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Coming from Europe where you are usually asked to not even smile on ID photos, it blows my mind that there is a whole legal ID photo retouching industry on Japa
by krastanov 6y ago
Coming from Europe where you are usually asked to not even smile on ID photos, it blows my mind that there is a whole legal ID photo retouching industry on Japan. Or are such retouched photos not supposed to be used for official purposes?
- esperent 6y agoI'd imagine you would have trouble traveling outside of japan with an obviously retouched passport photo.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThere's the classic trick that Penn& Teller wrote about in "Play in Traffic" https://www.instructables.com/Prank-a-Cop-with-a-Clown-Nose/ https://www.instructables.com/Prank-a-Cop-with-a-Clown-Nose/
- Simon_says 6y ago> Then, while he is looking at your drivers license, grab the bigger red clown nose from your visor and put it on! Nice way to get shot.
- jfim 6y agoI haven't needed to use one of them, but if you look at the pictures on this website (https://travel.e-japanese.jp/japan-id-photo https://travel.e-japanese.jp/japan-id-photo), you'll see that it's possible to select passport pictures and also apply skin correction/lightening to the pictures. I don't know if those options are disabled for official photos though.
- BeetleB 6y agoIn the US, for things like passports, retouching is disallowed. However, if the effects are small, they'll have no way of detecting. No one's going to scrutinize your face for all the wrinkles you removed.
- greggman3 6y agoThere isn't. Japanese photo IDs look just like most other countries IDs (horrible). There are photo booths for taking "fun" pictures, not IDs pictures.