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Models’ “ideal bodies” and perfectly smooth silhouettes we see sporting swimwear and such aren’t exactly the real deal. Sure, these women are genetically predisposed to have lovely figures, and they’re paid to keep themselves trim. However, let’s not lose sight of something that has undeniably skewed our idea of what the “perfect body” looks like: airbrushing.
In most cameras, you take a large image sensor (say 12 million pixels) and use those pixels to capture more detail across the X and Y axis of the image. What if you changed the lens on a camera so that it used all those pixels to capture more data about the Z dimension instead? That is the basic idea behind the plenoptic lens shown here…
If you saw the post on Photoshop’s new Content Aware Fill feature last week, you were probably amazed: Photoshop may finally be getting easy enough for mere mortals to use it It truly is a cool feature. The following video shows just how far you can take it: [[[Jump to previous Funny...]]]
I have great respect for people who are Photoshop experts. The modifications that they can make to photographs, and the original artwork that they can create with the tool, are amazing. This video gives you an example of the kind of things a “Photoshop pro” is thinking about when he uses Photoshop: To a mere [...]
Apple pushed Intel to develop Light Peak cabling – “it reviewed evidence that Apple began talks with Intel in 2007 to develop a new cabling standard with the capacity to handle “massive amounts of data” and replace a variety of existing ports, including USB, FireWire, and DisplayPort…” Canadian team makes cancer diagnostic breakthrough – “Researchers [...]
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