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139 Pics Before And After Photoshop Reveal The Truth Behind Beautiful Photos
Adobe Photoshop was released 26 years ago, and since then you cannot trust anything you see. What may look like a simple amateur picture at first, could look like a stunning portrait after a photoshopper has done its magic.
Below, Bored Panda has put together a list of photos that prove the power of photoshop. The results are mind-blowing. Take a look and vote for your favorites.
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Rocha 9 years ago
It took me a second to realize the upper one was the processed one... ;)
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
I would like to have seen a bit more perspective blur on the buildings in the background--the ones in front are still a bit too crisp to make it believable. Overall though, probably the best of the bunch.
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Shahan Bedrosian 9 years ago
original one looks better ...the after looks like it's done by amateur
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Jazmyn B (Jaz) 8 years ago
The difference doesn't change the fact that that little girl is so beautiful!
Cara Kelly 9 years ago
The reds are too deep and fake looking. Would have been better if they hadn't added the red flowers.
Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
I'd prefer it without as much vignette darkening, but I like the randomness of the added flowers--they did a very good job of making that aspect believable.
FlyLikeADragon 8 years ago
It's magical, but the girl looks a bit creppy in the photoshopped version.
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Peitto Burrito 9 years ago
I love this! Clever editing. I was about to say that only the background and atmosphere changed, but also baby's hoodie has been made longer. I guess high waist pants were out of fashion? Lol.
Nicole Rosandich 9 years ago
I think the lines of the pants distracted the eye. making the hoodie longer just covered this and made it clean.
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The only reason why I'm going to say the second is better is because it's better quality. The first, unedited version is slightly blurry but that said both are pretty good
Prescotte Martin 8 years ago
How the h did they make convert the texture of the hoodie from roughly knit to perfect seed-and-garter stitch? Hell of a texture artist.
boring.panda 8 years ago
It's so wonderful that the child is edited to be touching the leaf. It's like saying: only in a fantasy can you reach perfection.
Stephen Williams 9 years ago
*Someone hands me a baby* Oh, no thank you. *Puts baby on ground*
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Jazmyn B (Jaz) 8 years ago
After I saw your comment @Bead Lady I did the same😀
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Bar Yafe 9 years ago
The light on the left hand isn't right... the light is coming from the left side not from aboce the hand
Jazmyn B (Jaz) 8 years ago
I prefer the first photo then the second. The edited one is just too dark for my liking.
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Hans 9 years ago
Why leave the bag in the first place? And did anyone notice that even the bust size seems to increase for fairytale mode? o_O
Cat Meow 9 years ago
And magically shortened her left arm and widened her hip. That certainly is one strange apple diet.
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Pamela Keown 9 years ago
and her arm and hand have been made smaller - as well as shortening her chin
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
What's with the rays of light coming from above? Are they under water? Is it daytime? If it's daytime, what's the deal with the lantern? Also the crazy amount of daylight reflection on the water gives away that this is fully shopped.
Ute Gunda 9 years ago
The mood created reminds me of the great Robin Hood series from the 80s :)
Prescotte Martin 8 years ago
Oohhhhhhh that knit jumper-cum-chainmail suit is just bloody brilliant! }
Mia Sanders 8 years ago
Very extraordinary photo manipulations, cool style! I wanted to retouch in this genre, but image manipulations are not my strong points. I send my works to online photo retouching services like fixthephoto if I need
Heather Alisse 9 years ago
haha I'm picturing the situation that would lead to this pic not being posed
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Peitto Burrito 9 years ago
I'd consider this a drawing that has been made using a real model instead of an edited photograph. Most of this has been created, not edited. Looks stunning anyway!
AkiDitto 9 years ago
You can still create an artificial look in Photoshop. It's actually not that complicated but the editor did a fantastic job.
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Peitto Burrito 9 years ago
Super nice! You can see how everything was planned beforehand and photoshopped parts really have a base in the original. I prefer this to pictures where the edited version doesn't look like the original at all.
Joakim Fylling 9 years ago
For those who say its just a filter, well, take a closer look. There is some work behind this.
Jonathan Parkin 9 years ago
One is yellow, one is blue. They should play the dress game - is it a blue picture tinted yellow, or a yellow picture tinted blue?
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Jace 9 years ago
Nah, I don't even like wedding dresses and I still think the photo is kind of cool.
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Heini Ozor 9 years ago
Why oh why making the background white too... So dull. The dress would look so beautiful with a dark dramatic background, maybe with the color of that carpet.
Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
The foreground is blurry and smooth, but the background flow is sharp and grainy. Good layout, but definitely need to adjust the grain and sharpen the transition from foreground to background. ps-5820b9939d176.png 
Sanna K 8 years ago
Ok, So I am a photographer and I have not invested time in learning to do Photoshop like this. I take pride in capturing the feeling in the atmosphere, the reality for what it is. This is something I am really good at. People see my photos and come up to me saying "That is SO HIM!" And I find this to me a more important skill to have, than making HIM look bigger, better or like he is floating in space. I am still impressed with the skill that has been applied here. It is truly amazing art one can create with PS skills like this... But, for what? I dont want to be sitting around, giving plastic surgery to perfectly healthy men and women with tools in a program. Ive been a photographer for 10 years and I still haven't felt any regret for not finishing the PS class in school. I would love to shoot fashion and weddings, but for what is there! The clothes and girls are already gorgeous, let me accentuate it with my camera. Not with photoshop.
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Chintel Murphy 2 years ago (edited)
I thought the exact same thing. You wouldn't be able to see through the bar thats on the side of her like that, if it were an actual metal ladder. Nor would it look like the ladder is going through her. Im thinking she was added to the ladder and the transparency wasn't adjusted enough to fill her in enough get rid of the bars because then it be more obvious that she wasn't really on the ladder. A little more editing in just that area or actually having someone on a ladder or another object would have nailed what they were going for in the before because both have been photo shopped which in my opinion takes away from the point of before and after
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lamacorn 5 years ago
That is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute
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Corey Owen 8 years ago
I don't know, guys, I think I prefer {the sites that leave the comments section discreetly at the bottom}. {All the patronizing derision by people who followed a discouraging and leading clickbait headline, and don't know a PhotoShop filter from a coffee filter,} seems a little too artificial to me. Ahem. That is, these aren't created to mislead consumers, they're not selling you a lifestyle that'll attract butterflies and make your baby float in the air-- most of these are meant to be fantastic art. It's neat to see what they were working with beforehand. I understand the critiques of the ones that changed peoples' bodies, but the sour commentary on two thirds of the photos makes me glad BoredPanda didn't stumble on my digital work.
Salma Abidi 9 years ago
the butterflies are a little too much... but i like the magical atmosphere :)
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Amber McDowell 9 years ago
Love this. Love that everything is darkened making her features more striking versus making her thinner or with bigger boobs. She has a great body.
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ballsinyomouth 4 years ago
that is so fucken mysoginstic I hope you get your c**k chopped in half
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lamacorn 5 years ago
They edited the dad out to make it look like the baby is flying
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Fun idea, but where's the light coming from that's lighting her face direct from the left? They definitely did the shading on her wrong.
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Lotsa Derp 8 years ago
I agree. I love how mysterious the second one looks.
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Valeria Rozz 8 years ago
Her lips looks worst on a second one. They better don't make them darker
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Tiger-Lily 8 years ago
i don't get photos like this.. like just go take the picture in another part of the city and you could say it was real...
Fernando Fumero 9 years ago
The perspective doesn't match....the building don't have the same vantage point as the pole
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Little letitia 9 years ago
The shadows are off in this one though now they've added the lights
Jace 9 years ago
Yeah, I'm a fan of practical lighting, rather than post effects and studio lights.
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Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago
I liked the first one better (minus the laundry room). Also, the dress is much more vivid on the first photo.
Evie Heaven 8 years ago
I don't like what they did with dress color. It looked very nice and warm before, after it looks very uncomfortable.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
A bit too much facial editing with this one. Her nose is all FUBAR in the shopped version.
Jonathan Parkin 9 years ago
The lass is beautiful in both, but quite frankly the second one looks like a straight-up painting. A flat one - no shade on the face. Like a cardboard cut-out that could just tip over.
Suze Shon Ng 9 years ago
The right butterfly makes model looks like native red indian, but then her clothes would seemed out of place.
Lilya 8 years ago
OMG when you look at the unedited one, all I can think of is forever alone
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Sara Counts 9 years ago
Her face became bloated with the lack of shading. The main reason is that this photo was originally way under-exposed. That presents a lot of problems to a photoshopper.
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Sarah Garland 9 years ago
I agree, I think she might not recognize herself in the edited one--even though it is a pretty final product.
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Sara Counts 9 years ago
They could've just brightened it up a bit, left the flower, and it would've been perfect. No need for all that fake makeup.
Chintel Murphy 2 years ago
I love them both but the second one kind of takes to much away from her original beauty
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Andrei Pavel 9 years ago
First of all, "didn't had"?... Really?... Second of all, without industrial landscape, they wouldn't have a boat to pose on.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Changing it to sunset is a fun idea, but now the lighting on the people is all wrong, and being that they're the center of the image, kind of ruins it all.
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Notchimine Mette 9 years ago
The hair is also not floaty enough, but this picture still makes me feel like I am drowning...
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Sierra Batten 7 years ago
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, thats what come to mind for me!
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Fernando Fumero 9 years ago
Saturation is ok, but the final one looks oversaturated in some parts, like the lollipop
Heini Ozor 9 years ago
Removing the hand makes the lollipop look like a circle floating in the air.
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Lauren Mitchell 9 years ago
Both of these are good depending on what time of the year you want it to be.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
I understand the adjusting of the aesthetic to fall, and making it more artistic, but they should have left the hair instead of trying to make it fuller, and why remove that little rag or ribbon or whatever on his overalls? The new additional pocket looks super fake, and the rag/ribbon thing gave it visual interest.
Gven Amber 9 years ago
That "rag/ribbon" looks like the George ribbon of Russia..
Load More Replies... Sharon Hahn 8 years ago
Both are super cute when you have an adorable little boy to work with.
JC Sedman 9 years ago
It's art. I'm sure they have plenty of every day photos of their child. This is just fun :)
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Stille20 9 years ago
Greed, I don't think I would recognize her from the second photo.
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Suze Shon Ng 9 years ago
Nice roamnce paperback style! Wouldn't we all like to see our own version?
Peitto Burrito 9 years ago
Her hair is basically redrawn in the second photo, not much left of the original. I'm not saying it's a bad thing really, but this is more like creating art than doing some fixing on photoshop.
Eyad Babikir 8 years ago
It looks like this artist made an Avatar version of the model and it's stunning!!😀
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Little letitia 9 years ago
How did they get that teapot to float like that on the unedited one?!!
Savina Stankova 9 years ago
I like the original better - it looks really unusual with all flying cups and tea pot. Well done composition of the orifinal.
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Hans 9 years ago
Well done but for the tattoo...it looks like one of these non-permanent rub-on tattoos for children...
Jonathan Parkin 9 years ago
Her bikini strap is blindfolding the dragon... symbolism? Also, if only real garbage could just disappear with a screen wipe... though if it takes away housing and other people too I guess that sort of cleanup is a little too thorough.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Fun piece! The angles are really wrong for the spatula in her hand and the fork in his, but other than that it's a fun composition.
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Jace 9 years ago
Much better contrast and coloring in the retouched version by far.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Hate the HDR-like glow around the building--a dead giveaway that the sky is artifical, but good otherwise.
Notchimine Mette 9 years ago
I don't know what that means, but if I stare at something long enough, then the object also gets a glow around the edges, so this looks fine to me.
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Michel M. Prins 9 years ago
With all due respect, but creating something digitally from scratch with this level of detail is not as easy as you might think.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
This one's good, though I'm not sure I agree with the decision to remove a bunch of the branches and the tree in the back right.
Lex Lemon 9 years ago
I agree. I think keeping the tree would have made a great effect
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deez 4 years ago
bro i see where you are coming from to much cupping for me
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Sigrid Vinter 9 years ago
The reflection of the buildings are still there in the photoshopped version..
Arianna Stargazer 9 years ago
This image is beautiful, sweet and romantic. The artist works hard on these masterpieces and everybody here is a bunch of haters only focusing on the specific type of couples embrace. He has his arms wrapped around her and is kissing her! Calm down people.....there is nothing pornographic about this. When did everybody become such a prude?? How about people focus on the creativity and work going into the images instead of how they are morally opposed to what is going on.
Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
I'm far from a prude, and not morally opposed to jack s**t sexually. It was just a bad photo to pick in the first place--it's not sweet and romantic when he's groping her like that--it changes the tone of the photo from love to lust.
Load More Replies... Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Way too much blur/glow, and definitely too much sexuality rather than heartfelt affection to be a picture worth shopping.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
The tone and ambient light definitely needs to be adjusted on the woman to make this look believable.
Fernando Fumero 9 years ago
Yeah, it doesn't blend into the background well
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Jhoa 9 years ago
The second one is really cool - but what is that thing on her head? The bird doesn't look very real either. Still awesome. I love her freckles.
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Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Odd that they made most of the greens more vibrant, but then changed the greenish brown water (a normal color), to a nastier-looking brown.
Danielle Swabb 9 years ago
It's actually most llikely one filter that enhances the warmth of the picture, which in turn enhanced the oranges browns of the water
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Rainy Day Wolf 9 years ago
Even as a machine is preferred that you have larger breasts and slimmer waist
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Nyktelios Weratama 9 years ago
Not slimmed. They moved her further back, bringing the proportions with.
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Calista Archambeault 9 years ago
No, they didn't resize her body, they changed it so she's smaller in the frame - to scale.
SylvaCrow 9 years ago
That's not true. The size of her arms are, very obviously, thinner.
Load More Replies... Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Completely silly. They edit away the thighs and butt (which are a part of the girl), and leave the oddly-looking thick neck (which is just from the angle and layout, and not a negative of the girl herself). I'd ask for my money back.
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Chelsea Panek 9 years ago
The eyes are Windows to the soul, and everyone's eyes are beautifully unique. I prefer her eyes natural. Otherwise beautiful!
Dawn “Moonstone” Suns 8 years ago
Actually I thought the opposite. The editing adds a touch of magic to the eyes
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İsmail ER 9 years ago
you never know! :D.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVivkXUfdU
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Suze Shon Ng 9 years ago
Good effect except should have wash out the graffiti as theme seems to set in the last century?
Rachel Lundell 9 years ago
How awful, They totally changed his body shape. He looked fine in the first one.
Kristi Zoebelein 9 years ago
Poor guys get enhanced too. :( I could see them fixing the sleeve, lifting it up some, but they could have done that without increasing his upper arm and chest. I guess it will never end.
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FreyaShips 3 years ago
Because in some countries females look better with little hands
Load More Replies... Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
The enlarged blossoms were done very poorly--with the bulge tool in PS that just makes everything look fake and blurred when nothing else on that visual plane is blurry. Rather than cutting out the flower and blowing the whole thing up to look larger, they chose to go the route that takes way less time, but looks bad.
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Lauren Mitchell 9 years ago
It seems that if a picture has a more industrial background they change it to rural, if it's a more rural background they change it to industrial.
Jace 9 years ago
Jeeze, what floor would they have to be on to get such an angle of the city??
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Angelicvoice Jakosalem 8 years ago
The hair and the gown changes made it more dramatic. Lovely! <3
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Kristi Zoebelein 9 years ago
I prefer the original, I love the freckled, red-headed retro feel of this one. Reminds me of the town from Jaws.
Steve Bowcutt 9 years ago
Masterful execution. I would have left the string from the hat, and the higher left shoulder and even the errant hair on it--I think it would've made for a more visually interesting piece. Great work overall, though.
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Jace 9 years ago
The modified version is way too hyped, but the original is way too underexposed and low contrast.
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The Cappy 8 years ago
He forged on, thinking about the words he'd heard that night. "One does not simply walk into Mordor." Well, he'd done it anyway, and he was nearly there. It was only afterward that he realized he'd brought his Rubik's cube and left the Ring back in Rivendell. Dammit. He'd have to go back and start over.
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sunnyrei82 9 years ago
yeah,,, I think it looks more like a vector illustration than real hair.
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Елена Николова 9 years ago
The unedited photo was already perfect. The edit makes it look fake... I don't even understand why was it necessary...
Jhoa 9 years ago
Maybe someone was playing around with photoshop...but I agree, first shot is much better. Amazing photography.
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Septy Chasanah 9 years ago
I like the original.. she look more alive and beautiful. they make those cheek smaller
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Jace 9 years ago
It was probably a balancing act between the carousel and the guide rails in front of it.
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Suze Shon Ng 9 years ago
All tattoo parlours should have such features to help with decision making, ha!
Jace 9 years ago
Not really. The artist could really suck and the results would look nothing like the marketing. In fact, there are entire websites dedicated to bad tattoos.
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Newell Mowry 1 year ago
Just why in the name of God does someone deface their skin with graffiti? It reminds me of a NYC Subway cars back in the seventies.
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Lyndsay Berry 9 years ago
I thought she was trying to hear the ocean in the world's tiniest seashell
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Jace 9 years ago
Rather different person, really, in the end result, with the changes to the nose and eyes..
HalfShelli 8 years ago
I don't see a change to the nose, but obviously they wanted her to look like her eyes were more open/awake. But if the makeup artist is the one who made her so originally ORANGE, he should be smacked and sent back to the Trump camp. If that was the model's doing, hopefully this gig paid her enough to get some better-quality self-tanner.
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Jace 9 years ago
Yeah, the whole tone and theme of the modified image seems incongruous with the expression.
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Line Gramhart 9 years ago
Wtf did they do to her beautiful neck??!! It looks awefully uncomftable in the eddited version!!!
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Terry Hatchett 9 years ago
What a*****e looked at the original and thought, "Hey, that's pretty but I think she'd look better if she had an eating disorder!"
Jace 9 years ago
There are women who are slim and slender without having eating disorders.
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See, when some men interact with real women, they command them to smile. When they then go create sexy fantasy images of idealized women, they make them dramatic and mysterious (smiles aren't mysterious).
Load More Replies... Jace 9 years ago
I suspect this was a candid shot turned into fantasy wank by a digital artist guy.
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Monica small 9 years ago
I would have liked this photo but why is he holding the bunny by the ears? That is very painful to rabbits.
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Hans 9 years ago
Too much makeup, even if it is digital...and why do most edited pictures of women include an increase in bust size?
The Cappy 8 years ago
I think it's more a lift than anything else. But here, it's both.
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Suze Shon Ng 9 years ago
Nice, again for those who doesn't wanna put on actual makeup. BUt the dress lacks details, esp the sleeves end.
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Jace 9 years ago
Both are very cool. I think the special effect of the retouched image is actually really clever.
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Jace 9 years ago
I'm no fan of makeup myself... Including when it's real.
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Jhoa 9 years ago
That dress!! :D Why put Make up on such a little girl? It makes her look like she's competing in one of those beauty pageants. Otherwise the lights look amazing.
HalfShelli 8 years ago
Agree; this could have been done without making her look 30 (see #97).
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Rainy Day Wolf 9 years ago
The original one is too beautiful... How could they ruin it with such harsh colors?
Fede Gomez 9 years ago
that is just your taste in colors. Others have other tastes...
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Елена Николова 9 years ago
Poor Photoshop skills. They deformed her head with that blur where they put the yellow flowers. Furthermore her hair was falling in beautiful curls which they erased to put some undefined green object behind her? Just why... All that photo needed was a little retouch... Too much photoshop and poorly done.
Rainy Day Wolf 9 years ago
The undefined thing was added to slim her waist...
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Wilfred Liao 9 years ago
There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.
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sunnyrei82 9 years ago
What? no ridiculous waist reduction and super boob enhancement? Pfft! amateurs!
Alise Kalniņa 9 years ago
I think the original contrast was better. I mean readheads pop out because the contrast comparing to everything else!!
Jace 9 years ago
Her hair is definitely better in the original (both in color and contrast).
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Tamra Smith 8 years ago
In so many of these pictures they have taken gorgeous green natural backgrounds and turned everything orange. WTF?
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Hans 9 years ago
Artificial baby shot...I am sorry, but I cannot find anything nice in them. Why would you have babies in poses they would never take themselves when you can have innumerous cute shots of them all natural?
Stille20 9 years ago
Yea, I find these to be strange. Babies are naturally adorable. When you both them too much, it gets weird. especially if they are a sleep when you do it.
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Ben Dugas 9 years ago
She wasn't slimmed. Just shifted over. Also how do we know that the subject in the photos didn't ask for the slimming that is happening. It's all about what they ask for in most of these cases.
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Titus Overway 9 years ago
The first on is sooo much better. It has people and the second one they took away her tan lines why? It's part of beauty.
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Katie Jamberri Nails 9 years ago
Her face is actually kind of blurry in the original.
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this is horrible. The unedited one looks nice, the edited one like what the hell?! Why should you do this?
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Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
I guess they just added some contouring to it
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Long Joan Silver 9 years ago
That's not a booger, it's the models nose ring (the rod inside her nose). But yeah, I see what you mean.
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Jace 9 years ago
Changing the dress tone makes the skin stand out as being inconsistent in the modified image.
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Jace 9 years ago
No it doesn't. There's no structural change at all. There's just one bit of abdomen clothing dropped out of the modified image and I think it was lost in compositing.
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Jace 9 years ago
Inflate brush was used around the head as a cheap way of fluffing her hair.
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Tamra Smith 8 years ago
They have edited the dress in the reflection to provide more coverage under her breasts and now it doesn't match the dress in the foreground.
Jace 9 years ago
Very difficult to compare these two with all the lens distortion and rotation correction. More of that over-retouching that's so common in the faces on these, flattening it and making it porcelain-like or painterly. Seems they did a modification to the underside of her right breast (left in mirror) because the bra was not placed right? Makes for an inconsistency in her clothes when you compare left and right sides. Why are the large light bulbs sparkling like wads of tiny decorative lights?
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Salma Abidi 9 years ago
i'm sorry - but that looks like a child porn "commercial" :( couldn't you cover that poor girl's cheest a little bit?
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Seth Gecko 9 years ago
The difference in pictures is the top one looks like she has no burdens. And the bottom one she carries the weight.
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Psotny Puk 9 years ago
From a nice, pretty girl to a creepy doll in no time! Photoshop - not even once.
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Jace 9 years ago
I'm torn. It's both very well done and absolutely horrifying (I'm neither a fan of dolls or babies). Clearly the porcelain-robot-child in the modified version is not looking at the cat we are being told to believe he/she is reaching out toward. The porcelain-robot-cat-statue appears to be similarly oblivious to its environment and the other entity next to it. The color matching seems pretty darn good though, except for the blown out solid whites in the background center. Hat isn't shadowing the head enough. Should be enough light occlusion to be as dark or darker than the underside of child's chin area and dress folds.
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Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago
Now you know why there is a saying "believe half of what you see . . . ."
Hans 9 years ago
This is an interesting series, even though I do not find all pictures likewise enjoyable. My perception is that there are three kinds of pictures: 1) Fairytale-like alterings of surroundins that do not touch the picture's subject much. Most of them are very nice. 2) Transformations of the main subject. Many of them are over the top...in particularly, I do not get it while women almost always need to get artificial makeup and breast enlargements. 3) Post-productions that alter the meaning of a picture...some of them are inspirational, other seem unnecessary for the orignal was very nice already. Leasson learned? If you can, you should not always do...
Kim Lee 9 years ago
FOR ALL THE SOFA-SIDE ARTISTS CRITICIZING EVERY PIECE: Has it ever occurred to you that the client asked for specific alterations/appearance? I see so many people nitpicking the appearance of these but, in the end, every artist knows the client will only pay for what THEY want.
AlexaFaie 9 years ago
People have been retouching images ever since cameras were invented, they just did it the slow way by hand by using double exposures, colouring over negatives to change the image that got developed, that sort of thing. And before then, everything was painted or hand drawn and often then copied onto blocks by carving so that the images could be printed. So much artistic license. There never really was a time where you could totally trust what was being depicted as being realistic. Even without retouching an image, simply shifting the position of the light source can totally change how the resulting image looks. Same with taking the photo from different angles. And then there is the whole science behind photos not looking identical to what the eye sees anyway because we often don’t see every blemish on a person’s face when we look at them. Our brains “photoshop” what we see for us!
Zu Zanna 9 years ago
I'm sad to see the majority of commenters completely missing the point of this gallery. I see it as a wonderful collection of pieces where you can really see the skill of each artist and the amount of work that they have put into it. These comparisons show how much they saw in an image that was, to some, devoid of all the magic and appeal. Instead, I see many individuals offended by reality augmentation, especially when portraits are concerned. I'm glad that you're fighting for body positivity and I'm always ready to join in for that, but you have to understand: this is art, not a Victoria's Secret catalogue. It's not meant to push beauty standards on anyone, it's created to take us to a different, magical and enchanting place for at least a second.
Denny Davis 1 year ago
Not a single edited image looks real. They all look like Disney animation.
Taran Sandhu 8 years ago
I am also a Photoshop expert. I can make your Photo same as shown in the slides. FREE OF COST. If you are intrested to editing your image. Mail your HQ photo to taranjeetsandhu78777@gmail.com
Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago
Now you know why there is a saying "believe half of what you see . . . ."
Hans 9 years ago
This is an interesting series, even though I do not find all pictures likewise enjoyable. My perception is that there are three kinds of pictures: 1) Fairytale-like alterings of surroundins that do not touch the picture's subject much. Most of them are very nice. 2) Transformations of the main subject. Many of them are over the top...in particularly, I do not get it while women almost always need to get artificial makeup and breast enlargements. 3) Post-productions that alter the meaning of a picture...some of them are inspirational, other seem unnecessary for the orignal was very nice already. Leasson learned? If you can, you should not always do...
Kim Lee 9 years ago
FOR ALL THE SOFA-SIDE ARTISTS CRITICIZING EVERY PIECE: Has it ever occurred to you that the client asked for specific alterations/appearance? I see so many people nitpicking the appearance of these but, in the end, every artist knows the client will only pay for what THEY want.
AlexaFaie 9 years ago
People have been retouching images ever since cameras were invented, they just did it the slow way by hand by using double exposures, colouring over negatives to change the image that got developed, that sort of thing. And before then, everything was painted or hand drawn and often then copied onto blocks by carving so that the images could be printed. So much artistic license. There never really was a time where you could totally trust what was being depicted as being realistic. Even without retouching an image, simply shifting the position of the light source can totally change how the resulting image looks. Same with taking the photo from different angles. And then there is the whole science behind photos not looking identical to what the eye sees anyway because we often don’t see every blemish on a person’s face when we look at them. Our brains “photoshop” what we see for us!
Zu Zanna 9 years ago
I'm sad to see the majority of commenters completely missing the point of this gallery. I see it as a wonderful collection of pieces where you can really see the skill of each artist and the amount of work that they have put into it. These comparisons show how much they saw in an image that was, to some, devoid of all the magic and appeal. Instead, I see many individuals offended by reality augmentation, especially when portraits are concerned. I'm glad that you're fighting for body positivity and I'm always ready to join in for that, but you have to understand: this is art, not a Victoria's Secret catalogue. It's not meant to push beauty standards on anyone, it's created to take us to a different, magical and enchanting place for at least a second.
Denny Davis 1 year ago
Not a single edited image looks real. They all look like Disney animation.
Taran Sandhu 8 years ago
I am also a Photoshop expert. I can make your Photo same as shown in the slides. FREE OF COST. If you are intrested to editing your image. Mail your HQ photo to taranjeetsandhu78777@gmail.com
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