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Meanwhile, the Marine Corps has appointed a three-star general to decide what disciplinary action to take against the four Marine snipers. Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser will name another officer to lead an internal Marine Corps investigation. That investigation will be in addition to a criminal probe already under way by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Waldhauser, who is commander of Marine Corps Forces Central Command, will determine how to proceed once both investigations are completed. NCIS Communications Director Maryann Cummings also said her department's probe is still "in its very early stages." "At this point, NCIS has identified and talked...

The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching can be slight — colors brightened, a stray hair put in place, a pimple healed. Or it can be drastic — shedding 10 or 20 pounds, adding a few inches in height and erasing all wrinkles and blemishes, done using Adobe’s Photoshop software, the photo retoucher’s magic wand. “Fix one thing, then another and pretty soon you end up with Barbie,” said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a digital forensics expert at Dartmouth. And that...

What's wrong with this picture? Can you see it? This is not one of my 'Photoshops', this is one of the most viewed photographs ever on Flickr, and it was posted by the Whitehouse on their official WH Flickr account. A popular Swedish program has uncovered something very funny about it.Notice how small Obama is in the picture? Much smaller than all of those who surround him. All over Sweden they are laughing at it, and how gullible we all were, that up until now, nobody else noticed.Afton Bladet (Sweden) - Original Article (From Today!)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite all the advances in digital photography, most people are still plagued by the problem of blurry photos, a problem compounded by the use of cameras embedded in cell phones due to their small size. Problems of blurring generally can be divided into two types. The first is problems with focusing, which can usually be avoided if the camera operator will simply wait for the automatic focusing feature of their camera to do its job. The second type is much more difficult to solve as it involves camera movement while the image is being shot. It’s this second...

This is the latest edition of our most popular feature, in which we demonstrate that the truth is stranger than Photoshop. Here are more photos that will make every poster in the comment section scream "FAKE!" but are absolutely real. http://www.cracked.com/article_19392_21-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photosphopped-part-8.html

As digital photography grows, an analogue company, Lomography, is growing interest in its range of striking and unusual cameras. When a pair of Austrian students found an old Russian camera, the Lomo Kompakt Automat, in the early 1990s, they were surprised and delighted by the unpredictable images it produced. The saturated colours and slightly blurry photos had a distinctive look. The pair travelled to Saint Petersberg in Russia to sign a worldwide distribution deal with the manufacturer. The Lomography movement grew quickly, with users all over the world returning to analogue ways just as digital photography was growing in popularity....

H/T: Iowahawk Click to view. This has multiple pages.

Even when he's got a drink he STILL doesn't look happy!

The flood photo that isn’t AP news service issues ‘kill notice’ for image from North July 20, 2011 North Korea claimed that seven North Koreans are walking in a flooded street in this July 15 photo North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency took, which it provided to AP. In the photo, residents walk in knee-deep water, but photo experts suspect the photo of being retouched, citing the relatively dry clothes of the residents as evidence. [YONHAP] The Associated Press has withdrawn a photo depicting flooding in North Korea, released recently by the reclusive communist country’s news service, claiming that signs...

I think Newt Gingrich is the spitting image of the Keebler Elf and would lke to see this photoshoped. I don't have these skills and would love to see it done. My thanks up front and my the best picture win! We can all use it over and over again in the comming months.

Brooklyn-based Hasidic newspaper Der Zeitung has apologized for publishing an iconic photograph of President Obama and his national security team with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security team member Audrey Tomason photoshopped out. The Jewish Week subsequently suggested the photograph had been altered because including women in photographs "could be considered sexually suggestive."

Sigh. We've had a lot of fun with Photoshop since the White House first uploaded the "Situation Room" image to its Flickr account on May 2, complete with this disclaimer: "The Photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House." Yeah, good luck with that White House. By May 4, the now-iconic image showing President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of...

President Barack Obama and other administration officials are considering releasing a photo of Osama bin Laden's corpse on Tuesday, according to a report. Also being considered for release are videos from "helmet cams" of the Navy SEALS elite team that carried out the operation in a town just north of Islamabad, Pakistan, ABC News reported. The troops captured the mission on tape wearing the helmet cameras. "We are looking at releasing additional information, details about the raid as well as any other types of material, possibly including photos. We want to understand exactly what the possible reaction might be to...

Just announced. Obama to speak in 45 minutes. (6:45 AM PST)

If you import the original le from the White House in to Illustrator you will see the image is a clipping mask, meaning they were merged together. The next three pages show the individual pieces. If this were just a scan then why would it be able to be taken apart liket his? Why does the type-writer font look so digitized? Look at the di erence between the two signatures. One looks like it was written on the computer while the other looks like it was actually signed by hand on the document.

<p>Drudge, Breaking NOW: Obama to show long form birth certificate!</p>

Why did Newsweek remove Barack Obama photos? Why would someone photoshop a young Barack Obama into a photo of his grandparents sitting on a bench in Central Park? A photo that appeared in New Yorker editor David Remnick’s Obama bio, ‘The Bridge’.