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Humor

2008: The Year of the Shop

December 27, 2008

Above: The editors of the international edition of Marie Claire should have checked to make sure their reflections in the glass table were as Shopped as their faces.
The folks over at Jezebel have put together an excellent “Year in Review” list - The Year That Was: 2008 Photoshop Hall of Shame. Many of the Shops on the [...]

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20 memorable picture fakes

September 5, 2008

Ok, Jaws, smile pretty for the camera!
Matthew Moore has written an article for the Telegraph called Doctored photos: 20 memorable photo fakes – a rundown of some of the most infamous hoax photos. Some have already been discussed here on this blog, but some have not…
Doctored photos: 20 memorable picture fakes
By Matthew Moore
The [...]

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Um … yes we can?

September 4, 2008

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Why do I get the feeling that the topic of Sarah Palin will be keeping me busy with blog posts until early November? Anyway, the above photo is now making the internet rounds and – guess what – it is Shopped! To be quite honest, I LOLed when I [...]

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If a photo is worth 1000 words, what is a Shopped photo worth?

August 20, 2008

Above Shop taken from one of the “Mate a Movie” contests on Worth1000.com.
Whether you are a newbie or an old pro at Photoshop, there’s a great site you should check out: Worth1000.com. There you can enter fun Photoshop contests and some will even give you a chance to make back some of that money you [...]

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tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies…

August 18, 2008

Above photo © Henry Hadlow. You can view more images from the “Tell a Lie” project here.
Design student Henry Hadlow did a project titled Tell a lie, using photographs – he says of the images…
The most controversial lies told with photography today are those told by news photographers who manipulate their work photographs to tell [...]

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