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What Will the Presidential Candidates Look Like in Four Years?

What Will the Candidates Look Like in 4 Years

Being president of the United States certainly takes its toll on the body -- just look at the before and after photos of our current president. In 2000, George Bush was a young, energetic looking CEO type, with more pepper than salt in his hair, whereas now he just looks tired and haggard.

PopPhoto took it upon itself to find out what four years of the presidency would do to the top three competitors for the office. Adobe's PhotoShop was used to add gray hair (or, in the case of McCain, removed hair), deepen wrinkles, and add age spots.

The photo wizards at PopPhoto have done an amazing, if heavy handed, job rendering the candidates. Check the read link to see a haggard Hillary, and a seasoned Obama, or just stare at the image of McCain above as a member of the army of the un-dead. Or, you can just see how bad these three contenders look in HDTV now. [Source: PopPhoto, Via: Machinist]

Hands-On With Adobe's New Free, Web-Based Photoshop Express



Today, Adobe launched a beta version of Photoshop Express. Aimed at anyone who wants to do quick edits of pictures, this new flash-based version of Photoshop is totally free and runs right in your Web browser -- perfect for anyone who doesn't want to clog up their computer with a full program installation or drop hundreds of dollars on the regular version of Photoshop. The service also allows you to manage and share photo galleries with friends and family with at very own yourname.photoshop.com.

Photoshop Express gives you 2 gigabytes of online storage, and allows you to connect, edit and share your photos directly with Picasa, Photobucket and Facebook. We gave it a quick spin today and are impressed with the program's slick, clean, and easy-to-use interface, but this is definitely not a Photoshop replacement. While you can clean up your pictures and easily share them with friends, you won't be able to "photoshop" images like this.

That said, Express lets you make a range of basic photo edits -- red-eye correction, exposure changes, cropping and more -- that will be more than enough for most non-professional photographers. Also, we were impressed with the app's speed, especially considering the Web-based nature of the site. Ready to try it out? Sign up here.

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Police Accused of Altering Photos to Incriminate Terror Suspect



Even the police are getting pretty good at Photoshop. Which is becoming something of a problem.

The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom have been accused of manipulating a photo of Jean Charles de Menezes -- who was shot dead after being falsely identified as one of the men who targeted London's underground tube train -- so it could be more easily likened to one of the actual plotters.

Prosecutors are saying the image had been "stretched and sized" to form a composite image of de Menezes (who is Brazilian) and and one of the bombers, Hussain Osman. The Metropolitan Police denies any wrongdoing, saying the composite picture was created to illustrate the difficulties officers would have had in differentiating between the two men.

The 27 year-old de Menezes was shot seven times in the head on a train at London's Stockwell Tube station, in July of 2005.

From the BBC

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Worst Airbrushed Celebs of 2007 ... So Far

Worst Airbrushed Celebs of 2007: Faith Hill

Believe it or not, celebrities are fat and zitty like the rest of us -- they just happen to have a secret weapon to fight flab and flaws that we mere mortals don't. We're talking about airbrushing, of course.

For those unfamiliar with the practice, airbrushing (aka Photoshopping, aka retouching) is when a photo is digitally manipulated to make the subject look better. That includes everything from magically erasing pimples to instantly shaving off a few pounds. The practice is so common, you can just about assume that any posed photo you see in a magazine has been altered in one way or another.

As you can imagine, airbrushing is not without its critics who argue that the practice is harmful to real people because it creates an unattainable ideal of beauty -- particularly for women. For example, this past July, the women's magazine Redbook came under fire when the above un-retouched cover photo of Faith Hill surfaced. And just this week, TMZ called out Jodi Foster for her suspiciously youthful appearance on the cover of this month's California Style magazine.

Yes, 2007 has already provided lots of airbrushing hubbub, and as you'll see not all of it surrounds female photo subjects. In fact, it's not just TV, movie and music stars, either -- politicians and athletes are having digital work done too. Keep reading to uncover the truth.


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