help me make this groom more handsome!

[greg_kowalczewski]

<p ><a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=4714311">Tom Mann</a> <a href="http://www.photo.net/member-status-icons"><img title="Frequent poster" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/2rolls.gif" alt="" /></a>, Jan 22, 2010; 02:08 a.m.</p>

 

<p>...and if you allow the use of the liquify tool, you can do anything from slight jowel tightening to turning the guy into someone else. ;-)<br>

Now that had me in stitches ... but ...</p>

<p ><a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=5033918">Benson Galguerra</a> <a href="http://www.photo.net/member-status-icons"></a>, Jan 22, 2010; 10:59 a.m.</p>

 

<p>Couldn't help it.</p>

 

<p>What a brilliant follow up - I'm totally cracked up.<br>

Some of the plastic renditions would make any mortician green with envy.<br>

I just had to scroll back to the top to remind myself of what the guy actually looked like - which of course was OK.</p>

 

 

[mark_harrington1]

<p>Brighten the image just a little, reduce the forehead wrinkles and add texture to the image. Forgot, brighten the teeth just a little. Here's my effort.</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>Greg, I must confess that when I wrote that comment, it occurred to me that someone else might just follow up on it, either with a more moderate version of what I posted, or with a more exaggerated version of what I posted. Fortunately, both happened, and both serve to illustrate the seriously open-ended nature of photoshopping of faces.</p>

<p>When I saw Benson's version, I had exactly the same response as you and felt like Ed McMahon, the straight man, setting up Johnny Carson for the punch line! </p>

<p>Also, FWIW, I really can't get too worried about Giulio's warning. I've been satirically photoshopped by friends and have gotten a good laugh about it, and I suspect the groom under discussion would feel the same way as long as no one posts a malicious, intentionally ugly tweak of his image. I think we're all learning from this discussion and seeing how other photoshoppers handle one specific image. It's almost like being in a class where everyone is assigned to tweak one image and we compare the results at the next class meeting.</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

[kevin_dixey2]

<p>Here you go (mostly worked on the teeth and took the ruddiness out..prhaps a bit too much though)</p>

[rt_jones]

<p>There's an app called, "Portrait Professional" that does a lot of what I'm seeing.</p>

 

[boston_bob_the_photographe]

<p>Here's a retouch done by Portrait Professional at its default settings.</p>

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[pdhoward]

<p>I'm certainly no expert but my attempt was to try and make subtle, but effective changes using noise reduction, spot healing, clone tool, and hue/sat, and not spend a lot of time. About 5 minutes on this.</p><div></div>

[rjacksonphoto]

<p>Close the mouth, open the eyes, and bring the hair down. Voila! Seriously though, I hope the groom doesn't find this thread. And not a bad looking guy, anyway.</p><div></div>

[tomdaly]

<p>Maybe something like this subtle but an improvement</p><div></div>

[nealcurrie]

<p>After looking through most of these edits, I prefer the original to a lot of them. People know what they look like, and certainly what their husband looks like. Too many changes and the pictures will looked faked, and like someone else.</p>

[craig_gillette]

<p>I also don't think he's been hit with the ugly stick, but would suggest there are some issues that you might want to consider and "asked me to airbrush out all imperfections" depending on his expectations (the word "all" can be ugly in a contract), this could be a considerable amount of work and a big time sink. That needs to be considered as part of your costs and perhaps should have been included in pricing considerations. There might need to be some reasonable balance struck between the amount of work and charging for the extra effort. Although some consideration might need to be given to the speed at which you work. If you are a slow toucher-upper, compared to some with much more experience, the per hour charge might need to be lower, etc. OTOH, this may be effort above and beyond what you expected and priced out, leaving a dlimena about if you can negotiate to cover the costs at all.</p>

[manny_salazar1]

<p>My take. The difference is subtle; however, doing more will change his appearance or look phony. One more thing to consider is time and workflow. This took me 45 seconds, the consequential ones will take much less time. <br /> <strong> </strong></p>

<p><img src="http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad2/macevedo75/Untitled-1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[cjogo]

<p>Borrow the best mans' face :-)</p>

[fiona_campbell2]

<p>Thank you for all your replies. It's a fascinating debate, raising as it does questions of what is beauty, and how far one should edit out imperfections. I used to share an office with an advertising retoucher, who routinely edited out every little mark on the skin of models, but I think most people would not want themselves represented in such an unnatural way and that the pendulum will swing back in favour of a more natural approach. Of course, human nature is such that youth and health will always be more attractive. Personally I believe that some "imperfections" are actually what makes a person beautiful, whereas others are just a sign of poor health and therefore not attractive at all. Of course, my title was tongue in cheek and this groom is good looking in real life, and please note this is just a sample photograph to work with, rather than a fair representation of his appearance. Please can people make sure they say exactly what they did when they post an edit? I still wish RT Thomas would come back into the debate and tell me exactly what he did as his is definitely my favourite edit so far.</p>

[huang_zheng_yu_huang]

<p>用photoshop可以非常快捷地得以修整。</p><div></div>

[herma]

<p>There is only one thing I look at (from a womans perspective): Please fix those front teeth. Non of the submitted "fixes" addresses those choppers. I don't care about a dark under eye circles, its the teeth!!!!!</p>

[ryan_smith10]

<p><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=5033918">Benson Galguerra</a> !!!! I am both laughing hystarically and mad at you because as I was scrolling through the examples, I thought, HEY! For a laugh I'll half-heartedly paste Brad Pitt as my example, and not even two pictures later you claimed the glory.</p>

<p>Hahaha, very fun XD</p>

[jenn_werneth]

<p>Click this for picture, I can email you the copy<br>

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