Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default
by userbinator on Sunday October 04, 2020 @08:21PM
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I wonder how many others also find "retouched" photos have a bit creepy, almost uncanny-valley quality to them, especially those of people we've seen in reality with our own eyes. I've also heard stories of others buying a recent camera, and seeing there was something subtly off about the faces in the pictures it created, later finding out there was a "face beauty" option that was on by default.
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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default
by AuryGlenz on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:56AM
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I spend a good portion of my days retouching portraits in Photoshop. Most of the filters do things I’d never imagine doing to a client’s face, like making eyes bigger. Most of what they do is smooth out the skin to a ridiculous extent.
My way takes 10 minutes vs. an app taking a millisecond, but that’s all in the name of making the image look flawless without looking retouched.
Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default
by dehrmann on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:36AM
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It's definitely creepy. What's weird is that you can repair minor blemishes in Photoshop and it's incredibly hard to tell, but these filters do so much more processing than using the healing brush on 2% of a face.
Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default
by vl on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:12AM
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Argument presented in article about filters and re-touching is mostly self-contradictory: image from modern camera is heavily processed anyway. Anything from color balance, lens distortion to edge enchantment and smoothing is corrected in software/firmware. I.e. any modern smartphone camera is firmly in computation photography territory - what comes out is not what sensor “sees” anyway.
So a question of additional filter being on by default is really a matter of preference, because so many filters are already on anyway.