Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell

Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell

NY Times ^ | November 28, 2011 | STEVE LOHR

Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2011 7:10:57 PM by hripka

The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching can be slight — colors brightened, a stray hair put in place, a pimple healed. Or it can be drastic — shedding 10 or 20 pounds, adding a few inches in height and erasing all wrinkles and blemishes, done using Adobe’s Photoshop software, the photo retoucher’s magic wand.

“Fix one thing, then another and pretty soon you end up with Barbie,” said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a digital forensics expert at Dartmouth.

And that is a problem, feminist legislators in France, Britain and Norway say, and they want digitally altered photos to be labeled. In June, the American Medical Association adopted a policy on body image and advertising that urged advertisers and others to “discourage the altering of photographs in a manner that could promote unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image.”

Situation Room Photo Fake! (Obama photoshopped in!) (Numerous Pics~Reader Responses))

Situation Room Photo Fake! (Obama photoshopped in!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2817683/posts

Posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:15:06 AM by Bon mots

What’s wrong with this picture?

Can you see it?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2817683/posts

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Situation Room Photo Fake! (Obama photoshopped in!)

Situation Room Photo Fake! (Obama photoshopped in!)

Posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:15:06 AM by Bon mots

Obama photoshopped into Situation room

What’s wrong with this picture?

Can you see it?

This is not one of my ‘Photoshops‘, this is one of the most viewed photographs ever on Flickr, and it was posted by the Whitehouse on their official WH Flickr account. A popular Swedish program has uncovered something very funny about it.

Notice how small Obama is in the picture? Much smaller than all of those who surround him.

All over Sweden they are laughing at it, and how gullible we all were, that up until now, nobody else noticed.

Gates: Obama Keeping bin Laden Pictures Secret Because of “Photoshop” Fear

Gates: Obama Keeping bin Laden Pictures Secret Because of “Photoshop” Fear

Gates: Obama Keeping bin Laden Pictures Secret Because of “Photoshop” Fear

Pundit Press ^ | 5/12/11 | Aurelius

Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:25:57 PM by rightistight

Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated today that one of the main reasons why President Barack Obama has decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden is because he fears that the pictures will be photoshopped and used against the United States.

Mr. Gates stated that the President believes that, should the photos be released, they will quickly be “misused” in order to drive anti-American sentiment in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Gates stated:

“One of the things that I think concerns Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton and I is the risk not only of the pictures themselves inflaming people who were bin Laden’s adherents and radical extremists, but we were also worried about the potential for manipulation of those photos and doing things with those photos that would be pretty outrageous in terms of provoking a reaction that might in fact put our troops at greater risk in both Iraq and Afghanistan…”

Gates added:

“I have gotten from friends all over the country copies of the picture that was this iconic picture taken in the Situation Room while we were watching the operation. And they have been photoshopped in every way you can imagine, including putting you know, coming after the royal wedding, one of these had all of us in one of these big, wide-brimmed hats from the wedding. Another had various football players seated at the table that had been photoshopped in.”

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