Real News Images That Are Photoshopped!

We have seen lots of photos on the internet, there are even articles about photos you will not believe are not Photoshopped.

So here are some that were, and are still in the news and they are definitely Photoshopped.

Agence France-Presse, the news agency, has been hurriedly informing its clients that it looks as if photographs of Iran's missile launch released by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were faked.

Here's the image that appeared in news outlets around the world:

And here's the image that's said to be the original, as published by Iranian daily jamejam:

It looks as if the additional missile was photoshopped in to hide a rocket that misfired. Whoops!

Don't be surprised, this has been going on for a long time

For example

1860: This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and the Southern politician John Calhoun's body.

Putting the date of this image into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1881.

April 2003: This digital composite of a British soldier in Basra, gesturing to Iraqi civilians urging them to seek cover, appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times shortly after the U.S. led invasion of Iraq.

Brian Walski, a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times and a 30-year veteran of the news business, was fired after his editors discovered that he had combined two of his photographs to "improve" the composition

March 2004: This political ad for George W. Bush, as he was running for President, shows a sea of soldiers as a back drop to a child holding a flag. This image was digitally doctored by copying and pasting.

From this original photograph, several soldiers to digitally remove Bush from a podium. After acknowledging that the photo had been doctored, the Bush campaign said that the ad would be re-edited and re-shipped to TV stations.

July 2008: This photo of Britian's Prince William appeared on the pages of The Sun. A person in the back of the boat was digitally removed from this photo (except for their knee).

The Metro ran the unaltered photo, as did the on-line version of The Sun.

In 2006 the news agency Reuters had to withdraw the sale of 920 pictures taken by a photographer after finding he had doctored two images taken in Lebanon. (We are not sure how they spotted the alterations)

Bloggers first spotted that smoke on Adnan Hajj's image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike in Beirut appeared to have been made darker.

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Come on you photoshopping news people, at least put a little effort into the fakes.

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