In case you couldn't figure it out

[kierthos]

The boxed off area is what "alerted" me, in, oh, about five seconds, that something was wrong with the pic. Of couse, I use Photoshop practically every day at work.

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[the-corruption.livejournal.com]

JEEZUS I didn't think it was THAT bloody obvious!?!?

God, what a bunch of agressively incompetant morons.

[opheliareborn.livejournal.com]

Not to sound completely stupid, but what's the pic from?

[knifesmile.livejournal.com]

The dark diagonal has the scent of Dodge/Burn, too, while you're at it.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I thought the cloud of smoke near the top left corner was the best/worst part.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to be a shot of an area in Lebanon after Israel bombed it. The problem is, most of the smoke was added to the photo. For example, the smoke starting from the building in the lower left corner? Added. All of it.

The untouched-up photo has a lot less smoke, and therefore, doesn't make the Israelis look nearly as bad. Reuters pretty much immediately pulled the entire photo library of the photographer who took and editted this picture, but they weren't the ones who originally realized that it was an altered photo. Sad, really. I mean, it should be obvious that it was manipulated.

[mysirensong.livejournal.com]

Hello - I just heard a rumor that you made the icon I'm using and getting all sorts of loving and comments for. I've been wanting to credit someone for it because the first time I saw it I literally *did* spit food out of my mouth and I LOVE it. Is it true - are you that mastermind? :)

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am responsible for it. Glad you enjoy it.

[knifesmile.livejournal.com]

Looking at the picture again, the top of the adjacent smoke cloud also looks Clonebrushed. Like the photo was originally shorter or something so they just made a horizontal block first, then went upward. It has the same telltale patches of strangely-coloured pixels and pattern repetition. Anyone who has ever used Photoshop for any purpose should recognise at least some of the editing on sight; fuck, I use it for art rather than photo manipulation and it was still immediately obvious. I noticed the stuff outside your red box before the red box itself. (As an artist, you learn to spot Dodge-Burn shading/cheating very quickly. It is the milk of the lazy.) The only way I can imagine that this got through is that the person doing photo approvals must have gotten a huge block of similar photos all at once and just got into the rote button-pushing habit after two hundred burning Mideasts too many. An excellent reminder of the need to take breaks.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah... The other cloud of smoke is bad too, but I first noticed the one on the left. I do consider it the worst example in the photo. I mean, the other cloud of smoke is bad too, but it's not quite as bad. At least to me.