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the_tyrant

10-15-10, 04:59 PM

how did they modify images?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Voroshilov%2C_Molotov%2C_Stalin%2C_with_Nikolai_Ye zhov.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/The_Commissar_Vanishes_2.jpg
how did they do it?
they didn't have Photoshop

ETR3(SS)

10-15-10, 05:00 PM

In Soviet Russia, image modifies you!

antikristuseke

10-15-10, 05:02 PM

Image and even film edditing has been around for ages now. After stalin died he was eddited out from a lot of their propaganda viddeos by filming some random soldier ovr him shouting a patriotic slogan or some such crap. And this is just one example, they were doing the same sort of thing even centuries ago, lke painting a hunch on a particular englih kinds name just to gain political ground after his death etc.

DarkFish

10-15-10, 05:18 PM

how did they modify images?

how did they do it?
they didn't have PhotoshopBy hand. Essentially just paint over whomever you want to get out of the pic.

Oberon

10-15-10, 05:23 PM

http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/i/23364/original/Shoppedgendo.jpg?1255981354

On a more serious note, yeah, lots of image editing went on during the Soviet Union, and for that matter in other countries too. I suspect it was either done using the negatives or a very clever chap with a paintbrush.

Ah, here we are, there's a link for everything these days:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Retouche-set.jpg/456px-Retouche-set.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_manipulation

Tchocky

10-15-10, 05:42 PM

Let's put it this way - If Josef Stalin orders you to remove people's faces from pictures, you do it.

The order is a hint to what happens if you say it can't be done.

frau kaleun

10-15-10, 06:44 PM

http://www.eatliver.com/img/2009/4970.jpg

TLAM Strike

10-15-10, 07:33 PM

They used some thing like this... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u28bo1sZiyk)

Sailor Steve

10-16-10, 12:27 AM

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Tapestryshopped.jpg

And here's a book you might want to check out:
http://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Photographs-Stalins/dp/B00007D037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287206759&sr=1-1

Jimbuna

10-16-10, 08:15 AM

They used some thing like this... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u28bo1sZiyk)

LOL wa that Mr Sulu @4:26? :hmmm:

Looks like the censor done a great job on his appearance :DL

Oberon

10-16-10, 09:47 AM

LOL wa that Mr Sulu @4:26? :hmmm:

Looks like the censor done a great job on his appearance :DL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egUDYu_qmL0

Jimbuna

10-16-10, 01:35 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egUDYu_qmL0

Now there's a guy well past his sell-by date :O:

TarJak

10-16-10, 06:17 PM

Photoshop is actually a collection of digital tools that allow digital images to be manipulated in ways that analog photographs have been manipulated since the invention of the camera.

Compositing, cutting and pasting, dodging and burning are all techniques familiar to photographers from the 1800's. PS simply makes it more accessible to people with computers.:O:

the_tyrant

10-16-10, 06:22 PM

All i can say is that soviets have no life, manipulating images like that would take them months probably
but of course, they would literally have no life if they didn't do it right

TarJak

10-16-10, 06:27 PM

No a good photographic compositior could edit out a human figure in about 3-4 hours. About the same time as doing a good job in PS takes.

As to having no life, well everyone's lives are different so who am I to comment on who has one or not? I spend a lot of time on Subsim.:O:

Raptor1

10-16-10, 06:32 PM

All i can say is that soviets have no life, manipulating images like that would take them months probably
but of course, they would literally have no life if they didn't do it right

I still haven't figured out what this so-called 'life' everyone is talking about is...

Either way, if it's some NKVD agent's job to edit photographs, then that's not really different from any other occupation in terms of him having a 'life', regardless of whether it takes a few hours or a few months.

Jimbuna

10-16-10, 06:47 PM