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around the holidays.) An 18-yearold high-school student in New
York, who declined to be named to
protect her privacy and her friends’,
said that nine out of ten female
friends quietly edit their Facebook
profile photos before they’re uploaded, sometimes making an arm
look skinnier or blurring a double
chin, other times just tweaking the
lighting to make it more flattering.
“I’ve had phone calls where
girls will ask me to go on iChat
and send me four different versions of the same picture — with
different lighting, with different
skin,” she said. Among her peers,
iPhoto’s suite of tools is still the
most popular, she said.
Much as in real life, the only
thing worse than looking zitty,
wrinkled and tired is looking like
you’ve sought help. If you get
caught editing a photo, “it’s very
embarrassing,” the 18-year-old
said. “People are hyperaware of not
wanting to seem fake in their pictures. As much as they edit them, it
has to come off as natural.”
Though Perfect365 offers a range
of dramatic makeup styles, with
names like “Enchant,” or “Ocean,”
the app’s most natural-looking filter, which gently evens skin tones,
is the most popular. (According to
ArcSoft, 80 percent of people either
use the “Natural” filter or custom
settings.) The co-creator of Face-
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Perfect365
in action on
HuffPost
Tech
Associate
Editor Alexis
Kleinman,
before (left)
and after
(bottom).
With this
app, users
must first
align their
face with
“KeyPoints,”
then choose
the effects
they wish to
apply, from
adding false
eyelashes
and sweeping
on blush to
evening-out
skintones and
whitening
teeth.