Condoleezza Rice Eyes -

that pic creeped me out

I wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley!!! :devil:

tomm10 said:

Whoever adjusted the image did so by selecting the area only around her eyes. The rest of the coloring and brightness in the photo is largely unchanged. Now, that's as much as I can deduce froms seeing the photos. As to whether the person who retouched the photo was ordered to do so by their supervisor or did so on their own is another story.

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That's exactly my point. They didn't want to contrast out the entire photo, they just wanted the whites of the eyes to be white. They did select just the face and/or eye area, and then contrasted that until the "whites" were white again. The original photo had a gray washed out "eye white", so when they adjusted it, they lost some of the transition area of eye color.

They were obviously not deliberately giving her devil eyes.

mvigor said:

That's exactly my point. They didn't want to contrast out the entire photo, they just wanted the whites of the eyes to be white. They did select just the face and/or eye area, and then contrasted that until the "whites" were white again. The original photo had a gray washed out "eye white", so when they adjusted it, they lost some of the transition area of eye color.

They were obviously not deliberately giving her devil eyes.

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When you brighten an image to bring back out the whites you do not flood the area with white. True whites rarely exist. Your teeth are not bright white no matter how many Crest Whitening Strips you use and the whites of your eyes are certainly not pure white. So, there is no need to artificially make teeth or eyes white. You may, at most seek to isolate those areas and brighten them slightly but only to improve contrast, not to make them white.

This photograph was manipulated by selecting the whites of the eyes and flooding them with white rather than by increasing brightness and contrast. It was absolutely, without question, an intentional act in my professional opinion. I took the original photo myself and optimized it for contrast and color and got nothing like the image they presented.

I see they say that Unsharp Mask did that, eh? Huh.

Not by itself it didn't. Try this:

Take the original photo, put into Photoshop, Filter, Sharpen, Unsharp Mask and set the following:

Amount 183%
Radius 5.2 pixels
Threshold 42 levels

Reduce the image to 180x142 so it's the same size as the altered one.

Copy in the unaltered one again and compare all three of them.

In the one just changed, the entire photo is sharper, but there are areas that Unsharp definitely made lighter. Those areas are the lips, eyes and earrings.

The AP altered one has also been sharpened and lightened, but the eyes are white -- WAY lighter than the lips. It's NOT balanced and Unsharp does not work that way. Definitely not.

Those eyes were changed separately and deliberately.

Just my 2 cents

Oh, and I think my alteration looks much better than APs. Mine just makes her look pissed off

Roan