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poor use of Photoshop in the media

joolz8000
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http://news.yahoo.com/photo/060805/ids_p...W1jBHNlYwNtZXBo

I saw this today and was just stunned. Is someone wanting to make things look worse than they really are? What gives? Anyone have any other interesting examples? (appologies if the pic is gone- I'll try to post it elsewhere asap)

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  • killingpeople
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  • Xenobond
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    Haha. wait.... what?
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  • ebagg
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    That's really odd...were they trying to cover something up or just make the smoke more intense? Silly overzealous people with the stamp tool...
  • snemmy
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    that is NOTHING compared to the horrible use of the stamp tool at the Kroger near my college. there are very large (6x10ft) images around the upper wall throughout the store of local college/town stuff. in many of the images they've terribly stamped out entire buildings/sections of campus in the background. not noticable if all your looking at is food. but if you stop and look at the images it's blatantly obivious and hideous.
  • hawken
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    the deal with this photo is that the top section is missing, so someone had to extend the height.

    looks horrible.
  • Rick Stirling
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    I hate the fonts and lens flares used in the whitehouse promotion materials. There are awful ones out there.

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  • MoP
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    That's pretty poor...
  • warby
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    warby polycounter lvl 18
    there used to be a BUG in photoshop cs ( its is probably still there) where if you adjusted the hue and saturation too much a couple of white pixels would turn into this PORN-LIME-GREEN but really just a couple of random pixels not everythign that was white.

    on the official promotional website for "Team America World Polic" the huge explosion in the background had those nasty little artefacts all over it and i used to show it aorund to people prouving my point that its a retarded idea to upgrade from ps 7 (which is perfect) to cs (which is slow and buggy) ... 2 month later they fixed it though and replaced it with a not artefact riddled explosion which marked the end of my anti Photoshop CS campaign ... so with other words i dont have postable evidence ^^
  • Joao Sapiro
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    you should see any materials that use photoshop in portugal...they are just in the "huge-ass-fonts-with-huge-ass-glow" phase...
  • LordScottish
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    It's not photoshop, it obviously repeating smoke patterns!
  • Gmanx
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    Jeebers! It would have looked better if they'd just made the canvas taller, selected the top quarter and stretch-tranformed it to fit. Obviously a cock up in the 'Information Adjustments' department.
  • Geezus
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    That's just pure laziness!
  • kleinluka
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  • notman
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    Not coming up for me :/
  • MoP
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    Yeah, they've pulled it.
    Killingpeople: Any chance of re-hosting it so people can see the photo? smile.gif

    More info:

    [ QUOTE ]
    A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs. The blogs accused Reuters of distorting the photograph to include more smoke and damage.

    The photograph showed two very heavy plumes of black smoke billowing from buildings in Beirut after an Air Force attack on the Lebanese capital. Reuters has since withdrawn the photograph from its website, along a message admitting that the image was distorted, and an apology to editors.

    In the message, Reuters said that “photo editing software was improperly used on this image. A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. We are sorry for any inconvience.”

    Reuters’ head of PR Moira Whittle said in response: “Reuters has suspended a photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to a photograph showing smoke billowing from buildings following an air strike on Beirut. Reuters takes such matters extremely seriously as it is strictly against company editorial policy to alter pictures.”

    “As soon as the allegation came to light, the photograph, filed on Saturday 5 August, was removed from the file and a replacement, showing the same scene, was sent. The explanation for the removal was the improper use of photo-editing software,” she added.

    Earlier, Charles Johnson, of the Little Green Footballs blog , which has exposed a previous attempt at fraud by a major American news corporation, wrote : “This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image.”

    [/ QUOTE ]
  • malcolm
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    My favourite is the dvd copy protection screen you see before you watch a movie, it is a blue background with the craquelure filter on it. I've also seen the photoshop bricks filter in a front end of a game back in the day.
  • MoP
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    Got it (from Taj on conceptart.org) - before and after GIF:
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  • rooster
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    how are we supposed to trust anyone that lets this stuff into their 'news'? and will they just hire a better photoshop artist?
  • MoP
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    Yeah Rooster, it's a tad worrying - all Reuters said was "photo editing software was used improperly on this image." - does that mean that in the cases it's been used properly, nobody noticed?
  • joolz8000
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    nice job, MoP.
  • warby
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    iam not believing anything that is in the news (papers) even the real stuff !

    actualy lets all start fighting terrorism by stop listening to the news !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Gmanx
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    It's Orwell's vision - made reality by Photoshop!
  • MoP
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    ConceptArt.org to the rescue!
    some lol right here, folks

    Also, Reuters digging themselves a little further into a hole of poor excuses:

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    “The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.

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  • Slum
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    [ QUOTE ]
    “The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.

    [/ QUOTE ]

    That's understandable.

    One time I adjusted the lighting and removed dust marks on a photo of myself. It went from

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  • Joao Sapiro
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    damnit...world news are becoming entertainment...great...this kinda of small things makes me feel unconfortable and question what really is true.
  • Moz
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    [ QUOTE ]
    Yeah Rooster, it's a tad worrying - all Reuters said was "photo editing software was used improperly on this image." - does that mean that in the cases it's been used properly, nobody noticed?

    [/ QUOTE ]


    auto levels, brightness contrast, removing dust and scratches, erasing UFOs....
  • LordScottish
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    It's not photoshop, but I think it fits in here anyway. Click on "Bildstrecke" bellow the "interaktiv-Box" to see manipulated pictures of a child killed in Lebanon by israeli air strikes. It seems they were driving through the city with it to make plenty of photos with the dead child on it.
    http://www.20min.ch/news/ausland/story/27903311
  • sledgy
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    I used to know a girl who could force her eyes out of her sockets with lung/sinus pressure. No relevance here except to Slum's photo editing laugh.gif
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    Could they actually be sued for false advertising? I mean, if an image is used in support of something that they are marketing (news), and that image is falsified, could it be a misrepresentation of the product in question? I mean, if you wanted to learn about a car that you were purchasing, and they sent you a photoshopped image that misreprented what you were actually getting, you could damn well sue the car company.

    Might be worth a shot, just to keep the media honest.
  • Moz
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    [ QUOTE ]
    Could they actually be sued for false advertising? I mean, if an image is used in support of something that they are marketing (news), and that image is falsified, could it be a misrepresentation of the product in question? I mean, if you wanted to learn about a car that you were purchasing, and they sent you a photoshopped image that misreprented what you were actually getting, you could damn well sue the car company.

    Might be worth a shot, just to keep the media honest.

    [/ QUOTE ]

    considering most cars in those commerials these days are CGI rendered that argument has little basis in reality
  • MoP
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    Moz, no, you missed his point - if it's misrepresenting the product, then that's bad. Obviously the cars you're talking about are realistic, accurate-to-life 3d models. If they made a 3d model of a Ford and gave it 6 wheels and a huge air intake on the front, and marketed that as "this is what you're getting!", then you'd be able to make a case out of it.

    Ryno, ideally news shouldn't be a "product"... it should be a public service. smile.gif
  • snemmy
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    what's the quote? 'never let the facts get in the way of a good story'?
  • flaagan
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    We can do the innuendo
    We can dance and sing
    When its said and done we havent told you a thing
    We all know that crap is king
    Give us dirty laundry!
  • Ryno
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    Oh, yeah Mop, I agree. But unfortunately, barring NPR and a few other similar organizations, it's not. News is a money making business and is heavily politicized. It disturbs me that some news agencies are fraudulently doctoring imagery just to further these tainted aspects of their business.

    Their business should be an accurate conveyance of the truth.
  • Asherr
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    the photographer was a freelancer who mostly photographed sports events not an employee of Reuters.

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    'never let the facts get in the way of paranoia.'

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    fixed. wink.gif

    honestly i think some of you jump off the deepend quicker than the people on a UFO/conspiracy/paranormal website i visit often. smile.gif
  • rooster
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    does it matter how it got in the news? it shouldn't have..
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