The Photoshop manipulation has very little distortion — the camera engineer could not have produced these images, and the intention is entirely to make the image /less/ like what the photographer saw.
(It isn't just women. Yesterday's junk catalogue is illustrated with perfect-looking children and teenagers, sometimes with perfect-looking parents.)
[Edited links, I pasted them the wrong way around.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U (shows a woman's face)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17j5QzF3kqE (whole body, might be NSFW in the US)
The Photoshop manipulation has very little distortion — the camera engineer could not have produced these images, and the intention is entirely to make the image /less/ like what the photographer saw.
(It isn't just women. Yesterday's junk catalogue is illustrated with perfect-looking children and teenagers, sometimes with perfect-looking parents.)
[Edited links, I pasted them the wrong way around.]