Friday, October 15, 2010

Fun With Photoshop?

Photoshop can help a designer achieve many things. Cropping, sharpening, extracting - the software's ability to enhance photographs feels like a lifesaver at times. However, the program also has a dark side. Certain designers airbrushing skills are something to marvel at and others' skills are quite the opposite.

Case in point: Avril Lavigne on the cover of Maxim.




At first glance Avril looks good, or appropriate for the cover of Maxim anyway. But then you catch of a glimpse of her right arm. In attempts to give Ms. Lavigne a slimmer waist some designer mutilated her arm. Trying to perfect a cover image is justifiable, but publishing a mistake this obvious is definitely not.

Please Photoshop responsibly.
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2 comments:

  1. BethOctober 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM

    As if Avril Lavigne isn't skinny enough??? This is so wrong on so many levels--you would think after Kate Winslet raised a stink about herself being photoshopped skinnier on a cover that this would have stopped by now (the photoshop diet, that is). Not only is this poor photo-editing it's a poor message to women and especially young girls.

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  2. MeredithOctober 20, 2010 at 6:50 PM

    Absolutely! That's why certain countries are fighting for warning labels on Photoshopped images. Thinking of young girls seeing magazines covers like this, I can't say I'm opposed.

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