Scientific image manipulators are mere pikers!
November 29, 2011
From the NYT:
Dr. Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Dartmouth, are proposing a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered, a 1-to-5 scale that distinguishes the infinitesimal from the fantastic. Their research is being published this week in a scholarly journal, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
here’s one example of the before/after, more at the lab’s website here.
Pretty impressive what can be done with a picture these days.
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Kee and Farid, 2011, A perceptual metric for photo retouching is Open Access at PNAS
DrugMonkey 
December 1, 2011 at 6:48 am
I thought it’s an interesting idea, but I doubt it will be implemented. People [the ones who make the decisions] are too much in love with perfection…. and some layoutppl/paper makers will most likely say something about “it’s art” or “it’s not unreal, just enhanced”. I mean, wouldn’t you like to be enhanced when published on the cover? … (I think it’s more like “remade” than enhanced, but that’s just me)
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