The World’s Most Famous Photoshop Fakes

bwana · Dec 13, 2007

Does anyone still believe that the camera never lies? With Photoshop, you can now make a picture speak any thousand words you want, and it will take a cynical attitude and a skilled eye to tell whether any of them is true.

While that might be a creative opportunity for artistic photographers and designers, for news editors, it can all be a bit of a nightmare — and for readers too when the photos skip the newspapers and land straight in your mailbox.

Here are seven of the most famous photoshop fakes.

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I've got no problem with adjusting artistic pictures but not when you're supposed to be making a record of something.

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Datura · Dec 13, 2007

The one about the French President is funny. I am looking to see if I can find something on Reuters' response to "Smoke of War" shoop that fooled them.

bwana · Dec 13, 2007

Datura said:
The one about the French President is funny. I am looking to see if I can find something on Reuters' response to "Smoke of War" shoop that fooled them.

More on the Smoke here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy and in the footnotes - http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html

Datura · Dec 13, 2007

bwana said:
More on the Smoke here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Hajj_photographs_controversy and in the footnotes - http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html

From first link

On January 18, 2007 Reuters reported that an internal investigation into the Adnan Hajj photomanipulation had led to a top Reuter photo editor being fired

Kudos.

Very interesting read. On the second link now.

Thanks.

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