Photoshoping children looks trashy
I’m actually okay with airbrushing from a design standpoint — to an extent. So long as you “clean up” blemishes, I’m fine with it. But I also believe mainstream designers have gone to far recently, especially when they start digitally thinning tubby individuals or make humans look more like plasticized wax than a living organism. The above photo illustration, by Jill Greenberg, is brilliant in its subject (to candidly capture toddlers crying), but her Photoshop hack job looks disturbingly awkward. Can we at least spare the children? This picture would have been so much better unadulterated.
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May 10th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I could not agree with you more!!! These poor kids look like they have some serious problems. Like the ole saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words!” Let the original photograph tell the story.