Believe none of what you hear…
…and half of what you see. Isn’t that the saying?
No more. These days with graphic programs and video effects, we truly can no longer believe what our eyes tell us we’re seeing.
This example of a Photo-shopped photo of Condoleezza Rice published in USA Today last week – it’s obviously touched up to give her eyes an appearence they normally wouldn’t take. The eyes have a peculiar look once doctored up. What reason USA Today had to do this is anyone’s guess.
Having been accused of “cyber surgery” myself (grin – I once didn’t like the length of the nose on a lady and changed that, then another time a client who wanted her image on the web, upon posting it, asked me to make her look thinner), I for one, can tell you. Believe none of what you hear and NONE of what you see.
It’s just way too easy.
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Holy Cow! You’d think a professional working for a major publication such as
USA Today would have better photoshop skills than that! They made her look like
an EVIL HAG.
I do remember your “Nose Issue”… that was back at the very beggining of your
journey into photo-editing. If I remember correctly, the image in question was
one you wanted to use on your main page… a fantasy image, perhaps a painting.
Didn’t you want to make an applet from it?
Mike, I know which one you are speaking of, and that actually wasn’t the nose job
I was referring to. The one you are remembering is I changed the color of the hair
on a lady in a fantasy image. I looked for that image on the website I had it
on Geocities, they tell me that page is no longer found. Your memory is good, as
it was THE very first image I tried anything like that with. It was using Paint
Shop Pro, too.