Alex, you may want to move it. It is a photo manipulation, but I posted it with a compare/contrast in mind. I had intended to use it to make a point and in my mind, the point superseded the content. Then again, now I am even questioning if this was the right category even going by the point. Anyhow, I will leave it to you to decide once you get to review my reply/point.
I was web surfing and came across a thumbnail of what appeared to be a nice face/bone structure. Instead I clicked to find an unfortunate looking woman who the page said was only 41 years old. I have seen people age 70+ who looked better. I would say it was a safe bet that her appearance can largely be attributed to drug abuse. Severe drug abuse from the looks of it.
I found myself thinking "What a shame. I bet if she had taken better care of herself that she would probably be rather attractive for her age."
So I set about changing the photo to fix her teeth and remove the extreme wrinkling she had. When I finished, I thought it was a nice face... or could have been. Finally I decided to take it a step farther and give her a healthier body... an image of what could have been. What she actually looks like vs. what she could have looked like.
That is why I gave this topic the title I did. And I first posted the manipulation by itself to give people a chance to first have the comfort of the more attractive version. The manipulation is such a dramatic difference, that it felt right to carry that potency into the thread.
Here are the full size images.
The before/after...
The pieces...
Phenoms
