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Post by spinno on Mar 13, 2024 18:25:54 GMT
I didn't see any Austin cars A reference which is an oldie but goodie.  It was tempting to involve an Ambassador but I didn't want to cause a diplomatic incident.... |
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Post by andy on Mar 13, 2024 20:07:56 GMT
In dubious taste Private Eye have edited Prince Andrew into the photograph. Ah, but is he inappropriately touching a princess?  |
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Post by Chester PB on Mar 14, 2024 15:48:23 GMT
It is stupid that it has become a national/ international news item it’s a bloody photo But it's not just a 'bloody photo'. It's a (badly) manipulated image, and the two should not be confused. In this case the culprit was caught, and happened to be a minor royal so the revelation is exciting news to some people.
Perhaps the best advice about the use of software to manipulate images like this is 'if in doubt, don't'. If she wanted to change some things, the obvious candidates must be some of the teeth on display. |
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Post by don on Mar 17, 2024 13:20:21 GMT
It is stupid that it has become a national/ international news item it’s a bloody photo But it's not just a 'bloody photo'. It's a (badly) manipulated image, and the two should not be confused. In this case the culprit was caught, and happened to be a minor royal so the revelation is exciting news to some people.
Perhaps the best advice about the use of software to manipulate images like this is 'if in doubt, don't'. If she wanted to change some things, the obvious candidates must be some of the teeth on display. I’ve not actually looked at the image but I know what you mean about teeth! I watched a tv show recently and one women’s teeth glared off the screen at you. She spoiled the show for me because I didn’t know where to look when she was on. Teeth seem to have gotten the in thing. Maybe it’s because the dentist charge so much money to make people look stupid with big whiter than white toothy grins. To me it looks so false. |
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Post by Chester PB on Mar 17, 2024 16:30:32 GMT
But it's not just a 'bloody photo'. It's a (badly) manipulated image, and the two should not be confused. In this case the culprit was caught, and happened to be a minor royal so the revelation is exciting news to some people.
Perhaps the best advice about the use of software to manipulate images like this is 'if in doubt, don't'. If she wanted to change some things, the obvious candidates must be some of the teeth on display. I’ve not actually looked at the image but I know what you mean about teeth! I watched a tv show recently and one women’s teeth glared off the screen at you. She spoiled the show for me because I didn’t know where to look when she was on. Teeth seem to have gotten the in thing. Maybe it’s because the dentist charge so much money to make people look stupid with big whiter than white toothy grins. To me it looks so false. Everything in the image looks false - if I had been told that it was created entirely by software I would not have been surprised. Many 'celebrity' portraits used in the media have this 'plastic barbie-doll' skin tone, which perhaps shows us how the subjects want to look. Sadly, when AP has one of its regular portrait articles, after 'post processing' many of the subjects look like this too. |
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Post by don on Mar 18, 2024 11:11:56 GMT
I find it strange that no one has had anything good to say about the future Queen using photography as a way of saving memories of her children? 🙁
We are I hope all promoting photography yet everyone is tearing into Kate for trying to use a program that i refuse to entertain as it is to stupidly dumb. So here I go on record as saying “Well done Kate” and Boo to all those detractors
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Post by geoffr on Mar 18, 2024 11:15:41 GMT
I find it strange that no one has had anything good to say about the future Queen using photography as a way of saving memories of her children? 🙁 We are I hope all promoting photography yet everyone is tearing into Kate for trying to use a program that i refuse to entertain as it is to stupidly dumb. So here I go on record as saying “Well done Kate” and Boo to all those detractors I agree |
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Post by don on Mar 18, 2024 11:36:28 GMT
I find it strange that no one has had anything good to say about the future Queen using photography as a way of saving memories of her children? 🙁 We are I hope all promoting photography yet everyone is tearing into Kate for trying to use a program that i refuse to entertain as it is to stupidly dumb. So here I go on record as saying “Well done Kate” and Boo to all those detractors I agree Thank you geoffr I wonder if anyone else will or would they rather denigrate Kate for using an image manipulation program. #life’stooshorttolearnPhotoshop |
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Post by willien on Mar 18, 2024 11:42:08 GMT
I do not give a crap either way.
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Post by spinno on Mar 18, 2024 12:01:55 GMT
If the photo hadn't been handed out nobody would have cared. Always be aware of self promotion.
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Post by mick on Mar 18, 2024 12:17:32 GMT
I find it strange that no one has had anything good to say about the future Queen using photography as a way of saving memories of her children? 🙁 We are I hope all promoting photography yet everyone is tearing into Kate for trying to use a program that i refuse to entertain as it is to stupidly dumb. So here I go on record as saying “Well done Kate” and Boo to all those detractors Stupidly dumb? What a very strange description of what is almost certainly the most sophisticated photo manipulation package available.
Have you used it? Do you know it? If you do, please will you tell me how to magnify the 'command line' without affecting anything else.
Mick
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Post by geoffr on Mar 18, 2024 13:25:40 GMT
I find it strange that no one has had anything good to say about the future Queen using photography as a way of saving memories of her children? 🙁 We are I hope all promoting photography yet everyone is tearing into Kate for trying to use a program that i refuse to entertain as it is to stupidly dumb. So here I go on record as saying “Well done Kate” and Boo to all those detractors Stupidly dumb? What a very strange description of what is almost certainly the most sophisticated photo manipulation package available.
Have you used it? Do you know it? If you do, please will you tell me how to magnify the 'command line' without affecting anything else.
Mick
Photoshop is MASSIVELY over specified for the vast majority of users but it has that cachet of being the best. It probably is the best but not necessarily the best for everybody. |
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Post by mick on Mar 18, 2024 14:13:45 GMT
I do not give a crap either way. Neither do I, but you need to remember that the denizens of this forum are atypical. A great many people love seeing pictures of the Royals and thirst for their family photos. The 'meeja' go crazy for such snaps. If Kate wants to spare her kids the hounding of the press pack by supplying her own pictures, then I don't blame her.
It doesn't matter if they don't meet our standards. If they are good enough to publish then that's all that's needed.
Mick
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Post by mick on Mar 18, 2024 14:16:19 GMT
Stupidly dumb? What a very strange description of what is almost certainly the most sophisticated photo manipulation package available.
Have you used it? Do you know it? If you do, please will you tell me how to magnify the 'command line' without affecting anything else.
Mick
Photoshop is MASSIVELY over specified for the vast majority of users but it has that cachet of being the best. It probably is the best but not necessarily the best for everybody. That's true for the average amateur, but I believe that the target user is actually the pro graphic artist. Maybe it's not OTT for them - I wouldn't know.
Mick
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Post by willien on Mar 18, 2024 14:25:36 GMT
Photoshop is MASSIVELY over specified for the vast majority of users but it has that cachet of being the best. It probably is the best but not necessarily the best for everybody. That's true for the average amateur, but I believe that the target user is actually the pro graphic artist. Maybe it's not OTT for them - I wouldn't know.
Mick
Problem for me is Adobe uses the average amateur user to subsidise the development of functions he/she will never use making it IMO commercially non viable. Complete and utter rip off for most people. |
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