The camera may never lie, but Photoshop can tell some outrageous porkies.
Photoshopping
A fashion mag without a model in sight
German women’s magazine Brigette has stopped using professional models — from the cover, to its fashion shoots — and the results are refreshingly different.
What you read in magazines is bullsh*t
Right now Jezebel are battling legal threats to remove untouched photos of Jennifer Aniston from its website. But it says readers need to be aware of how much celebrity women are photoshopped.
NY Post attacks Tiger Woods with Photoshop
There’s digital retouching, and then there’s… this: The New York Post’s latest cover features a picture of Tiger Woods, with scars, cuts, broken teeth and bandages Photoshopped in. Tasteful.
Touched up: France demands labelling for airbrushed images
Valerie Boyer, an MP in Sarzoky’s UMP, is one of the politicians pushing in France for obligatory notices wherever photographs have been airbrushed. Our suggestion: “Models may be fatter than they appear”.
The cut-and-paste ethics of photojournalism
Photographer David Hume Kennerly recently had a photo he took of Dick Cheney published in Newsweek, but the image was heavily cropped and totally out of context — a move, he says, discredited both him and his profession.
In defence of photoshopping
Do we retouch our cover images? You bet! says Self magazine editor Lucy Danziger, who says magazine images aren’t news journalism and admits to retouching images of herself run in the mag.
Sexing up Susan Boyle
Score one for the incredible powers of Photoshop: Harper’s Bazaar has done a photoshoot with Susan “Hairy Angel” Boyle, and we’ll be jiggered if she’s isn’t looking rather fetching. Yorkshire pudding no more!
Ahmadinejad sucks at Photoshop
Iranian Government-controlled newspaper Kayhan has been caught-out doctoring a photo of a pro-Ahmedinejad rally to look bigger. But who cares? asks Gawker: you don’t need a clumsily manipulated photo to know that the Iranian regime engages in propaganda.
Snout of order — The Sun enjoys MP expenses scandal
The Sun has enjoyed rolling around in the MP expenses scandal.
Photoshopping gone bad
What happens when editorial fashion shoots get carelessly cut out and stuck onto the cover of the magazine? Nothing pretty.
