AG Sighting in New Vanity Fair (With Pics)

I've seen(and done) adding or taking away whole body parts, removing scars, changing the entire background, moving or changing hairstyle, adding or subtacting lots of weight, and even merging one person's head with someone else's "better body"

I do it for fun mostly, or to fix pictures where something is really wrong with the image, but it can be taken as far as you want it too. My family is always making jokes that none of us have had a pimple since I got photoshop [img]wink.gif[/img]

On the happy side of extreme retouching though , are things like restoring old family photos and adding color.


2 of my favorite ones that I did

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...nneshirley.jpg
This one is a pinup I got in a 1945 magazine. It was lovely but I really wanted it in color suitable for framing, so I colorized and enhanced it. I removed the autograph since it would just be a duplicate anyway.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...Myst/fixed.jpg

This is a picture of my great-grandparents sometime in the late 1920s, around the time they got married. It had been carried in my great-grandpa's wallet for more than 30 years and was wrecked.

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ February 14, 2006 09:46 PM: Message edited by: GreyMyst ]</font>

WOW! Sara that is some awesome editing.

Greymyst: how interesting those photos of yours are! I especially like the one of your great grandparents: they look happy and not formal/stiff like many of the folks in really old photos look.

Shawn

GreyMyst: You did a great job restoring your grandparents' picture! I have scans of several pictures that were damaged in a housefire when my mother was a girl. How do you know a tutorial or can you explain (if it's not too hard) how to repair scratches and burns?

Here's an example of one of our old pictures, and this is definitely one of the ones in better condition: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~gmpearso/blog/grandmahotty.jpg

It's my grandmother and my aunt [img]smile.gif[/img] .

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Originally posted by only1genevieve:
How do you know a tutorial or can you explain (if it's not too hard) how to repair scratches and burns?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.familychronicle.com/RestoringOldPhotos.html

Is a pretty good tutorial for beginners.It's a matter of getting good at it by doing it enough mostly though. [img]smile.gif[/img]

If you have the original high res scans of a few of them, I could try and take a crack at it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Reese is cute and thin, but that photo looks to me to have been manipulated quite a bit. She is not that thin, and her legs are definitely not that long.

I have no idea why Vanity Fair thinks Reese needed any help with her physicality!! [img]confused.gif[/img]

I totally agree with you Sugar Magnolia, I almost posted the same thing but for some reason didn't think Vanity Fair did any Airbrushing. Maybe its a camera angle trick or something. Anyways, she's beautiful just the way she is. Love the picture!!

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Originally posted by Brown*Eyed*Girl:
I totally agree with you Sugar Magnolia, I almost posted the same thing but for some reason didn't think Vanity Fair did any Airbrushing. Maybe its a camera angle trick or something. Anyways, she's beautiful just the way she is. Love the picture!!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nearly every magazine airbrushes/photoshops. What they've done is stretched the legs, and added length to them, in addition to stretching the overall picture.

Reese is VERY short (5'2). Think about it. 5'2 is only 62 inches. That doll is 18 inches and would be about 1/3 of her total height if the photo hadn't been edited.

sara, those are really good photos! I love the one of your grandparents. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Just the other day I retouched a photo of myself. It was pretty good before, but before sending it along to my mom I took out some of my stray flyaway hair and made my lips a tad rosier. [img]wink.gif[/img] It's soooo easy to do.

The use of the AG is cute, but Reese is so beautiful, it's disgusting that they had to touch her up *that* much. I find that she's far prettier and more appealing when you just see her on tv or in movies (I was going to say in real life but I've never seen her in real life...)

That whole Vanity Fair issue is repulsive. I really like Scarlett Johansson, but they just made her look so lifeless in the cover photo. I'm all for artistic photos (hey, I'm an art history major) but that photo is an example of the point where it ceases to be art and starts to a) be really boring, because we see supermodels in poses like that all the time, that photo is nothing new and b) sexist (you don't see Tom Ford - the guy - on the cover naked, do you?) and c) gross. those girls don't look pretty, and they're gorgeous and full of life in movies and in other photo shoots, in "real life" so to speak. They just look sickly and ugly on that cover photo. It's a boring and stupid picture.

I'm surprised and sad that Scarlett and Kiera agreed to that photo shoot.

*end soapbox*

thought of more to add...

I'm not sure they lengthened her legs. I'm exactly her height and probably her weight, too, and I stood in that pose with my AG and the AG came down to about the same point on my legs as hers does. It's just at a strange angle so the doll looks smaller. Not 100% sure of that, though.

I know someone who's met the cast of HP several times. She said they all have acne, bless their hearts. [img]smile.gif[/img] sometimes if you look closely at the movies you can see it. hey, I'm sure the kids at Hogwarts have it, you know? nothing wrong with it. [img]wink.gif[/img]