Deep down we all know that every photo, everything we see on TV, and every movie that hits the silver screen has been digitally retouched, tweaked, and perfected. Most of the time those enhancements are kept secret, but directors Bálint Nagy and Nándor Lőrincz have put them front and center in their video for Boggie’s Nouveau Parfum. 

 

 

Obviously this is a simulation; doing these types of corrections on moving footage requires extensive masking, tracking, and rotoscoping. But the unseen artist working to ‘improve’ this artist gets the point across—which version really is more attractive, the before or after?