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    Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing

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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/16/09

    In reply to Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing
    They took nutrition info off baby food b/c they didn't want parents putting their under three year olds on a low fat diet, so I guess babyrexia is a valid concern. Some kids are real little pumpkins (read:baby eats tokyo) but they grow out of it; isn't it really bad to put your infant on a diet, like it kills brain cells or something?
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    Edited by BytheSea at 11/16/09 9:47 PM BytheSea was starred BytheSea was unstarred
    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    11/16/09

    In reply to Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing

    You wouldn't airbrush the rolls out of the cute dog, don't do it to the baby!! #babyairbrushing
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/16/09

    In reply to Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing
    This is sort of like how whenever characters on popular TV shows or movies has a baby, it emerges from the womb about four months old and cherubic.

    Real live infants are not cute. They look like angry purses that were left outside over the winter. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/16/09

    @morninggloria: Yeah, so I'm going to let you keep using the "assholes of the sea" line but I'm stealing the thing about infants looking like angry purses. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of Alys Brangwin has a huge talent Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
    11/16/09

    @morninggloria: I think they look like scary aliens, what with the oversize head, eyes, and lack of communication skills. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of rhoswhen rhoswhen
    11/16/09

    @morninggloria: I personally enjoy their perpetually grumpy face and inability to control their facial expressions. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of lodown lodown
    11/16/09

    @morninggloria: I still think they're cute, but in an ugly way, like certain dog breeds. I like the wee old grouchy man faces. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/16/09


    @Alys Brangwin: #babyairbrushing
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    Image of CParis CParis
    11/16/09

    @rhoswhen: I think they look like old men - bald and wrinkly. I've noticed that all of the newborns in my family look exactly like my grandfather! #babyairbrushing
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/16/09

    In reply to Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing
    I can understand airbrushing out red crying eyes or drool spots or color correcting skin that might be windburned or jaundiced. But why get rid of the baby fat?! It's so precious!! #babyairbrushing
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    Image of TransFat TransFat
    11/16/09

    In reply to Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing

      #babyairbrushing
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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    11/16/09

    In reply to Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing
    Here's hoping we don't get to the point where an editor goes "Make the baby skinnier! Make it work! Make it look like Gollum!"

    I now always wonder what the original version of most photos looked like. I was looking at a photo of an actor yesterday, a promo shot for his TV show, and I spent a few minutes wondering what had been "fixed." It really is everywhere, so this does not shock me at all. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of lastsinglestanding lastsinglestanding
    11/16/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): My boyfriend is a photographer, a very good photographer, and it amazes me the number of people who aren't concerned about his method or equipment or styling for portraits, but move right to "can you do the editing and photoshopping?"

    What happened to good photography? #babyairbrushing
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    Image of msAnthrope msAnthrope
    11/16/09

    @lastsinglestanding:

    actually i'd not be so surprised about this. they're buying a service from him, and they assume that, as a professional, he knows about all that "technical stuff." most people just want to see a photographer's portfolio, and they assume all photography needs some "retouching." "photoshopping" has become another catch-phrase just like "botox." #babyairbrushing
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    Image of lastsinglestanding lastsinglestanding
    11/16/09

    @msAnthrope: It was just particularly funny over the weekend when he was meeting with a woman who wanted portraits of shelter dogs. And she asked about Photoshopping. Leave the puppies alone! #babyairbrushing
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    Image of msAnthrope msAnthrope
    11/16/09

    @lastsinglestanding:

    if i'd been your boyfriend i don't think i'd have been able to restrain myself from laughing in her face! what did she want "photoshopped," exactly? #babyairbrushing
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    Image of lastsinglestanding lastsinglestanding
    11/16/09

    @msAnthrope: Not really sure, but I'm positive he had a good giggle fit over that one.

    "This shelter dog looks a bit mangy. Can you photoshop the grunge off of him?" #babyairbrushing
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    11/16/09

    @msAnthrope: The juxtaposition of which is quite telling, IMO. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    11/16/09

    In reply to Magazines Admit To Baby Airbrushing
    I thought babies were like Thanksgiving turkeys: The plumper, the better. #babyairbrushing
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    11/16/09

    @Tchotchke: the plumpness makes for more succulent flesh

    ETA: god, i just made even my skin crawl...
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    Edited by Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith at 11/16/09 4:28 PM Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith was starred Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith was unstarred
    Image of collegelemur collegelemur
    11/16/09

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Swift? Is that you? If so, can I have your recipe? #babyairbrushing
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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    11/16/09

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Well, that baby in the picture IS nommable. Just not necessarily in that way... #babyairbrushing
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    Image of MIXED MIXED
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads
    "...since a recent study found that overweight women feel worse about themselves after looking a photos of models, whether the models were skinny or not."

    God that just makes me really sad. Everywhere we look, it's "my hair can't do that," or "my arms don't look like that," or "that dress won't look like that on me." So terrible that we compare ourselves to exhaustion like this. #photoshopban
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads
    Can the disclaimers take the form of LOLmodels?

    ATTN: Thiz bish no iz real. Real ladiez headz no iz biggur than bodiez. #photoshopban
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    Image of dancerevolution dancerevolution
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads
    Anything that brings awareness to the intense pressure put on teenage girls (and boys) to look a certain way is a great thing. It is a huge step in the right direction. It's not really even about the labels, although that's a start. It is huge that lawmakers are talking about this, at least in my opinion. #photoshopban
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    Image of Notes from the underwhelmed Notes from the underwhelmed
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads
    I think it's a good idea mostly because I think it's hilarious. #photoshopban
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    Image of ZemarSea Urchin ZemarSea Urchin
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads
    Ooh and what about the peer/family aspect? Has anyone studied that in realtion to media images? Which is the larger factor? #photoshopban
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    Image of ZemarSea Urchin ZemarSea Urchin
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads

    It's like the ciggie warnings. Is it working for you? #photoshopban
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    11/09/09

    @ZemarSea Urchin: I used to casually smoke cigarettes when drinking until I accidentally made tar in my lab.

    Never again.

    Maybe schools should start a tar initiative, because seeing a picture of something does very little, but breathing in the putrid fumes of an overheated distillation does a lot. #photoshopban
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    Image of ZemarSea Urchin ZemarSea Urchin
    11/09/09

    @Snowbunny: I like that plan. Schools should have a photoshop program and as a year end project create their own shoots according to the protocols of the industry. That would be eye opening. #photoshopban
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    Image of Leucadia Leucadia
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads
    Great advice for everyone: Try to look at fewer advertising images, period. I stopped buying magazines because every magazine is simply a device to get you to buy things.* It is engineered to cause dissatisfaction of some kind. So are TV commercials. Just don't look, as Lisa S. said, and help keep kids from looking. They'll be better off in many immeasureable ways if fewer people are trying to sell them something.

    *I do read nerd magazines like the New Yorker, which tries to get me to buy small portable canoes and real wool French berets.
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    Image of FrannyR FrannyR
    11/09/09

    In reply to More Experts Call For Disclaimers On Photoshopped Ads
    Yes, I think it's a good idea. Most of the time, ppl aren't aware of just how much retouching has been/can be done. Or how. Ppl say "Oh, that's photoshopped" without really understanding what that means. It's just the standard answer, ppl say that about unflattering photos of their favourite celebrities. One thing that is quite common in magazines is to use underweight models and use photo retouching to smooth out visible rib cages, hip bones, sternums and collarbones. That way you have a(n impossibly) thin model that is still smooth and round, and doesn't look starved and unhealthy. #photoshopban
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