The British newspaper "The Guardian" presented yesterday in its online edition a theme devoted to its 25 years Photoshop.
Written in a humorous mood, the piece talked about the various scams and misunderstandings that have been created from time to time by (millions) small and large interventions in the world of images.
Joking aside, of course, it is a fact that we are talking about one of the most important computer programs ever created. And that's not because of these interventions; the stars of the entertainment industry who look brighter than they are, the artistic photographers who now spend more time on the computer than in the darkroom, or the graphic designers who "cut and sew" a thousand times greater comfort than in the past. It's mainly the way we see them now pictures. In short, we are suspicious. Her truth pictures, her photos, it was almost undisputed for entire decades.
Of course the connoisseurs always had "tricks" to deceive or deceive the viewer, but their capabilities were limited. They could not convincingly present something that was not even there.
In the age of Photoshop, on the other hand, an excellent connoisseur of the program can enter virtually everything and - most importantly - leave so few traces that even the most experienced eye can hardly detect them. In addition, in recent years, the technology of Photoshop has spread rapidly in the field of animation, video. Today we observe images on the Internet, in print and elsewhere with the "hidden" knowledge that they do not fully correspond to reality. And this, if we think about it, is at least strange…
Source: kathimerini.gr
