A woman making more money than her boyfriend, photoshopping friends’ faces into compromising photos, and a lonely fifth wheel.
Bear Pride
June 20, 2012 By 5 Comments
Friendly, diverse Bear culture includes geeks, men who dance ’round purses, men who like pie.
Photoshopping My Neck
April 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
William L. Walker has an ally against the inexorable march of time. It’s called Photoshop.
Viral Photo of Tyler Seguin Raises Big Questions
April 6, 2012 By 8 Comments
What does it say about our society when an apparently photo-shopped photo of the Bruins’ Tyler Seguin and his supposed groupies goes massively viral? Who does it harm?
The Before Body
February 27, 2012 By 78 Comments
(Hat tip to Sociological Images.) Below the cut, we have a fascinating video in which a man becomes both the “before” and the “after” body for a weight-loss, muscle-gain ad– within only a few hours. To get the after body, he lifts weights (to make his muscles more prominent), tans, sprays his body with PAM, takes the picture [...]
Software: Adobe Photoshop Touch Comes To Tablets
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Chasing Beauty: An Addict’s Memoir
September 19, 2011 By 97 Comments
Lisa Hickey was beautiful twice, and she hated herself for it.
Are You Implying Your Child Is Ugly?
November 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Technology hasn’t quite reached the stage where the rich can assemble engineered genetics at a mall kiosk, but it’s catching up quietly, and the aftermath may be messier than ever.
Dear John,
November 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Is your roommate’s photo-manipulation hobby creating an ethical dilemma for you? Well, you’re in luck.
Picture of the Day
October 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This is the tilt-shifted version of Van Gogh’s “The Red Vineyard” (incidentally, the only painting he sold during his lifetime). Tilt-shift is a photographic technique that makes real scenes look like miniature models. Art student Serena Maylon used Photoshop to manipulate the light and adjust the focus until she produced these renditions of Van Gogh’s work. [...]
“It’s all retouching.”
Folks, EVERY image is photoshopped.