Retouching Quotes

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

Sometimes it's a struggle to keep up with my own photos, where the lighting is perfect, the makeup is done, and the images have been retouched. That's not what I see when I look in the mirror!

My belief is that every single major magazine cover is retouched. I don't know how they couldn't be.

We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we, for example, apply Instagram filters to the pictures we take and share on our social networks.

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today. Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

Retouching is an incredible tool but can also create unrealistic expectations for women who don't understand that an image is not how the subject really looks. Even the subjects themselves can't live up to their retouched images.

The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

I touch up photos so people look as good in their photographs as they did in real life.

It's important sometimes to have pictures that are not as retouched and show more of the real skin.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

I don't think cellulite is great - that's not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I'm retouching it out.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

What we don't realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that's not how Hollywood works.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

Any images that I've had retouched, I look at them, and I think, 'Oh I actually don't want that.' That's why I don't share them on Instagram.

I think unretouched images are even more beautiful.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.