Happy Friday. Over at Vogue magazine, it seems the retouching crew was a little remiss with Mario Testino’s shot of Kate Moss and her daughter Lila –seems they…er…left off a few of her daughters fingers. Or worse, that her daughters fingers actually fused into her mom’s back.
So, we all know Photoshop happens. They’re in there taking out zits and making people skinnier than they really are, and taking out wrinkles and on and on. Yes, yes, we all “know” this. But is “oops, I just left off a few body parts” excusable? I don’t know where I stand on this. It’s a beautiful shot, but the sophomoric blunder isn’t lost on me.
Do YOU even care, or is it just expected that there will be some mistakes and faux pas along the way, so we should just get on with it anyway….?
(faux pas via Jezebel)
Explains why they both look so miserable 🙂
I will go with… how on earth did someone not catch this before it went to print??
This is evidence of the use of photoshop going too far, and yes it is a problem. Its just a little creepy and doesn’t speak well for beauty mags or the photographer, Mario should be pissed!
I think this is a lesson in Gestalt psychology. Obviously there are talented people at work here, but there something to be said about the disconnect between zoom states. When you go from retouching an image at %100, then step back, its easy to miss the details in the 100% view. Perhaps giant monitors is the way to go?
I would say with the image’s final destination being one of the biggest fashion magazines in the world, I would say this is NOTexcusable. Although I must say I would have probably missed the error if it hadn’t been pointed out to me and enlarged in a separate image.
I hope we don’t get to a point where people don’t care about these kind of things. The word “photoshopped” is already beginning to be a bad word and these would just add some fuel to the fire.
I agree, for someone so big, a mistake like this shouldn’t happen – when I am editing, I know exactly what I edit, and I would defiantly know if I edited a photo and accidentally removed someone’s hand – you would go back and fix it. But I would have also probably missed it – unless it was a large poster advertisement.
Photos that have been awkwardly edited in Photoshop annoy me the most – mainly removing backgrounds from people, when not on a clear background, so the editor does a half-arsed job and it has rough edges, part of the background, or bits that are just missing.
I think too much is down to the editor now – its cheaper to quickly snaps a load of shots in an hour, then spend hours later, than it is spending hours getting it right and just a small bit of re-touching later.