So you can change your photos
to look like mini models, or fool people into thinking you
took your pics on a plastic Lomo camera, but what if you love the turnout so much, you want to make it into a work of art? "No problemo," says
Shutterfly!
Shutterfly offers some pretty easy ways for your photos to get the attention they deserve.
After all the fun I had
making my photos look like tiny models with the Tilt-Shift effect, I had to look for something new to add to my effects arsenal. I
love my Lomo camera and the effect it produces, but to be honest, I don't always have the cash to throw down for film or development. It can get pretty darn expensive!
Even a geek like me — who can
photoshop a zit out like nobody's business — needs to outsource once in a while. For photoshop tips, that is. Incoming,
Photoshop Lady!
Let's just say I tired of Dane Cook's shtick sometime around 2005, but his recent rant about Photoshop put him back on my geeky radar.
The actor/comedian
ranted about the photoshopping and general artwork for his new film,
My Best Friend's Girl, basically calling out the shoddiness of the work and how differently it portrays his own looks and the feel of the movie.
Usually we notice runaway photoshopping of females, like
Keira Knightley's blown-up chest or the lightening of
Beyonce's skin, so it's interesting that a male celebrity is up in arms.
Is this a picture of a miniaturized London street? Nope, it's the real deal, just made to look like a tiny version of itself! The
effect is called Tilt-Shift and it's totally awesome.
The Internet has nothing better to do than punk with people's pics these days. No photo is off limits, nobody is sacred, and there are absolutely no boundaries.
Decapitate a baby?
Many of us compare ourselves to the models and celebs we see in advertisements. Big mistake! Photoshop is alive and well in the world and — with a little added color or toning or erasing — it makes everyone look new and improved.
Remember when you were going through puberty and your mom tried to make you feel better by saying that zits aren't permanent? Did you remind her about pictures? Because photographs are forever, and zits shouldn't be.
Scientific American has a tutorial on
how to spot a doctored photo, which is really interesting when applied to timely news photos, but for this gossip junkie, it doubles in interest when you use it to spot photoshopped celebrity photos! In the new
Sex and the City movie, Carrie is swayed into doing a magazine photo shoot with two words: "Vogue airbrushing." I won't lie to you, my vanity perked up when I was first learning Photoshop, because I was thinking "Yessss!
Chews us up and spits us out — that's all the Internet does these days. While sites such as
ManBabies and
Cat Ladies make a big show of decapitating and switching people's heads for fun,
Om Nom Nom Nom hunts down and shows the hungry, abstract monster in every photo. Start looking and you'll notice that he's always lurking.
