Stretching the Truth Just Became Easier (and Cheaper)
Digital pictures can be stretched without distorting a subject's face. Above, an altered photo.
By PETER WAYNER
Published: January 31, 2008
WHEN Carlo Baldassi came home from vacation and looked at a picture he took of his girlfriend on the Charles Bridge in Prague, he was torn. She looked beautiful, but the proportions of the picture were all wrong. It seemed tight and constrained, and it would not fill his widescreen monitor.
An artist is never satisfied.
Mr. Baldassi may not have an official title of an artist — he studies computational neuroscience at the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation in Turin, Italy. But he could fix the problem with some automatic photo-editing software he was writing with several friends. With one click, the tool stretched the uninteresting parts of the landscape — the water and the hills — while leaving the face of his girlfriend just as it was. The result was, he thought, more open and panoramic.
“Reality is a lie,” said Mr. Baldassi.
Automated tools like Mr. Baldassi’s are changing the editing of photography by making it possible for anyone to tweak a picture, delete unwanted items or even combine the best aspects of several similar pictures into one.
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