Unattainable ideals

fteale

Sorry about the source of this. I hate the DM! But I found this article really interesting. I know there are a lot of stories out there about retouching, but this really hammers home quite how ubiquitous it is!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067474/Back-reality-Computer-program-shows-EXACTLY-images-magazine-photoshopped.html

No wonder people are never happy with the way they look!

rochey1098

Age old problem but they do because it sells

premiumchilenita

that was fun to look at

happy_jax

Haha :laugh: Sorry, but can they come and do that to my holiday snaps??

fteale

Haha :laugh: Sorry, but can they come and do that to my holiday snaps??

I admit I thought the same thing!

Sheriemae

Very interesting!!! I knew magazines were touched-up, but it was great to see how much.

wellbert

A lot of touch ups are amazingly easy to do in Photoshop, too.