Thursday, August 07, 2008
Photoshopping
Bob Innes has a very good point. Have the Assembly Government been photoshopping photographs on their website?This photograph used to include Rhodri Glyn Thomas on the right handside but he has been cropped out.
Somebody has obviously taken George Orwell's 1984 home for their summer reading. The Ministry of Truth lives on in the Welsh Government.
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couple of points:
1) Cropping someone out of a photo of the Cabinet who isn't actually in the Cabinet doesn't really count as "Photoshopping". For that, they would have had to paste Alun Ffred's head on Rhodri Glyn's body.
2) I'd rather my government did that than go to the expense of getting everyone back together, hiring a photographer, and posing for a new photo. Although I'm sure they will.
3) You're not allowed to say "photoshopping". You should say "that photo has been edited using Adobe® Photoshop® software". You're a politician, you must be politically correct ;)
To quote Adobe's legal department:
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The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form, or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product, and should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate these rules:
Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
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1) Cropping someone out of a photo of the Cabinet who isn't actually in the Cabinet doesn't really count as "Photoshopping". For that, they would have had to paste Alun Ffred's head on Rhodri Glyn's body.
2) I'd rather my government did that than go to the expense of getting everyone back together, hiring a photographer, and posing for a new photo. Although I'm sure they will.
3) You're not allowed to say "photoshopping". You should say "that photo has been edited using Adobe® Photoshop® software". You're a politician, you must be politically correct ;)
To quote Adobe's legal department:
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The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form, or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product, and should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate these rules:
Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
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Shrek and Donkey was "photoshoped" on their election literature during the May Elections
# posted by 
: 9:52 AM
: 9:52 AM
Never mind "photoshopping". How about the images we see of Rhodri Morgan and Ieuan Wyn Jones on our TV news? Whenever they are together their "body language" says it all - just as it did with Prince Charles and Lady Diana before they split up. They cannot look each other in the face let alone the eye. Am I imagining things. I'm not an expert on such matters. What do the rest of you Blog commentators and you Peter think of this relationship from its body language?
Looking at the photo you have to say What has poor Wales done to deserve this lot
# posted by : 12:04 PM
: 12:04 PM
Is it any coincidence they have positioned Jane Hutt at the other end of the photo! Just ripe for the next round of editing using Adobe® Photoshop® software, or cropping to be more honest.
# posted by : 1:20 PM
: 1:20 PM
I take it you're willing to condemn the clearly photoshopped picture the Lib Dems are using in Wrexham in their current post office campaign then? The photoshop job is so poor they've got text over two pages of a petition on a clipboard!
I know you'll claim you haven't seen it. so to make sure, it can be seen on page 8 of this week's Wrexham Chronicle e-edition http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/wrexham-chronicle/wrexham-e-edition/
Or is such chicanery OK when Lib Dems do it?
I know you'll claim you haven't seen it. so to make sure, it can be seen on page 8 of this week's Wrexham Chronicle e-edition http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/wrexham-chronicle/wrexham-e-edition/
Or is such chicanery OK when Lib Dems do it?
# posted by : 10:12 PM
: 10:12 PM
No I don't approve of that sort of photoshopping but then this post was never about the manipulation of photographs. As the reference to 1984 makes clear it is about the re-writing of history so as to remove key individuals. It was Winston Smith's job.
Aled - are you sure about that???Having looked at the photograph in question, none of that lot look capable of even switching a computer on, never mind using Photoshop! The day centre must have been closed that day.
# posted by : 11:53 AM
: 11:53 AM
They sure need some air brushing if not photoshopping
They look like the staff at Arkwrights
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They look like the staff at Arkwrights
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