Your reply is why I feel we need to understand what is happening before we can jump to conclusions about why.

I'm not sure what your level of understanding is with Photoshop, but I'll explain what often happens.

When creating images like this for the web, the only way to control the background colour behind the image…

Sorry, I realize that my last reply was long winded, but I wanted to add something.

I just visited the website to check out the photos and ya....The issue is obviously that in order to represent all the colours available, the artist was tasked with "masking" the shirts. This allowed them to change the colours that are…

The issue I have with these kinds of articles is the desired intent, really doesn't account for reality. I'll explain.

I am a graphic artist. I have worked for major advertising firms as well as freelancing for a long time. I have been part of, and witness to many different projects in my time, and I can tell you one…

That's what I'm saying. We have different social norms when it comes to how men and women act. There is obviously a wide range, but when commercials such as this try to simply replace one gender with another, it will always look odd because they are playing a "character" instead of being natural.

We see this often in…

Odd. I found really no difference between the two other than I find that when people make these gender reversal type things, the men tend to "act" like the women in the commercials which I think makes it seem so strange.

If you watch both of these commercials objectively, they're basically just the same from a visual…

Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.

This is often an issue on this website, and this article is no exception.