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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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I saw a funny video on Photoshopping 101


and I do run a pass over my girls faces (they have slight pimples, I take them off) I did elongate a friend who hates having her photo taken because of her weight. I made her a bit taller...she is the ONLY one who noticed! lol
I have for fun done eye pop and whitened my teeth...but what about you? do you ps!?
 
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nope. I even learned how to in my photoshop class in college. I always forget about that possibility.
 
The video won't load at work... but I have whitened teeth, and cleared skin on lots of pictures. It is not an every picture thing and it's way subtle. For friends and stuff, I've switched heads and other fixes, but at their request.
 
It doesn't load for me either.
I remove zits and stuff in Lightroom all the time. I don't make huge edits, but sometimes a zit is like LOOK AT ME and that is not the memory I want to record. I don't make myself thinner or anything like that. This is what I look like.
 
Unless I am printing a portrait for framing, I really don't do any cosmetic retouching. For page and album stuff, it is what it is!
 
I've PSed little cuts on my kids' faces cuz when you crop the pic to a close-up, they look bigger/worse than they are lol, and unless the LO is about how they got hurt, then I don't want the boo-boo as part of the page (but I don't do this for every page or every little cut). And I have photoshopped pics by pasting the "good" version of me (or of one the kids, or DH) into a pic where everyone else looks good but the person being PSed either looks horrible or just isn't looking in the same direction as everyone else. And I admit to PSing out a few boogies from my kids' noses. :hehe
 
I have removed cuts, scars, pimples, etc but that's about all. I sometimes will photoshop things like power lines of it distracts from the subject of my photo.
 
I photoshopped a few things for the big family portrait for my mom's wall. I fixed my siblings acne, fixed some red eye, and changed my parents faces so they were looking at the photo. (Seriously! How is it that ALL the 5 and under crowd was looking, but the 50 and over crowd wasn't!?!?!?) But that was because it was a Big Fat Deal Photo.
Regular photos and scrap pages, I don't. This is who I am right now. And this is who my family is - warts and all. I'm glad my preteen/teen photos weren't photoshopped, even though I went through awkward!
 
I don't really mess with faces at all, the main exception being older photos that I've scanned or the ones with red eye. There is one photo of my youngest when he was about 2 that I dearly love, but he was sick at the time and I do PS the snot off his face lol. I work on backgrounds more than anything...taking out extra people or things that are distracting.
 
I almost never do. Every once in a while a pimple or a dirty mouth (one of the kids). But mostly I leave as is.
 
I have to adjust color all the time. We're four different shades of Latin. So, that can be impossible in some lighting to get a good picture. I saturate color all the time in pics. I don't change anything else. I did change Brody's head once to have a nice family pic. One time we had our portraits done & the photographer photoshopped the psoriasis and discoloration on my husband's face without asking. That was strange to me. Hubby loved it.
 
I do touch-up photos every now and then but it's usually minimal and it totally depends on the photo and what I'm using it for.
 
yes, I do if needed. skin clearing, liquifying, removing strange objects. I have no shame and good PS skills.
 
Oh yes, I'm PS alcoholic! Not all get cleaned up, but most. I adjust the levels, filter noise & sharpen pretty much all my photos. Then I may do some cloning, whitening and probably run a few actions until the photo suits me. Probably the photographer coming out in me... :-)
 
I almost always remove bumps. The girls and I get a big one when we get one and it can take over the photo. It isn't who we are - it's that time of the month - so I don't want it documented. They are good with this and grateful. I have a weird blonde streak in my bangs that sometimes doesn't show up on film and looks really weird so I have been known to fix that. I usually leave the other mess alone unless whomever took the photo leaves an object in the background looking like it is coming out of someone's head. That drives me crazy.
 
I will touch up a photo if needed. The kids love for me to take pictures and scrap them because I never make them look bad.
 
Just annoying things. I just removed some power lines from the photo of an old church that I took last week. I could have just crossed the street to avoid them, but then I would have missed the great sunset behind the church.

Oh, and when I made my daughter's wedding album, I took out all the exit signs that were above each door in the reception hall.
 
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