campbell
SI started hiring all of their retouchers from Craigslist and FB haha…
gmarley
I wouldn’t even be surprised if it’s a “If you do one, you gotta do them all, lest some agency has a nit fit.” Or they’re just mailing it in.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Bruno/1499457540 Carlos Bruno
Are you guys freaking kidding me???????
You don’t need to be an expert in body shape to NOT NOTICED her left arm???
The day one of us had a shoulder like that is because you became direct from an motorcycle accident! And together with her “other arm” I can say EASELY she is the lost sister of Rubber man!
But FINALLY they start to make bikinis with the right frontal lengh size … why had to come so high??? Hehehehe …
http://twitter.com/Tanis90 Tanis Seeber
The first thing to catch my (female photographer) eye was her lower half, which seems ill-proportioned. But that just might be her body.
The background also seems a bit too perfect, but again, I just might be getting a bit too critical.
And the problem with her left shoulder is that she is missing her armpit, which is a common over-retouch.
http://maodeferrofotografia.pt.vu/ Bruno Mão de Ferro
This is the new content un-aware filter from photoshop??
http://maodeferrofotografia.pt.vu/ Bruno Mão de Ferro
is this*
http://twitter.com/byazrov vladimir byazrov
Damnit! They look for the most beautiful young perfect girls in the world
and yet somehow those girls apparently are so ugly that
ridiculous amount of retouching is applied.
Dolly Parton and Cher are never airbrushed this much.
It’s crazy!
Lisa Ng
Her boobs are gross looking. They need more support too. But that’s not what this post is about ;)
http://www.flexiblevision.com Roman
They got what they pay for…
http://www.facebook.com/richard.sheehan1 Richard Sheehan
If anything, all I can see is a little lightening around her chin…Shes been on about 12 shows this week and this is how she looks… Have a look at the actual magazine before you comment or get a life…
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=712322265 Robert Potter
View your screen from a more acute angle and you’ll see her belly has also been over retouched, there is a disc like shape that is inconsistent with original lighting plus it has no skin texture.
http://twitter.com/mol666 Fernando Mol
The chin? Oh, right. Yes, now that you mention. ;)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Quincy-Poulina/566439856 Quincy Poulina
I don´t know who retouched these images for SI. But he or she must be banned from using photoshop. This or the kind of things that give retouched pictures a bad reputation.
http://twitter.com/WessOnline Wesley
They forgot to watch the Peter Hurley dvd, it’s all about the jaw line :)
http://www.facebook.com/Hapzunglam Patrick C N Wong
Im expecting all the facial feature of the model are shifted all the way to the right side if she gives me a front view shot
Hereditic
The fact is that most people will never even notice. Why should SI pay a professional to do a detailed, nuanced, realistic retouch, when only .02% of the population will actually care? The cover is egregious, but as someone already pointed out, all of the images look as though they were post-produced by an intern with one of those “before/after” auto-skin-retouch programs. More significantly, the reason they can get away with this is that the entire beauty paradigm of our culture has shifted so dramatically in the last two decades, that things that would have appeared “alien” to us only 5 years ago are now the norm (think silicon-balloon boobs, paralytic- morgue faces, swollen-earthworm-collagen lips , etc). This cover is only one more sad drop in the bucket. Like the great man said, “…just one word…are you listening?…Plastics.”
JeffT241
If I saw the before shot I would probably be shocked. However, as many have pointed, out only very serious photogs/retouchers even notice that anything was done. It is not so apparent that the general public / consumer of this magazine will ever even give it a thought.Another example of good enough is good enough
urkel
Who is Kate Upton and why are her boobs so floppy?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shane-ODonnell/1661023214 Shane O’Donnell
The body paint images are even worse. Looks as if the painting was all done in a layer, then slapped on the body.
Rob-L
Swimsuit “edition” not addition. You need an editor!
Michellelle
I think the upper body was taken from a photograph where she was lieing on her back or at least leaning way back–I can’t imagine why else her boobs would be in her armpits. The low perspective is also stretching her torso, making the distance between her naval and crotch seem far too long. That might have happened in-camera, or it might have happened when they stitched the different photos together.
http://www.facebook.com/dave.lehl Dave Lehl
Photography isn’t even photography anymore. It should be called “Photo inspired computer nerd shit”.
vonrbuzard
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t looking at her face, but now that I move my eyes up, yes, bad photoshop. Does not look real. You know the old saying. “You know those aren’t real?” I didn’t think they were talking about her facial features. Live and Learn
AshrafBot
Am I the only person who *doesn’t* find her attractive.
http://www.michaelkormos.com/ Michael Kormos
I guess SI is outsourcing their retouching work to the far East?
http://profiles.google.com/hamtons junyang chen
I think the retoucher forgot that the shadow is darkest at the origin. The further the shadow gets from the neck, the darker it gets lol, wierd[sic]
Mike_Kelley
I don’t either, so you’re not alone!
http://twitter.com/jeffrey_may Jeff May
I noticed this as soon as I viewed it. It just looked weird and not like her at all really. She looks plastic and at 19yo there is not need for that much smoothing.
Alessandro
in my point of view, it’s not all the retoucher fault. It looks more to me that the assigned photographer (who is he anyway?) didn’t provide acceptable photos so the editors and the retoucher has to come up with a passable (?!) photo for the cover.
http://www.facebook.com/MattImagines Matt Fitzgerald
I don’t even know where to start with this. Bad bad bad bad bad!!!
http://www.bertmclendon.com Bert McLendon
Jeeez! how do you even get the armpit that high up the arm? horriblehorriblehorrible.
http://profile.yahoo.com/AZCNA76673PVDWV6V6R3QQNAO4 Rob Mills
something is definitely not right in the face area. i agree it may be a face replace. this is odd for SI, since they are usually like you said about the natural. with all the shots they get, you would think they could have just used another if they had to work this shot to death. weird
http://profile.yahoo.com/AZCNA76673PVDWV6V6R3QQNAO4 Rob Mills
and p.s. – i admit to watching the SI behind the scenes show on VH1. They hinted that they were about a full body this year. I think America is just so fat, me included, that SI wanted to accommodate. The next VH1 behind the scenes is at 12:30am on Saturday I believe lol. Plus they have tons of behind the scenes on their website: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/swimsuit/
what can I say, I’m a guy
http://profile.yahoo.com/AZCNA76673PVDWV6V6R3QQNAO4 Rob Mills
probably catering to Fat America… but even fat America probably doesn’t like looking at it, fat that is.

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