No more selfie distortion? Tool helps you put your real face forward - CNET

Those of us who don't have pro photographers following us around snapping portraits from the most flattering angles often rely on shots taken via awkwardly placed selfie arm. But camera proximity can make your nose look bigger, your ears look smaller and your forehead look more slope-ey.

Didn't realize selfies could do all that? Happy Monday!

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The good news: computer scientists from Princeton University have developed a tool that corrects that common brand of selfie photo distortion that comes from getting up so close in your own mug.

The tool, presented at the Siggraph 2016 computer graphics conference last week, can modify faces to look like they were photographed from farther away. It can also alter the subject's apparent pose, making it appear as if the camera was placed higher, lower or at an angle.

"Although it is the age of the selfie, many people are unaware of how much these self-portraits do not really look like the person being photographed because the camera is way too close," Ohad Fried, a Ph.D. candidate in Princeton's Department of Computer Science and lead developer of the new method, said in a statement. "Now that people can edit so many aspects of a photo right on their phones, we wanted to provide a quick way to edit faces that maintains realism."