Here's an interesting tidbit from the world of smartphone photography. Google is proposing a significant change to the Camera API in Android 11 that will prevent smartphones from using face altering algorithms that change geometry, skin tone, or apply smoothing.
Arizona-based journalist Sam Walker sparked social media outrage this week when she tweeted about her young girls' school photos. Apparently the school is offering various retouching services—including blemish removal, teeth whitening, and evening skin tones—and Walker is not alone in feeling this is ridiculous and possibly harmful.
Actress Kate Winslet is taking a stand against unrealistic beauty retouching in the ad industry. In addition to speaking out publicly against the practice, Winslet has even included a "no retouching" clause in her modeling contract with cosmetic giant L'Oréal.
A school portrait photography company in the UK has apologized and pulled its "retouching service" after a mother publicly complained about the service sending the wrong message to children.
The image above, which was published by Pyongyang's official news agency KCNA, seems to show Kim Jung-un and some of his underlings touring the site of a children's hospital. However, like so many of the photos released by KCNA in the past, its authenticity is being called into question.
In a red carpet interview with Access Hollywood's Billy Bush, Jennifer Lawrence shocked viewers by actually saying that she loves Photoshop "more than anything in the world." The conversation began on the red carpet when Bush showed Lawrence the results of a photo shoot she did for Christian Dior.
The Miss Dior ads she did recently turned out unrealistically stunning. In them she has perfect skin, a long slender neck and incredibly thin arms. Seeing them for the first time on the red carpet, her reaction was a delighted "That doesn't look like me at all!" Followed by the above "I love Photoshop more than anything in the world."
We hear it all the time: magazine covers aren't real. These models and celebrities are made up, photographed by professionals and, most infamously, airbrushed to perfection. But there's a big difference between hearing about it, and watching it happen with your own two eyes.
In this video, UK DJ Goldierocks plays guinea pig to show you what all goes into creating a magazine-worthy model shot -- from hair and makeup to an artificially constructed waistline.
It's common knowledge that models in magazines are Photoshopped to look the way that they do -- often to the detriment of the young girls that aspire to have these computer generated figures -- but for the most part protests have come in the form of ad campaigns like Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty. But in the past couple of weeks, 14-year-old Julia Bluhm decided to take a different approach.
A Lancome advertisement featuring Julia Roberts caused a stir back in July after it was banned by …
Advertising Standards Authority, the ad industry watchdog in the UK, has banned an advertisement by Lancome featuring Julia Roberts for being misleading, stating that the flawless skin seen in the photo was too good to be true.