Royal photoshopping

pentaxuser said:

Good news, folks. Kate has been videoed by an ordinary member of the public at what we call a farmer's market in the U.K. She was walking round, looking quite healthy

I suppose that a definite ending like that has killed this thread in that it has eliminated the raison d'etre for it entirely. I have noticed how we all seem to reach an endpoint very quickly on Photrio

pentaxuser

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Are you sure it was not AI generated or a hologram?

The real problem here is not manipulated images, as I am sure that the British royal family, like other royals and celebrities, have long had official photos manipulated. From in camera techniques like lights and reflectors to retouching negatives to remove blemishes, and unsing composites of multiple photos....and latterly Photoshop.

The problem in this instance was the plethora of conspiracy theories about Kate which were doing the rounds on social media. The customary lack of detailed info about her "abdominal surgery" fuelled people's desire to fill in the blanks with tinfoil hat stuff....including but not limited to "she's dead".

Then came the image, which was supposed to present a happy, well looking, recovering Kate with her children. But the photoshopping was actually quite obvious, and while there's a perfectly reasonable explanation.....the conspiracy nuts continued with their social media posts about her being dead, or a lizard-being, or bed-bound and so on.

The announcement that cancer was discovered as a result of the surgery and that she's receiving ongoing treatment for that ought to have nipped all the conspiracies in the bud. But now they have shifted to "Kate's cancer was caused by a mRNA turbocancer injection". Honestly, she has announced all anyone outside the family needs to know....let her recover in relative privacy.

I don't *like* manipulated images but I am equally sure that pretty much all people in the public eye do it for official portraits. They wear makeup and have hair stylists too.

BTW Paul McCartney is also not dead.

… and today is Sir Elton’s birthday. Hopefully he’s not dead or photoshopped either!

All this craziness is a result of our respective governments closing the majority of mental hospitals. Mental illness is the world wide pandemic that should be getting the media's attention. Of course this won't happen. Not enough money in it for them.

Looks like the photographic aspect has been discussed sufficiently and we're now off in other directions for which other platforms are better suited.