http://www.glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html

this site shows the before pics and the retouched images. Some of them are a very dramatic difference.

Just think.. young girls are killing themsleves trying to look like people that have been digitally enhanced!

That site is awesome!

Do you remember that photo spread that Jamie Lee Curtis did a few years ago? She held up a copy of it on Ellen or Oprah and said "You can't look like this. I don't look like this!"

WOW. I played around with that alot.

The one that sticks out at me the most, was a bikini girl on her hands and knees.. they gave her a whole new butt!

Is that Cuba Gooding jr with a girl? They lifted her back end and her shorts
I've been a nurse for a lot of years and I ain't never seen that many round boobs!

Wow, is that ever depressing. Some of the most beautiful, respected people still aren't good enough. What a mixed-up culture we have!

p.s. I just noticed another thing about these photos -- in more cases than not, he wipes out any definition in women's muscles! It's that old bias about muscles not being "feminine," I think... how sad, because many of these women look PUMPED in the "befores"!

True! Like Halle isn't drop dead gorgeous even in her before's.

Very Cool...now if only the world would start to truly understand that!

xoxo
Linda

it amazes me how plastic looking some of the after pics are

I got to wondering how much of it is laziness on the part of the photographers. You don't need good lighting or a studio or back drops. These girls don't even need make-up. You can just add it all in later.

I've noticed with black folks that there is a tendency to lighten up their skin tones when I think they look great like they are. Our society is so warped when it comes to this issue.

They seem to want to "orange-ify" their skin tone

I am amazed! Some of these people look baaaaaaaaaad before the retouches were done. Wow!

Can he come and do a retouch job on me before I leave the house every morning????

Sorry, I haven't missed the point really!!!

I think it was a photo of Tyra banks, in the middle with bulging boobs, anyway I really noticed her hands. Since I have been weight lifting I have bulging veins and sinews in my hands, it's not a problem, but I notice she has them too, but they completely retouched them away.

Sad that the very things that helped sculpt her body are airbrushed away.

I had a friend who was a model and when she first showed me her book, I probably wouldn't have known it was her in many of them if the pictures weren't all together. I was stunned at what they could do with make-up and and retouches. Most of the women we see in advertisements and magazines do not look that way in person.