Has Kate Middleton Just Ended All Remaining Trust in Photographs?
Today my mother-in-law texted me to say, "Can't trust any photo." Why? Kate Middleton.
Kate Middleton Apologizes After Admitting Editing Photo That Was Pulled by Major News Agencies
The Princess of Wales Kate Middleton has apologized after admitting to editing a family portrait that has been pulled by major news agencies.
Powerful New Tool Helps Journalists Identify Manipulated Photos
The Alphabet company Jigsaw—formerly known as Google Ideas—has released a free tool called Assembler that was designed to help journalists identify manipulated imagery, no matter how sophisticated the trickery might be.
National Archives Edited Photo to Remove Anti-Trump Messages
The National Archives is an independent government agency that's tasked with preserving and documenting government and historical records. An authority on authenticity, it was just caught doctoring photos containing messages critical of President Trump.
GQ Ran a Photo of ‘Tech Titans’ That Had Women Photoshopped In
GQ ran a story last week about a group of "tech titans" making a "pilgrimage" to small Italian village to visit luxury designer Brunello Cucinelli. The article's lead image was a group photo of the attendees, but something looked off...
Kazakhstan Caught Beauty Retouching Photos of New Leader
The large Asian country of Kazakhstan was just caught "Photoshopping" official photos of its new leader, using beauty retouching techniques to dramatically alter his appearance.
White House Slammed for Sharing ‘Doctored’ Video
The White House is being slammed by press photographer associations for its use of a "clearly manipulated" video of a press conference exchange this past Wednesday.
Double Trouble: Daily News in Hot Water for ‘Shopping an Already Fake Photo
NBC recently received some criticism for distributing the above photo of Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon to several news outlets -- some of which used it on their front page -- without disclosing that the background and road in the image were fake. Being an entertainment outlet, however, they were granted a pass; the fakery was obvious and it was the news outlet's job to figure it out and disclose it to their readers.
But one particular newspaper has drawn more fire than the rest. The New York Daily News was one of the papers that used the photo on their front page, but on top of not disclosing the initial fakery, they further 'shopped the photo and kept that part to themselves as well.
New Software Suite to Detect Stealthy Image Manipulation
Former Photoshop product manager Kevin Connor and Dartmouth professor (and digital forensic expert) Hany Farid are working together to help put a stop to image manipulation where it doesn't belong. Putting their two brains together they formed a company called Fourandsix, which is primed to release a full suite of software tools that will help law enforcement officers, photo editors and other interested parties detect secret digital photo manipulation.
Teen Collects 50,000 Signatures to Protest the Use of Photoshop by Magazines
It's common knowledge that models in magazines are Photoshopped to look the way that they do -- often to the detriment of the young girls that aspire to have these computer generated figures -- but for the most part protests have come in the form of ad campaigns like Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty. But in the past couple of weeks, 14-year-old Julia Bluhm decided to take a different approach.
Should We Be Worried About the Spread of App-Doctored News Photos?
CNN published an opinion piece yesterday by photojournalist …
Shocking: North Korea Doctored Photo of Kim Jong-il’s Funeral
News photo agencies EPA, AFP, and Reuters have all issued kill orders for a photo of Kim Jong-il's funeral procession released by the Korean Central News Agency, the state news agency of North Korea. The photo (above at bottom) raised red flags after a comparison with a Kyodo News photo taken just seconds earlier revealed that a number of people had vanished from the scene. The New York Times writes,
A side-by-side comparison of the full images does point to a possibly banal explanation: totalitarian aesthetics. With the men straggling around the sidelines, a certain martial perfection is lost. Without the men, the tight black bands of the crowd on either side look railroad straight.
Perhaps it was a simple matter of one person gilding the lily.
Spanish Newspaper “Apologizes” for Doctoring Photo of Soccer Match
Spanish sports daily AS was forced to publish an apology earlier this week …
Top Egyptian Newspaper Doctors Photo of World Leaders
The top photo was published by Al-Ahram, Egypt’s second-oldest and most widely circulated …
BP Gets Heat for Doctored Command Center Photo
The most recent fuel for resentment towards BP comes from a doctored photo of the company's crisis center in Houston. America blog's John Aravosis made the connection when he examined a hi-resolution version of the photo, which was displayed prominently on the BP website. All this comes after BP promised for increased transparency between the company and the public.