Tag: PHOTOSHOP

What President Obama calls a "distraction," British artist David Hockney considers his new canvas. Those unfamiliar with Hockney's work may know that he was an early, vocal supporter of the iPhone, simply for the reason that he could use the touchscreen interface to make drawings on the go. (Hockney is no stranger to computer-generated art, as he has been creating larger works with drawing ...

We at Switched know a lot about the pitfalls of trying to extract a clear image from grainy, wobbly or otherwise substandard video (i.e. every single one of our YouTube screencaps). Even as high definition cameras become more and more commonplace, pulling clear stills from those videos can prove difficult, but Microsoft may have a nifty solution. Microsoft researcher Neel Joshi showed off some ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The endless remixing of 'Pong' and Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death continues with these 8-bit video game and BSOD belt buckles. [From: BoingBoing] Photoshop nerds ...

Imagine if the seemingly endless capabilities of 'Photoshop' could be applied to something other than digital imagery. A new video by Maya Rota Klein indulges in that fantasy, making a canvas out of her kitchen counter. 'Adobe Photoshop Cook' is an adorable stop-motion flight of fancy, in which ingredients can be pulled from a series of swatches -- as easily as RGB colors. Klein does make some ...

Oh, Grey Lady -- when will you take the spoon out of the back of your throat? Once again, the New York Times has demonstrated a fear of fatties, doing no great service to its legacy of elitism and making the rest of America think that New Yorkers are shallow, weight-obsessed socialists. The paper has raised several eyebrows over the past year due to its weightist snark, and it's apparently not ...

Before most of us learned to use Photoshop, we fooled around with MS Paint or similar primitive drawing programs. We moved on to bigger and snazzier ones because they could do more for us, and we were able to produce more "sophisticated" graphics. How could the paint bucket tool ever create a dynamic image? (Tell that to any number of classical artists who, like the over-hyped Leonardo Da Vinci, ...

If you've been following some of the more banal Internet goings on over the past few months, you've probably heard about the Demi Moore W Magazine Photoshop fiasco. To refresh your memory, Moore appeared on the cover of the December issue with what appeared to be a chunk of her hip entirely missing from the photo. Many assumed it was an attempt to slenderize the actress. Boing Boing published ...

As soon as we saw this 8-bit piece of love, we had to pause our regular reportage of laser-etched fruit and robot fish to simply stop and gush like the Cute-Overload-reading, pre-teen, Japanese girls that we all carry inside of us. Really, how freakin' adorable is this? Illustrator Carla Berrocal designed the wedding invitation for the Chilean computer scientist couple of Luis Diaz Santis and ...

Ever wonder what the Net-addicted masses would do if the Web suddenly disappeared? So has Cracked, which enlisted its readers in a contest to create Photoshopped images of what a world without the Internet might look like. We don't want to ruin all the surprises, but highlights include: a theater full of people watching a live performance from an adorable cat; a resurrected Virgin Records ...

With over 2,000 children reported missing every day, police authorities have had to develop new techniques to more effectively disseminate information about those who disappear. Among the most basic and traditional techniques, of course, is distributing a simple photo across everything from milk cartons to post offices. The terrain becomes trickier, though, when a child goes missing for several ...

Photoshop allows tech-savvy folks to effortlessly manipulate and create their own fantastic, funny, and sometimes offensive images, but mastering the expensive software can be incredibly tricky (and time-consuming). Seamlessly integrating different images into one realistic picture is nearly impossible, even for the experts. A group of Chinese computer science students, though, has created an ...

Enjoying films and video games often requires a suspension of disbelief on the part of the viewer or gamer. Sometimes, though, the material is so absurd and unrealistic that forgiving the inconsistencies becomes impossible. Because of those distorted portrayals, the jokesters at Cracked recently hosted a Photoshop contest, just to see "what would happen if video game makers started adding a ...

In France, where the premium on beauty and image is high as can be, a newly proposed law may be the first hint of a movement against the unabashed vanity which has become its trademark. French lawmakers, concerned about the adverse effects that images of digitally-enhanced celebrities may have on the country's collective body image issues, have introduced a law that would require airbrushed ...

This morning, we relayed an Engadget report about Microsoft Poland's embarrassing Photoshop hack-job on an ad featuring three business people sitting at a conference table. The Photoshop fiasco was immediately met with heated criticism, specifically because the photo manipulators replaced the head of the black man, who appeared whole in the U.S. ad, with the head of a white man. MSNBC is ...

The rise of the Internet has certainly not been kind to the New York Times. While the paper still leads the way among Pulitzer-winning publications, the Times has also been racking up a plagiarism charge or two. Scandals involving fabricated stories, Pulitzer winners taking credit for others' work, writers ripping off other papers, and even a recent incident in which a writer lifted a blog ...