Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell

NY Times ^ | November 28, 2011 | STEVE LOHR

[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.”

[JoeProBono]

[exDemMom]

So, I guess retouched photos were okay when they were done with airbrushes. But now that they’re done with Photoshop, they cause girls to have unrealistic self-images.

Mhm.

I have some news for these geniuses: it’s the whole culture that promotes those unrealistic expectations. Notating that photos are photoshopped (or airbrushed) isn’t going to change that.

[cripplecreek]

A man can dream.

[cripplecreek]

[JaguarXKE]

I had to look at that a few minutes - then I LOL’ed

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[TigersEye]

And that is a problem, feminist legislators in France, Britain and Norway say, and they want digitally altered photos to be labeled.

I don't have a problem with that as long as liberal's published opinions are rated and labeled for their level of neurosis. I'll give these moonbats a 10 on a scale of 1-10.

[cripplecreek]

[Cyber Liberty]

Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it....

[reagan_fanatic]

[Pollster1]

I believe these women are all real and unretouched. This is what they look like with no effort as the step out of the shower:

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Didn’t someone say the face is a window to the soul?

[DManA]

The shadow under her flipper is in the wrong place.

[BenLurkin]

Real.

[Cyber Liberty]

Didn’t someone say the face is a window to the soul?

Looks more like a swinging saloon door.

[LomanBill]

[LomanBill]

[SparkyBass]

Photoshopped? Nah, Michelle looks great!

[Right Wing Assault]

If they are going to do this, then women who wear makeup should be required to wear a sign and a little picture of how they really look.

Years ago there was a woman who lived next door to us who looked very nice. One day I saw her without makeup and she was REALLY ugly. Much worse than the Hollywood stars without it. I didn’t realize it was her. She was a genius with makeup.