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Will You Use the New Photoshop App?
There's no shortage of photo editing software programs or cool iPhone camera apps, but Photoshop is arguably one of the best around. The free (yes, free!) app lets you perform basic photo editing tasks: crop and rotate, adjust colors, add tint or switch to black and white, and add filters or effects like vignette blur and warm vintage. Creating an account on photoshop.com and store up to 2G of photos that you can access anytime straight from your phone.
SNL Gets Into Software Spoofing With Sir Mix-a-Lot's Photo Shop
This weekend's SNL satirized Facebook and the Wii, but my favorite skit was Sir Mix A Lot's new endeavor — his Photo Shop, where they retouch photos to enlarge womens' assets, because as he said, he "may have stopped making hits, but I never stopped liking big butts!"
Busted! Calling Out Photoshop on the Streets
What should we do as a society to combat unrealistic images of celebrities due to the widespread use of Photoshop? Rant and rave on a blog? Publicly shame them on sites like Photoshop Disasters?
Geek Tip: Turn Your Digital Photos Into Wall Art
So you can change your photos to look like mini models, or fool people into thinking you took your pics on a plastic Lomo camera, but what if you love the turnout so much, you want to make it into a work of art? "No problemo," says Shutterfly!
Shutterfly offers some pretty easy ways for your photos to get the attention they deserve.
Geek Tip: Lomo-fy Your Digital Photos
After all the fun I had making my photos look like tiny models with the Tilt-Shift effect, I had to look for something new to add to my effects arsenal. I love my Lomo camera and the effect it produces, but to be honest, I don't always have the cash to throw down for film or development. It can get pretty darn expensive!
Website of the Day: Photoshop Lady
Even a geek like me — who can photoshop a zit out like nobody's business — needs to outsource once in a while. For photoshop tips, that is. Incoming, Photoshop Lady!
Dane Cook's Photoshop Rant: Was It Justified?
Let's just say I tired of Dane Cook's shtick sometime around 2005, but his recent rant about Photoshop put him back on my geeky radar.
The actor/comedian ranted about the photoshopping and general artwork for his new film, My Best Friend's Girl, basically calling out the shoddiness of the work and how differently it portrays his own looks and the feel of the movie.
Usually we notice runaway photoshopping of females, like Keira Knightley's blown-up chest or the lightening of Beyonce's skin, so it's interesting that a male celebrity is up in arms.
Make Your Photos Look Like Mini Models in Photoshop
Is this a picture of a miniaturized London street? Nope, it's the real deal, just made to look like a tiny version of itself! The effect is called Tilt-Shift and it's totally awesome.
How To Get Rid of Zits With Photoshop
Remember when you were going through puberty and your mom tried to make you feel better by saying that zits aren't permanent? Did you remind her about pictures? Because photographs are forever, and zits shouldn't be.
Have You Ever Photoshopped a Picture of Yourself?
Scientific American has a tutorial on how to spot a doctored photo, which is really interesting when applied to timely news photos, but for this gossip junkie, it doubles in interest when you use it to spot photoshopped celebrity photos! In the new Sex and the City movie, Carrie is swayed into doing a magazine photo shoot with two words: "Vogue airbrushing." I won't lie to you, my vanity perked up when I was first learning Photoshop, because I was thinking "Yessss!
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