View Full Version : Image resizing and manipulation - a new technique


Greybeard
30-08-2007, 08:14
Looks like we'll never again be able to trust our eyes...or those who present us with 'photographic evidence'.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/08/27/images_resized_just_how_youd_like.html

Watch the video, - and wonder where this will leave the credibilty of digital images.

jezzyjj
30-08-2007, 09:52
Uh, retouching is not an invention of the digital age. It's been going on for years. A lot of years.
http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm
Look at the other links on right for more examples of Stalin's airbrushing.

jezzyjj
30-08-2007, 10:45
Though the power of this tool is really quite astonishing. I can't wait for the Photoshop plugin! :hihi:
Though, I don't like the way they demonstrate how the tool changes images when then are stretched or squished, rather than simply resized proportionally as that completely screws up composition, not to mention completely distorting what a scene looked like. You can tell that this [pointless] use was done by a straight science/no art whatsover type of guy.
Still, some very clever thinking behind the method.

Though I've seen Photoshop demos which look really impressive and then back in the real world, those tools don't work quite so well or easily as the very carefully chosen images used by Adobe to sell their product.

Ghozer
30-08-2007, 11:45
holy cow.. thats a nice technique... thats similar to how they time stretch (or shrink) audio,,,,