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[–]julesburm1891 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I had to look up who Emily Bridges is and holy fuck that Diva cover is both lighting tricks and a fuckload of photoshop. That’s a whole ass ugly man in reality.

Which really begs the question of why an ostensibly lesbian magazine is editing a man to look more like a woman on its cover. Are they just trying to lie to young lesbians?

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seems it's not a lesbian magazine anymore. Here's Bev Jackson (among oodles of others of us who remember what Diva was): https://twitter.com/BevJacksonAuth/status/1528480825737629699

I think most of that photo is lighting and makeup, however. I don't think people realize how much you can alter someone's appearance with those two things, and really, you want to get as close to the intended look as possible before you get to any post-processing work. Either way, they've played up femininity quite a bit, yes. But in seeing the non-staged photos of Bridges, I can easily see how they got that result for the cover. But it doesn't really matter if it's Photoshop or photography. Point being Emily has willingly taken things from female athletes that don't belong to Emily. Diva is captured and playing right along.