Re: [artshow_photo] Re: new website - BUT - what about Authenticity?

I do think it's useless, except as a way of describing some photographs.

By the way, I used to do Cibachrome enlargments from Velvia slides. They never looked as what I described as "photoshopped."

Fred

On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:41 PM, pdesmidt tds.net wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Beutler Frederick <fjb@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > The term "photoshopped" as in "This picture has been photoshopped" has
> > acquired the pejorative meaning of an image that looks fake (or even
> > bizarre) by an excessive application of post-production processing. One
> > often sees a "photoshopped" example with razor sharp edges or unconvincingly
> > intense colors.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> So then a cibachrome print made from a Velvia 50 slide could be said to have
> been "photo-shopped"? If so, then the term has become so ambiguous that's
> it's useless.
>
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>

Frederick Beutler, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
EECS Department
University of Michigan
fjb@umich.edu
fbeutler@comcast.net
http://web.me.com/fbeutler

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