People weren't sure what to make of the tool, everyone could afford it but photoshop hackjobs were a serious concern. Inadvertently being part of the background caused 500 people's faces to become blurred and unrecognizable and many people had to hire professional digital media artists to restore their faces and bodies.
Adobe eventually disabled the program when the lawsuits started coming in. The tweens and teens were the group that was hardest hit by hate mods as they became known. One girls vacation photo was stolen and each day another of her fingers was turned into a penis, her body became a blank canvas for tattoos and piercings as she was sunbathing when the photo was taken. Then a beard was overlaid on her face, and finally she was made bald... Thousands of stories like this surfaced over the two weeks before the program was disabled. The most horrifying was people and rooms getting blurred or smudged out of existence sometimes just leaving a face in the wall.
News casters, Actors, and Actresses became immediate and public targets. Having a news woman's breasts become so large she cannot move, on live tv is disruptive to daily life.
Outraged families and individuals immediately turned to the company demanding repayment and help in correcting the things that have happened to them. Adobe came up with a reversion program that could take a current picture of someone and revert them back to a prior picture.
Groups came back demanding that they bought this program and they want to use it, the company has no right to ruin their property and the company must do something!
The weeks following the program's disabling had many of the issues resolved and the company was nearly bankrupt. There was still outcry for access to the tools the people purchased and in a shocking turn of events, the company bought out photobooth companies. Seemingly overnight the photobooths across the country had a Powered by Adobe sticker on it and it was updated to have new software.
Upon entering there is a disclaimer that the user agrees to NOT sue Adobe and it warns that reality outside the booth will change, people who know you will think this is how you have always been, other people who meet you will treat you how they treat others with that quality.
There are two basic modes, the first is "Individual". You may pick from stock photos (or upload your own) and copy traits. Then you may apply filters to yourself, its like having the original program again but ensures it is only effecting the person in the booth. This option is extremely expensive.
The second option "With Someone" finds another random person and affects random traits on both of you. You have up to 3 exclusions you may use opt to use in selecting your trait partner including gender, age range, weight range, ethnicity, and fully human. By selecting an exclusion you can select the gender of your partner, the age (give or take 5 years), weight (give or take 10 lbs), Ethnicity defined by matching 75% of the trait markers defined to identify that group, or if they are or are not fully human.
You then choose how risky you are willing to be by choosing how many traits you are willing to change.
5 random trait changes = $25 x number of exclusions chosen
10 random trait changes = $20 x number of exclusions chosen
15 random trait changes = $15 x number of exclusions chosen
20 random trait changes = $10 x number of exclusions chosen
25 random trait changes = $5 x number of exclusions chosen
Once a match is found there is a final warning/ disclaimer saying that once this begins, it cannot be halted. Once the final disclaimer is accepted one screen shows the match, another shows you, and a final screen shows information on the changes. The door locks and the changes begin, They are listed one by one as they occur and users can watch themselves or their partner change.
The three types of changes are Merge, Swap, and Copy. The targeted traits cover everything from top to bottom. it can be as specific as Right Eye Color, or as general as body type. There are specific targets and sets of targets that are built to be beneficial or detrimental to at least one, if not both of the users. It is common for the machine to copy the body fat percentage of the less hefty person to the more hefty person thereby making them thinner, also enhancement of secondary sexual characteristics is common.
Finally, on the very first screen where the machine asks if you want individual or with someone mode, off in the lower right hand corner, there is a tiny button that says standard mode. The photobooth can still act like a normal photobooth, though some claim it was not obvious when the other modes are large and in the center of the screen.