This is insanely cool.

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I used to think it was cool. Now I'm closer to thinking that Photoshop is destroying society.
Faces become smooth, boobs become bigger, stomach fat disappears, eyes and hair get colored. There's hardly a single photo in a magazine which hasn't been "retouched" before it was published.



Maybe if they didn't feel obligated to Photoshop every single image, 12 year old girls wouldn't be so desperate to get cosmetic surgery...

Some more:
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/05/25/celebrities-before-and-after-photoshop/

holy crap this is insanely cool

Photoshop: destroying the credibility of photographic evidence one plug-in at a time.

Heh, damon_ix, don't blame photoshop for what people do with it.

Photoshop doesn't kill people, people with guns kill people... but it CAN reanimate the dead!

>> ^demon_ix:
I used to think it was cool. Now I'm closer to thinking that Photoshop is destroying society.
Faces become smooth, boobs become bigger, stomach fat disappears, eyes and hair get colored. There's hardly a single photo in a magazine which hasn't been "retouched" before it was published.
Maybe if they didn't feel obligated to Photoshop every single image, 12 year old girls wouldn't be so desperate to get cosmetic surgery...
Some more:
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/05/25/celebrities-before-and-after-photoshop/



Great link, thanks for that. Of course magazines have always presented unrealistically perfect looking people by means of unnatural lighting, makeup, and simply picking the unusually good looking to be models. Photoshop has taken that to a new extreme, but the "artform" of making people look better for photos was already very far along.

I have sympathy for the young girls who genuinely are naive enough to think there's something wrong with them for looking perfectly normal. But I see more hope in educating young girls (and boys) on photo manipulation and other tricks, then getting the industry to throw out the craft they've painstakingly developed over several decades.

I actually work with a graphic designer who makes most of our website art design. Photoshop has many excellent uses, but like Psychologic said, it's the reason why you can't believe any photo you see anymore.

I mean, come on! Where would the internet be without the phrase "pics or it didn't happen!"?

Is this narrated by Rick Steves?

>> ^demon_ix:
Maybe if they didn't feel obligated to Photoshop every single image, 12 year old girls wouldn't be so desperate to get cosmetic surgery...

The good news for them is eventually these algorithms will be real-time, and all physical interaction will be obsolete, so it won't matter what we look like since all our blemishes and imperfections will be corrected on the outgoing feed.

It's cool tech, and there are many creative uses for it. But it does make me sad really. It's sad because it seems it's becoming less and less important to take a great photo to begin with now. You take an 'ok ish' photo and then mess around with it until it's actually what you wanted.

It's not to say tech can't be used to create amazing images... but as mentioned above, the problem is it's insane overuse. Such that it seems to have been decided that texture in skin is 'out' in favour of the horrendous smooth look of a photoshopped face.

Very sad.

Man, I just looked through that link demon_ix, and really I prefer the non photoshopped photos: I mean, come on this is nowhere near as cute and endearing as this.

So sad... stupid dicks who think that everything must be smooth and blemish free...

I find them both terrifying.

>> ^spoco2:
I mean, come on this is nowhere near as cute and endearing as this.

>> ^demon_ix:
I used to think it was cool. Now I'm closer to thinking that Photoshop is destroying society.
Faces become smooth, boobs become bigger, stomach fat disappears, eyes and hair get colored. There's hardly a single photo in a magazine which hasn't been "retouched" before it was published.

Usually I have to add blemishes and stomach fat to my pictures so that people don't think I've been photoshopped.

CS5?! ( CS4 hasn't even been out that long.. why can't they just do something like a service pack?

Damn this is rad.

Ridiculously time-saving! Which is bad if you are paid by the hour...

Just so you guys know, this feature is absent from Photoshop CS5, as is the new smart content aware scale, where you can specify areas to protect, and elements to avoid distorting. They've suddenly stopped talking about the features. It's pretty misleading, considering these are some of the most-touted features by Adobe prior to CS5's release, and they're probably a big reason for people purchasing the software, only to find they've been mislead/lied to. I'd be angry had I bought this software and not the trial version.

Hopefully Adobe will push out an update once these features are considered stable enough to release, as I'm hoping they just weren't ready by the time they had to roll it out.