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BC Holmes ([personal profile] bcholmes) wrote2012-08-29 09:00 pm

Photoshop Inhumanity

Is it still called the Uncanny Valley if the image isn’t computer-generated — just Photoshopped into unnatural plasticity?

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[personal profile] frandroid 2012-08-30 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say no--the UV is about synthesizing that looks real, whereas 'shopping a picture is about reducing the realness of a "real" picture, in this case. Call it surrealism?