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G3K
08-08-2003
11:40 PM ET (US)
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Looks like you forgot your /i, mate.
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msp  08-08-2003
12:39 PM ET (US)
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re: yesno's comment
there are apps/key combos depending on your system and software to grab just the contents of a window/component, etc and not have any of the other boundaries, borders, and other GUI related crap, etc etc.
plus, a screen grab can be cropped afterwards. looks like rush job.
m.
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meg
08-08-2003
08:06 AM ET (US)
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It was photoshopped -- the shadows are all wrong. There is a person behind the big white guy whose arm should be shadowed for the man's shadow to appear on the car, for example. Several more shadows are incorrect.
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yesno 08-07-2003
10:28 PM ET (US)
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Wouldn't any screen grab of an image that wasn't full screen with no background require quite a bit a chopping to make useful? I mean, wouldn't you have to either cut out a lot of black background or lots of window borders, etc?
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maf 08-07-2003
05:59 PM ET (US)
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Lintilla is right. This is just the result of someone clueless at Photoshop resizing the image by doing a screen grab at a certain zoom, then converting the grab to JPEG.
For a lot of reasons, they should have used "Save for Web..." instead.
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jonnyx
08-07-2003
03:51 PM ET (US)
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at least it looks like they are using a mac:)
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RodMcGuire 08-07-2003
03:47 PM ET (US)
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usually it is considered a "legiimate" alteration to blur a license plate which was my first impression of what the cursor was doing.
Even if this changes the *facts* in the picture.
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cypherpunks 08-07-2003
03:36 PM ET (US)
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There's *tons* of stuff that's legitimate for news photographers to do in photoshop. Cropping's one, yep -- but also fixing color balance that's off, bringing out contrast, sharpening -- roughly, everything a photographer used to do in a darkroom.
What you can't do is change the *facts* in the picture.
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Scott
08-07-2003
03:03 PM ET (US)
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I always crop my pictures in Photoshop. Cropping is a widely accepted form of image alteration. I don't think any news organization would have a problem with a cropped image. This is nothing new and is certainly not newsworthy. Edited 08-07-2003 03:03 PM
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ernie 08-07-2003
01:30 PM ET (US)
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So this 'war' we've been hearing about never even happened?
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Joe
08-07-2003
01:10 PM ET (US)
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Or you could learn to spell.
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scotty1 08-07-2003
01:06 PM ET (US)
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In my opinion, the NYT isn't trying to report the news. The seem to be on a social agenda.
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scorched
08-07-2003
12:48 PM ET (US)
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from my coworker: "maybe some geek just targeted the car with a UAV"
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LKM
08-07-2003
12:46 PM ET (US)
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Yeah, this has got *nothing* to do with Photoshop. It's *not* a "Photoshop artifact". The picture probably wasn't substantially altered. It's just a screenshot. Now why they took a screenshot we'll never know, but it's definitely not some kind of hint that the picture was altered.
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Lintilla
08-07-2003
12:42 PM ET (US)
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Very easy to deduce what happened here.
Lots of people don't have a clue how to save a Photoshop image in a resolution suitable for the web. The solution if you don't want to spend five minutes once and for all learning the fundamentals of electronically reproduced images is to make a screenshot when you've got it displayed at the right size...
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Stefan Jones 08-07-2003
12:32 PM ET (US)
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You're ignoring another possibility: The car had an arrow-shaped sticker up front that just happened to be facing the photographer square-on.
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