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    The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?



    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8272061.stm

    They might change it before long, but clearly Brown and his wife are shopped into that. Question is: did Getty or the BBC do it?
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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    With all those images why did the beeb buy the (badly) chopped one?

    Bloke named Carl De Souza did it.

    http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Se...Four%20People#
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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    wow, that is such a blatant photoshop well spotted, cant understand why they would do it tbh.

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Microsoft do it, why can't the BBC?
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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    What makes you say it's photoshopped? Looks ok to me?
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    stupid betond belief.
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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

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    From the pixels.

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Quote Originally Posted by Clunk View Post
    What makes you say it's photoshopped? Looks ok to me?
    +1

    Am I blind here?
    What's the standout photochopped feature?
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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vimeous View Post
    +1

    Am I blind here?
    What's the standout photochopped feature?
    It's a reasonable photo of Brown, none are known to exist.

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Quote Originally Posted by Clunk View Post
    What makes you say it's photoshopped? Looks ok to me?
    Yeah, they are just using a photo of Brown and Obama meeting earlier this year to illustrate the story that Brown and Obama did not meet this week, aren't they? They aren't implying that the photo was taken this week.
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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    Microsoft do it, why can't the BBC?
    Because the BBC is a news organisation and MS isn't? Because there's a difference between using image editing techniques if/where/when they imply something different to a factual event, as opposed to pure marketing?

    Personally, I see nothing wrong with the BBC using image editing, per se. It depends what they do with it. For instance, using Photoshop to change lightness or contrast to make an image clearer is fair enough, IMHO, but using image editing techniques to distort (make it appear that something that didn't happen had, or that did happen didn't, for instance) a news story wouldn't be. It's what they do with it that is, for me, the issue.

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    It is shopped look at the other pictures taken that day (1st of april) gordon brown is wearing a different tie

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    Because the BBC is a news organisation and MS isn't? Because there's a difference between using image editing techniques if/where/when they imply something different to a factual event, as opposed to pure marketing?
    T'was an attempt at humour, Squire.

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    The lighting on the faces doesn't match and Obama's hand/ Brown's head don't look natural next to each other, in my opinion, as if they were different photos.

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    T'was an attempt at humour, Squire.

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    Re: The BBC uses photoshopped images now...?

    Because the 'shop is so bad, I assumed whoever posted it would just think everyone would realise it was for illustration and not an actual photo.

    The only way they could make it more obvious was to put two actual photos in there.

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