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		<title>How real is reality?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="pic"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png" target="_blank" title="3D Wine Glasses"><img src="http://www.4colorgrafix.net/images/4blog/wine.png" alt="3D Wine Glasses" /></a><br />picture from wikipedia<br /></div>I teach Photoshop tutorials in a Post-Secondary setting. As part of my tutorials, I regularly show my students the excellent work of Greg Apodaca (<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html" target="_blank">see his digital portfolio</a>). Any woman who has compared herself unfavorably to a model in a magazine can feel much better knowing how heavily edited such images are (see <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/blonde/blonde1.html" target="_blank">blonde</a> and <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/bikini1.html">bikini</a>). Greg's Digital Portfolio showcases his amazing skill as a digital retoucher but it also brings up an ethical question: how much of what we see in the media is real]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="decor"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png" target="_blank" title="3D Wine Glasses"><img src="http://www.4colorgrafix.net/images/4blog/wine.png" alt="3D Wine Glasses" /></a><br />picture from wikipedia</div>
<p>I teach Photoshop tutorials in a Post-Secondary setting. As part of my tutorials, I regularly show my students the excellent work of Greg Apodaca (<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html" target="_blank">see his digital portfolio</a>). Any woman who has compared herself unfavorably to a model in a magazine can feel much better knowing how heavily edited such images are (see <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/blonde/blonde1.html" target="_blank">blonde</a> and <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/bikini1.html">bikini</a>). Greg&#8217;s Digital Portfolio showcases his amazing skill as a digital retoucher but it also brings up an ethical question: how much of what we see in the media is real? Court cases, scientific experiments, articles in the news and young girls self-esteems often depend upon visual evidence. Digital art technology (Photoshop, Poser, etc.) makes it possible to alter visual evidence in significant yet convincing ways. I have seen incredible work by 3D artists that could be passed off as legitimate photos (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png" target="_blank">these artist created wine glasses</a>). Not to sound paranoid but digital art has now become so realistic, can we completely trust everything we see? Just a thought.</p>
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