Jezebel has a nice story on Ann Taylor's amazing bid to be the home of the most ridiculous retouching ever. Apparently besides retouching images with the finesse of a prison tattooist, the site managed to post both retouched and unretouched versions of the same images.
Thanks to RG!
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Needs more shadow
Why oh why?
Smoooooooth... Wrinkles are bad yucky and get in the way of those continuous curves.
WV: RAMNESS - You thought it was all about ewe, didn't u?
She was hot before, now ugh... unnatural.
So, I'm sorry, what was unappealing about the original pic? I mean comely, nicely shaped, brunette? Yuck who'd want that?
Worst part is that I would be more likely to buy something based on that left picture than on the photoshopped right one...
I wonder, why put the two pics side by side? I can only imagine the people involved saying: "y'know, we suck at photoshop and y'know what? We don't care! And we don't give a damn about what other people think either, so screw them."
She's just inhaling in the first pic and exhaling in the second. Not a disaster.
it's gross that you can see her upper ribcage in both pictures. that's not very attractive on anyone.
Doesn't the one on the left look kind of retouched too? It looks like part of her right side is missing. Either that or she's got the most mismatched breasts ever.
What in the gods was wrong with the first image? Shirts drape for fucks sake. I want to know how a shirt drapes before I buy it.
I'm not a wall and I'm not buying that ugly shade of pink as a paint coating.
@Pigtown-Design, might it just be the drape of the shirt and the lighting?
You know, I'm not even going to snark on this. Instead I'll express hope that this photo become a mandatory part of every school's health curriculum.
(wv: prepurla, the inborn tendency to stop a few knits too early)
Murilo Silva said "I wonder, why put the two pics side by side?"
Disgruntled militant guerilla photoshoppers!
even the bigger version has a bony chest. why are bones sexy in America now? Ribs- pelvic bones, chest bones, collar bones... they make people drool.. i don't get it.
NOT a PSD!
The top on the right has a built-in tummy-control panel.
I guess the ones on the right are wrinkle-free jeans.
Not a PSD. There's a perfectly reasonable medical explanation for this before/after pic phenomenon.
MADD (Model Attention Deficient Disorder)
This is what happens when a model becomes bored in the course of a photoshoot. More than just her patience wears thin, her clothes wear thin too.
Its already been removed from their website. hahaha
thanks a lot for sharing :)
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Why?? She looked great and appealing in the original. Now she looks more like a plastic doll.
I mean really, why retouch a pic like this at all??
i'm at a loss as to why anyone felt the need to retouch the photo to begin with.
Another instance where the head is bigger than the waist.
I didn't know Gumby had a sister.
Christ, she wasn't thin enough already?
She's hot as she is... wtf would they mess around with her waist/torso?
The image has been replaced on the original site with an only *slightly* less disturbing photo.
http://www.anntaylor.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=27748&viewAll=true&Ns=CLEARANCE_SEQUENCE_NO&categoryId=3944&Nr=AND(CAT_CLEARANCE_FLAG:Y)&loc=TN&N=1200040&gridSize=sm&showAll=true&defaultColor=Dusty%20Mauve&defaultSizeType=Regular
Maybe the folks at Ann Taylor only higher models who have been in a involved in a taffy stretching incident gone horribly afoul. Those people need jobs too!
I never date women who lack ribcages. I'd get all nervous I might squish some important internal organ while hugging them.
She already looks too skinny in the untouched photo
Response by Ann Taylor --
http://jezebel.com/5605608/ann-taylor-we-agree-our-retouching-has-been-overzealous
Those jeans have too many wrinkles. OUR JEANS DO NOT HAVE WRINKLES. I SAID FIX IT!
on the website it says:
"Due to overwhelming popularity, this item is currently sold out."
maybe people got so excited about looking like a tube there was a rush.
Love that ironing! I need a really good iron.
Yet they left the neck and the strange contours of the breastbone. BTW, the first photo is perfect.
Creases me
she is too skinny if you ask me, looks like her ribs are coming out to haunt us, they could have taken a wel fed model at that?? there is nothing as much wrong in the picture as the over all attitude!
Lemme guess, the un-retouched version is the "plus size"?
If you ask me, she's still way too big in the right pic. You can't expect to sell clothes when you employ models that have the form factor of a cupboard even after you've photoshopped them. As a rule of thumb, a girl is too wide when her torso is bigger then her arm.
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A clear illustration of what's changed can be found here.
Somehow my previous post got removed? Maybe it was marked as spam (which a lot of people on PSD seem to do)?
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