photoshop

Giving Famous Nudes the Photoshop Treatment

Staff / Truthdig Feb 14, 2012 So much for Rubenesque: An artist by the memorable name of Anna Utopia Giordano has reshaped the famous figures of several nudes from classical paintings -- think Velazquez, Bouguereau and Botticelli -- to give them a 21st-century sensibility. (Read: They're a lot skinnier.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abracadabra! Orthodoxy

Staff / Truthdig Apr 3, 2009 An obvious Photoshop job in Israel has hilariously tried to make Israel's inaugural Cabinet a bit more Orthodox. In one ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper, two female Cabinet members were cropped out of an official picture and replaced with two non-Cabinet men. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Politishop 8.0

Mark Fiore / Truthdig Jul 28, 2008 Dig deeper

Photoshopping Military Might

Staff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2008 Charges against Iran's Sepah News for digitally altering a photo of the country's missile tests on Wednesday arose Friday after analysts discovered what is clearly a Photoshopped extra missile in an image released by the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The image, which was used by the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune on their front pages, was later retracted. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Fox Sinks to New Lows

Staff / Truthdig Jul 3, 2008 Fox News apparently doesn't handle bad publicity very well. In response to a New York Times story that suggested the network's ratings might be slipping, the co-hosts of "Fox & Friends" cried foul, broadcasting photos of Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe. The problem? The "news" channel had doctored the pictures to make the journos appear less attractive. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )