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NEWS ABOUT: altered photos

altered photos stories: 3 news summaries
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

analysis

 Has Airbrushing
 Gone Too Far? 

Digital Barbie-fication of women called unhealthy trend

May 3, 08 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shutterbugs have long altered pics, but now critics are cringing over the effects of airbrushing on young girls. French lawmakers have even approved a law against inciting "excessive thinness." But would such a move work in America? Maybe not, "but there are a whole lot of impressionable... More »

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women • beauty • photography • eating disorder • photo editing • digital retouching • magazine industry • altered photos

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

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