a quick touch-up

James Wang (a photographer and friend) posted a great blog entry about touching up faces in photoshop. He used Edward James Olmos as his (perfect) example. My subject doesn't have nearly the same need for touching up so I had to be super subtle.

Before:


After:


The major difference between this version and Edward James Olmos is the stubble and bangs. I had to be careful to mask the effect around the hair - seeing blurry bangs was giving away that I had touched up the photo. Still, this took me less than 5 minutes. Fun!!

schadenfreude

I think of this blog as a place for me to gather inspiring and beautiful things. I intend to be upbeat and positive but I do occasionally enjoy chuckling at other people's misfortune... especially when it comes to photoshop. A blog I follow is appropriately called Photoshop Disasters and I find it highly entertaining. I grabbed some of my favorites from the last few months for your amusement:

There's the typical missing element:

A front wheel perhaps?



Or a reflection?



Or even a leg.

And then there are ones that mess with your brain:

yikes!

Lastly, you know someone got fired for this mistake:

big oops.

[For those of you who aren't designers, lorem ipsum is latin. We use latin as a placeholder for text because it has a similar look to english without distracting anyone from trying to read what it's saying]