DailyDirt: Digital Beauty Is Everywhere

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Before Photoshop, there were real airbrushes and paintings that were just a bit more flattering than a mirror. Movie magic is improving all the time with computer generated effects, and it's getting harder and harder to tell what's been altered (just assume everything is). You might not want to meet your favorite actors in real life after seeing how they've been modified. Here are a few links on digital touch-ups.

• Hollywood actors/actresses don't just rely on makeup and botox. They also have "beauty work" done that isn't quite turning actors into Andy Serkis (yet). Digital touch-ups can remove a lot of "flaws" and make people look just a bit younger looking than they are in reality. [url]
• Photoshop is used routinely to make the covers of magazines look a bit better (or worse, depending on your preferences), but what images does your brain really prefer? If you think you hate the sound of your own voice when it's recorded, you might prefer a touched-up version of your portraits, too. [url]
• Esther Honig tried an experiment to see the different standards of beauty -- as depicted by 40 photoshop artists from dozens of different countries modifying a photo of Honig. A few verions of her photo appeared to be barely altered, but a bunch of these photos strayed pretty far from the original. [url]

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Filed Under: beauty work, cgi, esther honig, photography, photoshop, photoshopping