Women Discovers You Get What You Pay For After Trying Cheap Photo Retouching

However, once she saw how many photo retouchers are on Fiverr, a website for cheap services from freelancers, she got curious and decided to see what kind of work she could get on the cheap.

She told them to make the photo seem more vibrant, with the model's eyes seeming brighter and her hair seeming more red. She also wanted the results to look warm and autumn-like.

As she said in a YouTube video, she figured this would be an easy photo to work with because of how nice the model's skin is.

For instance, whoever did this would be perfect if she wanted her model to look like a cartoon character whose head is too large for her body, but that wasn't the effect she was trying to achieve.

Eventually, she decided on three different retouchers — one who charged a quarter per photo, one who wanted $5, and one who wanted $10.

Her hair is definitely very red and in a different hairstyle, for some reason. However, the fact it looks like the model is wearing clown makeup isn't all that encouraging.

Shocked, confused, shook, mildly disturbed… the list could go on! It's like somebody tried to morph the Wendy's logo and Ronald McDonald into one, terrifying mascot.

"My immediate thought was that she kinda look—she kinda looks like Shrek. I don’t know why,” she continued, pulling up a photo of Fiona from Shrek alongside a frog meme.

To be fair, this definitely wasn’t as professional as it claimed to be. The thought of someone legitimately seeking out and paying for this service is cringe-worthy!

On to the next, though.

She decided that this one wasn't bad, exactly, but they didn't seem to throw any color into the model's hair and the skin looked a little too flat and fake.

“So the skin is interestingly not bad," she said as she zoomed into the model's face.

"They even like, added some kind of texture. They did make the eyes brighter, and did make the skin look quite perfect."

At first, she thought it was actually worse than the $5 job because the model's skin tones were off.

What’s this? Good news?! Well, not quite.

“Her skintone is very red — her skin tones are really bad. Like, really, really bad," she said.

Irene didn’t completely hate it though, "The overall picture was really good!"

She concluded she she still wouldn't have paid another $10 to work with this retoucher again, though, and that she preferred the second retouch out of all three.

You might notice that the model appears sharper and her face has more definition in this image than in the other ones. This makes it more difficult to tell that there were even edits than any of the Fiverr jobs.

Despite this, the colors seem more vibrant, the hair has more red in it, and the image looks warm and fall-like.

However, she said the $5 and $10 work would be good enough for a hobbyist — which likely makes up most of the photography community.

h/t: Irene Rudnyk