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Photoshop has existed for a long time, but people still take photos at face value.

• mhh__ 6y ago
  Photos were being doctored long before then, even. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union#Censorship_of_historical_photographs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
  • Gibbon1 6y ago
    I'm reminded of a comment by someone that studied the old Eugenics movement. Mentioned finding that one of the major books on the subject the author had carefully edited photo's of 'degenerate people' to look even more crude an unintelligent. Also photographer friend of mine said; a great photographer doesn't need to Photoshop anything to lie to you.
    • GrantZvolsky 6y ago
      > Also photographer friend of mine said; a great photographer doesn't need to Photoshop anything to lie to you. I couldn't agree more if they used the word lie in the more general sense as a synonym of deception. The availability of fakes may not become a problem because the most effective deception doesn't involve telling untruths. To give an example, suppose Russia Today and Fox News report on the same event. There's a set of facts. RT picks a subset and reports it from their point of view. Fox picks another subset and presents their view. The resulting articles may give readers vastly different interpretation of the event and no untruths had to be involved.