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Newspaper Photoshops Egyptian President in Front of Barack Obama

By Paul WachterSep 16th 2010 – 9:07AM

(Sept. 16) -- As Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ages, there's been increasing conversation and speculation about who might succeed him. But don't push Mubarak out of the picture, yet. Literally! Gawker caught Egypt's state-owned paper, Al-Ahram, in a Photoshopping doozy. As world leathers gather for Middle East peace...

BP Photoshop Saga: More Doctored Images Surface

By Carl FranzenJul 22nd 2010 – 11:58AM
Americablog.com / AP

Americablog.com / AP

(July 22) -- They've done it again! No more than 48 hours after BP confessed to using Photoshop in doctoring a photo of its oil spill crisis command center in Houston to make it appear "more panoramic," two new photographs of the oil spill response effort have been exposed as partial fakes as well. "We've instructed our...

Why Would BP Photoshop Its Crisis Command Center?

By Carl FranzenJul 20th 2010 – 10:20AM
BP LLC

BP LLC

(July 20) -- BP's public image problems took a turn for the weirder on Monday, with AMERICAblog's John Aravosis exposing a poorly doctored photo of the company's crisis command center in Houston that had been posted to the official crisis response website. The company has now come clean (sort of) to The Washington Post --...

Background on photoshopped

Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means.

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