the editable lifeform

[rm]

via zarq:

http://www.flicka.org/gotflash.html
The Swedish Social ministry has set up a website to show how retouched a magazine cover really is. Having formerly worked as a personal assistant for a professional retoucher, I got to say, none of what is seen here is out of the ordinary, and is actually relatively minor compared to some of the work I've seen done on celebrity photos.

The only reason they are better looking than you is time, money and technology. Period.

Comments

[deslea.livejournal.com]

I loaded it in both Opera and IE and I just got the magazine cover with the endlessly flashing "loading" even after there was no bandwidth movement anymore. I clicked all over the picture and nothing happened. What am I missing? *curious*

[rm.livejournal.com]

I had to click around on teh image a few times before a thing loaded where I could click words in Swedish and when I did that it showed the original photo and then morphed it into how it looks on the magazine cover... everything from eye and hair color adjustments to large breasts, seriously slimmed waistline and enhanced lips.

[deslea.livejournal.com]

I think I'm just destined to not see it. I swear, I've clicked every pixel on the picture, and nothing happens. *sigh* I'd bet her arms are retouched to hell, just for one thing, though - they're completely disproportionate to her hands.