Bad Photoshop Day: Tehran
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Nh3
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Great, so it means there won't be another war!
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
Barrett, you got that wrong - not a choice of blindfold but instead just how sharp a blade he would prefer on the scimitar 😀
Dave
retnull
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If you want to get really depressed, read this New Yorker article.
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
Perhaps you can educate me.
How does that seven page article from <i>The New Yorker</i> relate to the image that was photoshopped by Sepah News in Iran?
I haven't seen any comments from what I've read so far regarding photography or photoshop.
Just curious,
Dave
Nh3
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You're right.
I also think they should have used those photoshop plug-ins to get the grain right because a missile looks totally awesome with Trix pushed two stops than HP5. 😉
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
sooner
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This is exactly why I'm against the Bush administration's use of propaganda by paying Pentagon people and other "hacks" to ask softball questions and write bogus stories in the media--because once you get caught, your credibility is hard to get back. That's assuming you believe the USG, or any government, should behave more credibly than the shabby lawyer for a mob family. This story won't surprise those of us who realize that Iran is ruled by the clerics, backed by the Revolutionary Guards, who are like an untouchable government within a government. They're the ones who blew up the Khobar Towers in the mid-1990's, and Clinton pretty much swept it under the rug. Problem is, there's no simple solution.
Nh3
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I thought with the prices of oil so high Iranians would be able to afford two more rockets. rofl
Tuolumne
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oftheherd
Veteran
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
hehe.. yes.. and we're now back on topic 🙂
I have to wonder, just how much of our "news" images are actually manipulated in some way.
Is it easier now via photoshop than it was say, in the 1950's? Or is it that we're just more attuned to the fact that it can, if necessary, be done with ease?
Dave
Nh3
Well-known
I was right, the missiles look far more scary and cold-war-ish with Trix 400 pushed two stops plugin for photoshop.
pachuco
El ****
It is rather insulting to those of us that have grown up with photoshop as a tool for this sort of rubbish to make it to print. Come on now, if you are going to try and fool us do a good job of it!
amateriat
We're all light!
Hold it...we have one of those now...?
What bothers me the most is the levels of media filtration the doctored images slipped though without a proper vetting, and how many news organs ran with it unquestioningly.
Now, I can just hear our Defense Secretary's voice bouncing off the walls at the Pentagon: "See? We haven't used the Spot Healing Brush all that much, but Ahmadin...what's-his-name, he's using it all the time now! He's creating a Spot Healing Gap before our damn eyes, and we're not doing a damn thing about it. We canNOT have a Spot Healing Gap!!!"
And so on...
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Al Patterson
Ferroequinologist
From what I see, they are both about Iran. I'm not willing to opine further...
dazedgonebye
Veteran
Don't worry, judging from the craptastic level of work shown in that picture, I'm pretty sure we can get together a team of college kids to kick thier butts.
Your point about the images getting through the media is well taken. That the images were fake was discovered by a conservative blogging site and all the big boys must have been a bit embarrased...or at least they should have been.
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
Al Patterson
Ferroequinologist
I must admit though that the modified picture has better compostion than the unmodified one.
Olsen
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This one comes to mind...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/CE746A.jpg
Looking at it now we can easily conclude that it was a terribly bad manipulation job.
victoriapio
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Many friends of mine are newspaper photographers and I will unequivically say that were they to manipulate a photo and it was discovered, they would be fired immediately. No second chance, no debate. Manipulating photos is considered as bad as the NY Times plagarizing scandal.
In Iran, of course, the situation is obviously different 😀