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Photoshopping Culture

Photoshopping Culture. By Leanne Niven. Definition. The term photoshopping has been appropriated from Adobe’s image editing software Photoshop, and has come to mean any digital altering of a photograph or image. History.

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Photoshopping Culture

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  1. Photoshopping Culture By Leanne Niven

  2. Definition • The term photoshopping has been appropriated from Adobe’s image editing software Photoshop, and has come to mean any digital altering of a photograph or image

  3. History • When most people think of photoshopping they think of images being retouched to make people in magazines look better – like these pictures of Minnie Driver.

  4. Circa 1860 It all started way before digital cameras around 1860 with a portrait of US President Abraham Lincoln. In a lithograph his head was combined with the body of John Calhoun, a Southern politician.

  5. Circa 1930 • Stalin often air-brushed his enemies out of photographs. In this photo a commissar had fallen out of favour and been removed.

  6. 1942 • Mussolini thought he looked more heroic without the horse handler in the photograph

  7. 21st Century Hoaxes Then the internet came along and things started to get interesting. This photo was sent out as an email hoax purporting to be National Geographic’s Photo of the Year. It was a combination of a photo of a helicopter taken in front of the Golden Gate bridge and a photo of a shark taken in South Africa.

  8. Photoshopping Culture • Photoshopping has morphed into a culture of the absurd, with the goal of entertainment. “Photoshopping is an extremely effective way of making an astute observation, or just making people laugh for the sheer hell of it.”(Manic, 2009) • In this culture, photo manipulation is widely seen as an art form. People who can’t paint or draw can create by remixing. • A ‘meme’ is an infectious and contagious idea that tickles the funny bone and takes off. • Most, but not all, photoshopping images employ humour.

  9. Photoshopping as an art form

  10. Bert is Evil • Bert is Evil is a photoshopping meme that involves superimposing the Sesame Street character Bert into photos in an attempt to ‘prove’ him evil. • Bert is Evil originally began as a website founded by Dino Ignacio in 1998 • As it gained in popularity he could no longer maintain it and offered it to anyone who could. • Lots of sites jumped on the bandwagon, further boosting the meme’s popularity. • Following are some examples of the Bert is Evil meme.

  11. Bert with Hitler

  12. Bert with Saddam Hussein

  13. Bert with Osama bin Laden

  14. The Bert is Evil phenomenon reached it’s height in 2001 when a news photograph of a Bangladeshi protester holding a poster of Bert and Osama bin Laden began appearing on the Internet

  15. 2001 This photo started off as a hoax. The hoax was seen to be in such poor taste that it started a subversive form of humour.

  16. And the fun began The Tourist of Death began to be seen at the scene of many and varied disasters

  17. The Hindenburg

  18. The Titanic

  19. In various movies Speed

  20. The Matrix

  21. and Independence Day The destruction of the White House by aliens

  22. Disaster Girl Disaster girl started in October 2004 when Dave Roth took a photo of a fire training session with his daughter smiling devilishly in the foreground. It took off in 2007 when it was published in a magazine competition.

  23. She was soon popping up everywhere She was seen at the scene of the Titanic.

  24. The US Air disaster

  25. And with the Tourist of Death

  26. Examples of popular memes • The following slides show some memes from 2011. The original photo is shown and then an example of a popular take on the original.

  27. This little flower girl was so obviously NOT impressed with being on the balcony at William and Kate's wedding

  28. An adaptation

  29. The Situation Room • After getting briefed on the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, the upper crust of the American government then got the royal treatment from Internet photoshoppers.

  30. Just add popcorn

  31. Vancouver Riots Kissing Couple • This popular photo gave some inspiration

  32. Added to the Tank guy photo

  33. Competitions • Photoshopping competitions are regularly held on sites such as Worth1000.com and Fark.com like this Celebrity Caricatures

  34. Photoshopping as social commentary • Rupert Murdochisn't a politician. He just owns most of them. • Saddam Hussein is was a politician: He is was our friend.

  35. BP logo Turtle

  36. Conclusion • To conclude, photoshopping allows people to create art forms, enter competitions, become part of an online meme, and comment on social and political phenomena. • Whenever the world is getting too grim or serious, or an organisation tries to get away with something, a photoshopper will take the micky out of the situation.

  37. References • http://www.worth1000.com/contests/28532/pinocchio-20 • http://www.chilloutpoint.com/art_and_design/16-famous-photoshopped-images-throughout-history.html • http://www.greaterthings.com/News/911/Tourist/ • http://www.touristofdeath.com/ • http://www.mamapop.com/2011/12/kristines-best-of-2011-photoshop-memes • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_manipulation • http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bert-is-evil • http://www.fark.com/ • http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history • http://www.bloggerheads.com/photoshopping/photoshopping_politicians.htm

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