Comments on: Wednesday wondering: Do I need to be retouched? http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/ You'll laugh you ass off. (I did.) Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:02:58 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Amy http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15592 Amy Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:04:23 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15592 We have a contracted professional photographer at work who takes our pics for the corporate website (we spend a lot of time looking each other up because the place is so big). They automatically retouch the pics for everyone, but I think it's more about skin shine and not weight loss--it's all head shots. They do take several digital pics in different directions and we get to choose the one we like best, among three types of smiling (or not), from left/center/right, etc. We have a contracted professional photographer at work who takes our pics for the corporate website (we spend a lot of time looking each other up because the place is so big). They automatically retouch the pics for everyone, but I think it’s more about skin shine and not weight loss–it’s all head shots. They do take several digital pics in different directions and we get to choose the one we like best, among three types of smiling (or not), from left/center/right, etc.

]]> By: susan http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15591 susan Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:28:12 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15591 I want to be judgmental and I don't think I'd ever have a picture of myself or my kids retrouched. However, is it very much different from me not putting many unflattering pictures of myself in our family scrapbook? When I look through the years, I seem to be quite svelte in most of the pictures. Conveniently, the "upswing of the weight curve" years have me in very few pictures! I want to be judgmental and I don’t think I’d ever have a picture of myself or my kids retrouched. However, is it very much different from me not putting many unflattering pictures of myself in our family scrapbook? When I look through the years, I seem to be quite svelte in most of the pictures. Conveniently, the “upswing of the weight curve” years have me in very few pictures!

]]> By: Katfox http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15590 Katfox Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:33:21 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15590 Hey! This is just like the Wonderbra! Yeah...you can appear one way, but what happens when the clothes come off? All is revealed! Haha. It seems like a waste of money to me. Why not spend that money on a gym membership, a new pair of sneaker or some healthy food (which tends to be pretty expensive)? As for the Wonderbra, why not spend that money on a therapist who can help boost your self-esteem? Tackle the problem, don't just cover it up!!! Rawr. Hey! This is just like the Wonderbra!

Yeah…you can appear one way, but what happens when the clothes come off? All is revealed!

Haha. It seems like a waste of money to me. Why not spend that money on a gym membership, a new pair of sneaker or some healthy food (which tends to be pretty expensive)?

As for the Wonderbra, why not spend that money on a therapist who can help boost your self-esteem?

Tackle the problem, don’t just cover it up!!! Rawr.

]]> By: gknee http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15589 gknee Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:38:34 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15589 I saw some feature about this on the news regarding touching up kids photos.To me, It speaks to the honesty of our lives and our memories-- and our reality. Hard to judge really (but of course I do!) This reminds me of going to Epcot and thinking you have seen the world. You haven't. You have seen the sanitized, airbrushed version with American style bathrooms. No smells, no currency exchange. But that might be just fine for most people..... I saw some feature about this on the news regarding touching up kids photos.To me, It speaks to the honesty of our lives and our memories– and our reality. Hard to judge really (but of course I do!)

This reminds me of going to Epcot and thinking you have seen the world. You haven’t. You have seen the sanitized, airbrushed version with American style bathrooms. No smells, no currency exchange. But that might be just fine for most people…..

]]> By: Abs http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15588 Abs Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:28:23 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15588 Funnily enough, I received an email today with a link to Weighview <a href="http://www.weightview.com/new/start.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.weightview.com/new/start.asp</a> who do this for free. There's a 50lb max weight loss, but even if you have more to lose, 50 is a good start. It's pitched as a motivational boost, but I think it would also be good for people (like me, for instance) who have no concept at all of what they would look like at a healthy weight. Personally, the idea of being slim is quite scary to me, so to actually see more or less what I'd look like might take the sting out of it. I think I'm going to go for it. The decision now is whether to take a clothed pic or bite the bullet and send them a pic of me in my undies. Funnily enough, I received an email today with a link to Weighview http://www.weightview.com/new/start.asp who do this for free. There’s a 50lb max weight loss, but even if you have more to lose, 50 is a good start. It’s pitched as a motivational boost, but I think it would also be good for people (like me, for instance) who have no concept at all of what they would look like at a healthy weight. Personally, the idea of being slim is quite scary to me, so to actually see more or less what I’d look like might take the sting out of it.

I think I’m going to go for it. The decision now is whether to take a clothed pic or bite the bullet and send them a pic of me in my undies.

]]> By: amanda Hartman http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15587 amanda Hartman Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:24:20 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15587 I re-touched a photo I gave to my boyfriend one time. I was totally busted when he saw that the background was warped from all the "shrinking" I did to myself!! lol. We laughed pretty hard. I re-touched a photo I gave to my boyfriend one time. I was totally busted when he saw that the background was warped from all the “shrinking” I did to myself!! lol. We laughed pretty hard.

]]> By: jae http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15586 jae Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:35:25 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15586 Part of me wants to take a pic in a 2 piece and sent it in just to see how thin they could make me. Let's see, I'm 244 and I'll tell them to make me look 125. HA! Another thing is if I actually used this service who would I send the pictures to? My family? A potential suitor? Once they saw me in real life they'd know something was up. Besides I'd be more humiliated for them to think "Man, what happened to her? Couldn't she control herself?" then them thinking "Cousin Jae is still big, but she still has a great smile!" So, no I wouldn't use the service. :) ~j Part of me wants to take a pic in a 2 piece and sent it in just to see how thin they could make me. Let’s see, I’m 244 and I’ll tell them to make me look 125. HA!

Another thing is if I actually used this service who would I send the pictures to? My family? A potential suitor? Once they saw me in real life they’d know something was up. Besides I’d be more humiliated for them to think “Man, what happened to her? Couldn’t she control herself?” then them thinking “Cousin Jae is still big, but she still has a great smile!”

So, no I wouldn’t use the service. :) ~j

]]> By: Ang http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15585 Ang Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:57:44 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15585 It's funny to read about this today, I was just thinking about it. My son's school sent home a school photo package where for seven dollars more I can get his image retouched! It would make me feel bad to even consider it, I want to remember him exactly the way he is! I would love to have my own photo retouched, but I suppose there may come a time when my family will want pictures to remember me exactly the way I am. I guess it depends on who you are planning to give the photo to! It’s funny to read about this today, I was just thinking about it. My son’s school sent home a school photo package where for seven dollars more I can get his image retouched! It would make me feel bad to even consider it, I want to remember him exactly the way he is! I would love to have my own photo retouched, but I suppose there may come a time when my family will want pictures to remember me exactly the way I am. I guess it depends on who you are planning to give the photo to!

]]> By: Amy http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15584 Amy Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:12:32 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15584 I've been guilty of asking my dh to photoshop out a chin or two...but it's much easier to just avoid being in the picture in the first place! I’ve been guilty of asking my dh to photoshop out a chin or two…but it’s much easier to just avoid being in the picture in the first place!

]]> By: Tara http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2008/09/wednesday-wondering-do-i-need-to-be-retouched/comment-page-1/#comment-15583 Tara Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:19:09 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=926#comment-15583 People can retouch thier pictures as much as they want but that isn't going to change what they look like. If they really want to look a certain way they need to change themselves in the real world not on some photo. I dont have a problem with touching up zits or red eye but creating a whole different person, what is that going to accomplish? People can retouch thier pictures as much as they want but that isn’t going to change what they look like. If they really want to look a certain way they need to change themselves in the real world not on some photo. I dont have a problem with touching up zits or red eye but creating a whole different person, what is that going to accomplish?

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