The Power of Photo Editing

[elusivek]

All around me, people are all big and eager about the new "photo enhance" camera. There's an app for it, called the "MeituPic" or something along those lines if you don't want the actual hardware. The camera (or is it a phone?) looks like this:

The camera itself (or phone camera, whatever) is what's a big hit lately over where I am. I hear what originally costed MOP$5000 (USD$630?) is now being sold for like MOP$7000-$8000 (USD$880-$1000?). Well, see, this is the power of the camera, or the app.

It lightens and evens out your skintone, smoothes out any imperfect stuff, slims you down too.

I always say - if you manipulate too much your photo, when one day we have to look for you, nobody's going to be able to recognize you!

Check this video out (facebook link). That's one of the better videos, in that they just fix the skintone and you can still see it's the same person. There's another video (I couldn't find it now) where you won't be able to recognize the real person.... LOL...

Comments

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

I've never gotten into photo manipulation. I think it takes the skill out of photography. That's probably why all of my photos are crap!

The second photo looks like Thing out of the Addams Family!

[notte0.livejournal.com]

I think it's ok to fix a blemish here and there, and to even out skin tone. But to actually change the whole way you look, enlarged eyes, stretched taller, slimmer face... Hopefully these people will never get kidnapped. We won't recognise the real person from the "have you seen this person? / Missing!" Ads