1 post tagged “photoshop”

Okay, this kind of blows my mind (yes, it's a small thing, and not that hard to blow, but still...): In Peacay's post about an 1800s photographer, I pointed out this photo (or here for zoom-able Flash version), and said "She's sort of got this Jennifer Anniston thing going on (though she looks like she's about to hurl here)" and peacay said he didn't really see the resemblance... And so I looked some more, and googled up some pix of Jen, and thought, "Hm, yeah. Maybe not, after all". Here's the lady in question:

But then I thought, "okay, though - let's see what she would look like as a modern woman with modern hair, using modern cosmetics". So I started photoshopping - but changing only those things that a normal woman can effect with ordinary makeup. And this is what I ended up with:

Here's what I did, cosmetically: first I took off that awful rouge that the photographer applied in exactly the wrong place for her facial structure, and reapplied it, lighter and higher up. I gave her lipstick in two tones (and I did give her a bit of a smile, because the poor woman really does look like she's about to be sick, and I have to assume that she smiled, at least a little, once in a while), but I did not change the lip structure at all - same definition, same fullness, exactly

I tweezed the tiniest bit from under the inner, thicker part of the brow, and used "eyebrow pencil" to fill in the sparse outer part of the brow. I applied mascara on top and bottom lashes, and eyeliner under the eyes. I used concealer on the outer edges of the eyes where they droop down a bit too much and on the upper inner corners of the eyes, and used eyeshadow a couple tones darker than her skin tone (as per this photo, anyway) on her upper lids. I removed the age flecks from this area of the photo so she wouldn't have spots all over her face, and I gave her a new hairdo.

I didn't touch her facial structure, except that weird bulge on the left outer side of her face, which is an artifact of the photographer's touching up (he did something with the hair on both sides closest to her face, that I noticed in an extreme enlargement). I also gave her an eye color approximate to what it looks like she might have had, and removed the smudge from her chin, which was either more bad touching up, or bad lighting... and anyway, even if she did have a freakishly discolored chin, foundation would take care of that. The only "cheating" I did was to lighten the whites of her eyes, but you gotta give me that one, right?

Anyway - taadaa! Does she not look like Jennifer? (She doesn't have the Jennifer jaw, but to me, her other features seem quite similar.) You may think that that was me, painting Jennifer on to her, but I assure you I don't have the skills for that, and couldn't possibly draw or paint an identifiable portrait of anyone to save my life - quite literally. You may not believe this, and even I admit that maybe I have some heretofore untapped talent,  and subconsciously affected the outcome, but check this out: I overlayed the makeover image on top of the original image, and asked photoshop to find the outlines, then I reduced the opacity to make it semi-transparent, and inverted it so that the lines would show up white:

So. Anyway. Yeah. That's how I spent my Saturday morning, what's it to you? Stop looking at me like that.