Oh yeah, and here's what you can expect in 20 seconds of work: I will make the photo look lighter and more natural, and her complexion will be cleaned waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up. (I could probably actually do it in 15. I'll make sure to clock it when I do it.)

On the legality concerns, anything you do will be less liable than I am in copying the images for posting here.

Yes, but I would be more concerned with someone mucking up my images than I would be with someone mirroring them and giving proper credit. So the guy modifying the images makes a more appealing target.

Yeah, and it's illegal to cut across someone else's lawn too, but if you're half the bad-ass you sound like, you'll take the risk I've taken almost every single day for the last three years.

I don't cut across lawns either.

I don't mind doing something illegal; I simply don't want to get caught. And I'm in a position where it's extremely easy to contact the presumable owner of the original image and get him on my ass.

But whatever. I'll post it with a disclaimer, and we'll see how it goes.

Gee whilikers, Davey. Don't get upset. All she did was question you're ability, integrity and truthfulness. Not like it was personal. ;)

Prediction: the next post will read "It's 'your', you old fart."

Umm.... on foot? or with a vehicle?

You lose Hot, but only because he hasn't seen it yet. Heh, heh, heh. ;)
Fire for AFFECT.

So much for the friendly little coffee shop thing.

I really don't think I warranted that response, and I was not trying to make you feel ignorant or put you down. I'm a professional graphic artist. I started when I was nineteen, and it's all I have ever done (Except for waitressing in college). Nothing I said was intended as an insult to you or your abilities, and your namecalling and insults were way over the line. I may just be some typing on a screen to you, but I am a human being on the other end of all the wires.

That was just flat out ugly.

That's the POINT. Whether or not you intended it, your comments came off to me as insulting and essentially calling me a liar and/or ignorant of what we are talking. As I explained in my post to juju, that type of behavior will simply get the same type back.

If you didn't mean to convey those things, then I recommend you read a book or two on communication and perhaps focus especially on that which is written. I don't get tone of voice, inflection, volume, a smile, etc when I'm reading your words. I get the words themselves. Maybe people should start picking them more wisely.

Less talk, more airbrushing, imo!

I'd like to see it too.

I'll even go first

I'll give you a cutaway, too, for contrast.

It is nowhere near as good as the artist's original, I know. But I did it down, dirty and quick.