Photoshopped or Not ? A Tool to Tell

The Pictures of celebrities and model in fashion advertisements and magazines are always buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching sometimes are slight like colors brightened or a stray hair put in place or even a pimple covered up . Other types would be drastic such as shedding 10/20 pounds , adding a few inches in height and erasing all wrinkles and blemishes . It all could be done using Adobe's Photo shop software . The American medical association adopted a policy on advertisers , body image , and others to " discourage the altering of photographs in a manner that could promote unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image." in June . Dr.Farid became interested in the problem after reading about the photo-labeling proposals in Europe.Dr.Farid and Eric Kee, a PH.D. student in computer science at Dartmouth. are proposing a software tool for measuring how much a photo has been altered. their work is intended as a technological step to address concerns about the common use of highly idealized and digitally edited images in advertising and fashion magazines.

The passages makes me question  if my favorite celebrities really look as good as they do . I am not really surprised but its a little too much when your constantly doing it and when your making people look like barbie dolls. The last time i check photo editing was for fixing little things like pimples, lighting, or what ever the case may be. I am absolutely not satisfied that people are taking this too far. I believe that the software they are creating is going to work . I am interested in using the software one day. Then again anybody does have the right to do whatever they want to their photos , its their business , but its  not right because when we see a picture of someone everyone expects to see the real deal . I hope this software come out soon , i am looking forward to seeing some interesting things .