Lizzie Miller proved that not everything has to be retouched to be perfect or beautiful.
There is an obsession to make things perfect with the use of technology, there is an idea that everything needs to be fixed or improved upon, but Lizzie Miller proved just the opposite. Posing semi-nude for Glamour, Miller has turned heads, for posing in the magazine without the aid of an airbrush, going au natural!
With the rise of new media tools to create and manipulate there is the possibility of being anyone or looking exactly the way you want without physically changing a single bone on your body. Thanks to improvements in photo retouching over the last five years, those glossy images have strayed further and further from anything resembling reality. Retouching techniques that were once used mainly to erase blemishes or stray hairs have become tools for radical human body distortion, shrinking waists and vanquishing years, turning models and actresses into leggy dolls of literally inhuman proportions.This is also evident in movies, where actors are digital enhanced using new media tools to suit a character role.
Adjusting images whether still or moving is done so frequently that when there is a rare natural picture like Lizzie’s there is a turn of heads, people raise questions as to why she didn’t airbrush, or people applaud for being so brave and ‘real’.
Even the simplest picture or video is some what retouched, to give the false pretence of beauty, and with the aid of the simplest of media such as a digital camera there might never be another flawed image. You might see it every day and not know, for example with social networking profile pictures seen by so many, has a high possibility that half of the pictures on these pages are in some way adjusted. So, even those with the most basic of computer skills could be able to ‘airbrush’ photos from home.
These adjustment have also been made on the big screen to the actors and actresses that appear to be flawless. The digital changes that are done to these performers can enhance the charters appeal to the audience resulting in a boost in sales. In movies such as Forrest Gump 1994, digital programs were used to remove the legs of an actor portraying an amputee. In the film 300, consisting on the Spartian soldiers, computer generated visual effects allowed the actors to appear more built than usual, sculpting the muscles of the undersized actors and removing any unflattering pounds that might have been present giving the false illusion of perfection.
Though airbrushing can be used in the wrong context and influence the younger generation or even older into believing in an unattainable ‘perfect image’, airbrushing and digital enhancement can be quite useful, for example, creating the image for Imhotep’s decomposed face in The Mummy.
So you decide digitally enhanced beauty or natural beauty ?
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