Subtly Edited Publicity Shots on Stephers.net

[BRBFBI]

I noticed most of the images in the "Stephanies Without Borders" section on Stephers Net are edited.

I'm talking specifically about the ones that look like they were run through some sort of AI filter. I unknowingly had some of these saved, and I gotta say I was relieved when I realized that they're altered 'cause I thought Julianna looked super weird in some of the promo shots. It was tripping me out.

Where did these come from? I nominate they be removed from Stephers Net. IMO they're an abomination (sorry if that's harsh, lol). They don't look like Julianna at all, except for the ones that sort of do (which is how I ended up with some of them mixed up in my collection).

[BRBFBI]

Videos aren't working for me in Firefox. If you have issues try downloading, or let me know and I'll make a YouTube link.

[boredjedi]

Well this is the one directly from the 2010 Style Guide




I know there's been a bunch of different images from various other sources.
The other image could just be at different times during that specific photo shoot.
They usually do not take just one image.

[boredjedi]

Forgot the other one. Again the 2010 Style Guide.

[BRBFBI]

Thanks, I was curious where they came from.

I can't imagine why they would have created that - it's a worse version of the original. In that first one in particular her chin is wrinkled in a weird way. Why would they ADD wrinkles?! Normally if you're airbrushing a photo you remove those... Some of the others in that series are so overdone it's not even worth comparing to the original, you can't tell in an instant they're fake.

[boredjedi]

You're welcome. I'm pretty sure there are other style guides from previous years.
I only remember someone making available the 2009 and 2010 style guides.
The 2009 one is rather skimpy at 25 pages not much to it other than retail
store box display designs. The 2010 was the gold treasure we had looked for at 92 pages heh.

[chuft]

It goes without saying there is no AI anything on stephers.net. I mean come on.


I use Firefox and I can't see the videos but I would guess you were talking about what we were talking about here

https://forums.lazytown.eu/forum/the...544#post193544


I made this gif in 2015

[boredjedi]

Video is working in Brave. Forgot to mention that in the first post. Definitely a Firefox issue.

[BRBFBI]

Haha, you and I are on the same page chuft. I remade mine as gifs, and yeah, they're exactly the same as yours.

(Click to play)

[chuft]

Are there supposed to be gifs linked here? I just see a screencap of image info.

[BRBFBI]

That should be fixed now.

[chuft]

little stephers

[chuft]

But yeah Stephanies Without Borders was a project I initiated when the 2010 Style Guide fell into our hands, which is to say, I nagged BJ, cicley and yhpets to edit out the crap surrounding the images (and some other images) so I could post a series of ready to use images that were clean.

I get the feeling BRBFBI did not read the text on the page.

Some
of these poses may look familiar to the older "white background" JPG
shots, or resemble each other, but look closely and you will see differences.

For example, some are in higher resolution but show less of Steph. Others appear
to have been digitally altered by the studio. Compare them to the shots on the
"Classic Publicity Shots" page.

[BRBFBI]

I get the feeling BRBFBI did not read the text on the page.

I did read that, I just didn't know if those were the photos that "digitally altered by the studio" referred to. They're so garish I thought they were some poorly done fan-edit.

I stand by my original statement. Just because they're official doesn't make them good. They're like a Madame Tussauds wax Stephanie...

[chuft]

I would assume every single promo we have has been digitally processed by the studio in some way or other. Only screencaps are going to give you really authentic stephs, since it would be such a pain to edit every frame of the video. Well screencaps and behind the scenes stephs.


I just had an image of myself in the future, owning a bar just so I could say "We don't serve their kind here!" when an AI tries to walk in.

[BRBFBI]

I use Firefox and I can't see the videos but I would guess you were talking about what we were talking about here

https://forums.lazytown.eu/forum/the...544#post193544

This image from LazyPooky's excellent investigative work in the linked thread is ridiculous. She looks great, why did they feel the need to photoshop S1 Stephanie's face on there? It looks disproportionate. It reminds me of how weird it feels to hear S2 Steph lip syncing to Bing Bang recorded in S1. It's jarring. I always wished they'd re-recorded it for S2.

[chuft]

I do prefer the higher saturation though. Never cared for the pale wig, although I don't think it showed up that many times. The Season 2 wig varied over time as I recall both in size and color.

[BRBFBI]

Even among S1 eps I like the higher contrast/saturation ones.

[BRBFBI]

I would assume every single promo we have has been digitally processed by the studio in some way or other. Only screencaps are going to give you really authentic stephs, since it would be such a pain to edit every frame of the video. Well screencaps and behind the scenes stephs.

I really don't think the original promo photos are edited. "Processed" as in properly setting the white balance, contrast, curves, etc... sure, but I don't think they're airbrushed.