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NEWS ABOUT: Photoshop

Photoshop stories: 17 news summaries

 Demi Moore: 
 That's Really 
 My Hip! 


W mag cover not photoshopped, she says, even if unbelievable

Nov 20, 09 9:08 AM CST
(Newser) - The latest Photoshop scandal to hit the magazine world involves Demi Moore, who is apparently missing a portion of her hip on the cover of W—but she says the image was not touched up. A close-up courtesy of the Huffington Post shows that a chunk of her leg appears... More »

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entertainment • magazine • celebrity • Photoshop • Demi Moore • magazine cover • magazines • Demi Moore Photoshop • Demi Moore W magazine

Wah!

 Even Babies Are Airbrushed 

Babies subject to the tyranny of Photoshop, too

Nov 16, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Even babies can't meet the media-industrial complex's exacting standards: Baby photos are airbrushed before making their way to magazines, to tweak skin tone, swap eye color, and airbrush fat lines and creases, reports the Daily Telegraph . While many are riled, to some, this is not news: "You kind... More »

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baby • Photoshop • digital retouching • babies • airbrush

She Got Fired
for Being 
Too Fat 

Model from altered ad says Ralph Lauren called her 'overweight'

Oct 14, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Feminists, grab your pitchforks. Filippa Hamilton, the model who appeared in a Ralph Lauren ad so ridiculously photoshopped that her waist looked smaller than her head, now says the fashion label fired her for being too fat. “They said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their... More »

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women • model • Ralph Lauren • Photoshop • body image • Filippa Hamilton

 German 
 Women's 
 Mag Bans 
 Models 

'Whole industry is anorexic,' says fed-up editor

Oct 6, 09 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The most popular German women's magazine is banning professional models from its editorial pages. Brigitte will use only "real woman" from now on to illustrate its stories, declared its editor, who said he was "fed up" with having to retouch pictures of underweight models who bear no resemblance... More »

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bulimia • fashion • Germany • anorexia • editor • Photoshop • editorial pages • models • magazines • women's magazines

OPINION

 For That Photoshopped Look: 
 Airbrush Yourself at Home 

Effect of digital retouching on real women's body issues is now creepily tangible

Sep 30, 09 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - As if the fake beauty of those Photoshopped magazine covers wasn’t enough, enter Temptu, a home “airbrush system” that can give anyone that flat, plastic look in the flesh. Chloe Angyal is appalled. One really needs to focus in order “to think about just how incredibly screwed... More »

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women • Photoshop • cosmetics • body image • digital retouching • makeup • magazine cover • airbrush

(Newser) - Microsoft has apologized after eagle-eyed Twitter users and bloggers noticed it swapped a white head onto the body of a black model in an image for its website in Poland. The image on Microsoft’s US homepage, captioned “Empower your people,” shows a white woman, a black man,... More »

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Microsoft • Poland • race relations • Photoshop

 Chicagoan 
 'Fesses Up 
 to 'Joker' 
 Poster 

But Firas Alkhateeb isn't behind 'socialism' campaign

Aug 18, 09 1:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 20-year-old college student from Chicago is the artist behind the now-famous image of Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s Joker, the Los Angeles Times reports. Firas Alkhateeb made the image using Photoshop and Time magazine’s Obama cover when he was bored one day during winter break. It attracted... More »

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Barack Obama • socialism • Photoshop • Heath Ledger • the Joker • Obama administration • President Obama

 Airbrush's Bristles Get 
 Prickly for Fashion Mags 

Readers demand more realistic photos

May 28, 09 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - After years of digital enhancements that make today’s celebrities look more alien than human, a movement is under way to make fashion photography more realistic, the New York Times reports. Leading by example is photographer Peter Lindbergh, responsible for a series of un-retouched celebs on the cover of French... More »

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fashion • photography • magazine • celebrity • Photoshop • Glamour magazine • magazine industry • Elle • Jay-ZTV • Peter Lindbergh

OPINION

 Pogue's 
 Top Tech 
 Ideas of '08 

List includes advancements from iPhone, Amazon and Netflix

Dec 18, 08 1:35 PM CST
(Newser) - David Pogue runs down the best tech ideas of 2008 in the New York Times, “the flashes of genius that somehow made it through committee, past the lawyers, and into the marketplace.” Highlights include:
  • Headache-free packaging: Amazon’s plastic-free alternative is good for the environment and does
... More »

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technology • iPhone • list • BlackBerry • Netflix • Photoshop • headphones • computer applications • Amazon • App Store • Best of 2008

Iran Adds Extra Missile
to Image of Yesterday's Tests

AFP retracts photo, front-page material across US, after discovery

Jul 10, 08 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Enemies of Tehran, prepare to be 25% less intimidated—and perhaps more amused. An image of three missiles being test launched yesterday was doctored by Iranian state media to add a fourth, the New York Times reports. Agence France Presse picked up the photo, which made front pages around the... More »

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Iran • newspaper • missile • Photoshop • doctored photo • Agence France-Presse

Opinion

 Bringing Sexy Back?
 How About Just Reality?

Beyond blemishes, glossies have retouched the truth out entirely

May 23, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tired of seeing the truth airbrushed and Photoshopped entirely out of Vogue and its glossy rack-mates, Mark Morford, in the San Francisco Chronicle, ruminates on his ideal reality-based publication. His mag—Truth Hurts or My Eyes, My Eyes!—will feature "wrinkles and scars and flab and sag, stretch... More »

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media • magazine • photo editing • Photoshop • doctored photo • magazine industry • altered photos

 Photoshop for the Rest of Us 

Adobe releases
free, web-based
image editor

Mar 27, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Adobe’s Photoshop has long been the standard for high-end image editing, but for Joe Q. Digital Camera, it’s too imposing, too complicated, and much too expensive. Today, Adobe hopes to fix all that, rolling out Photoshop Express, its free, web-based photo editor. The flash-based editor gives point-and-clickers a... More »

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Facebook • digital photography • photo editing • Photobucket • Photoshop • Adobe • doctored photo • Photoshop Express

Experts Work to Create Ways
to Identify Altered Photos

New tools can sniff out fakes

Mar 17, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - As photo doctoring grows ever more sophisticated—and common—so does the art of “digital forensics,” or identifying fakes. Lighting is among the most tell-tale signs of a photo that’s been altered, reports Technology Review, because it’s hard to get it consistent. Still, current tools... More »

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photography • software • photograph • photo editing • Photoshop • altered photos • digital forensics • fake photos

China: Sorry for This Fake Photo

State news agency apologizes for doctored image of antelopes near train

Feb 22, 08 5:12 PM CST
(Newser) - China’s state-run news service has apologized for running—and honoring—a doctored photo that aided the government’s argument about a new train line's environmental impact. The 2006 image showed antelopes frolicking under Tibetan tracks, purportedly demonstrating that the beloved beasts weren’t affected by them. It worked, until... More »

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China • Beijing • photograph • Tibet • Photoshop • hoax • Xinhua • antelope • doctored photo

Adobe CEO 'To Take A Break'

Bruce Chinzen will step aside; COO Shantanu Narayen will step up

Nov 13, 07 10:52 AM CST
(Newser) - The popular CEO of Adobe Systems, Bruce Chinzen, will step down at the end of the month “to take a break.” President and COO Shantanu Narayen will replace him, though Chinzen will stay on temporarily as a half-time strategic advisor and remain on the board to ease the... More »

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software • Photoshop • software developers • Adobe • Flash • Bruce Chinzen • Shantanu Narayen

Some Sarkozy Lost in Translation

Photo altered to reduce president's love handles

Aug 22, 07 8:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The French president’s “love handles” got a makeover this week when Paris Match Photoshopped them down to size in pics from his US holiday. An otherwise manly bare-chested shot of Sarkozy canoeing with his son shows his stomach to be distinctly slimmer than in Reuter’s original photo.... More »

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New Hampshire • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Paris Match • Lake Winnipesaukee • body • Photoshop

'Picnik' Lets Photographers Edit Anywhere

Review: Web-based photo editor 'elegant' says Mossberg

Jul 28, 07 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Extolling the new crop of slick, easy-to-use Web-based applications, the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg singles out  "Picnik"—a new free alternative to traditional desktop editing programs. Picnik lets photogs on the go add simple edits like cropping, resizing, and color correction without installing anything. More »

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Walt Mossberg • Facebook • digital photography • Flickr • application • photo editing • Picnik • Photoshop

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