Comments on: Creating the Alluring Photo-Manipulation ‘Lust’

By: kalabilla

kalabilla — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:17:03 +0000

nice sharing thanks awesome keep the good work

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:51:00 +0000

Wow, It’s really really cool.
Nice tricks used and the result is awesome.

Thanks for sharing….!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:48:14 +0000

Thanks a lot Wim, I’m glad you liked the outcome. I did work hard to achieve a natural but effective depth of field.

By: Wim Voets

Wim Voets — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:34:51 +0000

Very cool & detailed tutorial. It’s got a night depth of field.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:42:52 +0000

Totally agree Chris, it’s unfortunate, but does definitely tie in with design trends (social/moral issues often do). I’m glad you enjoyed the tutorial though!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:39:25 +0000

Great tutorial with some effective steps. It could certainly be used in a message piece about the objectification of women. I just saw a story about women’s tennis ads selling the whole “sex appeal”. We definitely have some social issues to work out with our advertising, as it is trending more that direction by the day.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:05:38 +0000

Yeah I agree with you about it being a fine line, but often the best work does have to be outside of a ‘comfort zone’. I’d love to see your take on the 7 deadly sins theme, it’s been a really inspiring topic to design around so far.

By: Trisha Cupra

Trisha Cupra — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:58:47 +0000

No offense taken. It is a very fine line to try to walk between highlighting a trend without looking like you’re supporting it. As a social critique, it’s definitely a good piece, and it certainly could have been much more extreme (glad you avoided that).

Very thought-provoking. I’m wondering how I could have done it differently myself.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:06:06 +0000

Thanks Trisha, I’m glad you enjoyed the tutorial. As for the objectifying nature of the piece, I mentioned in the tutorial that this is deliberate. To be honest I see much more degrading work in the media each and end day. If you found this piece extreme (which I don’t believe it is) then it’s only to accentuate the concept of the 7 deadly sins (which shouldn’t be reserved by nature). Anyway, as always it’s great to hear from you, and I hope you weren’t offended by this piece. I genuinely think that the 7 deadly sins theme should be provoking, so that’s what I tried to achieve here. I mentioned in this post that I was highlighting a trend of objectifying women, but not supporting it.

By: Trisha Cupra

Trisha Cupra — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:48:54 +0000

Great tut, Tom. I just want to mention that covering up her face is rather offensive to me, as a woman. You now don’t have a woman, you have a sex object. I get that it’s about ‘Lust’ but it could have been more tasteful and less degrading. I may be your only female reader who feels this way, but it could be rather controversial and put off other female readers.