Fauxtography: How mad are your skills? Allahpundit got:
Nine out of ten, baby. Nine. Out of. Ten.
Nine out of ten for me too. I’m curious how my photographer readers do… Leave your score in my comments please.
Fauxtography: How mad are your skills? Allahpundit got:
Nine out of ten, baby. Nine. Out of. Ten.
Nine out of ten for me too. I’m curious how my photographer readers do… Leave your score in my comments please.
Fauxtography: How mad are your skills? Allahpundit got:
Nine out of ten, baby. Nine. Out of. Ten.
Nine out of ten for me too. I’m curious how my photographer readers do… Leave your score in my comments please.
I contributed a little PhotoShop humor over at Argghhh! this morning. John supplied the original image, I added the tutu and the sword of course. I thought it came out nicely.
I was just about to post this, and I see that the image is posted at Villainous Company too.
OK, somebody has a copy of PhotoShop and a lot of time on their hands. When cloning goes wrong.
In an interesting turn, two young woman who’s photos were altered to look like Michelle Malkin are trying to get several popular websites to publish retractions, or at least take down the photos. Not surprisingly, at least to me, they’re not having any luck.
Michelle Malkin: College student slams Gawker Media
Those images were falsely publicized last week by UNC School of Law professor Eric Muller as authentic, and then picked up and broadcast widely by the Gawker Media smear machine. Last week, Ashley wrote both the Wonkette and Gawker editors informing them of how her photos were manipulated and requesting that they tell their readers what actually happened. Her requests, like mine, have been ignored.
If enough of us post about this, maybe we can help. By “us” of course I mean all of you with sites that people actually read.
Michelle Malkin has been the victim of a poorly done PhotoShop fraud. It’s a shame when political discourse sinks to this level. Oh, I’m not above an image spoof, I’ve even done one of Ms. Malkin, but I try to keep them humorous, and I always identify them in some way (sometimes subtly) as altered files.
A little photo humor, or is that PhotoShop humor… The Navy borrows a recruiting photo from the Coast Guard, and gets caught by the Armorer. I followed up by accusing them both of stealing the photo from the Empire.
If the Emperor stops by, I have the hires version available where your crest is visible on the front of the helmet.
OK, this is impressive. A fantastic job, both in the PhotoShop work, and in the detailed description of how he did it.
Photoshop Painting Techniques: Hair and Fur
If you haven’t already, you will at some point in your design career be forced to composite hair or fur into a project. The specific reason isn’t important. But how are you going to do it? Use a plugin? Not any of the ones I’ve seen. Copy and paste hair from another image? Too much of a pain, what with the complex masking and color matching. So what will you do, paint the hair follicle by follicle? Absolutely.
Chris Muir is just getting better and better. I love it.
Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir
I’ll look like Katie Couric.
Chill, I know a guy, who knows a guy with PhotoShop.
CBS magazine slims down Couric in photo - Yahoo! News
NEW YORK - No, Katie Couric didn’t suddenly lose 20 pounds. The incoming “CBS Evening News” anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing.
As I mentioned before, it’s not as if the changes weren’t obvious. I am a little surprised they didn’t hold out a little longer before the confession though. They didn’t even blame technical problems, which was my personal prediction. I’m a little disappointed CBS didn’t try something stupid. Maybe next time… and there will be a next time.
Brian at mediabistro.com: TVNewser has a post about CBS’s apparent touchup of Katie Couric’s official “first-pic”. With all of the money they have to spend, this is the best they could do? It’s not bad, but it’s not great either. They actually improved the overall color of the shot, but they darkened the dress way too much. I sure that her apparent loss of about twenty pounds was purely a coincidence, just an accidental side effect of the color adjustment.
Allahpundit is on the case as well.
Hot Air - Fauxtography: The incredible disappearing Katie
She’s on the Adnan Hajj diet. Try it and watch the pounds melt away from your waist and neck.
The really good part is the e-mail he received after posting:
Be careful shouting “Wolf!†because Katie Couric’s true picture is likely the thin one — the fattening on the other is likely an anamorphic (uniform single direction) expansion ordinary page layout programs do to fill the picture frame on a page. It’s the sign of an amateur, not evil.
BS, BS, and more BS. What this commenter needs need to look at in the photos is what changed and what didn’t. They narrowed her neck and the necklace, but left the cleavage line the same. The points of her shoulders are almost exactly the same, but her elbows much narrower. Her waist has been narrowed, and the space between her arms and body has been expanded. Most significantly to me, her smile, her hands, and the envelope remain unchanged. The photo was definitely manipulated, and not just to improve the color.
There’s a great ad posted at Little Green Footballs. A fake movie poster mocking the Green Helmet Guy and the fauxtography scandal. A must see.