21 May, 2013 | Posted by: sellmyphotos





PHOTOSHOP DETECTIVE -- Chris Gampat: “A church recently claimed that it gathered well over 1,000. And to prove it, they showed off the image above. The problem is that the lower right hand side is apparently completely photoshopped–which essentially points to the use of Photoshop (in this case, quite poorly) for marketing reasons.
SOURCE: http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/05/13/church-of-scientology-photoshops-an-image-internet-catches-it-and-laughs-heres-why/


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02 Apr, 2013 | Posted by: st




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EXTREMELY REALISTIC -- ‘Computer Generated Imagery is Killing Photography Jobs’. Michael Zhang: “One half of this face is a photograph, and the other half is a highly detailed computer generated rendering created using a program called KeyShot by Luxion. Can you tell which is which? If you can’t tell, why should we? (Okay, and to be honest, we’re not sure either). SOURCE:
http://www.petapixel.com/2013/03/25/extremely-realistic-computer-generated-imagery-is-killing-photography-jobs/
TAKEAWAY: Is this CGI rendering an art? Is film photography an art? Is digital photography an art? Ask that question in twenty years when another form of rendering of objects comes along. Your answer doesn’t matter as long as the final result evokes the intended response from the viewer.



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06 Mar, 2013 | Posted by: st






Louis Jaconson: ““Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop” aims to encapsulate more than 150 years of photographs that were deliberately engineered to advance a goal: to improve technical limitations of the medium, for instance, or to convince the viewer of political perspectives, express an artistic vision, or simply to have fun SOURCE: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2013/02/26/reviewed-faking-it-manipulated-photography-before-photoshop-at-national-gallery-of-art/

PHOTO: Edward Steichen

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18 Dec, 2012 | Posted by: st



1940 - The first cystoscopic photographs were published (in the Southern Surgeon). They were taken in color by Drs Edgar Garrison Ballenger, Harold Paul McDonald, and Reese Clinton Coleman of Atlanta, Georgia.

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20 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: st






HOAXICANE SANDY – RJS Smart Security: Whenever a major media event happens (like Hurricane Sandy), we are inundated with news. Sometimes that news is useful, but often it merely exists to create FUD… Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. While I have not personally seen any malware campaigns capitalizing on the event yet, it is inevitable. The pattern is generally as follows: http://blogs.rjssoftware.com/rjssecurity/?p=281
PHOTO: Will the photographer please step forward...?

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06 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: st


Who Dat? Oh! M'Gosh!
PHOTOSHOPPED PICTURE --Queen Sofia of Spain sues Ashley Madison website.
Lee Moran: “The reign of Spain can sometimes cause pain. The website, Ashley Madison, created an advertisement that shows a smiling Queen Sofia, her arms draped around a semi-naked young man, and the slogan, "Now you no longer have to spend the night alone." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/spanish-queen-sues-u-s-dating-website-photoshopped-picture-article-1.1194629


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06 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: st





BOO! -- Ranjit Dhaliwal -- Hoaxers and charlatans have been around for a lot longer than the photographic process but they certainly saw its capabilities and were early adopters of the technology. The rise of interest in spiritualism and psychic studies reached its peak in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the Bostonian engraver and amateur photographer William H Mumler was the first to take advantage of this. SOURCE:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography-blog/2012/oct/31/halloween-photographs-phantasmagorical-fakery

PHOTO: William H. Mumler



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06 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: st



1940 – The first cystoscopic photographs were published (in the Southern Surgeon). They were taken in color by Drs Edgar Garrison Ballenger, Harold Paul McDonald, and Reese Clinton Coleman of Atlanta, Georgia.

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30 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: st





GHOST FIGURES -- Scenes From World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's foreign Streets. Rebecca Rosen: “A photography project reminds us that soldiers surrendered and prisoners marched on the same streets (in Europe) we walk along every day. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/scenes-from-world-war-ii-photoshopped-onto-todays-streets/264013/

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16 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: st




THEIR CHEATING ART: Ken Johnson: “Reality and Illusion. ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,’ an absorbing if not revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/faking-it-at-the-met-a-photography-exhibition.html?_r=0
PHOTO: Author unknown





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25 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: st



Is the ‘concerned photographer’ becoming irrelevant?
FAR DIFFERENT -- Last month, Magnum reported the death of member Martine Franck, widow of Henri Cartier-Bresson, a founder. The organization now has no direct link to its patriarchs for the first time in 65 years—and operates in a world of journalism far different from the one Magnum confronted in 1947. SOURCE: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443884104577645882307821656.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
TAKEAWAY: Are there any ‘concerned’ people among today’s crowd of photographers? Digital cameras have become like sketchpads for camera buffs who exhaust their camera’s memory cards with pictures of seagulls at the beach or a neighbor’s flower garden. However, many of today’s photographers will also take to the street to capture the ills of society or the joy of education, medicine, and family living.


COUNTERFEIT IMAGES -- Jennifer Greenburg’s time travel photos, “Revising History” — a Q&A and 16 photos. This photographer-super-woman always has a new, creative endeavor — one that richly explores the Retro — up her sleeve. SOURCE: Jennifer Greenburg’s time travel photos, “Revising History” — a Q&A and 16 photos — Retro Renovation http://retrorenovation.com/2012/09/19/jennifer-greenburgs-time-travel-photographs-revising-history-interview-16-photos/#ixzz26xHBcW1p


HISTORIC FAKES -- Just a publicity stunt? As iconic photo ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ turns 80, questions arise about its origin. As the iconic Depression-era photo showing hard hats lunching atop Rockefeller Center turned 80, one archivist is saying the snap wasn’t as candid as it seems.
The rest of the story.: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/a-publicity-stunt-iconic-photo-lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-turns-80-questions-arise-origin-article-1.1163687#ixzz274d5tVG0

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18 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: st




BEFORE PHOTOSHOP --: Christine Roberts: “‘Faking It:’ Upcoming exhibit at the Met shows how artists manipulated photos before the age of digital technology . "The camera doesn't lie," or so the old saying goes. An exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, however, will show that photographers have been toying with the truth since well before Photoshop 1.0 popped up on computers.
SOURCE: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/faking-upcoming-exhibit-met-shows-artists-manipulated-photos-age-digital-technology-article-1.1156973#ixzz26D7NJldu



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11 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: st



Do Not Trust This Photograph Jonathan Keats: “At a farm market in McLean, Virginia, a helmeted fireman shops for pumpkins, leaving his companions to fight the flames engulfing a two-story home down the road. All of this really happened.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2012/09/06/do-not-trust-this-joel-sternfeld-photograph/
PHOTO: Joel Sternfeld



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05 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: bswenson





PHOTOGRAPHY PHANTOMS -- "The fake photographs that predate Photoshop." Tiny soldiers, Yorkshire fairies, an unlikely meeting between Lenin and Stalin: nothing you see here is what it seems. Jonathan Jones previews a fascinating exhibition of photo fakery. SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/aug/29/fake-photography-before-photoshop?newsfeed=true





WHAT’s REAL? -- Ten "Real" Pictures Made Famous Through the Internet. Jackie Spencer: “It can be difficult & quite a challenge to determine if a picture posted on the internet is real or fake especially with the current expansion of Photoshop. Hundreds of photographs go viral every year on the internet. How many are real? http://www.examiner.com/article/10-real-pictures-made-famous-through-the-internet




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24 Jul, 2012 | Posted by: st




UNHOLY PHOTOS -- Kate Bevan: “The Instagram/Hipstamatic/Snapseed filters are the antithesis of creativity, and make all pictures look the same. Instagram is debasing real photography” SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/19/instagram-debasing-real-photography?newsfeed=true

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17 Jul, 2012 | Posted by: st




CUTTING CORNERS -- Frank Van Riper: “The picture is a fake – a computer-generated amalgam of two different photographs, made one after the other. In one (unmanipulated) picture, that prominently features the standing man and child, the British soldier is not gesturing and is looking away from them. SOURCE: Washington Post/Van Riper
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/030409.htm


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24 Apr, 2012 | Posted by: st



$50 CELL PHONE WEDDING SNAPS. Thrifty Couples Opting for Photoshopped Wedding Photos in China. A strange bit of news coming out of China: couples are opting to have their wedding photos faked using Photoshop due to rising photography costs. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-couples-opting-faked-wedding-albums-080230436.html

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27 Mar, 2012 | Posted by: st



A Matter of Perspective
All fraudulent photos have their secrets. A Berkeley professor uses geometry to uncover them. As digital imaging advances, an increasing number of manipulated photographs are finding their way into the lab, the courtroom, and the newsroom. But if those photos show objects and their reflections, Berkeley computer science professor James O’Brien and his colleague Hany Farid of Dartmouth say they can use geometry to separate the real from the fake.
Source: Elaine Tu http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/spring-2012-piracy/a-matter-of-perspective
via Roy Iwaki



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28 Feb, 2012 | Posted by: st



DIGITAL MAGIC -- Arizona Considers Anti-Photoshop Law – David Walker: “An Arizona legislator has introduced a bill to make it illegal to run print ads in the state that have been Photoshopped, unless viewers are notified that the image has been altered. http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/arizona-considers-anti-photoshop-law.html

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07 Feb, 2012 | Posted by: st



NO CAN DO -- California newspaper fires photographer for manipulating pictures of herons. The Sacremento Bee newspaper has fired one of its veteran award-winning photographers for three cases of manipulating his pictures. The Sacramento Bee told readers on Saturday that it had sacked Bryan Patrick the day before for "violating the paper's ethics policy." A reader raised questions about Patrick's published photo of a great egret catching a frog, with a snowy egret reaching to grab it. SOURCE: Poynter/Sacramento Bee http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/feb/06/us-press-publishing-news-photography

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03 Jan, 2012 | Posted by: st




The Aesthetics of a Dictatorship: North Korea’s Photoshopped Funeral. Atrick Witty: “The authenticity of government-released photographs from North Korea has been questioned for years but not until this week, during the funeral of Kim Jong Il, was the issue as widely discussed and analyzed. “SOURCE: TIME.comPhotos.
http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/30/the-aesthetics-of-a-dictatorship-north-koreas-photoshopped-funeral/
PHOTO: Reuters


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20 Dec, 2011 | Posted by: st



CLOSER LOOK -- Fashion photography goes under the microscope. Nowadays, computer software smooths over blemishes instead of sprayed ink, but photo “enhancement” is under scrutiny thanks to motions made against Procter & Gamble by the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in the U.S. From a legal standpoint, retouching photos so they create a misleading impression of product effectiveness is clearly prohibited, he said. But competitors in an industry where post-production work is commonplace haven’t challenged one another’s ads up to now, said beauty consultant Suzanne Grayson.
http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/fashion-photography-goes-under-the-microscope-42659


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14 Dec, 2011 | Posted by: st




ALTERED PHOTOGRAPHS -- Jonathan Parker: “In his work with the college's Image Science Research group, Eric Kee, who specializes in video and photography forensics, reviewed 500 examples of significantly altered photos of models advertising beauty products and other items in magazines. http://www.wpcva.com/news/article_54eb4a6c-20e2-11e1-9773-001871e3ce6c.html

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07 Sep, 2011 | Posted by: st




THE REAL THING -- The foibles of the world – Secher: “‘Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies,’ ” says Martin Parr. “Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.” SOURCE: Benjamin Secher http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/8723045/The-foibles-of-the-world.html
PHOTO: Martin Parr

PICTURE MANIPULATION and trust in a news imagery. Roger Tooth: “Going through the thousands of photographs that the Guardian picture desk receives each day, we try to keep a critical eye on anything that could be the result of digital retouching software like Photoshop. We are kept on our toes by eagle-eyed readers, always alive to the possibility of artifice. SOURCE: The Guardian ; http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/04/picture-manipulation-news-imagery-photoshop


NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T – Book Review by Saul Austerlitz. An analysis of well-known photos finds that the manipulated images can lead the way to different truths.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-04/ae/30113145_1_cannonballs-sontag-tour-guide


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31 Aug, 2011 | Posted by: st




SPECIAL EFFECTS -- What are the ethics of photography when everyone is a photographer?
How do you remain an ethical photographer when everyone's relentlessly Twitpic-ing, Facebooking and sharing pics taken from their 5 megapixel camera phones with the latest Apps installed to give artificial effects and ambience to their images? SOURCE: Jerrod Watt
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/08/22/3299441.htm?site=ballarat
Photo: Jeremy Bannister



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24 Aug, 2011 | Posted by: st




NEW ART -- You can't trust a photograph — and that's what makes it so fascinating. 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age. Some surreal photographic visions involve no wizardry beyond elaborate staging. Other seemingly "natural" shots are the result of self-effacing camera trickery you'd never guess was at work unless you were informed about it. SOURCE: Michael Upchurch http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2015872144_ar14digitaleye.html?prmid=head_main

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03 Aug, 2011 | Posted by: st



U.K. Bans Digitally Airbrushed Ads
Photoshop can turn even the most unfortunate face into a centerfold lookalike, but the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority doesn’t think it belongs in magazines. The group pulled two L’Oreal ads of Christy Turlington and Julia Roberts, citing that its claims of beautification were digital fabrications. While the ruling is only a single instance, it could set a future standard for an industry built around altered images. Read the full article at PCMag.com
Source: Shelly Palmer
http://www.shellypalmer.com/2011/07/u-k-bans-digitally-airbrushed-ads/


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22 Jun, 2011 | Posted by: st




HOW PHOTOS LIE -- At first glance, this photo of two people kissing amidst the ... SOURCE: Kat Hannaford
http://gizmodo.com/5812924/how-photos-lie
PHOTO: Richard Lam – Getty


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11 May, 2011 | Posted by: st




LOOK WHO’s GONE -- Rebecca Price: “How do you write someone out of history? It's easy. Just don't mention them. Or just photoshop them out of the picture. On May 6, 2011, a New York-based Hasidic newspaper, Der Tzitung (sometimes spelled Der Zeitung), ran the White House photograph with two glaring omissions. They removed two women from the reproduction: Secretary Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason, the Director of Counterterrorism.” SOURCE: Rebecca Price ; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-price/hillary-clinton-photoshop_b_860083.html

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02 Mar, 2011 | Posted by: psnotes




INVENTION -- Fruit Roll-Ups Make for a Tasty Flash Gel When in a Bind - Photographer John B. Crane was ice climbing in Colorado when he came upon a little ice cave full of “tiny wonders”. Wishing he had a green gel, he suddenly had the brilliant idea of using some Fruit Roll-Ups he had brought along not for that purpose. SOURCE: Michael Zhang
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/02/25/fruit-roll-ups-make-for-a-tasty-flash-gel-when-in-a-bind/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29#


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10 Nov, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes




DIGITAL FORENSICS -- Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth is a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, figuring out how to analyze images to determine their authenticity. (Think CSI: Photojournalism.) “We’re struggling as a society to deal with what happens when this thing that we have learned to trust over so many years” — the photographic image — ‘becomes incredibly untrustworthy. And that, to me, is extremely interesting.’”
http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/10/from-tornadoes-to-noxema-hany-farid-on-using-digital-forensics-to-assess-the-authenticity-of-photos/


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20 Oct, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



NEWS UNWORTHY -- Does anyone still believe that the camera never lies? With Photoshop, you can now make a picture speak any thousand words you want, and it will take a cynical attitude and a skilled eye to tell whether any of them is true.
http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-worlds-most-famous-photoshop-fakes


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21 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



Photo Manipulation Isn’t a Sin — But Lying About It Is With technology making it so easy to profoundly alter photojournalistic images — deleting or adding items, changing the source of the lighting and so on — how can we, the audience, know that what we’re seeing is “the truth”?
The answer is, we can’t.
While it is commendable that Reuters and Adobe, for example, are working to make altered files more readily identifiable, let’s face it: it’s a losing battle. It will never adequately protect news consumers. It Comes Down to Two People. More info: http://rising.blackstar.com/photo-manipulation-isn%E2%80%99t-a-sin-%E2%80%94-but-lying-about-it-is.html ; Posted in Photojournalism ; SOURCE: Paul Melcher .


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30 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: st



BETWEEN THE LINES -- Do Your Photos Carry Secret Messages?
In a recent court trial, alleged Russian spies recently arrested by the FBI are accused of encoding messages into otherwise innocuous pictures. To generate the picture on a computer screen, the computer assigns every pixel three numeric values that correspond to the amount of red, green or blue in the color the pixel displays. By changing those values ever so slightly, the spies could hide the 1's and 0's of computer language in the picture's pixel numbers, but without altering the picture's appearance to the human eye, Bellovin said. In doing so, the alleged spies were practicing a modern form of "steganography," which refers to the science of concealing messages within images. Early examples include Ancient Greek messages tattooed into the shaved scalps of slaves, and then hidden underneath the re-grown head of hair, according to the classical author Herodotus.
SOURCE: Stuart Fox, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer, LiveScience.com http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100630/sc_livescience/russianspieshidsecretcodesinonlinephotos


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23 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: photosource



THE RIGHT THING -- Is HDR Imaging Ethical for Photojournalists? - Ideally, the media wants to publish images that represent an event as realistically as possible. HDR imaging has the capacity to do that. Is a single image — dodged, burned, noise reduced and color balanced — more of an unaltered picture than multiple images, merged. http://rising.blackstar.com/is-hdr-imaging-ethical-for-photojournalists.html


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16 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: photosource



GUIDELINES -- Editorial ethics for photojournalists This site has produced a set of suggested ethical guidelines for video and photo journalists following a request from a users. Media Helping Media often produces custom-made training modules free of charge. This site has produced a set of suggested ethical guidelines for video and photo journalists following a request from a users. Media Helping Media often produces custom-made training modules free of charge. http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/training-resources/editorial-ethics/527-editorial-ethics-for-photojournalists

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19 May, 2010 | Posted by: photosource



BLURRED PHOTO- -ETHICS INTACT -- A Los Angeles resident who described himself as a reader of The L.A. Times questioned a photo from the Los Angeles May Day immigration rally: “Forgive me, but for some time now I thought it was the policy of The Times not to print "manipulated" news photographs of any kind. Looking at the subject image, it is obvious that techniques were used to achieve a "selective focus" effect. .." Note: In fact, this photo has not been altered. Read more. SOURCE: Deirdre Edgar; Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2010/05/photo-is-blurred-but-ethics-guidelines-arent.html
TAKEAWAY: What's real? We ask," Is this pottery hand-made or is it from Taiwan? We ask is this photo real? Sometimes, we are in doubt. -RE


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14 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: photosource



The good, the bad and the ugly of Photoshop in today's media. With the advent of digital photography came Photoshop, giving photographers (and indeed anybody) the ability to modify and even change the situation portrayed in an image completely, more easily and believably. Now digital technology rules.
SOURCE: Alice Johnson, Deputy UAE Editor
http://gulfnews.com/business/general/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-photoshop-in-today-s-media-1.609241



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07 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: photosource


PHOTOGRAPHY IS BECOMING ART -- Photoshop's soon-to-be-released "Content Aware" tool basically uses a computer algorithm to create content in a photograph to fill a blank area or cover up undesirable elements in the image. The process of removing and adding content was time consuming and sometimes obvious to a trained eye with previous versions of Photoshop. The coming tool is easy and seems almost impossible to recognize. Source: Joshua Trujillo
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/199987.asp


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10 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: photosource




PHOTO OR NON-PHOTO? -- When Is Photoshop too much? Some photographers always say: "Don't worry, I can solve it in Photoshop". In this instance, is he still a photographer or just a digital artist? What do you think?
Alton Design/Entertainment/Creative services: The question is meaningless until one defines the task and the priorities. Art photography? The priority is aesthetics and the issue is taste. No one cares how you get your result as long as it works artistically. Journalistic photography? Big difference. Now the priority is accuracy and the difference is ethics. One's contract with the viewer is different. Either way, it's time journalists quit making a fetish of Adobe's product. Photo processing and manipulation have been with us for years. The issues raised are the same no matter which tools are used.
SOURCE: Leonard Goh; CRAVE: http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/03/02/when-is-photoshop-too-much-/




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