Fake Realities: Is There Anything Not Photoshopped Anymore?

I found an interesting website that indirectly indicates,  in an entertaining way, how much fake is going on with photos in magazines. It shows  photo manipulation of commercial pictures that went wrong. Like this:

Photo Manipulation Adobe Photoshop (Source: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/)

But actually, faking is much worse than a lot of people might imagine and than this site demonstrates. Of course every somewhat sophisticated mind knows that there is a lot of photo manipulation going on. But it seems like most people think of it as re-touche of model pictures, fashion related photographs, commercials etc..

But I do know, that actually “innocent” pictures in news magazines are sometimes enhanced as well, in order to underline, what the author or photographer wants to say. For example, if a newspaper makes a small, not so important article about person xy being sad, they might even enhance that photo, to make the person look even sadder than he was. Another example could be an article about a live concert at a beach at sunset, and they manipulate the sunset picture, to exaggerate how great the sunset was. Not to speak of heavily manipulated pictures to make up completely fake stories.

Also, photo manipulation is not as old (new) as Adobe Photoshop. Photo manipulation is as old as photography. Not the oldest but a famous example can be seen here:

Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov (Source: Wikipedia.com)

Stalin without Nikolai Yezhov (Source: Wikipedia.com)

The aforementioned website, that shows funny photo manipulation, that went wrong, can be found here.

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Tinytec (Polignostix.com)