On Monday in class we all made a woman look like an enhanced and more beautiful version of herself through the art of Photoshop. It slightly upset me because everyone was kind of disgusted by her natural face and it made me think of how she was just a regular person who somehow ended up in a New Media design class to get ripped on. I learned a lot that day especially concerning the fine line between a natural touch-up and one that makes the subject look like "a burn victim" (phrasing professor Dunning). I also learned that I am terrible at using the blur effect from filter but I was great at implementing the clone stamp for fixing the red spots on the subject's face as well as removing the most of her uni brow. I enjoyed using the sponge tool for softening certain aspects of her features.
The burn tool was one of my favorites solely because it made her eyes pop in a very pretty way. She already had curly eyelashes and using this tool only emphasized them by using darkness.
Yes, she was our unknowing volunteer, but she helped teach us a lot which is much more than most beautiful models do.
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