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This tutorial is one of the tutorials used in class with students when reviewing the media and beauty. We usually start the class with a review of the dove commercial (I have used this for the last 2 years) it’s a great start to debate on “Digital Surgery”;
We then carry on with a game call I’am not real, I pick from the Internet pictures of famous people in their natural (without digital surgery) state and compare with a glossy picture of them. They come to discuss in groups about the the phenomenon know as “Photoshop Surgery”.
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This picture on the righ is an interesting topic to discuss (source: http://themcode.wordpress.com)
The class is them showed a few demonstrations on computer enhancement from simple to advanced, and then they try it for themselves. The demonstration bellow is one of them. I will upload more later.