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Fake Photos

Shopping Silvio (again)…

February 8, 2010

Oh Italy, how I love your Photoshopping ways! I have written about Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, before and now we have been graced with this gem…

[Please - I beg of you - click to enlarge this image. It is sooo worth it!]
You really need to view the enlarged image to see the Shops in [...]

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fake frozen coyote

We just couldn’t stand the weather…

February 2, 2010

The photo above is supposedly of a coyote who “literally froze dead in his tracks” at -28 degrees. (Fahrenheit? Centigrade? The site does not specify.) In reality this photo was achieved by simply putting a stuffed and mounted coyote outside, waiting for it to snow and then photographing it. Warm blooded creatures do not freeze [...]

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FBI creates a TLS!

January 22, 2010

Left: Osama Bin Laden in 1998 (AP Photo); Middle: the FBI’s “digitally-altered” age progressed photo of OBL which was achieved using “cutting-edge” technology; Right: the campaign photo for the leader of Spain’s United Left coalition, Gaspar Llamazares
I tweeted about this news story on Mashable a couple of days ago. I was so happy someone finally [...]

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CSI: Photoshop

October 20, 2009

Joseph Carson was abducted by his non-custodial dad as a toddler and was missing for about five years when a customer at an auto parts store saw that a PSA showing his age progressed image was strikingly similar to a kid who just happened to be in the store at that exact time.
With all of [...]

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A Brief History of Photo Fakery…

August 24, 2009

The New York Times “Week in Review” magazine ran a slide show yesterday titled A Brief History of Photo Fakery. They put up quite a selection of fake imagery – both historic and current – some of which have been previously featured on this blog and some that have not. (Such as the above image [...]

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