Vanity Fair's Photo Finagling

The Smoking Gun...Vanity Fair ^ | FEBRUARY 2

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The photo on the far right is a distinct improvement.

[PsyOp]

In the old Soviet Union, commies that fell out of favor were removed from photos. It only makes sense to add faithful commies to reunion photos.

One can only imagine what the KGB could have accomplished with Photoshop.

[PsyOp]

She only wishes she looked that good. LOL!

[Redcloak]

The lack of barrel distortion in Arnett's image is a dead give-away.

The scene was shot with a wide angle lens. It has what's called "barrel distortion". (As opposed to pincushion distortion.) Distortion in an image is defined as mapping errors between the object and the image. A rectangle in the object space should map to the image space as a rectangle. When its edges bow outward, as the do with a wide angle lens, the image has barrel distortion. If they bow inward, it's pincushion distortion. Arnett, if he were really there, can be thought of as the edge of that rectangle. He should appear bowed outward, just as the fellow on the other side of the scene is. Instead, his image is mapped out along a vertical line.

So, unless Arnett was feeling particularly swishy that night, there's no way he could have been present for the photo.

[george76]

"unless Arnett was feeling particularly swishy that night..."

Isn't Arnett always swishy ?

[butternut_squash_bisque]

ROFL! LMAO! I've got my lunch (boiled chicken pot pie) on my monitor! Best laugh I've had all week!

[Redcloak]

I meant more than usual.

[Grampa Dave]

"I knew it was fake the minute I didn't see Jane Fonda and Effin Kerry."



Thanks for the best laugh of the day!

[Grampa Dave]

"The picture was taken at night. I don't see high contrast shadows like you would with flash photograpy. I would'nt be suprized if Peter wasn't the only on photoshopped."

The whole picture looks like it has been photoshopped to put in a lot of people. It looks like a shot in a cheap movie where an actor or actors is or standing in front of a large photo or image of mountains or some other scene.

[Criminal Number 18F]

CBS just got caught doing the same thing. They were running one of their periodic ultra-lib "it's awful they put this fine young criminal in prison, when he should be out voting for Democrats with us" stories. They showed the front page of a newspaper with the guy's picture, but they photoshopped his orange Dr Denton Felon Special Jumpsuit into a suit and tie.

http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002074141&imw=Y

I realize that will surprise everyone who expects CBS to set the standard in forthright... I'm sorry, I can't continue, I'm all choked up.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Seadog Bytes]

...'photoshoping' ping

[grey_whiskers]

Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April.

Anti-Arnett Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

I read this sentence too quickly and almost got my hopes up. ;-)

[The Right Stuff]

I remember an issue of "Bazaar" which I did a column on, relabelling it "Bizarre". The issue had an article written by a woman who had an incestuous relationship with her father - written approvingly, or course. No word on what the mother thought.

[wardaddy]

it is amazing isn't it?

fembot rags keeping the sistas down.....for advertising dollars..lol

[Dan(9698)]

You can save anything you see on the screen.

Press Print Screen key. That puts the screen on the clip board.

Start MS Paint, then past from the clip board. (click on edit, then paste.)

You then can use the tools to cut out what you want to save.

(outline what you want, and click on edit, then cut.)

Click on file, and start a new page. You can then paste again and only the cut part will be there.

Save it under a name you can remember. (it saves as a .BMP or bitmap file.)

You can then open it with Photo shop, or another photo program. Then save it as a .JPG, which is the most common photo file on the Internet.

[Fintan]

Well, at least they didn't have Arnett nude on the cover.

[george76]

Some people we do not want to see nude, ever.

[the invisib1e hand]

didn't they come out and say he was "outside the photograph" and that's why it was OK to add him in later?

outside, indeed.

[the invisib1e hand]

CBS just got caught doing the same thing.

well, what to say about this...it's like, "the straw" for me. You know, the one that might cause me launch off on a tirade about the children of the sixties now running the world...the childred on moral relativity...the Generation of Fraud...if this is their world, what will the world of their children be like...

but I'm not gonna go there...

[LibertarianInExile]

Martin, have you considered sending this to Helen so she can use it as a publicity still? It's the best photo I've seen of her yet!