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Revolutionary candidate combines the head of a smiling clown with the body of a sales man
A mailer from a congressional candidate’s campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner.
The photo is presented as a true image of Dean Hrbacek, a Republican former mayor of Sugar Land, Texas. In reality, it is a computerized composite of Hrbacek’s face and someone else’s slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to knee.
Why Does Angelina Have Balls?
Dr. Hany Farid, a 41-year-old engineer, is a founder of a subdiscipline within computer science: digital forensics. Interview:
What exactly is digital forensics?
It’s a new field. It didn’t exist five years ago. We look at digital media — images, audio and video — and we try to ascertain whether or not they’ve been manipulated. We use mathematical and computational techniques to detect alterations in them.
In society today, we’re now seeing doctored images regularly. If tabloids can’t obtain a photo of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie walking together on a beach, they’ll make up a composite from two pictures. Star actually did that. And it’s happening in the courts, politics and scientific journals, too. As a result, we now live in an age when the once-held belief that photographs were the definitive record of events is gone.
Actually, photographic forgeries aren’t new. People have doctored images since the beginning of photography. But the techniques needed to do that during the Civil War, when Mathew Brady made composites, were extremely difficult and time consuming. In today’s world, anyone with a digital camera, a PC, Photoshop and an hour’s worth of time can make fairly compelling digital forgeries.
Why do scientists need to know about this?
Because not long ago, researchers from South Korea had to retract papers published in Science because the photographs used to prove that human stem cells had been cloned were effectively Photoshop-cloned, and not laboratory-cloned. There have been other recent cases, too. And today, in science, more and more, photographs are the data. The Federal Office of Research Integrity has said that in 1990, less than 3 percent of allegations of fraud they investigated involved contested images. By 2001, that number was 26 percent. And last year, it was 44.1 percent. (…)
Other biologists tell me anecdotally that many images in journals are regularly touched up to improve contrast or to remove little imperfections. The journals are, in essence, doing the same things fashion magazines do. Some of it is legitimate. In other cases, they are crossing the line.
Photoshop or Eve?
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Could It Be That It’s Just an Illusion Putting Me Back in All This Confusion?
Photoshop was not the result of an elaborate skunk works in the depths of Adobe. Rather, it was developed by Thomas Knoll and his brother, John. The boys’ father, Glenn Knoll (a University of Michigan Ann Arbor College of Engineering’s Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences professor), had been an amateur photographer and an early adopter of micro-computers, passions that his boys eagerly embraced. John took an interest in photography, developing his film in his father’s darkroom. He took more than just a passing interest in the hobby, since he began developing color prints–a very elaborate process compared to black and white film development. Learning to manipulate the color and exposure of the photographs he developed, John developed the skills that would later be applied in Photoshop.
John was passionate about programming. His father had brought home an Apple II+ and made his living programming a mainframe. John immediately felt at home with the computer. In an interview with Apple, he said his father “was using it for research, but he mostly did that work in the evenings, so when I got home from school that Apple II was calling out to me.”
Glenn replaced the aging Apple II+ with a Macintosh in 1984, much to John’s delight. From that moment, he “became an instant convert” to the Macintosh. John was able to apply his hobby to his career as he joined Industrial Light and Magic, a leader in computer graphics research and the corporate sibling to Pixar. { Silicon User | Continue reading }
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Trademarks Are Not Verbs, You Cretin
The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun.
Trademarks are not nouns.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
