Photoshop, although a very powerful tool to enhance and bring life to your photos, really gets abused a lot now a days, especially in the media. Photoshop has gotten so abused that it is pretty much now a verb that one uses to describe what he thinks is a ‘fake image’. “Oh, that’s so Photoshopped.” Jesse Rosten, appalled by “society’s standards of beauty,” creates this humorous fake commercial to really emphasize what is going on today. Sit back and enjoy, all you Photoshop gurus are going to love this!
Although Jesse uses Photoshop as an example in this video, this also applies to pretty much every niche out there. There’s a common style in motion graphics, visual effects, even music theory. We all follow the popular trend (most of us anyways). Now a days, the lens flare and light leaks are popular, especially in motion graphics. In visual effects, we tend to overdo muzzle flashes, put lens flares everywhere like J.J. Abrams, and maybe apply Magic Bullet Mojo for no reason. Now I’m not bashing these things, it’s good to keep up with the popular trend, but we also have to know when it’s enough. I’m very guilty of applying lens flares everywhere and ‘Punching It’ too much, it’s a problem I’m working on. I encourage everyone to do the same.
Break from the normal trend and try to limit the overused effects such as lens flares and particle revealers. Try to start your own trend and find your unique style rather than do what everyone else is doing for no reason. Of course, if you need lens flares or Mojo, by all means use them, but remember: With great knowledge comes great power. With great power comes great responsibilities.
Thanks. Was fun to watch. The behind the scenes video showing the making of it is funny as well.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback!
gotta love the way she says the fake adobe, with the accent.
and yeah lens flares/overdone muzzle flashes are really getting played out. all the freddiew stuff is overdone too–although you can’t knock people for having fun and getting the hang of AE and other programs.
i just can’t help but think that there’d be a lot more quality of content on youtube if there was a rule made that would make it so that you couldn’t make a video until you’ve finished a year of learning and watching about video compositing–that and not being able to do a video that’s just a copy + paste of a VCP tutorial.
Yeah, pretty clever, really sells the ‘beauty product’
I agree, there’s nothing wrong with overdoing stuff as long as you realize you are haha. Yeah, too many VCP tutorial based animation on YouTube. People are either too afraid or lazy to experiment!
You’ve got to be kdidnig me-it’s so transparently clear now!