Healing Doctor

Chapter 648 Photo Editing

When we arrived at Zhao Zhe's rented room, the room was a mess.

Ji Xiang didn't care. If his house wasn't cleaned by a professional cleaner every day, it probably wouldn't be much better than Zhao Zhe's.

"Xiao Ji, I didn't know you were coming, so I wasn't prepared."

"That's good," Ji Xiang said. "Brother Zhao, you should be the one considering it. A man is in his prime at forty."

"Sigh, finding a wife is such a hassle, living alone is so much easier. If I stay with you, when I'm about to die, I won't need any more treatment. You can just give me an acupuncture injection so I can pass away peacefully. That would be so much better."

"That's illegal," Ji Xiang replied calmly.

"Haha, just kidding. What if I find a younger one, and then she goes at it like a wolf in sheep's clothing? What if I find someone of a suitable age... never mind, let's not talk about this. Men, you know, are very loyal."

"Only like 18-year-olds?"

"ha."

Zhao Zhe turned on his computer.

"Brother Zhao, you're connecting your phone to your computer? Why don't you just watch the live stream on your phone?"

"Ugh, my eyes are getting blurry, I can't see clearly," Zhao Zhe said. "When I'm performing delicate surgeries, I rely on my intuition. To be honest, I really envy you. You're already making achievements in your early twenties. By the time your body can't keep up, you'll already be among the top performers. You can then focus on scientific research, which would be great."

Ji Xiang smiled and saw that Zhao Zhe quickly connected and opened the live broadcast room.

"Look, how beautiful the girls are these days." Zhao Zhe swiped the mouse and randomly selected a picture of a live streamer.

"Emmmm," Ji Xiang murmured.

"Xiao Ji, what do you want to say?" Zhao Zhe was taken aback.

"Brother Zhao, this person's photoshopped image is pretty impressive," Ji Xiang said.

"Haha, who doesn't Photoshop their photos? I think it looks alright."

Ji Xiang took the mouse and began explaining it to Zhao Zhe.

"Here, the color tone has been adjusted, but the blurry boundary between the inner and outer sides of the hair is harsh. It was probably an attempt to simulate the depth of field effect of a camera using layered blurring, but it wasn't fixed."

Then, Ji Xiang skillfully moved the mouse to select the position of the anchor's eyes and zoomed in on them.

"The size of a person's face and the size of their facial features vary significantly from person to person. However, the size of a person's pupils is quite consistent, generally around 12mm under normal lighting conditions. This can be used to calculate the length, width, and various proportions of a person's face in a photograph."

"The average person's face width is 12-13 times the diameter of their pupil, with 12 times being the standard ratio. A few exceptionally beautiful women can reach 11 times."

The anchor's proportions are 10.6 times, resulting in a face width of approximately 12.6cm and a face length of approximately 18cm, making her a truly small-faced, nine-head-tall woman, which is considered excellent even among celebrities.

Zhao Zhe was dumbfounded.

Ji Xiang isn't interested in women, so how come he's so skilled? Is he also the repressed pervert type?

"Although at this point we can be 60% certain that the streamer used a face-slimming function, we can't rule out the possibility that she's naturally beautiful, right, Brother Zhao?"

"And then?" Zhao Zhe sensed something else in Ji Xiang's words and pressed for an answer.

"The real evidence of cosmetic surgery is on the cheekbones."

"Generally speaking, the widest point of an Asian face is at the cheekbone arch, which is the area on both sides of the face below the eye sockets. This bone protrudes outwards in Asians. The protruding cheekbone is not without its advantages; as a load-bearing wall of the face, the cheekbone can support the apple cheeks and the soft tissues in the mid-face."

"But look at the anchor's cheekbone area, it's sunken, which is the opposite of the facial bone structure."

"Brother Zhao, have you had cosmetic surgery?"

"Why would I do that?" Zhao Zhe said casually, but then realized that the "do" Ji Xiang meant was different from his own understanding of "do".

"I'm not a plastic surgeon. When I was taking my second certification exam, I was torn between plastic surgery and orthopedics. I've never been a very farsighted person, and I thought plastic surgery was disreputable, so I chose orthopedics, and then I was selected through a centralized recruitment process."

Zhao Zhe was still rambling on, but Ji Xiang immediately interrupted him.

"Even with zygomatic arch reduction surgery, pushing it to this extent would be considered a medical malpractice, inevitably accompanied by severe soft tissue sagging. However, the anchor's cheekbones are still full and high, which can only be the result of liquefaction in Photoshop."

"This is a loophole, and only a professional doctor can spot it. Ordinary people might find it slightly strange, but they can't quite put their finger on what's wrong with it."

Are they professional doctors?

Zhao Zhe was in tears. "I'm not a professional doctor, I'm just a handyman."

"Next up is the best part of the streamer: her nose. The tip and columella are well-developed, and the nasal ridge is beautiful. I'm inclined to believe it hasn't been photoshopped; it's naturally like this. This kind of nose is simply perfect, amazing."

"but!"

After hearing Ji Xiang say "but," Zhao Zhe breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.

"The lighting and shadow changes at the junction of the bridge and root of the nose of the anchor are somewhat unnatural. It is not obvious when you zoom in and look closely, but if you shrink the picture and look at it from a distance, or observe it from the side of the screen, the shadows on the root and sides of the nose and the highlights on the bridge of the nose are too disjointed. This should be because she is wearing makeup."

"And the makeup wasn't very professional; you could see the marks. How should I put it, for an amateur, the makeup skills were pretty good."

"Furthermore, the highlight on the bridge of the streamer's nose is a bit too perfect. It's hard to believe that such an effect could be achieved solely through makeup skills. It's possible that the makeup was touched up using software. Similarly, I suspect that the under-eye bags were also enhanced using software."

"In addition, the streamer's facial contours are not smooth enough, and her face is more of a pentagonal shape. Besides the unevenness caused by photo editing, the corners are not smooth enough."

Simply put, the streamer's facial features are on the softer side, requiring a softer facial contour to match. However, she photoshopped them to have sharp angles, which doesn't suit her at all. I feel it wasn't photoshopped by a professional team, but rather something she did herself.

"To put it simply, this streamer isn't professional enough."

Zhao Zhe was speechless; the talkative man couldn't get a word in edgewise.

Even if you want to be the straight man, you don't know what to say.

Overall, this is a streamer who works hard on her own. If she has a guild, it's a small one, the kind that can't even do perfect photo editing.

"That's about it, Brother Zhao. You're not looking for her as the streamer, are you?"

Zhao Zhe pondered for more than ten seconds, but instead of answering the question, he asked in return, "Xiao Ji, how... do you know so much?"

"Ugh, don't even mention it. My mom loves to edit photos. She's uncomfortable if she doesn't edit her pictures, so I started training in photo editing skills when I was in elementary school more than ten years ago. If we're talking about skill level, my photo editing skills are better than my surgical skills."

"!!!"

"Actually, my mother is already a 9 out of 10 beauty, but you know how women are."

Ji Xiang shrugged helplessly.

"Xiao Ji, you've mastered a dragon-slaying skill. If I had your abilities, I would have already tricked a wife into coming back to me." Zhao Zhe sighed, somewhat saddened.

(End of this chapter)