New Photochopper?

Umm... I'm trying not to be a complete dick but I've noticed that over the last couple weeks more and more sets are given a once over with photoshop. It may have been happening all the time and I'd only know about it if the girls said, "Oh hey! O shopped/chopped my mole!" but now it looks like a lot of sets are getting the greasy glass treatment.

Is there a reason for this? It's putting a horrible taste in my mouth, I mean seriously if I wanted blur and healing tool I'd renew Playboy.

Not to say I don't love the sets, but seriously, leave 'em natural please, pretty please?

I didn't mean this to be a total flame, I just wanted to voice a concern as the foundation of my SG viewing experience has been cracked.

They're all photoshopped to some degree and have been for a long time.

they've always been photoshopped.
i think what you're referring to is something i've been noticing a lot recently though: matting out the girls and blurring backgrounds to try and make it look more shallow-focused. it doesn't work. it just makes me dizzy.

and then beyond that, there's been a lot of glow filters being used.

[Edited on Jun 09, 2006 by Maxx]

Yeah, i acknowledged that they may have always been photoshopped, but it was never really noticable. Now I look at a new set and it looks like the girls have rubber skin

Yeah, that's hot.

That made my night.

Thank you.

Yeah, noticed is the key. AS many have said already, pretty much all the sets are edited to some degree; however, you're also correct in taht lately it seems like alot of em have a real . . . obvious (to be polite) look to it. Also, if I recall correctly, on many of them i remember thinking, "this probably looks a lot better un photoshopped."

Stop printing the pictures out and eating them, Deepdish.

Click around in this section and you'll find assorted photographers with different techniques, aesthetics, and styles. Lucky for you, there are scores of them shooting what I think are now five bojillion girls. Some of them have gone with a muted and subtle look whereas others have a fun, vibrant, and hyper stylized look ala McG and his Charlies Angels flicks.

If you still don’t see anything you like, maybe you should go back to Playboy with it’s bear skin rug humping bottle blondes.

I was saying I didn't like playboy. Anyway i'm just glad to know I'm not the only one who's noticed it. I'll go back to my lurker's corner now.

ffs, is it taboo to ask a question or make a suggestion?!?!

i'll just assume your having a bad day, and being rude to patrons of the establishment isn't the house policy...

I do agree that a lot more sets seem to have the 'Diffuse' option applied to them these days which is a shame. IWhat is more beautiful? Real skin or a soft focus blur? - I think unless the model and photographer on the shoot are specifically using that kind of look as a central theme to the set, its probably not needed. I think some sets that have been photoshopped for a purpose look absolutely amazing - Twwly and Aminas recent set was absolutely fantastic and it really made my day. But I also like to see really 'real' sets of girl-in-the-mosh-pit type beauties!

bows down to the mighty queen of the sg boards.

"forgive my insolence, oh mighty one"


ps. no fuck you.

there's nothing wrong with photoshop, there's probably a lot more photoshopped in the pictures than we know or notice.
but it is getting kinda noticeable that there's an increase in the sets where the girls are photoshopped to the point where it starts looking like shiny plastic illustrations rather than photography and while i can imagine that there's people proud of their photoshopping or looking like a glossy glam model, i doubt anyone actually thinks "gosh that shiny, smudge / blurred look is so hot on a girl".

it makes the pictures look like slick advertisement photography meant to distract and sell a product rather than photography for the sake of creating a photograph. (i hope that made any sense)