Beauty in the eye of the Photoshopper
This photo gallery of images from Brian Dilg Photography amazed me. Click on the thumbnails to view an image, and then comes the good part. If you move the mouse over the image, you see the original unretouched photo. The differences between the images processed in Photoshop and the originals is amazing. Some of the changes are obvious—reducing lines and the darkness under the eyes of the subjects. But other changes—such as moving basketball players from a gym to a basketball stadium are amazingly convicing. Want to lose some weight in your old wedding photos? It can be done. Even the celebrities pictured here don’t look as good as they seem. How deceptive! It would be interesting to do a study of the rise of digitally retouched photos in the media with the corresponding rise in plastic surgery nationally. The odd irony is that the way people want to look (i.e. like celebrities) isn’t even how the people pictured in magazines truly appear.
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Great game pic! I wish I had been at that game. You have such an eclectic mix of sports you are into. And you know so much about so many! I hope you will keep teaching me!
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