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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: PasteUp Trick!
- Message-ID: <1068@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 19:24:31 GMT
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- Art Isbell writes
- >
- > And Jeff's recent complaint about sexist ads seems pretty weak also.
- > I really don't find a woman with a green right eye and brown left
- > eye holding a French horn in Chromagrafx' PixelMaster ad in
- > NeXTWORLD to be a particularly sexist ad. Maybe Chromagrafx
- > was just demonstrating how PixelMaster could change eye
- > colorings :-)
-
- Using a human face and a piece of metal (the french horn) are deliberate
- because these are some of the most difficult things to get right when
- printing color photographs. They chose their image because it showed off
- their ability to create great color separations that will print in very
- convincing colors. The french horn really looks like brass, and the
- woman's skin is a very accurate color. If you're a serious customer for
- an image editing program, you know about that. The trick of making each
- eye a different color was also a demonstration of what the software
- can do.
-
- It's not sexist. In a photograph of a human being (which was a good
- and deliberate choice), you only have two options: male and female. If
- you choose female, you're sexist? I don't think so. It is a relatively
- tasteful photograph, and it got the point across. If you want to see
- sexist advertising, open any women's magazine.
-
- Thanks for the post, Art.
-
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