A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry. Psychologists have become vocally critical of such images: By employing an arsenal of retouching techniques retouchers create unattainable standards of both beauty and normalcy, ultimately leading to self-destructive body image disorders.
In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, image forensics specialist Hany Farid of Dartmouth University and doctoral student Eric Kee debut a computational model developed by analyzing 468 sets of original and retouched photographs. From these, Farid and Kee distilled a formal mathematical description of alterations made to models' shapes and features.
1 comment(s):
It's not just advertising. Many magazine photoshoots of celebrities are heavilly shopped. Interestingly celebrities always claim it happens at the behest of the magazine, while magazine publishers claim it happens at the behest of the celebrity.
Post a Comment