Condoleezza Rice Eyes -

Does anyone see the tail in the background?
I always get her mixed with omarosa, I guess cause they are both advocates for peace...but still...ack!
 
mvigor said:
The article talks to Photoshop users who don't know what they are talking about. It looks to me like someone just selected the face, or maybe even parts of the face, and then ran "Auto Levels" on it. It wasn't deliberate.
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I've been using Photoshop everyday in my line of work for over 9 years. There is no way that was an accident. I looked at both photos and the adjustment that would have been necessary to change the gray color of her eyes inthe photos to the glaring white eyes in the retouched photo would have brightened the whole image to the point of being unrecognizable.

Whoever adjusted the image did so by selecting the area only around her eyes. The rest of the coloring and brightness in the photo is largely unchanged. Now, that's as much as I can deduce froms seeing the photos. As to whether the person who retouched the photo was ordered to do so by their supervisor or did so on their own is another story.
 
I think she looks pretty darn scary in both....
What I am suprised by is that they even alter newspaper photos!!! I mean come on, I know that all the models in the magazines are airbrushed to nothing, but we have to do it to politicians too?!?!?
 
Holly9937 said:
I think she looks pretty darn scary in both....
What I am suprised by is that they even alter newspaper photos!!! I mean come on, I know that all the models in the magazines are airbrushed to nothing, but we have to do it to politicians too?!?!?
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I thought the original was quite unflattering as well.

As to altering photos, almost all photos are altered between the camera and the presentation. When it was film cameras that editing was done in a darkroom. Now it can be done, digitally, on the computer and quickly. Generally, the touchups are benign and are done to improve lighting or contrast simply to increase the photo's readibility.

More than occasionally though the photos are manipulated for some editorial purpose one way or the other. I'm reminded of the saying "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear."

T
 
They do that kind of stuff for subliminal manipualtion all the time. There was a magazine that had OJ on it during the trial and they darkened it...made him look eviler.
I read a book on subliminal seduction in marketing once..very interesting.
Your booze ads...the ice cubes in the glasses...there is usually something interesting going on there, like couples embracing or more. The positioning of ads in magazines...newspapers...these things are not just done by accident.

here's a link to a book about it...I read a different one, but this stuff has been going on for years
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/pr...0/104-5053178-1663921?_encoding=UTF8&n=283155
 
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