Brody Qat attended a gathering of Santas as her character "Desaturated Santa", which she introduced last year, and posted photographs at Flickr. To counter many accusations of Photoshoppage, she also posted a picture of her makeup and contact lenses to explain how it's done. She said:
Many people find it hard to believe that someone would go to all the effort of creating a gray & white Santa suit and painting their face, when it’s “so much easier just to do it in Photoshop”. (Yes, but where’s the fun in THAT? Heck, why visit Paris when I can just Photoshop myself in front of a picture of the Eiffel Tower?)Link
http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=2092862&id=1097407138&page=3
Motion Blur? Probably not as aesthetic pleasing.
Check out some of her other work. I like the hot pink one.
Funny how she goes to an effort to imitate an image-editing technique, even calling it "desaturated Santa", and seems disappointed when it works.
It's a cute idea, but let's see her try another filter next year.