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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. FUCK THEM COMMIES!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Too late !! They already fucked themselves out of existence !! In former-Soviet Red Commie Russia, they now have a full-fledge Putinocrocy !! Just goes to show if you squeeze a potato hard enough, you can get vodka !!