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Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987
nacturation writes "Three years before Photoshop 1.0 was released, computer engineers in the USSR were already retouching photographs using some surprisingly advanced technology. A video shows how the Soviets went about restoring damaged images with the help of rotary scanners, magnetic tape, and trackballs. No word on whether this technology was used to fake moon landings or put missiles in Cuba." Photo manipulation in the USSR (and elsewhere) had a pretty good jump on computers, though.
So THAT is how Kim Jong Il was able to be the doctor doing the delivery at his own birth!
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Now the rest of you can concentrate on real, intelligent responses. Don't say I never took one for the team.
The world's biggest killer, dihydrogen monoxide, is known in ultra-secret circles as a key ingredient in doctoring images.
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The real story is that the Soviets had clip art collections that made their job easier. This was years before clip-art was widely used in the West.
People doctoring photos could choose from the "Still Popular Heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution" as well as "Accepted Images of our Beloved Leaders: Lenin through Gorbachev".
What was little known at the time is that if you bought both sets, you would also get a free set "Communist Leaders of the world". This set had flattering pictures of Chaiman Mao, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevera.
Exactly. This is why I can speak Russian, in French. Stay thirsty my friends...
The Chinese have the lead in a lot of things. And cadmium as well.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
There were image manipulation before Photoshop?
LIES!
That the verb for doing image manipulation is 'to photoshop' should be proof enough! I mean OMGz LOL If teh wordz is to photoshop, how could you photoshop, before photoshop 1.0? with the beta release???!!!111oenenoene
Seriously, kids, the shift of the millenium was not celebrated as the end of the stone age!
sounds more like he's outing himself as old.
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
You'd be written in and out of the "history" books.
Zinoviev died, and was written out.
Trotski was murdered in Mexico, and was written out.
Hundreds and thousands were written out of existence, their tombstones chiseled clean.
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The family of Greedo was relieved to hear about this old technology especially about claims that the Soviet Union may have used this technology to frame their patriarch. When asked a spokesthing for the family remarked "For years we have said that George Lucas with the help of foreign powers altered footage to make it look like Greedo shot first. We've always believed that no good [beep] [beep] scoundrel Han Solo shot our Greedo in cold blood." The spokesthing continued "Well, in a way it's a good thing it has taken this long, because now that Han is married to Leia, we're talking about Intergalactic Princess money now." When asked if that meant the family intended to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against Han Solo, the spokesthing only responded "CHA-CHING!"
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to rent the same studio that NASA used?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Before they collect you.
Well we stole Tetris and made billions on it, so it all worked out in the end.
May the Maths Be with you!
I don't believe it. Next you will try to tell me that Microsoft did not invent spreadsheets word-processors and windowing OSes.