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Published: 2005-04-30 04:33:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 4039; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 317
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i'm concerned with the number of altered thinspiration photos out there. some of the models really are too thin to be realistic. in order to see if it really was that easy to alter photos--to see if the average pro-ana webmaster could do it--i decided to try a hand at it myself. this took me about 1/2 hour.tools used: clone (a lot), dodge & burn, then added static to detract from the alterations.
just a warning. if it looks to good to be true, it probably is. but that doesn't make it any less triggering...
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I always thought they looked fake, too. I'm 5'3 and weigh 108 (that's just the way I am naturally) and I have NO BOOBS. These ridiculously skinny "thinspo" models would have lost the weight of their chest LONG before they lost it from their bellies, hips, and especially their scrawny ARMS. Girls I talk to online think I must have the perfect body just cuz the scale says 108, but in reality it SUCKS, cuz I have no curves, its gross an I look like a flat-chested little child. haha.
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is it Kate Moss ?
the girl on the picture looks just like her
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wow- I've been fighting with myself about (the idea of) altering my images to make me look thinner but now I think I'm glad I haven't! She looks so beautiful in the first one of course- it's scarry really-
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good work - did you use the liquify tool? helps a lot
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The clone tool was a big help, using dodge, burn, and airbrushing to blend in the changes. This was a really rough job of it but professionals do this basically all day.
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yes.. I love grapphic
and I do it!
but.. why do you do it?
pro ana?
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No, not pro-ana. I'm anorexic - back and forth in recovery - and it's a symptom of the disease to obsess over body size and obsess over and idolize others' body sizes. A lot of my art comes from that I think.
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I'm sorry for you.
me too.. I was anorexic and now 4 years later, I'm fat. I'm bulimic, and I'm ill.
I hope you'll can recover definitively
however it is
I LoVE YoUR ART
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you're totally right! anyone with photoshop or psp could do that. i have seen REALLY starving people (not only on photos) and they way their body looks is different, mind the bones...
most of those altered photos are totally unrealistic!
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i was just looking through one of my mom's dance catalogues and was thinking the same thing. the models were so obviously and unrealistically cut down to "beautiul" proportions. it made me so angry that they could do that to women who were beautiful-- and by no means fat-- before. they even cut the waists of the little girls down. little girls. it makes me sad to think of all the young dancers who will look through that catalougue and see those altered pictures and think that there is something wrong with them for not looking like a skeleton.
what is wrong with our world?
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our world is messed up. recently in china a diet pill was recalled because several DOZEN women died of liver or kidney failure after taking it. the pressure to be thin is enormous. i've met girls as young as 12 who suffer from fully-developed eating disorders. (i'm anorexic myself.) western culture in particular has an image-obsessed mentality. you must "look good to feel good." it's... sad.
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it is sad. your gallery is a good wakeup call for society, it's good that you can see the faults in the system...it will be the first step to your recovery
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thanks. i never really meant for any of my work to be a social comment or anything. it's just a way of expressing what it feels like to live in my head. i guess if other people see it an it has an impact on them and the way they see things, then i've done something good.
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