Nobody's "Perfect"

For my attempt to create the fantasy version of myself, I used a gorgeous picture of Avril Lavigne. As for the over all result of my creation, I am happy with how it turned out; for my first time. The transformation itself is not what I had expected completely, but over all I am happy with what came out of my creation. Looking back I think that the end result may have come out better if our facial structures were the same. The fact that I know and see how the images that we take for flawless are fake, this allows me to open my eyes and see more than I did before. Knowing that huge magazines and their photographers are okay with taking someone and making them look like they stepped out of a fairy tale is sad. I disagree with it completely, these people are giving all of their readers and/or viewers a false image, and simply lying to all of us so that they can make money. After seeing what I have and learning the material that I have, I know now that the "perfect" image that we all see, and believe is the real deal, is just a dream. This lesson has taught me that the body that girls dream of having is a lie, it doesn't really exist. All of the images and material we see in today's world, tells us that all of us have to be thin, have flawless skin, and the "perfect" features to be beautiful; this lesson about the tricks of the trade helped me see through that lie. 

Before

After

In the process of transforming myself into someone else, I did end up doing some things well; such as, getting my makeup and skin to be as "perfect" as possible, along with whiting my teeth. I took the time to make sure that my face was clear, my eye shadow was even, and that my eyes looked normal. Another thing that I did well was, cropping, scaling, and rotating my face so that it was proportional to hers. I believe I did well on these particular things because, I see them to be the most interesting and "perfect" parts of my transformation. These are the things that look the most natural. 

Just like in anything else, when you do some things good, you end up doing some things bad. In this case I had issues with getting my skin tone and hers to match; since this picture was already edited and she had lighting that helped make her skin tone the color it is, I had to make my skin tone as close as possible. Something else that I am not too thrilled about is, the way that her arms look after I covered up her tattoos. It is all due to the fact that I know it is there, but there are smudges where I covered and blended the colors to cover them, is visible if you look closely.  I believe that these areas are the ones needing improvement because, when you look at the photo closely, you can tell where the mistakes are. Those two are the things that stand out to me the most. Now that I have practiced with this area of Photoshop, I think that I would be able to become better and better each time I did this activity.