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This is how your grandparents were Photoshopped…

January 27, 2010

Yesterday I got all old lady cranky pants on you about how the way things used to be. Well, today I continue with the fist shaking and yelling at you to get off my lawn…
I wrote a post a couple months back for those of you who are looking for guides on how to use [...]

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Ya know, back in my day…

January 26, 2010

Kids these days! With their fancy new fan-dangled Photoshop skills! Them mouse clickin’ whippersnappers! Don’t they know that when I was a kid I had to use a DARKROOM and I had to DRAW ON PHOTOS to make ‘em look good? Of course, this was all after I had to walk to the darkroom uphill [...]

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Lee Harvey Oswald – the Father of all Photo Controversies

January 2, 2010

Throughout history, I can think of no photo which has had its authenticity debated more than the photo published on LIFE Magazine’s February 21, 1964 cover of Lee Harvey Oswald. As a matter of fact, the “LOL” image above which was posted a few years back in a thread called LOL President on Fark was [...]

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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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deal or no deal…

December 1, 2008

OK. So. I saw the recent issue of TIME Magazine on the stands and thought to myself: Why is TIME doing these cheesey Shopped covers lately? I mean, they are TIME fer chrissakes!
Obviously, the folks at TIME Magazine don’t really want us to believe that Obama posed for this as it is super campy. You [...]

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