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I just saw that video for the first time earlier this week. Pretty mind-blowing, isn't it?
It's bad if it is done to create an ideal which girls and women should want to aspire to. If it's part of a model's profile on an adult fantasy role-playing site like MFC, I'm not going to make a fuss.
It's bad if it is done to create an ideal which girls and women should want to aspire to. If it's part of a model's profile on an adult fantasy role-playing site like MFC, I'm not going to make a fuss.
I kind of assumed this was common knowledge already. Dove had an campaign pretty similar to the video, that was popular when I was in college it came up a lot in my classes. About 7 years ago they tried to use that same idea to sell products but by exposing it and pushing the opposite... marketing themselves to "real women" Also started featuring models of all sizes and shapes etc. They've kind of stuck with that theme since and it seems to be successful. They also have a good product.
I had a friend who studied graphic arts and used to do this professionally. It's a pretty specialized skill. Lot's of folks have photoshop, but that level of alteration I don't think is something you're going to find on the average cam model's photos unless she has a modeling contract, paying a lot of money, or has studied it extensively. Likely a little blemish fixing here and there, some touch ups, but not generally comparable mainstream ad campaigns.
Often when you pay a photographer for photos you're likely only getting one or two of the set photoshopped and sometimes not even done well. (I had some done years back the photoshopping looked crrrazy.)
I'd say expect to find this kind of thing in the magazines. Do people still read magazines?
But I mean in the camgirl sense... you can see them live if you want to know if they look that different... It'd be rare to find many, if any altered to this extent. When they are it's fairly obvious.
It's likely detrimental in mainstream media, and has gone on so long it's kind of the norm. It makes money on a subconscious level. Self esteem and all that fun stuff.
I had a friend who studied graphic arts and used to do this professionally. It's a pretty specialized skill. Lot's of folks have photoshop, but that level of alteration I don't think is something you're going to find on the average cam model's photos unless she has a modeling contract, paying a lot of money, or has studied it extensively. Likely a little blemish fixing here and there, some touch ups, but not generally comparable mainstream ad campaigns.
Often when you pay a photographer for photos you're likely only getting one or two of the set photoshopped and sometimes not even done well. (I had some done years back the photoshopping looked crrrazy.)
I'd say expect to find this kind of thing in the magazines. Do people still read magazines?
But I mean in the camgirl sense... you can see them live if you want to know if they look that different... It'd be rare to find many, if any altered to this extent. When they are it's fairly obvious.
It's likely detrimental in mainstream media, and has gone on so long it's kind of the norm. It makes money on a subconscious level. Self esteem and all that fun stuff.
Honestly, this is to show what they CAN do to a person to make them hotter. Reality is that they hire beautiful, skinny MODEL women so they don't have to do this much photoshop. I remember on Americas Next Top Model that Tyra was bitching at a model because they had to do too much photoshop to her, saying that was NOT a good thing in the industry.
I think this is more true for Celebrity photos, their magazine covers and their sexy lingerie spreads. Everyone wants to think celebrities are perfect but you know they arent, they are photoshopped. Models, it happens, but not to the same extent. They simply hire a model who won't need as much work.
I think this is more true for Celebrity photos, their magazine covers and their sexy lingerie spreads. Everyone wants to think celebrities are perfect but you know they arent, they are photoshopped. Models, it happens, but not to the same extent. They simply hire a model who won't need as much work.
I'll buff out a bruise or a pimple and adjust the color/exposure/etc if I need to. I keep things that are always part of my body like scars, and never change the actual shape of my body. Honestly, I doubt many cam models do... and if they do, you'd be able to tell. Like other said, it take crazy skills to make that look realistic.
My ex room mate was a photography major, so I knew a lot of photographers. I helped some of them build portfolios by modeling, and in exchange they would take pictures for me sometimes. After a few times, I decided to just ask for the raws. The photoshopping was SO bad and extreme on most of them. People get crazy with it, less is more.
My ex room mate was a photography major, so I knew a lot of photographers. I helped some of them build portfolios by modeling, and in exchange they would take pictures for me sometimes. After a few times, I decided to just ask for the raws. The photoshopping was SO bad and extreme on most of them. People get crazy with it, less is more.
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