Airbrushing Facebook Photos Is The Vainest Thing I’ve Ever Heard Of

Netty
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 03:58 pm: [report]

hahaha. What? Why is this surprising?

I have plenty of myspace and facebook friends who definitely rely on Photoshop to make their face skinnier or trim down their stomach, or erase pimples and make their eyes such a surreal bright version of blue it looks alien.

This is not news.

Anna
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 04:03 pm: [report]

Don’t worry, I exercise my Photoshop powers for good, not evil. But if I were to ever switch sides, it looks like I could make some serious bank.

Riley
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 04:07 pm: [report]

The one-arm photo is the indicator of facebook photo fixation.  Your friends are bored of taking ridiculous pictures of you, so you sit at home and take them of yourself.  Or you and your SO have no friends, so you have to take one-arms of yourselves.

Airbrushing them was the next step I guess.

Little Lamb
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 04:13 pm: [report]

I’m guilty…just today I touched up a few photographs of me in my swimsuit with my stretch-marked belly.  It’s just a little blending to fade the war wounds.  I don’t “fix” every picture, but I’ve touched-up an oily forehead or two.

writergirl
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 04:18 pm: [report]

Swear to God….this never occured to me.

Coral
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 05:51 pm: [report]

I go to an art school, and everyone knows how to use Photoshop, and various other software programs that can do airbrushing. When I was editing a photo for a friend for her website, she asked me to airbrush it to make her skin look better. I gladly did it for her, but I never have airbrushed any of my Facebook pictures. I honestly don’t even spend much time putting up pictures on Facebook. I just show who I am—not someone I want to be.

_jsw_
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 05:59 pm: [report]

I’ve avoided all of this by finding the website of a foreign model roughly my age who posts lots of pics, which I promptly steal and pretend are my own. If he dies or goes offline, though, I’m screwed. Likewise if I ever need to actually meet someone in real life.

EvilDuckie
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 06:14 pm: [report]

I’ve definitely photoshopped a few pimples away for facebook. I don’t do it for all of my pictures though. I have also photoshopped a few to give me purple eyes, or Elphaba green skin.

Yellow
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 06:40 pm: [report]

I too am guilty. But like EvilDuckie, only a couple, and only for a little blemish or two. Nothing worse than having a (rare) great photo taken, but with a big ol’ pimple… so why not take it off?

Touching up everything though? Too much. PAYING to be touched up? Way, wayyy too much.

LostInStars
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 06:43 pm: [report]

I’ve never photoshopped a Facebook photo, but some of the classier ones that get uploaded to deviantART get airbrushed.

Lynn
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 09:04 pm: [report]

I photoshopped one - I had dark circles under my eyes but I liked the photo otherwise, and I was giving it to an employee directory. I thought, why not? and I uploaded it to facebook too.

I would do it again to even out pimples or stretch marks, but I don’t know about actually making my boobs bigger or my face skinnier…

staciarain
wrote on August 11 2009 @ 09:42 pm: [report]

Woah. Why is it that big of a deal? When I upload pictures, I do artistic photoshopping - enhance the colors, give it a retro feel, etc. I also get rid of any pimples, but that’s it. I don’t see anything wrong with that, it doesn’t change me. Now if I gave myself a photoshop nose job, that would be a different story.

spanishbutterfly
wrote on August 12 2009 @ 10:11 am: [report]

people are to obssesed with other people’s opinion.. who cares if u have a pimple/strecth marks etc.. I love me for me so if im too skinny .. my face to oily my boobs arent big enough for u then dont look at my pics.. I LOVE ME FLAWS AND ALL

Queen Frostine
wrote on August 12 2009 @ 10:56 am: [report]

I remove pimples. I accept my face and body, but nobody needs to see that giant whitehead waving on my forehead. That’s just gross.

Netty
wrote on August 12 2009 @ 11:04 am: [report]

@ jsw:

hahaha. Well with photoshop if he ever dies you can just paste his head to other, newer pics of models.

399Retouch
wrote on August 12 2009 @ 04:20 pm: [report]

We have many clients who have us retouch their photos for dating websites and/or Facebook. Taking a perfect photo is almost impossible…there are going to be hairs out of place, an acne outbreak, some distraction in the background. We fix all those problems (and at a much lower price than quoted in the original article).

When you see a photo, your eye is drawn to these minor distractions. When you meet a person in real life, you tend to overlook these transient things and take in the whole person.

Every celeb photo you see in a glossy magazine is retouched, and the same opportunity should be available to all.

  Miles, 399Retouch.com

Typewriter
wrote on August 15 2009 @ 03:10 pm: [report]

I’ve done this, but only really when I had a bad acne breakout on my chin and around my mouth. I’d heard an idiot male friend of mine suggest that I had herpes (which I didn’t) in front of a bunch of people when we were out one night, and I was so embarrassed and insecure that I shopped out whatever I could for a while. Eek!
The pimples eventually cleared up, of course, but altering the pictures made me feel a little bit better at the time, at least knowing that people weren’t staring at these pictures thinking I had herpes.