Photoshop & Insecurities

I don’t know about you, but I definitely have some insecurities about my body.  I am pear shaped and   I know that there no matter how much I train or work out I won’t be able to change that.  Over the years, I’ve become much better at accepting who I am and how I look but sometimes it is still really hard to see the perfect looking models in magazines.

Researchers at Dartmouth have been studying photo retouching and have developed a method to determine how much retouching has been done to a photograph.  In fact, they are now able to detect traces of digital tampering (photo retouching).  Take a look at the images on the link below.  Click the toggle button and you’ll likely be as amazed as I was!

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/downloads/publications/pnas11/

While I’ve always known that most of these images have been retouched – it was amazing to actually see it in these images.  Sometimes seeing the proof can really help.  What do you think? Are you as amazed as I was?