The British newspaper "The Guardian" presented yesterday in its online edition a theme devoted to its 25 years Photoshop.
Featuring a humorous mood, the piece talked about the various hobbles and misunderstandings occasioned by the (millions) small and large interventions in the world of images.
Beyond the plaque of course, it is a fact that we are talking about one of the most important computer programs ever created. And this is not because of these interventions; the stars of the spectacle industry that look brighter than they are, the artist's photographers who spend more time in the computer than in the darkroom or the "cut-sewers" a thousand times more comfort than in the past. It is mainly the way we now see the images. In short, we are suspicious. The truth of the picture, the picture, was for almost decades unquestionable.
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
