{"id":1921,"date":"2012-01-11T07:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-01-11\/1921"},"modified":"2012-01-11T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:52:33","slug":"great-and-in-some-ways-important-fotoshop-by-adobe-spoof-by-jesse-rosten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-01-11\/1921","title":{"rendered":"Great (and in Some Ways Important) &#8220;Fotoshop by Adob\u00e9&#8221; Spoof by Jesse Rosten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1921'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I came across this great spoof video today: <a href='http:\/\/jesserosten.com\/2012\/fotoshop-by-adobe'>Fotoshop by Adob\u00e9<\/a> by Jesse Rosten.<\/p>\n\n<p>I've never understood how it can be legal for <span class='nobr'>a cosmetic<\/span> company to\ndigitally alter <span class='nobr'>a photo<\/span> in an advertisement to create the kind of result\nthey claim their product is supposed to create (smooth skin, etc.). <span class='nobr'>It seems<\/span> to be <span class='nobr'>a cut<\/span> and dried case of false advertising to me, but apparently\nthere's something else going on because it's been going on unabated for\nyears. <span class='nobr'>I'm so used<\/span> to altering my own photographs (such as <a\nhref='\/blog\/2012-01-10\/1920#104129'>this one<\/a> from\nyesterday) that <span class='nobr'>I can<\/span> see the digital manipulation in these kinds of\nadvertisements <span class='nobr'>a mile<\/span> away, but from what <span class='nobr'>I can<\/span> tell, most people don't\nrealize just how unrealistic these photos are.<\/p>\n\n<p>Jesse's video should be required viewing, especially for young girls, to\ngive them <span class='nobr'>a realistic<\/span> mindset in preparation for the barrage of\nunrealistic, unattainable &#8220;beauty&#8221; fakeness that society will envelop them\nin and pressure them with.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this great spoof video today: Fotoshop by Adob\u00e9 by Jesse Rosten.<\/p> <p>I've never understood how it can be legal for a cosmetic company to digitally alter a photo in an advertisement to create the kind of result they claim their product is supposed to create (smooth skin, etc.). It seems to be a cut and dried case of false advertising to me, but apparently there's something else going on because it's been going on unabated for years. I'm so used to altering my own photographs (such as this one from yesterday) that I can see the digital [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}