I've been spending a lot of my time on Photoshop lately learning techniques and tutorials from online resources. I finally realise and understand how professionals feel when undertaking a photograph to retouch and manipulate any type of photograph. I enjoy how you can create and do just about anything using this particular software. My wrist is sprained by spending so many hours on this which i could not stop myself from the satisfaction i get.
It makes me question do professional photographers use this to a great extent to create something better from their original images or do they just enhance what they already have captured to keep it as natural as they can.
Before Airbrushing
First learning how to airbrush and applying it to create more of a perfection.
Secondly i learned how to change the colour of my eyes.
Then i followed other tutorials of how to change the colour of my hair which is basically the same rule as changing the eye colour.
Another thing i have learnt to use was the liquify tool which allows you to make parts of your body thinner or bigger.
This certainly clear things up for me now from how models in magazines and photographs always look perfect and how they are betrayed in the media. Even though most models are not far off from what they originally look like but it still creates an un-realistic look and this has a major impact on the public who see these images and are persuaded and manipulated to look this way and puts pressure on them even further.
Photographs shown below where edited by a very good friend of mine who enjoys and is interested in photography like me.
