And then there's the before/after:
In addition to pulling out the circles of my eyes, I erased the bruise on my inner leg, and softened out the pores on the bright side of my face. I also 'added lipstick' by using the burn tool on my lips, and brightened the corners of my eyes =D Looking back, I probably could have fixed that little bulge of my dress/waist, but I'm just so used to seeing the weird shapes my body makes, so I didn't notice it needed a little push inward...
*And to all my deviantArt people... This week also marked the first time a dA user called me conceited on one of my sexier photos... Clearly the man had never looked at my gallery, and took the fact that I asked for photography comments instead of comments about my looks to be a declaration that I thought I was the hottest thing on the face of the Earth... Also the fact that I thanked people for commenting on my looks just drove home his point... This guy made me laugh, and it's quite a shame he'll never get to know me =P So this week's theme of perfection is quite funny to me, since obviously I'm so conceited I know I'm always perfect anyway lol!
Really makes your eyes pop.
ReplyDeletePerfect! I would have never thought you had done any editing, which is exactly the point of editing
ReplyDeleteAs far as a rude commentor... in the world of self-portraiture and blogging you'll always have people who rather than read your post and understand why you do what you do, jump to the assumptions. Those are usually agree nasty people who are very unhappy. I learned to ignore toxic people like that.
I had some guy comment on the perfection tutorial with something like "Plus models are beautiful, you are {profanity profanity profanity} for writing this stuff...." Bla bla bla. Did he take the time to read what i was writing? No. if he did , he'd know that it was solely about editing in Photoshop and tools and that I actually think the edits shown on the picture took it way too far... But no, all he did was looked at the post name and the pictures.
So f**k 'em , girl :) You'll always have people raining on your parade!
What soft changes- I would have never noticed them in the original if you had not posted it. Beautiful shot! Love the perspective.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed! I really know next-to-nothing about editing out imperfections, but after seeing great examples like yours, I'm totally intrigued. I've got to learn how to do this - can't say how many photos I've tossed because those under-eye circles turned out larger than life! ;)
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