Posted on 12/10/2011 4:10:57 PM PST by hripka
The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching can be slight — colors brightened, a stray hair put in place, a pimple healed. Or it can be drastic — shedding 10 or 20 pounds, adding a few inches in height and erasing all wrinkles and blemishes, done using Adobe’s Photoshop software, the photo retoucher’s magic wand.
“Fix one thing, then another and pretty soon you end up with Barbie,” said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a digital forensics expert at Dartmouth.
And that is a problem, feminist legislators in France, Britain and Norway say, and they want digitally altered photos to be labeled. In June, the American Medical Association adopted a policy on body image and advertising that urged advertisers and others to “discourage the altering of photographs in a manner that could promote unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image.”
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Photoshop vs Makeup, two very similar activities really, and with the same tools....brushes, pencils, spray cans, color palettes, layers, etc. Also, a skilled workers with both can achieve miracles, while the clumsy can make a horrible mess.
Don’t be too hard on him, he did a good job! I’ve done a lot of photoshopping over the last 15 years or so. I always leave a mistake in mine, but no one catches them until pointed out. It is very easy to fool the eye.
Maybe they could check any Reuters photos coming from Lebanon.
Or the birth certificate on the white house website.
Barney and Lindsay — the Dancing Queens of the House and Senate.
We need about 2,000,000 patriots to clean out DC with satchel charges and flamethrowers . . . and that’s just a start. When the napalm runs out, ropes and trees will get the job done for bureaucrats and staffers.
Ping!
Oh dayum! LOL!
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