Mag bitchslapped in Duchess Kate digi-slimming case The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has forced a magazine to apologise for printing an altered photograph of the Duchess of Cambridge. Grazia magazine published a picture of the duchess in her wedding dress that appeared to make her look thinner, according to the complaint the PCC received. The PCC is a self-regulatory …
...and looking at the before and after, I reckon the Mag's telling the truth.
Often finding myself removing people, random legs/arms and stuff like this happens. If her righthand side (as you look at the pic) wasn't so slim itself, this wouldn't have happened! They would have had to spend time actually fattening her up to compensate!!!
Good thing that humans are always perfectly symmetrical when walking.
Why did they feel the need to reflect her waist as well as her arm (which I can understand)
She has her weight on one hip, so her waist if offset to her right at the time the photo is taken. It's a pretty easy mistake, but one that should have been obvious to the people doing the edit. Are they really so focussed on individual pixels that they never look at the photo?
Quite possibly: http://www.psdisasters.com/
The problem is not so much the waist as the bouquet. If they had just reflected her left arm, then it would not have been long enough to reach behind the bouquet. They would have probably needed to jig both arms and the bouquet around so that she relatively symmetrical arms, or the pose would look wrong. Of course, they could have just mirrored the left arm and increased the size of the bouquet to cover the mess.
Looks like a rushed job to me and I'd accept Grazia's explanation; cock-up or oversight rather than by design.
There's definitely been more dishonest, blatant and deliberate, photoshopping elsewhere which is designed to deceive and that's what we need to weed out. Grazia got their wrist slapped; fair enough, time to move on.
The reason its important is we have enough little girls with massive self image problems, without adding to it by saying thats its possible to be impossible thin like this picture. Of course you understood this becuase you are human and not just a mssive geek lives in his mums basement.
I just saw both images side by side, and the evidence does not support Grazia's story about mirroring the arm. Everything in the image has been thoroughly adjusted, including the Duchess's waist (much smaller), boobs (bigger), face and dress.
I guess all magazine pictures are essentially cartoons now, ie entirely synthetic and exaggerated images. Even the event is fake. The duchess never occupied the posture depicted. I hope this is just a passing fashion, and mags go back to showing real, actual pictures.
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