They can't both be right

[pp_boy_@lemmy.world]

Flip your selfies along the Y-axis. Most phones have a setting to do this automatically. That's the "you" that you're most used to seeing in a mirror. It won't fix everything, like the limitations of focal length, lighting, or camera quality, but if you're the type to really obsess over how much "worse" you look in selfies, that trick can do a lot.

[hyonoko@lemmy.ml]

Seven days….

[aeronmelon@lemmy.world]

Ironically, the mirror is the one most likely to be misrepresenting your image. In addition to being a flipped image of what you look like, anything but the most perfectly flat piece of glass is slightly distorting your proportions. And some mirrors are built to intentionally distort your appearance to make you appear more flattering to yourself.

[bleistift2@sopuli.xyz]

According to YouTube wisdom, people don’t like seeing themselves in images because they’re not mirrored like people are used to. Camera apps nowadays “correct” for that and do mirror the image for preview.

[zout@fedia.io]

Camera lenses are also distorting?

[jacklsauce@lemmy.world]

At least one*

[neatobuilds@mander.xyz]

Your eyes as well

[lunarul@lemmy.world]

Camera apps nowadays “correct” for that and do mirror the image for preview

Huh, I always thought people who post flipped photos are just technically challenged (and/or have really poor eye for detail to not notice it). Never considered someone doing that on purpose just to further their own delusion of what they look like.

[lunarul@lemmy.world]

Flip your selfies along the Y-axis

Now both are lying.

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

Boy do I have news for you about what smartphone cameras do.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

It's more about the image being saved looking like the one I saw in the preview when taking it.

[hark@lemmy.world]

The mirror serves up organic photons.

[minorlaceration@lemmy.world]

Yeah, it's better to switch the setting in the mirror instead.

[mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr]

They both are, one shows flipped image and the other distorted and corrected details

[accideath@lemmy.world]

Most phone cameras also have a much wider focal length than our eyes though, which makes faces look a bit skinnier. I definitely look better in wide angle than in reality or telephoto.

[dufkm@lemmy.world]

The mirror is how you see yourself. The camera is how you're seen by others.

[frederiknjs@lemm.ee]

The depth perception also makes quite a difference. The side of your face can clearly be seen in a mirror to be the side of your face, but depending on lighting, the side of your face can look as if it's part of the front of your face in a picture as you don't have the depth perception. The result is that photos make you look fatter than your mirror image would.

[implyingimplications@lemmy.ca]

In addition to being a flipped image

Common misconception. Mirrors reflect images, but do not flip them. If you put two items next to each other, their order is preserved in the reflection, not inverted.

The reason people think mirrors are flipped is because writing on shirts appear backwards, but that's because your shirt is facing the wrong direction. Write a word on something clear and hold it up to a mirror. It's not flipped. Put the word up against your chest like it was written on your shirt. Notice how you flipped the word in order to do that.

[dragonsinaroom@lemmy.world]

Or they both show you you're own inverted reflection and are lying to you

[299792458ms@lemmy.zip]