Demonic Eyes: Malicious "Photoshopping" or graphic alteration of Condi Rice at USA Today News
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003780.htm Malkin's
Malkin's blog shows the "before and after photo files" of Rice, and Graphic Design bloggers step-in to assure us that "this graphics job" at Gannett's USA Today was "intentional". Be sure to read the details and realize whether using Photoshop, Fireworks, or Pixia, the graphics functions are all pretty much the same. Here the graphics software functionality in question is the "sharpen" feature and the intentional misuse of contrast and brightening.
My directing experience in the Graphics, Web, and Marketing Department at a leading New York Gannett newspaper which published USA Today (Gannett owns USA Today) allows me to ask- where were the publishers, supervisors and editors?- all content for online and print should be reviewed before publication.
Review and editing, and reviewing again was a crucial part of my job: overseeing the work of the graphics and web producers before the news went live and making decisions on the company's content liability were foremost in my mind.
Apparently USA Today, like other companies can't "keep an eye on everything", and perhaps the simple "real" pressure of a news production envrionment let this one web graphic slip by - or not?
Once again the old "print news" industry realizes their own tender liabilities to and importance of accuracy in online publishing- (ouch!)
[Technorati tags: news publishing, computer graphics, condi rice]
Malkin's blog shows the "before and after photo files" of Rice, and Graphic Design bloggers step-in to assure us that "this graphics job" at Gannett's USA Today was "intentional". Be sure to read the details and realize whether using Photoshop, Fireworks, or Pixia, the graphics functions are all pretty much the same. Here the graphics software functionality in question is the "sharpen" feature and the intentional misuse of contrast and brightening.
My directing experience in the Graphics, Web, and Marketing Department at a leading New York Gannett newspaper which published USA Today (Gannett owns USA Today) allows me to ask- where were the publishers, supervisors and editors?- all content for online and print should be reviewed before publication.
Review and editing, and reviewing again was a crucial part of my job: overseeing the work of the graphics and web producers before the news went live and making decisions on the company's content liability were foremost in my mind.
Apparently USA Today, like other companies can't "keep an eye on everything", and perhaps the simple "real" pressure of a news production envrionment let this one web graphic slip by - or not?
Once again the old "print news" industry realizes their own tender liabilities to and importance of accuracy in online publishing- (ouch!)
[Technorati tags: news publishing, computer graphics, condi rice]
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