04-14-2010, 09:15 PM
MacDoxy wrote:
the worst thing is taking photoshop tutorials
high profile (for adobe) PS instructors giving video tutorials
i kind live off the grid of fashion and the like, and all my friends are actual size and real races
so though i expected there to be a bit of digi airbrushing it was way worse than i had imagined
one tutorial was showing how to make a model look better and essentially took a gorgeous 'exotic' looking woman and arianized her features to make her look "better" ie: slimmed the nose, narrowed the eyes, made the lips smaller, ears smaller, changed he face shape a bit until she went from a normal (really beautiful-seriously) pale possibly indian woman to a slightly over-tanned white woman. and everyone just thought that was great in the video. it was creeeepy. with PS its not just beauty or body standards, but the racial bias of the designers and possibly the clients effecting society. it was a hard thing to watch as a tutorial but more weird was the overall pleasantries and happy comments at the end of how great the altered one was in the side-by-side. how could they not notice they were all gushing over a guy "whitening" a woman up? it was like bizarro world.
the white girl with the Latino characteristics or the one with big botox lips and arse ?