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This sketch presents a novel method for digital face beautification: given a frontal photograph of a face (a portrait), our method automatically increases the predicted attractiveness rating of the face. The main challenge is to achieve this goal while introducing only minute, subtle modifications to the original image, such that the resulting “beautified” face maintains a strong, unmistakable similarity to the original, as demonstrated by the pair of faces shown in Figure 1. The effectiveness of the proposed method was experimentally validated by a group of test subjects who consistently rated the modified faces as more attractive than the original ones. Professional photographers have been retouching and deblemishing their subjects ever since the invention of photography. It may be safely assumed that any model that we encounter on a magazine cover today has been digitally manipulated by a skilled, talented retouching artist. Since the human face is arguably the most frequently photographed object on earth, a tool such as ours would be a useful and welcome addition to the ever-growing arsenal of image enhancement and retouching tools available in today’s digital image editing packages. The potential of such a tool for motion picture special effects and advertising is also quite obvious.

Mark Boulton Design is a small design studio. We have a knack for producing beautiful, simple solutions for today’s web. Be it a website, a brand, a product or application, we have the expertise to provide you with a solution that will stand out in the marketplace. ‘Working with Mark Boulton Design on the design of nature.com’s publishing tools was a great pleasure. They have a very modern fresh style and are extremely responsive and easy to work with. Their designs have definitely transformed a complex and opaque system into a pleasant user experience.’ — Glennis McGregor, Web Design Manager, Nature.com Read more testimonials

Opera Mini 4.1 beta lets you have the full Web everywhere. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need; tools for attaching files to web-based email; uploading photos to your blog or other site; downloading attachments from email for storage on your phone; and saving and viewing pages offline.

Latest Release: Komodo Edit 4.3 Komodo Edit is now free and open source! New Find in Project feature adds strength to your search so you can quickly locate the code you're looking for. New Replace in Files makes global code changes simple (and the preview makes it safe). New Abbreviation feature inserts snippets from your toolbox at the touch of a key.