With the end of the decade quickly approaching, I decided to look back at the year in Photoshop and take stock.
While Photoshop has made great strides since version 5.5 – there were no healing tools and adjustment layers in sight, but we did get ImageReady and save for web. Soon after, we got Liquify and vector shapes (2000); Camera Raw (2002); new filters and adjustments; Smart Objects (2005) and more.
However, while Photoshop managed to make the news more than a few times in the past decade, it usually wasn’t for the advancement of the app. It was usually for some trickery by a devious person using our favorite app.
Here is my favorite fakes from the past 10 years. Keep in mind, these are not “Oops” these were distributed with all seriousness.
Anyone remember the fake 9/11 tourist guy?
Or how about the Reuters News Service image from Beirut? (Please tell me you can see the cloned smoke)
Or the fact that Iran only fired three missiles instead of four, or as Jon Stewart called it “The Photoshop of War”…
Or China’s News Service giving us a fake Kim Jong Il? (Check out his shadow)
Or their attempt at making Bejing look like a “Green City” with the addition of cloned birds…
Microsoft decided to go with another person in the Polish version of this ad, but didn’t even change the hand/body?
But my all time favorite has to be the attempt by magazines to make celebrities look gorgeous instead of natural…
