11 photoshop crimes against anatomy
Lonely palm sadly left on the model's shoulder the wall floated over the liquify and other obvious retoucher failures are disturbing, but not surprising. Much more entertaining and, one may say, dangerous body alterations, which are not so cardinal as to immediately attract the attention of the layman. We have chosen 11 standard retoucher operations that form an irregular body image.
Perfect hairline
If the reflection in the mirror does not convince, you can turn to biology - the hair grows from the roots, have a different length and structure. The lucky ones with a symmetric, uniform in thickness and outlines of the line - units, but rather, zeros. When processing, they often remove the fluff, always - frankly unnecessary details, sometimes - lick the hair so that it seems to be a wig. This is especially true for advertisements for hair products, looking at which you do not understand who believes them at all, even if in the cartoon “Cold Heart” the head of hair looks more likely.
Pure white eyes
As if illuminated by LED-bulbs along the line of the lower eyelid. First, if there are no vessels in the eyeball, you may be looking at the statue. Secondly, even if the subject lives on the seashore, walks every day and does not watch the news, the veins in the eyes will still be reddish. Given that eight hours of sleep is a luxury, and stress is an integral part of the day, everyone has a “red eye effect”. Without it, the look becomes more cheerful, and the features of the face are fresher and younger. In general, this is one of those details that make any picture more expensive.
Lack of nasolabial folds
One of the sacred places on the body of a woman in the media. The nasolabial fold simultaneously speaks about the age, build, grooming, light scheme of the photographer and the skill of the retoucher. An insensitive anatomy reminds us that a smile is a nasolabial fold, by definition, so it would, of course, be best not to lose it. Cleverly processed nasolabial fold instantly rejuvenates for five to seven years (and in the case of Julia Roberts - at 25).
L-shaped neckline
Two words: musculus trapezius. Flat wide muscle, which occupies a superficial position in the back of the neck and in the upper back, which helps us to spread our wings (raise and lower the shoulder blades), for some reason quite often falls into disfavor. Particularly diligent retouchers, carefully, almost under a protractor, remove the letter T so that it is possible to solve right-angled triangles and to illustrate geometry textbooks with magazine covers. Madonna and her trapezius muscles send greetings from the distant 70s.
Ideal armpits
Just remember your own - and now try to find something similar in the nearest magazine. Quelle surprise, the same in life and in other women, with the variability dictated by the method of hair removal, weight and overall tightness. But in the magazines of all the girls with big breasts or cloth in the "problem" area, the skin is stretched like a drum, all the folds and specks are removed, so that the armpits become a uniform surface. Gloss hates these square centimeters of the body and tries to gloss over them, and retouchers hate them for it. The only exception is the divine light from Taylor Swift's armpits, which is revealed in the Covergirl ad.
Straight lines of hands
More specifically - pressed and ironed biceps and triceps. Even in the skinniest model, the contours of the arm that extend from the shoulder will never be parallel like rails. Even the most atrophied biceps and triceps will create a light wave of outlines. Moreover, it is worth the usual slim girl to press her hand along the body a little (for example, to hold the clutch), she will immediately flatten out (never pose with your hand pressed).
Sharp elbows
If the model without a hint of skin folds on the inside of the elbow straightened the arm back, the skin in the bend would simply have cracked (perhaps the models are above the laws of nature and never extend the elbows). In addition, retouchers stubbornly cut their elbows to a perfectly sharp angle, which is not found in life. Look at your own photos: the tip of the elbow is able to take a variety of forms, but not with an acute angle.
Symmetrical breasts and nipples
Two identical breasts do not exist, they are different. Even those operated on by surgeons and with implants often differ slightly for naturalness. Asymmetry is a natural norm, any women’s forum will confirm this - it’s good if there’s one topic with comments like “they differ by half the size”. Men's magazines and underwear advertisements clearly do not suit asymmetry, so the left breast can be copied, reflected horizontally and inserted instead of the right one, if nature has failed. Breast circumference, outlined compass, leave no comment.
"Hourglass"
Even if your parameters are 90-60-90 with height 175, this does not mean that the peak points (rib-waist-hip) are connected by an ideal sinusoid. In models, by virtue of being thin, the hip bones very often simply stick out and spoil the sinusoid; in young ladies with a high body mass index, the sinusoid can begin to fold in harmonica. But after processing, everything looks like a proud hourglass. Even in Miranda Kerr's instagram, there was an annoying failure, which once again proves the omnipotence of the desire for a perfect body.
Round knees
If Achilles had a weak point in the heel, then the technical tasks for retouching are clearly knees. They, like the world around them, are diverse - folds, ligaments, scars, dry skin, someone may have more skin, and someone else has a different shade. There is a request for perfect knees not only in photography - in the real world there is a liposuction service around the knees. In print, all forms are proposed to be leveled to a piece of a billiard ball (if lucky).
Feet
Even after the freshest pedicure and overnight in the spa, the vertical position on the many hours of shooting on the heels and the platform will affect the condition of the legs. And if you emerge into the real world, the picture will be as follows: purple fingers (a pair of loubutens was only the 38th European, and the model had the 40th Russian), blue veins, yellow or red heels. This rainbow should always be brought to a common denominator both in form and in color. So those who are worried about the imperfections of their feet should stop immediately. We stand on them and walk every day, and do not store in a sideboard.