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Is your offspring too ugly?
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:25 pm    Post subject: Is your offspring too ugly? Reply with quote

Never fear-- we're here to help.




*Curls replaced
*Shirt colorized
*Irises replaced & moved for eye contact
*Lashes added
*Stray hairs removed
*Blush added
*Skin tanned
*Brows shaped
*Skin blended
*Dark circles faded
*Background changed
*Photo angled & shapened
*Overall color & contrast corrected

If you think that's bad, you should see what they do to babies!

More horrific samples:
http://www.naturalbeautiescontest.homestead.com/retoucha.html
http://www.naturalbeautiescontest.homestead.com/retouchc.html
http://www.naturalbeautiescontest.homestead.com/retouch1a.html (here they've replaced her entire mouth and added "doll eyes")
http://www.naturalbeautiescontest.homestead.com/retouch5.html
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a laugh...it's the same picture but the only difference is that it's been digitally enhanced... Shocked
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

spliff wrote:
That's a laugh...it's the same picture but the only difference is that it's been digitally enhanced... Shocked


You're a mysterious man, Spliff.
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swetepete



Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeez, that's brutal. What do they do, dip the little beggars in carnuba wax?
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is some seriously freaky shit...
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twg



Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Is your offspring too ugly? Reply with quote

kermo wrote:
Never fear-- we're here to help.



AHHHH! KILL IT! IT AIN'T HUMAN NO MORE!
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The one on the right reminds me of my grandmother.
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swetepete



Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your Gramma looks like the Bride of Chucky, dude?
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SuperFly



Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I want to know what you googled to find that site.
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SuperFly wrote:
I want to know what you googled to find that site.


I found it on this column/blog: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/07/31/baby_airbrush/index.html
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The Bobster



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Um, sort of looks like most of it is stuff we could do at home with photoshop ... am I wrong?
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darkhorse_NZ



Joined: 20 Feb 2007
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

there was nothing wrong with the wee girl in the first goddamned place!
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korea252



Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul, Haebangchon

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Is your offspring too ugly? Reply with quote

If you think that's bad, you should see what they do to babies!

That's sick. What weirdo pays to have their kids made to look like that?
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darkhorse_NZ



Joined: 20 Feb 2007
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Is your offspring too ugly? Reply with quote

korea252 wrote:
If you think that's bad, you should see what they do to babies!

That's sick. What weirdo pays to have their kids made to look like that?


These vile concoctions belong in Maddam Tussaud's!!! : Shocked
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KYC



Joined: 11 May 2006

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Bobster wrote:
Um, sort of looks like most of it is stuff we could do at home with photoshop ... am I wrong?



No. I'm no pro but I have better photo shop skills than that...the results look like...plastic....like plastic barbie dolls...thats just unrealistic looking and just damn ugly
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