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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has kicked up a media firestorm since John McCain announced she would be his vice presidential running mate. In the two weeks since the announcement, Palin, 44, has been attacked for being a bad mom, an inexperienced bimbo and a vapid ex-beauty contestant. Many people have also been frantically searching the Internet for sexy photos of Sarah Palin, and apparently hit pay dirt when saucy photos of Palin toting a rifle wearing a star-spangled bikini were uncovered. However, those photos--like the rumors that Palin's son Trig is actually her grandson--are fake. Whether you agree with Palin's...

Anger at fake Sarah Palin photos as smear campaign makes her 'look like a stripper' Last updated at 23:52pm on 06.09.08   Skirting the issues: Clearly mocked-up photos like this are being used to undermine Sarah Palin's image as a serious politician Sarah Palin's credibility as a possible American Vice-President is being undermined by a series of spoof photographs circulated on the internet.The saucy pictures, which exploit her glamorous image, have been published amid a concerted ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against the former beauty queen, following her surprise appointment as 72-year-old Republican candidate John McCain’s running mate. One shows her apparently...

Judah Freed opposes Sarah Palin, but points out that fake photos of her do damage to political discourse. Here's the actual photo of a young girl in an American Flag bikini holding a rifle. ... Below is that picture with Sarah Palin's head superimposed on the image.

The Maverick and his Veep: Sarah the Riveter:

The US Presidential race was hotting up last night as this snap - said to be of White House hopeful Sarah Palin - sent the web into meltdown. The nude photo emerged hours after Sarah, once a teenage beauty queen in her home state of Alaska, was named as Republican John McCain's running-mate. Hundreds of websites and blogs in the USA picked up the pic, describing it as the real deal. But Palin's camp last night poured cold water on the speculation and a spokesman for her team told the News of the World it was definitely a FAKE.

The virtual worlds in computer games provide a realistic backdrop to the action. But step too close and the effect is lost – you'll see that textures and patterns are usually displayed on flat surfaces that look dull and artificial. A simpler way to add depth to textured surfaces could change that. The new technique can reconstruct the depth of a surface simply by taking two photos of it – one with a flash and one without (see video, right). Merely analysing the resulting shading patterns can capture the surface's 3D texture. Until now making realistic textures required the use...

You have your fear, which might become reality; and then you have Godzilla, who is reality. — from the movie “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had been faked. Later, many of those same papers published a Whitman’s sampler of retractions and apologies. For me it raised a series of questions about images.[1] Do they provide illustration of a text or an...

New morph: (A nod to PhilDragoo for the concept...:)

To counteract John McCain's positive reception at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Democratic candidate Barack Obama decided to attend the massive biker event earlier today. Early reports indicate that it didn't go so well. Curiously, the mainstream media has honored the Obama campaign's request to embargo all photographs of the visit. Thankfully for the American people, Exurban League has acquired the photos from a hardcore biker who was present at the events. (Thanks again, Stinky Bart!) The visit began with a flashy, Berlin-style speech. Seizing the moment, Obama gave the stirring call to action from atop Mount Rushmore. "Together we hope...

Did China's state news agency forge a photo? China media photojournalism A Chinese blogger has exposed the official news agency Xinhua for what appears to be a forged image. He noticed that two of the people present in the photo look remarkably similar. The photo was taken during a visit from President Hu Jintao to the official Olympics site in Qingdao, where the watersports contests will take place. The site has been under the spotlight since it was overrun by a dangerous and polluting algae not long before the opening of the games. Hu Jintao came to the site to...

Have many of the Obama - Che stlye pictures with sarcastic posts underneath. I have them as jpegs in Photoshop. I need to layer them and save as one jpeg to have it put on a tshirt. My brain can't or won't follow any written tutorial or even YouTube instructions. Can anybody out there direct me to easily understood instructions (assume zero knowledge on my part.) Many thanks in advance.

Apparently, late-night hosts are having trouble making fun of presidential candidate Barack Obama. One experienced writer stated, "The thing is, he’s not buffoonish in any way." Cough. The sad thing? That quote wasn't supposed to be ironic. Hoping to ease the creative burden upon late-night comedy writers, I offer them The Top Ten Ways to Mock Obama! [Several Photoshops follow...]

I need help in proving that this picture is photoshopped. A Virginia Democrat blogger is using it like it's an actual news photo. Can you help me prove it's a fake? Thanks.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Iran's Photoshopped Missile Launch At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media is a Photoshop fake: (Hat tip: webs87.) UPDATE at 7/9/08 8:20:34 pm: An animated version at Suitably Flip: Mahmoud the Fauxtographer.

At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media has been Photoshopped:

And now for something completely different. Although this series of tutorial videos on advanced photo editing techniques started several months ago, its recent completion has led to a flurry of comment around the Internet, including an article in this week's Time magazine. Go to the link, and the first of 10 tutorial in the series will start immediately. Each subsequent video starts right after that, about five minutes for each. The character "Donnie Hoyle" is a creation of two Ohio comics who wanted to explain photo editing in a uniquely creative way. As "Hoyle" explains Photoshop, his increasingly disordered personal...

Need photo shop help! I want to take the text off the top of this image and insert: "Today's gas price is brought to you by the democrat party"

Features - June 2, 2008 Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo By Hany Farid This story is a supplement to the feature "Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images" which was printed in the June 2008 issue of Scientific American. Lighting Composite images made of pieces from different photographs can display subtle differences in the lighting conditions under which each person or object was originally photographed. Such discrepancies will often go unnoticed by the naked eye. For an image such as the one at the right, my group can estimate the direction of the light source for...

The Presidency really takes its toll; just look at how George Bush has aged. To see how the current candidates would fare after a term in the Oval Office, we put them through the Pop Photo Time Machine. See our Photoshopped before and afters of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama. Mouse-over any of the images to see how the candidates may look in 2012. Aging takes time, even when you make it happen artificially with software. Each candidate took about four hours of retouching. To mimic the ravages of time, we did the following: - Used the Burn...

Okay, so a couple might be photoshops. You didn’t have them, did you?

Identifying Manipulated Images New tools that analyze the lighting in images help spot tampering. By Erica Naone   True or false? The tool used above spots whether an image has been manipulated by modeling the lighting in the image based on an analysis of visible surfaces. To analyze an image, a user indicates the surfaces to consider using contour lines (shown above in white). The system checks for inconsistencies in the way that those surfaces are lit. Credit: Micah Kimo Johnson, Hany Farid Photo-editing software gets more sophisticated all the time, allowing users to alter pictures in ways both...

Ashley Qualls doesn't sound like a typical high school student. Maybe that's because the 17-year-old is the CEO of a million-dollar business. Ashley is the head of whateverlife.com, a website she started when she was just 14 — with eight dollars borrowed from her mother. Now, just three years later, the website grosses more than $1 million a year, providing Ashley and her working class family a sense of security they had never really known. It all started with capitalism 101, the law of supply and demand. Ashley became interested in graphic design just as the online social networking craze...

Google recently confirmed in a blog posting that it had paid Codeweavers to help develop WINE to make Photoshop usable on the well-regarded but still somewhat unpredictable software package, which aims to replicate Windows libraries to enable popular Windows applications run in a Linux environment.

Google recently confirmed in a blog posting that it had paid Codeweavers to help develop WINE to make Photoshop usable on the well-regarded but still somewhat unpredictable software package, which aims to replicate Windows libraries to enable popular Windows applications run in a Linux environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFmcQCT6nM8 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peyUBs3pjYo BOCA DEL RIO, MEXICO — Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox down on Saturday, just hours after it was erected. Workers put up the commemorative statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state. But by 9 a.m. some 100 angry protesters, many of them members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, surrounded the figure. Fox, of the conservative National Action Party, ended 71 years of PRI rule with his historic election in July 2000.The crowd launched eggs at the statue, fastened...

Hillary Clinton has yellow teeth. The original, completely unedited picture of her shot by photographer Janet Mayer on April 20, 2007, shows the United States presidential candidate doesn't use Crest Whitestrips. A quick review of other Hillary Clinton photos by different photographers on other occasions confirmed her yellow teeth here are not the result of improper white balance or incorrect digital camera settings. As you can see, the other colors and skin tone look normal. These aren't "pearly whites" and she is not "ready for her closeup." She has reasonably straight teeth and a nice smile, but it's ruined by...

New video expected to present reasons, motives for attacks on New York, Washington. WASHINGTON - Al-Qaeda will release a third video marking the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, this time showing its top leader in Afghanistan, US monitoring groups said Wednesday. After releasing two videos featuring Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in recent days, the terror network will now show a video "presenting reasons and motives for the attacks on New York and Washington," the SITE Intelligence Group said in a press release. The new video will show Al-Qaeda's chief in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, also known...

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With his clenched fists, wild eyes and gnashing teeth he has become the face of Muslim fury, protesting against the enemies of Islam. Shakeel Ahmad Bhat has been on the frontline of political activism in Srinagar, India, for more than a decade. His constant presence, captured by photographers and beamed across the world, has caught the imagination of rightwing bloggers who have dubbed him Islamic Rage Boy and turned him into an internet phenomenon. Typing his nickname into a search engine yields more than 75,000 results. He has inspired a cartoon character and merchandise. But the 30-year-old Kashmiri activist is...

PROVO — A man who digitally created pornography by using his computer to attach facial images of family and members of his LDS Church ward to other people's bodies will spend time behind bars after all. Fourth District Court Judge Claudia Laycock on Wednesday sentenced Lance Rushton, 37, to 45 days in Utah County Jail and 45 days of wearing an ankle-monitoring GPS bracelet. Wednesday's sentencing comes nearly a month after Laycock rejected a sentence recommendation of a GPS bracelet but no jail time. Rushton is to appear at the Utah County Jail on Aug. 18 and will begin the...

Two samples of some great work on this thread....

NYT's depiction of a "Hick" who is against the "Shamnesty Bill"...Check the teeth...

Celebrity magazine Solo G has been criticized by the Swedish Press Council for expressing negative opinions about a woman's large breasts. Having received a complaint from the woman in question, the council found that the magazine was guilty of a breach of press ethics.

You've heard the magic "Web 2.0" buzzword thrown around like it's the second coming of pre-sliced bagels. But while scrollable maps, real-time stock quotes, and live article recommendations are nice and all, the whole Ajax/Flex platform hasn't changed our online lives very much.That may be about to change, in a very real way. Computer graphics and electronic document specialist Adobe Systems (Nasdaq: ADBE) is thinking about releasing a free, ad-supported, and fully 2.0-ified version of its industry-leading Photoshop suite. It would be an entry-level variant, designed for simple, everyday image editing tasks that are beyond the capabilities of other free...

new information about the Reuters Photoshop scandal: Reuters fired a top photo editor for the Middle East during an internal investigation of two doctored photos from the Israel-Lebanon war that were published last summer. The editor was the second casualty of the photo manipulation controversy surrounding Reuters freelancer Adnan Hajj. Two of Hajj’s photographs showed obvious signs of digital alterations. Facing a storm of criticism last August, Reuters terminated its relationship with Hajj and pulled more than 900 of his photos from its archive. A Reuters spokesperson said Thursday that the company would not release the name of the editor...

**Exclusive** MARIE CLAIRE Magazine publishes a fake photo of ABCNEWS anchor Elizabeth Vargas -- who appears to be breastfeeding her new baby boy at the anchor desk! The controversial photo accompanies a Q & A with Vargas in the December issue. A source close to the anchor says Vargas' is disappointed but has a sense of humor about the whole thing. "Elizabeth was more than happy to sit for the interview but was disturbed that the magazine would set aside basic journalistic standards to photoshop her head onto a fake image. Vargas did joke that her real baby is cuter,...

MU is investigating allegations that images accompanying research published by MU professor of reproductive biology R. Michael Roberts in a prominent academic journal were digitally altered. (snip) Roberts’ research, published in the Feb. 17 issue of Science, a weekly, peer-reviewed journal, challenged the conventional view on the properties of the first two cells in a mouse embryo and, according to Hall, has potential implications for stem cell research. (snip) The current issue of Science includes an Editorial Expression of Concern, by the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Donald Kennedy, alerting readers that the research “may not be reliable” and that MU is conducting...

INTERNET NEWS WND columnist targeted in Internet assault Malkin says attackers are 'idiots' who can't recognize Photoshop Posted: October 13, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Michelle Malkin WND columnist Michelle Malkin has become the target of an Internet assault, with the posting of her face on a clearly-altered photograph of a woman in a bikini, as well as a faked Facebook entry. It doesn't, however, get her down. It gets her fired up. "Rather than demand that they take their lying lies down, I am asking that they leave their smears up for all the world to see," she wrote....

A military guy e-mails a weekend website blooper: Thought you might be interested in posting this. The DNC website has a page called Veterans and Military Families where they purpo[r]t to care about the welfare of US troops. Unfortunately they couldn't even find a picture of a US soldier to post on the page. The picture in the Get Involved frame is not a US Army uniform. The soldiers in the background are not in a US uniform either. My military correspondent says the uniform in the DNC photo...is Canadian. Is he right?

Readers of CQ know that I follow Canadian politics and have become something of a Canada-phile ever since the Gomery Inquiry. Canadians, I have found, are friendly, gracious people, and their country has a well-deserved reputation for hospitality. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the Canadian military, which has a long tradition of honorable service, and they are currently adding to and enhancing that reputation in Afghanistan in the fight against radical Islamist terrorists. Too many Americans seem disinterested in our northern neighbor and close ally. I'm always delighted when Americans take an interest in Canadians...

Yesterday evening, I received a call from my column syndicate, Creators Syndicate. The Associated Press had phoned my editor to inform her that it would be sending a response to my column yesterday about detained AP photographer Bilal Hussein. (Funny how quickly they respond now. Where have they been the past five months? Oh, right: Busy covering up the news about Hussein's April 12 capture by the military at a Ramadi apartment with an alleged al Qaeda leader and a weapons cache.) The AP last night asked my editor to supply its corporate communications office with my newspaper client list...

IT'S bad enough that friends of Hezbollah terrorists could trick so many journalists with just a tall story and a rusty Lebanese ambulance. Worse is that some of those journalists seemed so eager to believe this ambulance was indeed wickedly blown up by an Israeli missile fired straight through the big red cross on its roof -- leaving not even a scorch mark. But worst is that even now that this hoax has been exposed, none of the countless writers and commentators who fell for it have admitted to passing on as fact the propaganda of terrorists. It is this...

The media war against Israel Early in the recent Lebanon war, the blogosphere revealed the fabrication of images by Reuters, whose reputation is now in shreds among those dwindling numbers in the western mainstream media who still acknowledge there is such a thing as the truth. Since then, the nature and scale of the various frauds perpetrated by the media during that war put those doctored Reuters pictures into the shade. The western media are no longer merely producing questionable professional practices in reporting a war. They are now active participants in it — and on the wrong side of...

CBS News Unveils New Couric Web Ad CampaignNew York, August 30, 2006(CBS) CBS News announced Wednesday a new internet-based advertising campaign to promote the premier of Katie Couric as the new anchorwoman of "The CBS Evening News". CBS News President Sean McManus made the following statement:"We here at CBS News - which, if you haven't heard, is the new home of Katie Couric - want to reach out to former audience members who, in a bout of confusion, seem to now prefer highly questionable internet based news sources rather than the traditional trusted evening news broadcast. We would also like...

"Talk about a waistline touch-up," an e-mailer says: The left photo is the official first-pic-of-Katie released by CBS at this year's upfront. (TVNewser posted it in May.) The right photo is an edited version of the same photo, from the September issue of Watch magazine, which is owned by CBS. (Here's the PDF of the magazine.)