dear member  would you say that in general you have more good surprise ,regarding the girl's look, than bad surprise ?
is an edited photo make such a difference ?

You can reduce the chances of having a bad surprise by avoiding girls who use heavy make up and have their photos
taken in a studio. I much prefer the more natural looking photos that are taken in a hotel room. But then, I like cute
young girls - 18 or 19 and, at that age, they don't need professional help and probably can't afford it anyway. You
should also check ALL the photos - a beautiful girl will ALWAYS look good. I use the 400% zoom and, if they still
look good at that size - in all the photos - you can be fairly confident. Usually, I can't take more than one girl each
week, so I spend time in making my choices - I can't afford to make a mistake and I've never had an unpleasant
surprise - except for bait and switch, which happens occasionally.

If you want to know if an edited photo can make a big difference - just read some of the reports in this forum.
Clearly it can and you have to be careful.   

But bear in mind that the photo almost always looks better than the real girl. Jake's advice to avoid studio photos is very perceptive - a beautiful girl will not need a studio photo, and studio photos are ALWAYS edited to some degree by the photographer, esp. in Asia. I remember when I went for a simple  2" by 2" student visa photo in Taiwan twenty years ago, the photographer actually went to all the trouble to remove frown lines and a tiny mole and I ended up looking about 11 yrs old!! And have you noticed how all the pseudo-Nip girls seem to strike the same poses and have the same digitally enlarged eyes? - I'm sure they use the same photographer. There's probably some guy in Seoul who specializes in this.

Also, if the girl doesn't give her age, it's not because she forgot. The 141 girls are the ones that you have to be the most careful with as they tend to be older and have been in the game longer. (Tho to be honest, my first 141 girl was a very stunning Harbin girl.) They tend to be local girls (and a lot of the 141 girls who give there nationality as China are actually living in HK) and mask their faces, and the face is the most obvious indicator of age. For this reason if you want to be certain of what your getting go for the Hotel Res girls. But even then, as shown in some of the reports, photos can be deceiving - that is, if the girl who shows up is the one in the photo

I have done some work with digital image processing, and it soon became very obvious, that all photos deceive, even casual unaltered snaps. Everyone has had the experience of seeing a casual photo of yourself or some friend that made you look like a stranger.

If this were a perfect website, it would be the site owners who take standard photos of all the girls and do the measurements, checking age against id's, but, to be honest, if I were the owner I'm sure I wouldn't.

[ Last edited by  Marsupial at 7-9-2007 14:32 ]

they can't do it anyway - it would be against the law.  The way they get around the law is for it to be the girls advertising themselves, and the only fees they get are for the photos

The photo is never a clear indication of the real person in this site. You should feel good if the girl closely resemble the picture you see.