Photoshopping

[hils]

I actually meant to poll about this a while ago but I forgot.

I'm just curious how many of you 'fix' photos of yourself with Photoshop or whatever before you post them on any sort of online site

Personally I don't, but I did make my hair a bit more red in an icon of myself that I used to have, and that was only because the camera didn't pick up the colour properly. Mostly what you see is what you get

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Comments

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

This is because the icon you see? *points to it* is all I have ever posted of me online. Except for a super secret screened post seen by a handful of people...

I hate photos of me. Hate.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Aww!!! Well, fair enough

[http://users.livejournal.com/_slutknot_/]

Photoshop would really cut into my sitting around time.
;)

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe!

[notsowise-sage.livejournal.com]

I usually edit photo's of new hair colour, as the colour doesn't stand out in the light I have available to me. I alter it to make it closer.

I've not yet mastered the art of air brushing and what not - otherwise I might look more like this:

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehehe!

[gillo]

To be fair I sometimes click on the autofix to balance colours, contrast etc. Otherwise, no.Not that I like posting pictures of me much anyway.

[hils.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm usually the one behind the camera *g*

[rosebud81.livejournal.com]

The only time I do it is when something just looks wrong - hair, or something. Or if the lighting is shit. lol.

[mysticmoonstorm.livejournal.com]

I'm not voting - because sometimes I fix them, sometimes I don't. Given, 90% of my photography is scenery - and when I fix them I fix it so the colors are how I* remember seeing them when I took the photo.

For example - I have some great photos of Dunnottar Castle in Stonehaven. The evening we went the grass was almost blue green and the castle had a shadowy effect to it as it was just before sunset. The photos looked ok on preview but when I downloaded them to the computer they were much lighter then what I thought they should be - so I added some blue and darkened the shadows which made it much more hor I remembered it!

[dametokillfor.livejournal.com]

When I had PSP, I used to make my skin a little bit better.
My camera is super sensitive and picks up every blemish, make-up or no.
So I used to fix that a bit.
But aside from that, I tend to leave it as is.
Or use black and white shots - which is a shame because I love my icey blue eyes.

[cordykitten]

I can't :) Otherwise I would correct red eyes and such, but nothing more.

[mirawhisperwind.livejournal.com]

well the regular pictures of me, i do not alter but I have a collection of pictures of me that are definitly altered. but very obviously so. *points to icon*

[lenina101.livejournal.com]

I ticked No as the only editing I do is occasionally to adjust the brightness so the photos aren't horrendously dark. I don't airbrush or edit my appearance in the photo at all.