digital touchups

[angeoverhere]

For future reference, found via skibbley:

A fantastic site showing all the retouches done on a typical fashion mag covergirl

Fab that somebody's put this together: infuriating that it's routinely done.

Comments

[my_mundane_life]

Wow, that really is terrifying, and something all young people should see if they're easily influenced by media images! (and even if they're not, cos there's probably some level at which we all are anyway). Scary stuff!

[angeoverhere]

I can see it being immensely useful for teaching gender / body type stuff..

[my_mundane_life]

Good point! Will have to remember that.

[mankylarry]

Fantastic I've got a couple of photo's that need retouching : )

Loz

[babysimon]

See also a retoucher's portfolio.

Interested to note that it's actually the Swedish government behind that site.

[angeoverhere]

I think it was a vague memory of that site that got me thinking about how it could be used politically.

And yes, the Swedes. Lots of what they do is *immensely* cool, yet they can also be scarily oppressive in a lefty manner (drugs policy is a good example). Individually they're crackers, at least in my experience..