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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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The British are coming (for your Photoshop)!

August 4, 2009

Does this look like the face of a 59-year old woman? No. Unfortunately it has less to do with the power of Olay Definity and more to do with the power of Photoshop.
The website Jezebel wrote one of their fantabulous snarky commentaries today to address some issues raised in the LA Times article from a [...]

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Photoshopped images: the good, the bad and the ugly

August 3, 2009

A great article ran in yesterday’s LA Times called Photoshopped images: the good, the bad and the ugly. An excerpt…

Photographer and retoucher Michael Kubeisy believes the trick with Photoshop is knowing when to stop. Here are changes made on this image: 1 Her crow’s feet were made softer with the healing brush, which seamlessly corrects [...]

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