Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Nina Garcia

Yesterday I wrote an article about Photoshop and software that attempts to rate how altered an image is. In the images used as examples was a picture of the beautiful Nina Garcia, seen here:

Then, I pressed 'Toggle', and a funny thing happened:

Let's look at those side by side for a moment, shall we?

When I see them side by side, I notice that Nina is naturally beautiful, and that the picture I had first assumed to be Nina in full face makeup was actually a cartoon version of the glorious Ms. Garcia. As someone who is acutely aware of image manipulation (I mean, I just wrote an article about it!) I am shocked by what I'm willing to accept visually. It's obvious when I see the original that her makeup, skin tone, skin color, hair color, and eyebrows are completely fake. But why could I not tell that when I saw the original alone?

I wonder what Nina thinks about this.