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Images of large breasts are common place in 21st century media and advertising, but it can often be difficult to distinguish between surgical and digital enhancement. While surgical breast enlargement (Brustvergrösserung) procedures have certainly become more popular in recent times, so has our desire and ability to digitally enhance images through computer software. Magazines and billboard advertisements are regularly touched up and enhanced, and an increasing number of them are featuring modifications in body shape and facial geometry. Whether it is surgical or digital in nature, the continual enhancement and alteration of the human body brings up a number of interesting questions about culture and the evolution of the human form in the 21st century.

Surgical breast augmentation is the most common form of cosmetic surgery in the United States, althouth the number of procedures has decreased since the economic downturn which adversely affected the American economy. There are two common types of surgical breast implants; saline filled implants and silicone-gel filled implants. While these two types are by far the most common materials used , a number of alternative materials have been developed but are no longer made. The prevalance of surgically enhanced breasts in popular culture has created the normalisation of the look surrounding breast enlargement, which has in-turn been transferred across to the areas surrounding digital image editing and alteration. Along with the touching up of facial flaws, the removal of natural body fat, and the removal of any signs of ageing, the enhancement of breast and buttock tissue is one of the most common techniques used in digital glamour advertising and talked about through translation agency (Übersetzungsbüro) centres around the world.

Traditional analog image editing is also called photo retouching, however most modern advertising studios are much more likely to use graphic software to digitally alter images prior to publication. The types of applications that are used can be broadly divided into three major categories: vector graphics editors, raster graphics editors, and 3D modelers. All of these programs can be used to alter digital images, including a number of popular techniques to retouch facial areas and artificially enhance the human form. While a number of psychologists have talked about the danger that may come from constant exposure to unnatural representations of the human body, the jury is still out regarding the long lasting effects of both surgical and digital enhancement, in terms of breast enlargement and other types of body alteration.