Morph me beautiful

I've just been playing with the demo version of My Perfect Picture.

By analysing survey data on what makes a face good-looking, the software developers have developed a "beauty function" to quantify attractiveness.

Using a this function, this software can now adjust digital portraits to fit more closely to the ideal, so that they look more "attractive".

Two things interest me about this. Firstly, the generally ethics of it. Is it "cheating" to electronically change the shape of your face in a picture to make yourself look more attractive than you actually are?

Probably yes. But then again, makeup and camera angles can change the shape of a face in a similar ways, are they "cheating" too? And everyone with an ounce of savvy in digital photography knows how to fiddle with levels and touch-up tools to make themselves look better. Where do you draw the line as to what's acceptable digital manipulation and what isn't?

I'd draw the line somewhere well before morphing your face, but that's a gut feeling rather than based on any hard-and-fast criteria.

The other interesting thing is that you can set it to work to a feminine or a masculine ideal, in fact the demo version of the software only works for female faces. That's not going to stop an enterprising tranny like me from trying the obvious: a female transform on their male mug!

The results were... strange. It looked like a more female version of me, but it didn't look like me.

One of the great things when I see good pics of Becky is the feeling of seeing a girl who looks like me. Using this software on my tranny pics would probably generate a more female-looking picture, but it wouldn't look like me, and wouldn't give me the same rush.

So maybe that's where you draw the line: when you reach the point during "enhancement" that you can't see yourself in a picture anymore, then you're cheating.