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Korean Ads, before and after photoshop

 
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mayorgc



Joined: 19 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:45 pm    Post subject: Korean Ads, before and after photoshop Reply with quote

I like looking at these things.

http://enter.msn.co.kr/starholic/stphoto/star_view.html?_Number=48965

from the grand narrative

http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/girls-generation-photoshop/
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow, that's actually pretty cool to watch.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll have to wait until I get home. My work computer can't handle all the animated gifs.
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TECO



Joined: 20 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, that's great.

confirms that the models and landscape we see in posters or photos are not always entirely what they look like in reality.

That's why I've always hated Playboy Magazine - although I only ever read it for the interviews.
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aboxofchocolates



Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's funny. If you catch the picture before the change you think "hey, that's and attractive girl". Then you watch the photoshop change and you see the shiny new girl at the end. Then it changes back into the "before" pic that looked great at first, and it's a huge shock. All these models are probably bone thin anyway, and they are photoshoping away even more of their bodies. I wonder if a real world representation of their photoshopped bodies could even stand.
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the most pronounced 'shopping is done to their jawlines.
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Jang-Dong Gun



Joined: 17 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The third picture hardly changes the shapes, mostly the brightness... a big difference though.
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Goon-Yang



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This shows you that all Koreans want to be white...lol.
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The Grand Narrative



Joined: 16 Jun 2009
Location: Busan

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the link mayorgc.

Just in case anyone gets the wrong impression from them though, the Photoshopped images WEREN'T used in the advertisements. Nobody knows exactly why they were created then, but the consensus of commenters on the K-pop blogs is that someone just wanted to make a name for themselves.
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Gibberish



Joined: 29 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone should read the second link, the unphotoshopped ones are the ones used in the ads, the retouched ones are by someone else.

And I would so, so bang every one of them, before, after and during it all.
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