Today I was in a Zoom call at work and I noticed that when I compared my image to the others in my call I was blurry. So blurry that I tried to wipe off my camera.
Not the camera. It was the "prettification" filter. Where non-work Zoom has filters that make you look like a cat, work Zoom has a filter for "Touch up my appearance." It's the Zoom version of Doris Day and her Vaseline on the camera lens.
Somehow I have been slowly creeping my filter up until I was full blur filter, while The Young People at Work are filter-free.
| Not Touched Up | Touched Up |
I dragged the setting back down to reality, and that was unspeakable, so I compromised at half-blur. And made a mental note to apply eyebrow pencil while looking at Zoom instead of the bathroom mirror.
Also it is time to update my blog profile picture.
... did it also shift you from slightly frowning to slightly smiling? Because that would be creepy, but so many of these things are creepy...
Anyway. Some wrinkles reduced seems reasonable, full-blur probably not so great. You could always apply vaseline to your camera... (I do not *actually* recommend applying vaseline to your camera; in addition to the visual problems, if it gets onto rubber or certain types of plastic it can destroy them over time.)
Posted by: KC | July 26, 2022 at 01:06 PM
KC - no I did that, in tribute to all before and after photos in which the before has a scowl and the after has a smile.
Posted by: theQueen | July 26, 2022 at 05:18 PM