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gawker.com - 8/20/2009

The Horror of Pre-Photoshop Editing [Photography]

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Here, perhaps the single most bootleg photo editing job ever, which spared 1971 LA Times readers the horror of seeing Charlton Heston bare-chested. Click to enlarge it right this instant. [ LAT via Sociological Images ]

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The Missing Link: August 20, 2009
CBC Radio 3 — ... is worse than the Roman Colosseum. Former US Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge claims he was pushed to raise terror alert to help Bush win the 2004 election. 12 most annoying types of Facebookers - R3TV producer Jordan Kawchuk not mentioned. September edition of Entertainment Weekly will include super-thin video displays for ads. The world pre-photoshop.

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World of Wonder Productions — ... In the pre-Photoshop era, it appears that newspapers and magazines covered up salacious celebrity skin by simply drawing new clothes onto the pictures. On the left, the sight of Charleton Heston's chest in The Omega Man was deemed unsuitable for the LA Times, while on the right, Francis Farmer's decolletage in Flowing Gold was considered too distracting. Both were redrawn accordingly. With Sharpies, obvs. (via Gawker) ...