# The ultimate 'beauty secret': Fotoshop by Adobé

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 16, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720 "2012-01-16T18:56:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720/1 "2012-01-16T18:56:32Z")

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Link to Scientific American (!) [video-of-the week page](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/01/12/fotoshop-by-adobe/). Funny and scary at the same time.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720/2 "2012-01-16T21:16:58Z")

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That is note-perfect for all the beauty ads you see on tv all the time. I especially liked this phrase - “pro-pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon microbead extract” (I wrote it down to get it exactly right) - they totally nailed the idiotic pseudo-science babble words used in beauty ads. Nice job, Jesse Rosten!

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**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720/3 "2012-01-18T11:12:36Z")

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Oh, that’s brilliant. I did my part to make it viral.

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**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720/4 "2012-01-18T11:49:35Z")

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Yep, pretty accurate and funny.

And (sigh) a Quixote tilt against a vast windmill. Not one advertisement will change, not one company will have an attack of conscience, and not one model will refuse her opportunity to work.

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**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720/5 "2012-01-18T11:50:29Z")

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That is genius! And scary.