The technology youâre about to see is kind of amazing, but the applications? Notsomuch. With software like this itâs just too easy to make pictures of people into complete visions of unreality. Want to have bigger boobs? Here ya go! Need the model in your ad to look taller and thinner? Here ya go! Need those legs to look longer? Yep, OK, here ya go!
DO NOT WANT.
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We must remind ourselves when we see pictures and are tempted to judge ourselves against them, that not even THEY look like that.
Good point, Deanna!
Yikes, I knew retouching techniques were good but THIS is RIDICULOUS.
I couldnât even finish that video! It made me want to cry.
Retouching doesnât seem to bother me too much, as I think Iâm quite aware of it in general. I donât buy too much into the whole media as a cause of eating disorders mentality, and I think it helps me keep clear that itâs something about the inside and not the outside that I need to work on.
Hi Sunny, Itâs Amy, at your table in Jessâ Actionist network/L.A. When I saw this video it reminded me of the even more disturbing application of camera distortion into an actual consumer camera product itself.
Recall a few years back (â06 I think?) when HP digital came out with the “slimming” feature that auto-reduced subjects with the push of a button? Iâm not sure who owns what now, but I remember being slack-jawed at what was once an elite/expensive art process reserved for ad agency/photo retouchers (e.g. “we need a blue sky for that cruiseship, get rid of the clouds, strip âem out!” being turned into an off-the shelf “option” for lies, deception and ‘makeover magicâ which has ramped up ad infinitum long sense then:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/Slimming_Cameras
Agree with Heather above that one canât always connect the dots into ‘causalityâ but the inclination to keep hammering away at psyches by upholding images that are fabrications and unachievable are doing damage deep inside young girls and teens. (Think “Inception” without the car chases and shoot âem ups) ð
Great piece, keep up the good work. See you âround the Twittersphere, Amy
@Shaping Youth