Graphics Programs Reference
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Side Effects
The name of this chapter comes from the 2009 movie short
Side Effects
(it's less than 20 minutes long, which is probably
why you can buy it for only $1.99 in the iTunes Store. It's
either that, or it's so cheap because of its lack of zombies).
Anyway, here's how they describe
Side Effects
(say this in
your best movie voice-over guy voice): “An ordinary guy
becomes a human guinea pig in an experimental drug test
and meets the girl of his dreams…” Sounds like a pretty
typical everyday story. At least the human guinea pig in
an experimental drug test part. Anyway, I looked at the
movie poster, and the guys in the poster all have this creepy-
looking bluish/green color cast that makes them look kind
of sickly, but then the female lead's photo looks fine, with
regular-looking flesh tones, and that's when I realized why
this guy thinks he's found the woman of his dreams. She
doesn't have a creepy bluish/green color cast. I mean, think
about it. If all the girls around you had a serious white
balance problem, and then all of sudden you meet a girl
carrying around her own 18% gray card, and so she looks
correctly color balanced in any lighting situation, wouldn't
you fall in love with her, too? Exactly. I'll bet in the last
10 minutes of the movie, you find out that this guy actually
starts an online business for people using dating sites like
eHarmony, or Match.com, or HandsomeStalker.com, where
he offers to remove bluish/green color casts from your
profile photo for a price. Things are going pretty well for
him for a while, but then in about the eighteenth minute,
the experimental drug wears off, and he finds himself
trapped in a dank, dimly-lit room, forced to write non-
sensical chapter intros late into the night, until his wife
comes in and says “Honey, come to bed,” but right then,
he notices she has a bluish/green color cast, and….
