A few days ago I posted a demo video featuring the new content aware filter that will be available in Photoshop Cs5. Well, the spoof videos are beginning to roll out now, and this one fills me with LOLz…
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A few days ago I posted a demo video featuring the new content aware filter that will be available in Photoshop Cs5. Well, the spoof videos are beginning to roll out now, and this one fills me with LOLz…
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Although the Rolling Stones album Rarities (1971-2003) was released back in 2005, the album cover seems to be all the internet Photoshop buzz these past few days. Seems someone on a message board pointed out (and posted the visual evidence) that bassist Bill Wyman had been, well, removed from the album cover…

Above: The original image; Below: The altered image with Wyman removed. Images were posted by user “surfingelectrode” on the Steve Hoffman music forums.

The original image on top was taken from the video for “Respectable” which was done back in 1978 when Wyman was still a member of the band (in the original image you can clearly see him in the background between Mick and Keith). However, the Photoshopper forgot to remove Wyman’s bass cord and part of his leg (which you can see between Mick’s guitar and mic stand on the Rarities cover). In addition to the missing band member, the image on the Rarities
cover was also horizontally compressed quite a bit from the original. (Like you really need to make the Rolling Stones look skinner than they already are?)
Hey, I know Wyman left the band in 1992 and therefore wasn’t a member in 2005 when Rarities was released – and maybe there were some touchy legal issues that we don’t know about which required his removal from the cover – but visually erasing him from Rolling Stones history is exactly something that evil dictators like to do.
Related articles…
Rolling Stone Erased from Photographic History [Yahoo! Music]
Rolling Stones Photoshop Disaster [Glorious Noise]
Rolling Stones Removed Bill Wyman From Photo For “Rarities” Album [Feel Numb]
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Adobe released a video for one of the new features of Photoshop CS5 – the “content aware” fill. This will make faking images even easier (and a lot more difficult to spot). Pretty amazing stuff!
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Above: A spoof of David Cameron’s campaign billboard from mydavidcameron.com.
I briefly mentioned British politician David Cameron in a previous post about British Politician Caroline Dinenage’s billboard Photoshoppery. It seems Cameron was also accused of airbrushing himself to look younger for his political billboard, and those cheeky Brits have taken to the internet to voice their concerns (and point copious fun) at him. MyDavidCameron.com took Cameron’s original billboard and ran with (digital scissors all over) it.
Gotta love those Brits!
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Above: British Politician Caroline Dinenage had her teeth whitened, wrinkles airbrushed and face widened for a recent billboard. On the left is a previously released version of her publicity photo, and on the right is the Shopped version that ran on the billboard.
From the Daily Mail…
Following the controversy over apparently airbrushed posters of ‘baby-faced’ party leader David Cameron, the Conservatives last night admitted Miss Dinenage had benefited from digital enhancement – to make her ‘more attractive’.
Unfortunately for the 38-year-old – whose father is ITV newsreader Fred Dinenage – an untouched version of the photograph had already been distributed, showing an attractive mother-of-two with natural laughter lines around her eyes and slightly uneven teeth.
But on the billboard greeting drivers on the A32 leading into the constituency of Gosport, Hampshire, Miss Dinenage has been transformed.
Gone are the laughter lines, her teeth seem whiter and more even, while her face appears to have become more rounded.
The digital makeover was initially denied by Miss Dinenage, who hopes to replace outgoing MP Sir Peter Viggers – notorious for his duck island expenses claim. ‘By virtue of the fact it’s so big it’s slightly pixelated,’ she insisted. ‘It does look different but it’s not airbrushed.’
But her assistant Glenn Duggan admitted the image had been changed without her knowledge, adding: ‘It has been done to make it more visually attractive for a billboard. Of course, she is attractive anyway.’
Experts said last night the airbrushing around the mouth and eyes was ‘obvious’.
Yeah, that is pretty obvious. Does Miss Dinenage even know what something looks like when it is “slightly pixelated”? Because I am betting from her defense she does not. (Sidebar for Christine: Pixelation won’t remove wrinkles and completely change your teeth. Nor will it widen your face.)
You know, I can understand the teeth fixing and the wrinkle removing, but the face widening? Since when does a fatter face = “more visually attractive”?
Man, I gotta move to the UK!
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