Posted by CeltTim at ac929bc0.ipt.aol.com on November 27, 2003 at 11:19:23:
In Reply to: Someone help a clueless idiot out. posted by MoonRaper37 on November 26, 2003 at 18:28:04:
In the olden days, before computers allowed you to digitally edit a photo with PhotoShop or the like, photographers and publishers would literally touch up photos with small airbrush guns (like those used to do paint designs on cars or on t-shirts at the mall) to enhance the photograph by removing blemishes, reducing wrinkles or imperfections, cover thick thighs and so on. This was almost always done on a print of the photo, never the negative, before it was sent to press.
Hench the name, "airbrush."
Historian Tim
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: When people say "airbrush", what exactly goes on?