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photorealistic

photorealistic

1 7.0
An image that looks almost exactly like a real photograph
  • adjective
  • /ˌfoʊtəʊrɪəˈlɪstɪk/
translation icon : fotorrealista
  • The artist spent years perfecting her technique to create photorealistic portraits that look like photographs.
  • photorealistic image

Do you think it's a coincidence that shortly after theater arises as an art form, we get photorealistic Greek sculptures?

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Examples

  • Finally, prompt images should be photorealistic to avoid confusing artists who are not familiar with classic CG rendering artifacts such as hard shadows and lack of indirect illumination.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Myst was the first game to embrace photorealistic graphics.

    Blog text (20)
  • The ability to draw the human form in photorealistic detail is a learned skill.

    Blog text (34)
  • There are a lot of these photorealistic drawings and paintings online at the moment.

    Blog text (26)
  • Andrew Michael Golden made it his mission to create photorealistic images of the odd and mystical characters from various Studio Ghibli films.

    Blog text (24)
  • Do you think it's a coincidence that shortly after theater arises as an art form, we get photorealistic Greek sculptures?

  • So on that note, I've seen both photorealistic fashion illustration and more esoteric abstract illustration.

  • The artists were asked to make two drawings on paper: first a freehand drawing, then a tracing to register their drawing to a faint, photorealistic image of the model.

    Academic text (2012)
  • For everything from design and marketing material to product shots for packaging, Vax relies on photorealistic product imagery repurposed from their Creo CAD data.

    Blog text (13)
  • From crisp traditional tattoos to photorealistic portraits to painterly flowers, the artists at La Madre Muerta are masters of many trades.

    Blog text (8)

Synonyms

realistic
vsphotorealistic
65 4.1

Showing things as they are in real life

is narrower, aiming for extreme picture-like detail not just truthful representation
lifelike
vsphotorealistic
22 3.9

That looks and moves like a real person or animal

is stronger, stressing extreme picture-like resemblance rather than general resemblance
photographic
vsphotorealistic
8 4.5

Showing people or things with the clear detail of a photo

emphasizes extreme likeness to a picture rather than general realism
true to life
vsphotorealistic
3 4.1

Very similar to real life in looks and detail

leans toward matching picture-like appearance rather than only general accuracy
true-to-life
vsphotorealistic
4.2

Very similar to real life and easy to imagine

focuses more on matching picture-like appearance than just accuracy
veristic
vsphotorealistic
  • Literature
9.9

Showing people or life in a very realistic and often harsh way

focuses on severity of realism and artistic domain rather than picture likeness

How Realistic

photorealistic
1 7.0
realistic
65 4.1
stylized
11 5.9
cartoonish
10 4.2

Surface Forms

photorealistic positive

Morphology

photorealistic = realistic (transparent) = photo + real + istic

The meaning is directly built from 'photo' plus 'realistic', giving the sense of looking like a photograph.

Etymology

Photorealistic combines photo, as in photograph meaning 'picture made with light', and realistic, from 'real'. So something photorealistic looks very much like a real photograph and means 'very lifelike'.