Iran fails at Photoshop

[Kylen]

Got a good laugh out of this today:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/200.../index.html?hp

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...-lede-IRAN.jpg

As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.

Agence France-Presse said that it obtained the image from the Web site of Sepah News, the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, on Wednesday. But there was no sign of it there later in the day. Today, The Associated Press distributed what appeared to be a nearly identical photo from the same source, but without the fourth missile.

As the above illustration shows, the second missile from the right appears to be the sum of two other missiles in the image. The contours of the billowing smoke match perfectly near the ground, as well in the immediate wake of the missile. Only a small black dot in the reddish area of exhaust seems to differ from the missile to its left, though there are also some slight variations in the color of the smoke and the sky.

Does Iran’s state media use Photoshop? The charge has been leveled before. So far, though, it can’t be said with any certainty whether there is any official Iranian involvement in this instance. Sepah apparently published the three-missile version of the image today without further explanation.

For its part, Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said. Later, it published an article quoting several experts.

Throughout the day, several news sites have taken steps to disown the photograph that they ran on Wednesday, including LATimes.com and MSNBC.com.

In a sentiment no doubt expressed by news organizations everywhere on Wednesday, an MSNBC editor admitted that the four-missile picture was initially welcomed with open arms. “As the media editor working the msnbc.com home page yesterday, I was frustrated with the quality of a fuzzy video image we published of the Iranian missile launch,” Rich Shulman, associate multimedia editor, said. “So I was thrilled when the top image crossed the news wires.”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...emissiles1.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...emissiles2.jpg

Cue the "I can tell from some of the pixels and by having seen quite a few shops in my time" jokes.

[Athas]

Best laugh I've had all day.

[Ohemgee]

lol oh my

[-Zer0-]

I see poor blur effects

[Headspace]

NEEDS MORE LENS FLARE

[Intense]

NEEDS MORE LENS FLARE

ROFL!

[Draggy]

haha.

[archibaldcrane]

It's hard to use a computer when your hands were chopped off for stealing a flying carpet from Aladdin.









am i doing it rite?

[Correction]

http://i36.tinypic.com/33as0fa.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/28tw2m0.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/2w3ajk8.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/1183epg.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/x3wh06.jpg

This is getting good...

[Kuya]

I disagree, they must be good at Photoshop if there aren't any gays in Iran.

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

They're trying to get nukes and they can't even photoshop right, wth.

[archibaldcrane]

It's really not so much that the photoshop is terrible (it's not -that- terrible) it's that they put out a picture of 4 missiles being fired at once, when clearly every single missile launch detector in the goddamn world is being pointed at the region, and everyone knows that launch was only 3 simultaneous.

[Avanarius]

It's really not so much that the photoshop is terrible (it's not -that- terrible) it's that they put out a picture of 4 missiles being fired at once, when clearly every single missile launch detector in the goddamn world is being pointed at the region, and everyone knows that launch was only 3 simultaneous.

It's terrible to the point where it looks like they tried, but failed miserably, what's worse is how many news companies accepted the picture with open arms because they didn't have any other decent pictures.

[Elmer the Pointy]

People need to watch more You Suck at Photoshop

[NotGreyheim]

This looks shooped. I can tell by the pixels, and having seen quite a few shoops in my time.

[thestalkmore]

This looks shooped. I can tell by the pixels, and having seen quite a few shoops in my time.

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[NotGreyheim]

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Oh come on, don't tell me no one was thinking it...

[archibaldcrane]

Cue the "I can tell from some of the pixels and by having seen quite a few shops in my time" jokes.

At least he's good at following directions, I guess.

[NotGreyheim]

Ok, so I missed the tiny line at the end of the first post... Fire away

[Lordwafik]

Oh come on, don't tell me no one was thinking it...

Ignore TSM, he is like Krye but in adult form and more obnoxious, which isn't bad because the posts are condensed.