- You have frequently used "Photoshop"
as a verb.
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- The picture of your girlfriend you have sent
to other fakers has been “photoshoped” in some way.
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- You turn down a night out clubbing to make fakes.
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- People often ask you, "Why do you look
so tired?"
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- You wish you had hi-res photos of every attractive
woman you like.
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- "PS" is no longer something you would
expect to see at the end of a letter.
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- You are perfectly happy to be single to spend
more time on your fakes.
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- Your soul-mate is a girl who doesn’t freak out
upon finding 3GB of porn on your PC.
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- You describe any particular woman as a cross
between two or more celebrities based on the similarity, such
as Nicole Kidman’s body, Kirsten Dunst’s smile, etc.
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- You are starting to memorize the Photoshop loading
dialog.
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- You cannot look at a girl eating banana with
a straight face anymore.
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- You watch a movie where someone takes a picture
of something far away.. and zooms in on a section then presses
a button to make it crystal clear (licence plate, someone's
face reflected in a window, etc.) and have to turn to the person
you are with and say, "You can't do THAT".
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- Every time someone mentions MS Paint you can’t
help but chuckle.
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- You start referring to porn as “material” and
it doesn’t really turn you on anymore.
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- Your PC has a homemade custom desktop wallpaper
all done in Photoshop 'because you were bored".
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- You systematically keep deleting all “close-up”
shots from your porn downloads.
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- You have a Photoshop guide for bedtime reading.
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- You start perceiving women on the street as
walking headshots.
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- You feel like there is no electricity, when
the Strip is down.
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- You started calling your RL friends “bro” and
at least once you said “LOL” instead of actually laughing.
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- The “More Britney Spears please!” requests irritate
you.
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- By the noise alone you can tell a Suze Randall
from Earl Miller photo.
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- You flip through a new PS book at the store,
see a handful of complicated techniques you've never tried,
and remember exactly how to reproduce all of them more than
a week later. But you can't find your keys because they are
in your pocket.
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- You put the dates of Oscar night, Emmy awards
and every major movie premiere into your diary, marking the
beginning of a new headshot-hunting season.
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- In a room with bad lighting, you feel like yelling
"Increase the Levels!".
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- You look at a pretty girl with acne problem
and wish you could use Healing brush to help her.
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- You recognize the BS photos and you know the
name of the font used in porn-site ads.
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- Getting shaky hands if unable to post your fakes
for more than 2 weeks straight.
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- Your well balanced diet consisting of microwave
dinners, junk food and large quantities of caffeine-containing
beverages is beginning to show results.
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- You walk down a long hallway and pause to appreciate
the perspective.
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- Your forum friends mean more to you than life
long buddies.
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- You wish celebrities would pull the “fuck-me-now”
face more often.
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- At some point the only clean piece of glass
in your home is your monitor.
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- You know who Russell Brown is. It is amazing,
but true… But wait there’s more!
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- You have a first hand experience of what the
lack of sleep does to people.
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- “The tits are not big enough..” comment can
make you go ballistic.
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- You can recognize Veronica Zemanova solely by
her left nipple.
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- Loosing all your work in a hard disk crash is
tantamount to loosing a kidney.
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- You feel like a kid in a candy-store when someone
gives you free Hegre backdoor pass.
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- Reading this list you kept on smiling and nodding
all the time.
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