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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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Demi Moore, W Magazine and Hipgate…

December 30, 2009

An image of Demi Moore with a noticeably trimmed left hip ran on the December cover of W Magazine. I never blogged about it as I didn’t think it worthy of an entire blog post. I figured yeah, her hip probably had been whittled away a bit, but with not much to compare it to, [...]

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Ralph Lauren: Photoshop (and Public Relations) Disaster…

October 16, 2009

Man, I hit a busy patch at work and the net has a meltdown over a hideously Shopped image! In a way, I guess it is better that I am just sitting down now to write a post of what happened because writing all these updates over the last week would have driven me batshit [...]

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Warning: Le pixels may be hazardous to your mental health!

October 5, 2009

France has a history of airbrushing certain images, but they are not the only country guilty of the heavy handed use of Photoshop. They are, however, the first country to seriously consider putting warning labels on photos that have been Shopped. Opinion pieces on this news item have been popping up in my Google News [...]

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Microsoft, you suck at MS Paint…

August 26, 2009

Cuz, you know, I hate to think a photo edited so shiteously was done using Photoshop. If so, this is a true Photoshop Disaster…

These images made the rounds of Twitter yesterday like wildfire, and has (deservedly so) caused Microsoft so much grief that they issued a public apology over it. The top generic stock-quality photo [...]

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