Word: photoshop
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...wrote my business plan on Post-it notes," he jokes. The site was built almost entirely using public domain software, such as the free Linux platform, and it was maintained on widely available Apache servers. "In our entire five years, we bought only three software packages--Windows, Office and Photoshop," he boasts...
...pictures are sanitized also because they stray so far afield from brush strokes or film grain or even Adobe Photoshop. When we think of image manipulation we still tend to assume some explicit mark of the artist, some tweak here or there, or some sense of humor. The tweaks here are twice removed from what you see, written into the software blueprint, and the only trace of process is a faintly superimposed, bending grid...
...those of you who haven't yet downloaded a licensed copy of Photoshop from the Harvard network, I encourage you to do so. The image editing program will give you far more power to manipulate graphics than you thought possible. After a few hours of dabbling, even the novice can put a roommate's head on Michelangelo's David and circulate posters of the result. (Not that I would ever do such a thing, of course.) It's only after you've played with Photoshop for a while that you realize how easy it is--and how scary...
...change was not mentioned in the design credits, a choice which Row feels violates the standards of intellectual honesty "rigorously expected of Harvard's students." Perhaps the biggest sin was that the replacement wasn't done very well: The "brightness/contrast" tool in Photoshop could have lightened the obviously different background, and some more work could have removed the Serbian flag from directly above the altered word...
...airbrushing Trotsky out of group photos. But all attempts to change images prey on the tendency of humans to trust the camera, to assume that whatever they see is real. The loss of that trust is perhaps one of the more worrisome consequences of a few minutes' play in Photoshop...