I was browsing the galleries and came across some photoshopped pictures of cakes. And when I say photo shopped I don't mean watermarked with a paint program, it was airbrushed, I guess to make the cakes look better or to cover up imperfections, but is'nt that a little misleading? I have made some pretty sorry looking cakes before but I just don't think its right to photoshop your pic so it looks better. But then again were would half the actresses and models be if there was'nt such a thing as airbrushing.Just my opionon though.

you have an eye! I havent noticed...but then again I thought some of those models were really that "perfect"

but if something is airbrushed just like a body I would think it is a little misleading....by airbrushed Im assuming you dont mean like they airbrushed the color on the cake....you mean actually adjusted the photo...right?

I'm not sure I would call this dishonest. If you have a pimple on your face in a picture and airbrush it out, you are not changing your face. I kind of look at this as the same thing with a cake. I will be honest, I have changed the lighting in some of my pictures or changed the background. I don't know that I have airbrushed but don't see anything wrong with perfecting something that looks fine to the eye but stands out in a picture. JMHO.

I agree. It is misleading. If I were a bride looking for a cake, and I saw that someone's portfolio pictures were ALL perfectly smooth, I would order from them. If the came back not as smooth as I expected, I would be disappointed.

On the other hand, if the lighting was bad and they made it look brighter, that wouldn't be bad as long as they didn't make the actual cake look better, just the lighting or something like that.

I edit my cake photos when...
...Someone sticks their finger in the icing before I've gotten a pic.
...There are shadows or light flashes that need to be removed.
...The colors didn't photograph right.
...There are cracks in the icing (I don't have this problem anymore)
...luster dust has drifted onto the cake board

I agree with tmt. Sometimes a flaw is magnified in a photo. If I edit a blemish out of a cake, I'm not misleading anyone into thinking that I can't duplicate that icing job without the flaw (or without THAT PARTICULAR flaw hehehe).

Now, if I made a hideous gumpaste figure and tried to edit the photo to make it look good, THAT would be misleading. That would imply that I could make something that I obviously cannot.

oh!! How tempting it was to photoshop the finger prints out of my square cake...... I accidentlly took all the pics with a black computer chair in the background so I painstakingly photoshopped it out and it was torture to see it up that close and personal - every little flaw - and NOT fix it digitally.

I guess the only time I did photoshop one was the caste cake in my pics where there is a discoloration at the bottom of the pink doors in the front because the birthday girl climbed up on the table and licked it before I had a chance to photograph it.

I agree that if we photoshopped all the flaws out of the pictures, they are not an accurate representation of what we can produce. Now background, lighting and something on the cakeboard, etc. is, to me, a different story.

oh!! How tempting it was to photoshop the finger prints out of my square cake...... I accidentlly took all the pics with a black computer chair in the background so I painstakingly photoshopped it out and it was torture to see it up that close and personal - every little flaw - and NOT fix it digitally.

I guess the only time I did photoshop one was the caste cake in my pics where there is a discoloration at the bottom of the pink doors in the front because the birthday girl climbed up on the table and licked it before I had a chance to photograph it.

I agree that if we photoshopped all the flaws out of the pictures, they are not an accurate representation of what we can produce. Now background, lighting and something on the cakeboard, etc. is, to me, a different story.

oh!! How tempting it was to photoshop the finger prints out of my square cake...... I accidentlly took all the pics with a black computer chair in the background so I painstakingly photoshopped it out and it was torture to see it up that close and personal - every little flaw - and NOT fix it digitally.

I guess the only time I did photoshop one was the caste cake in my pics where there is a discoloration at the bottom of the pink doors in the front because the birthday girl climbed up on the table and licked it before I had a chance to photograph it.

I agree that if we photoshopped all the flaws out of the pictures, they are not an accurate representation of what we can produce. Now background, lighting and something on the cakeboard, etc. is, to me, a different story.

I don't like the idea of looking at photoshopped pictures either. It just seems... I don't know. I expcect it in a magazine, but not here. That said, I don't think I'd be able to spot one anyway. I haven't so far, anyway!

the pics I saw had more than just a few blemishes photoshopped, one did have the back ground blacked out and I thought that was'nt such a bad idea. I've taken pics before and there are icing bags and mixers and a sink full of bowls in the background, so that I would do. But the other pics had almost the entire cake airbrused, and not a very good job at that. I could understand wanting to cover up a crack or a bubble but the whole cake, seems kind of pointless to me.