> Massive "End the Occupation" Protest in Baghdad Dwarfs the "Saddam Toppled" rally: Photos
14 April 2005, 15:43
I work with Photoshop daily as a graphic artist and have manipulated quite a few images for my own mischievious ends and I’m curious as to which picture you are referring to. If you are talking about the wavy areas of the photos around high contrast areas, this is because the images are jpegs and low quality and the way a jpeg compresses information sometimes causes this effect and you will see this on positively undoctored jpegs as well. I think the photo depicting the cutouts of Bush looks a little suspicious because in the one at an angle in the very back the white border of the sign has the same thickness as the front signs which could indicate either a foam sign or possible manipulation of the image, plus I don’t exactly see any protestors just signs. The last image of protestors holding signs show highlights on the paper and appropriate curvature and wrinkles and distortions of text you wouldn’t see with a photoshop job plus the front sign looks like someone ran out of printer ink while they were making it, something that would be extremely difficult to recreate in Photoshop.
Because the images are low quality jpegs, it is really hard to say though. It’s pretty easy to pass off what you don’t agree with as being doctored if you have a political agenda, though the one I agree does look suspicious. I don’t think it out of the realm of possibility that people in Iraq are protesting our occupation, or that our media would rabidly go after sensless yellow stories and ignore a protest in another country.
I work with Photoshop daily as a graphic artist and have manipulated quite a few images for my own mischievious ends and I’m curious as to which picture you are referring to. If you are talking about the wavy areas of the photos around high contrast areas, this is because the images are jpegs and low quality and the way a jpeg compresses information sometimes causes this effect and you will see this on positively undoctored jpegs as well. I think the photo depicting the cutouts of Bush looks a little suspicious because in the one at an angle in the very back the white border of the sign has the same thickness as the front signs which could indicate either a foam sign or possible manipulation of the image, plus I don’t exactly see any protestors just signs. The last image of protestors holding signs show highlights on the paper and appropriate curvature and wrinkles and distortions of text you wouldn’t see with a photoshop job plus the front sign looks like someone ran out of printer ink while they were making it, something that would be extremely difficult to recreate in Photoshop.
Because the images are low quality jpegs, it is really hard to say though. It’s pretty easy to pass off what you don’t agree with as being doctored if you have a political agenda, though the one I agree does look suspicious. I don’t think it out of the realm of possibility that people in Iraq are protesting our occupation, or that our media would rabidly go after sensless yellow stories and ignore a protest in another country.
Let the viewer beware I guess.