Kazakhstan Caught Beauty Retouching Photos of New Leader
The large Asian country of Kazakhstan was just caught "Photoshopping" official photos of its new leader, using beauty retouching techniques to dramatically alter his appearance.
The Panasonic GF8 is Basically a Selfie-Crazy GF7
Panasonic has just unveiled the new Lumix GF8, a mirrorless camera followup to the GF7 from last year. The GF7 was a entry-level camera geared toward selfies, and the GF8 takes that to the next level with even more selfie-focused features.
Panasonic Lumix FX77 Can Whiten Teeth and Apply Makeup to Faces
Panasonic wants to move portrait retouching off of computers and directly into cameras. Their Lumix FX77 compact camera released last week has a "Beauty Retouch Mode" that allows users to make all kinds of edits to faces immediately after capturing the photo:
The Beauty Retouch Mode makes it possible to virtually makeup the faces. In Esthetic Mode, various effects can be applied to the face including clearing the skin texture, whitening of teeth and so on. In the Make-up Mode, you can choose the color of foundation, lips, cheeks or eye-shadow. [#]
The photoshopping capabilities aren't limited to what can be done naturally -- users can also do chin lifts and eye enlargements!