See the ad here.
Basically this woman generated a photo of something that never existed because to her presenting the image of a perfect family is more important than living in reality. It just seems wrong to me and a little creepy.
Doesn’t seem in the least creepy to me, especially if she’s making a Christmas card or some other pic that’s meant to be a show piece. I’ve got quite a few pictures of family lined up and there’s always one of them with an unfortunate expression in one shot, and a great one in another.
I make a Christmas card every year for my family, which usually involves humor + obvious CG. One year it was a Brady Bunch card, arranged like this – I lined up each member of the family in turn against a well-lit, plain wall, and took several photos of them staring at the camera, then looking down, up, left, right, down-right, down-left, up-left, up-right. You get the idea. Then I made a 3x3 grid and filled it with my photos of the family either looking at the camera or at each other in the grid, and replaced the wall behind each head with a solid holiday color. Then I gave it a humorous caption + Merry Christmas from My Family. Is that creepy?
The matching clothing is creepy, the photo editing to get all of them smiling/not blinking/not falling asleep is funny because it’s pretty much needed here.
Nah. I routinely adjust the lighting and the contrast on photos and I’ve done things similar to what she did before. If three of the people in the shot look good but one looks deranged I think it’s better to fix it as it does a service to all four. It’s a minor fib but not like Photoshopping your son into the quarterback of his team or yourself standing between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards then passing it off as real.
A friend of mine who got married last year paid a fortune for a very good photographer. The photographer did this in a couple of shots; in one a bridesmaid’s face is blocked by another bridesmaid’s arm so she doctored it with other photos; in another the groom looked like he was sneezing (may have been) in a picture with his ancient grandmothers so by changing the face (still the groom, just another shot) it gives the grandmas something they can display without explanation or embarassment.
I happen to like spontaneous/goofy family portraits. If it were me, I’d use the tool to switch heads between different bodies.
The thing about that ad that irritates the hell out of me is that they zip through the different problem photos too fast to let us see what is being described.
At the exact moment that I read the thread title, the ad came on my TV. Spooky.
A random head generator!
I thought the way she said it was the creepy bit. I was listening to TV while making dinner and didn’t actually see the commercial, just heard it…and she didn’t sound very loving!
I think it is a joke. She says it is a photo that no one can make fun of her but people will laugh at the matching shirts.
I only have two kids in our Christmas photo and two years ago I had to combine two different shots to get them both to look good at the same time. And I did it without Microsoft’s new “cloud” service or whatever that commercial is peddling.
You obviously live in a world where your coworkers don’t have impromptu PhotoShop contests…
Not disturbing, happens all the time. My family hired a professional photographer once to take a nice family portrait- you try getting 19 people, including kids as young as 2, to all be looking at the camera and smiling perfectly at the same time. There was plenty of Photoshopping in the finished product.
The shirts, now they’re another story.
I’m wondering if I use the cloud, will I become a Photoshop expert in 5 seconds so my retouching is instant can’t be detected? Wow!
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The way the family is dressed is creepier. Sorta like this.QUOTE]
I think it’s sweet that a drag queen father would want to share his passions for over-the-top campy fashions with his daughters.
What?
I thought the only creepy part was at the end when she mentions that Windows gave her the family that nature never could
Im in ur foto grup ridikuling ur shirts!
Everyone smiling at the same time is “a perfect family”? “Living in reality” is wearing identical shirts while sitting 5 astride on a couch together?
I’m not sure those things mean what you think they mean.
Yes, but having them wear matching shirts makes the Photoshopping easier to do, right?
Of course, to be really creepy she could have just substituted the head of the good child onto ALL the bodies…