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Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories
Anti-Globalism writes "In an age of digital manipulation, many people believe that snapshots and family photos need no longer stand as a definitive record of what was, but instead, of what they wish it was. It used to be that photographs provided documentary evidence, and there was something sacrosanct about that, said Chris Johnson, a photography professor at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area. If you wanted to remove an ex from an old snapshot, you had to use a Bic pen or pinking shears. But in the digital age, people treat photos like mash-ups in music, combining various elements to form a more pleasing whole. What were doing, Mr. Johnson said, is fulfilling the wish that all of us have to make reality to our liking. And he is no exception. When he photographed a wedding for his girlfriends family in upstate New York a few years ago, he left a space at the end of a big group shot for one member who was unable to attend. They caught up with him months later, snapped a head shot, and Mr. Johnson used Photoshop to paste him into the wedding photo. Now, he said, everyone knows it is phony, but this faked photograph actually created the assumption people kind of remember him as there."
You mean I WASN'T Scarlett Johansson's date to last year's Oscars??? Despite the picture I have of it??
Holy crap... you want me to try and do image editing with EMACS?
Clearly Vi would do a much better job of it ;)
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That sentence kind of creates the assumption of making sense.
"Our longstanding animosity is longer-standing than your longstanding animosity!"
The seekers do no need truth, the seekers do find truth and the finding do be painful
"I highly doubt only digital manipulation is capable of also altering our memories."
As I will be able to recall many years hence, MemoryShop 2.1 CS Xtreme will have been doing this for a long time now... or so my wife, Morgan Fairchild, assures me.
It's a shame apostrophes don't cost money.
Photoshop is not a verb
I know! Thats why I've been gimping stuff for the past few years.
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Gimp? Naaah, Gimp does not allow anyone (other than the developers) to alter photographs. Or do anything useful. :D
It allows you to explode your head by trying to use it, sure. And if you survive, you still have to force it to let you alter photographs.
But that's about it.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.