Research to Combat Excessive Photo Retouching

[radiantmephit]

This article about a newly developed computational model that can detect photographic airbrushing makes me happy:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/photo-alteration-analysis/

Here's a sample of some of the photos that were used to build the tool (the top row is un-retouched; the bottom row is retouched):

Comments

[clevermanka]

Wow. They even changed Bikini Top Woman's nose. WTF.