Unrealistic Standards: You, Me, and Photoshop
You are driving home from work and to the left you see a billboard towering sky-high 50 feet in the air obstructing views of the landscape with an ad for Calvin Klein Jeans. It’s a young girl, her skin is flawless, she has the perfect body and well, her hair seems to be blowing in the absolute ideal direction. You can’t help staring at the ad as you are waiting for the stoplight to change. Now you suddenly have this image implanted in your head. You start to compare yourself, but is this a realistic reachable standard that you should actually be comparing yourself to?
French member of parliament, Valerie Boyer,a mother of two teen daughters, thinks not. Currently she is worried about what the effects of these extremely retouched photographs are doingto the expectations of today’s youth. Boyer is currently trying to push a law into effect in France that will force all images to be labeled as retouched. But many are worried that this issue is not that cut and dry.
Adobe’s goals with Lightroom 3 are simple. Image quality and performance. Performance wise, it’s always been a 64 bit application, but they have gone back to the drawing board to try and squeeze even more perfomance out of it. As a result you will notice faster scrolling and rendering of previews.
