{"id":12815,"date":"2008-07-10T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/07\/skyrockets-in-flight-photoshop-delight.html"},"modified":"2008-07-10T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:08:38","slug":"skyrockets_in_flight_photoshop_delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/skyrockets_in_flight_photoshop_delight\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyrockets in flight, Photoshop delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><em>Gonna grab my missiles\/Gonna hold them tight&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Iran&#8217;s state media is under fire for apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/10\/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many\/index.html?hp\">digitally adding another missile<\/a> to a photo of an artillery test.&#160; I like the first comment on the NYT story:&#160; &#8220;Clearly someone thought 4 missiles would be 33% more scary than three\u2026 or they thought it really tied the composition together, which, I have to say, it actually does.&#8221; [Via everyone ever]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Now, excuse me while we get back to work making it even easier for various Great Satans to fake you out.&#160; (Actually, a number of Adobe folks have been collaborating with news agencies on ways to offer greater image authentication, and PBS hosts a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/sciencenow\/0301\/03.html\">13-minute Nova segment<\/a> focusing on Dr. Hany Farid &amp; discussing his work with Adobe.) <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Updates:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Wonkette <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/401010\/irans-photoshopped-missiles-will-delete-us-all\">refers to<\/a> &quot;the Iranian Revolutionary WoW Photoshoppers Guild.&quot; Nice. [Via Russell Brady] <\/li>\n<li>I think the Iranian peeps were inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120363429707884255.html?mod=yhoofront\">Chinese news agency<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Gizmodo <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5023969\/use-photoshop-to-give-iran-even-more-fake-technological-advancements\">challenges<\/a> readers &#8220;to use Photoshop to create some sweet Iranian propaganda, showing their technological advancements that are heretofore unseen.&#8221; [Via Fergus Hammond] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">PS&#8211;To everyone who now has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afternoon_Delight_(song)\">that awful song<\/a> in their heads, <em>you&#8217;re welcome. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonna grab my missiles\/Gonna hold them tight&#8230; &#160; Iran&#8217;s state media is under fire for apparently digitally adding another missile to a photo of an artillery test.&#160; I like the first comment on the NYT story:&#160; &#8220;Clearly someone thought 4 missiles would be 33% more scary than three\u2026 or they thought it really tied the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}