Who did the portrait photograph of Bill on the back cover and did they stretch Bill’s face to make him appear slimmer?
The photo and digital touch-up were done by Dan Smith of Hill Signature Portraits in Great Falls, Virginia. It took 33 photos and lots of digital wizardry with Adobe PhotoShop, and this was the best Bill could be made to look. You have to see the real Bill to fully appreciate the extent of the photographer’s genius. Improvements to the natural Bill include added hair, removal of a few skin blotches and lines, removal of flashbulb glare, and the addition of a twinkle to each eye. The photo did not have to be stretched to make Bill appear thinner, as Bill has been known to do with his own digital pictures. Instead, Bill lost twenty pounds before being photographed, and has shed another twenty pounds since the photo so that his face now is almost anorexic — worse even than when he was porked out to full ripeness. Incidentally, Bill’s weight loss did not involve a vomitorium but can be traced directly to Suzanne Somers’ Eat, Cheat, And Melt The Fat Away, published by Crown Publishers. Wher
