Friday, April 19, 2013

The limits of photoshop.

Have you seen the bomber suspects?

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/boston-bombing-suspect-photos-released/100499/

All I could think was "this isn't like TV when Abby or Garcia or someone clicks ENHANCE ENHANCE ENHANCE and all of a sudden the blur is a recognisable face or a legible number plate!!!" In real life, blurry means blurry. No sharpening algorithm can create detailed features out of a big grey pixel. So we're stuck with "Have you seen this pixel-face with a backpack?"

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