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Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987

Posted by timothy on from the airbrushing-is-so-stalinist-1940s dept.

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.

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  1. I would have been more impressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But they were doing this stuff with deluxe paint on an Amiga in 1985.

  2. "Damaged" images. by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And they used it for "restoring damaged images". Yeah. Sure.

    Images that were "damaged," for example, by having Trotsky in them.

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