Oct 11 2008
Little Photoshop of Horrors
There are thousands upon thousands of official pictures of h!p idols out there. Most of them are lovely, but there are a some that make me wonder how they ever got to see the light of day. This post is to showcase examples of such pictures. I’m not talking about bad costuming here. I’m talking about the girls themselves looking bad. They’re all quite cute, or they wouldn’t be in the idol business, but everyone takes a bad photo once in a while, right? In a group photo, I can kind of understand that not everyone is going to look her best, but there’s really no excuse for some of the highly unflattering individual photos that get released. Did they even look at the photos before they printed them, or did they just assume that all the pictures in the set were good and release them all? All the photos here were gleaned from a casual perusal of the last few month’s postings on the Hello Online picboard.
We’ll ease into this with some horrifying photos which are in no way the girl’s fault. Sometimes h!p tends to go a little overboard with the photoshop, smoothing the girl’s skin to the point where she no longer has knees or elbows, which results in a photo that looks good…but disconcertingly unnatural. Then you realize what’s wrong, and you can’t look at the picture anymore without immediately noticing how the poor idol has been dejointed.
Look at Eri’s deformed hand! She seems to be flexing it back, but thanks to the photoshopped removal of her knuckles and any creases in her hand, it looks like she’s holding it straight but has bizarrely skinny and elongated fingers and tiny tiny palms.
So very airbrushed that not only does her hand look weird again, she’s almost entirely lost her nose. She’s still pretty, even without her nose though.
Another big photo issue is weird angles and blocking problems.
Ignoring the maniacal expression on Airi’s face for a moment, look at her neck. With her hair covering half of it and her head tilted and pushed forward slightly, it looks like she has a huge bulbous head attached crookedly to spindly little neck barely capable of supporting it.
I know Risako’s gained some weight recently, but this picture makes it look like she’s pushing 300 lbs.
Now not only is she obese, she’s also in terrible pain.
Certainly the worst h!p pictures of all come from the live concert shots. I’m sure it’s difficult to get a really flattering picture of a girl who’s moving around and singing, but I think no picture at all would be better than some of the stuff they come out with.
Like a cross between a caveman and one of those boggle-eyed goldfish.
Ack! Get that camera away!
Why do I suspect they released this picture only because of the hot-pants flash? It certainly wasn’t for the pretty face Kanna is making.
The look in Koharu’s eyes here is f*cking scary.
Lastly, I might be crazy for hating this picture so, but I do. The expression is totally blank, and her hair looks a bit greasy, and the more I look at it, the more I think “mug-shot”.
To make ammends, I promise that the next post will feature lovely eye-candy of all the unfortunate girls featured here today.
Remember kids, quality over quantity,
~Celestia~
Oh.. my.
See, these are the same sort of pictures I kind of pass over LOL (the unnatural looking types). But yeah, the airbrushing is obvious in the Eri ones.
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That second picture of Eri looks more like it was more a result of poor lighting (hot spots blow out facial features) or over saturation (which also blows out facial features) as opposed to “airbrushing” (which is really a misleading term, as nobody sits and airbrushes these things anymore)
The first thing I noticed in the first Eri one is that it looks like she has only one arm…0_o And all the weird faces that are being made…this was very amusing
the scariest pictures here is airi’s. goodness…. she doesn’t seem to have a neck and she’s like about to twist her head 180 degrees.