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May 11, 8:42am
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Retouching gets enough bad press as is, what with the "real beauty" camp trying to blame unrealistic ideals on polished magazine covers rather than vice versa. I'm not thumbing this down over its supposed impact on children's self esteem. I'm thumbing it down because this is the worst fucking hack job I have ever seen.
I'm sick of those articles written by bloggers who think they're so enlightened because they've realized that images are edited, the ones that are half generic empowerment shpeil and half links to the portfolios of horrible amateurs with a copy of Photoshop Elements who solve all of their problems with Gaussian Blur and Liquify. Those are the examples that are put forward to prove that this industry is evil and must be destroyed.
I don't mind novices. It wasn't so long ago that I thought the best way to do skin was a color fill layer at 50% opacity. But in the same way that it's easy to convince yourself that your first image ever is Vogue-worthy, it's easy to forget that real retouching--the subtle kind--is nothing like this.
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