My husband is a photographer and used to do Photoshop for a living for a company, so our friend who did the wedding photos just turned over the raw photos and he edited them. IT WAS GLORIOUS. I stood over his shoulder and said, "See that double chin? And how my armpit fat is just all out there? GET RID OF THEM." They…

I have no idea how I got ungreyed (who did it or what motivated it) and who knows if I'm still ungreyed after today.

Tina Fey has the best views on Photoshop:

Seriously. It makes me want to gather everyone up and run away to a new site without this creepiness.

This drove me so insane I had to log in on my phone which was HARD. Retouching (for improved appearance of the subject) is not a modern day practice at all. Have you ever seen the re-touching done on photos of starlets from the 1920s, 30s and 40s? Long before photoshop, they were deleting wrinkles and freckles, adding…

Everyone is pissed because under the guise of being concerned that Vogue was blatantly photoshopping Dunham, despite her pro-real bodies attitude, Jez was putting a bounty on proof that there was no way Dunham really looked that great. They were willing to pay money to pick apart all of Dunham's physical flaws that…

Of course it does. I've been commenting here for four years and had my star yanked for calling out BS on exactly one occasion. Okay, maybe two, but still. YAY GRAY!

Am I a weirdo for thinking it's not abnormal or morally wrong for a person to want to see pictures of themselves looking more pretty than usual? So there's a bit of photoshopping, is it really much more of a big deal than wearing make-up, shape wear and doing lots of contouring with bronzer?

What is not a good thing is when the magazine decides to take that woman and tweak her appearance enough such that she's "acceptable" for the cover.

Good god. LET. IT. GO.

Ahh and here is why you change accounts so frequently. You just contradicted your previous post. First you had daughters, now you may in the future. You can't even keep your lies straight across two posts. Do you have a wife yet or did you make her up too?

Respectfully, if you guys have something specifically against Vogue then it would be great if you would just write up a big retrospective piece. The more you make this about Lena Dunham and effectively force her to respond to this—which no matter how you slice it is a direct discussion about her body that invites a…

Fact: photographers have ALWAYS been retouching and manipulating images since the invention of photography. Even the absolute best. You are clearly not the authority you think you are. Photography skills include both technical AND relational/emotional.

I didn't even know we had "followers"! Ha. I take what I say here fairly seriously, but I can't take the system seriously, if that makes sense.

I'm confused...you think any sort of alteration via Photoshop makes one a crap photographer, yet you think Photoshop Queen Annie Leibovitiz is an example of a admirable photographer? By your logic, she should be the poster child for what a photographer shouldn't do. It's not just the Dunham shoot, it's how Annie…

I've only had problems with one regular commenter. Twice they have gotten into arguments with me that were particularly frustrating because they are apparently intelligent but willing to resort to logical fallacies and circular arguments rather than even entertain the possibility that another point of view is valid. …

Yeah I've been more active lately (job being in a lull) so I've seen a better response. I just miss aspects of the old Jez and I feel badly for newer commenters who probably feel like their astute comments are being overlooked in favor of comment wars.
I guess the latter is really what disappoints me with the new…

The fact that we have to "earn" the luxury of our comments being seen is pretty messed up. Why not have a demotion system instead where all comments are first equal and rise and fall regarding to how people vote rather than just allowing one group to be plastered all over the comments. It's basically cherry picking…

I remember having to "audition" to be a commenter. I remember having a star. I remember mods who kept the trolls at bay. Since the Kinja changeover I have been a gray and keep hearing "comment more, contribute more..." but when I know so few people read the gray comments (or assuming they're trolls) I don't feel…

I think the fact that he added her on facebook is really, really odd. I'm a college instructor and I've been a TA for 4 years before this. Before that, I tutored students. I don't add undergraduates on Facebook or LinkedIn until they have graduated and moved on or (if they are international exchange students) if…