Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I work at an ad agency, where we manipulate photos for advertising purposes every day. A friend of mine had an opportunity a few years ago to tour Rolling Stone magazine where, he says, they have a Sun computer system they use for photo manipulation with enough power and capabilities to put a Macintosh and Photoshop to shame. While he was there, the Sun operator, a woman, was working on an image of movie star Brad Pitt for an upcoming cover. The art director was looking over her shoulder instucting her on what to do. "Remove that mole," the art director said. In a second, she did. "Now whiten his teeth and his eyes." She did. "Rotate his head a little to the left." In a moment, she had that done. "Now open his shirt by a couple more buttons," the art director told her. "Pull the shirt open. Put a little hair there on his chest." After doing all that in, the operator turned to my friend and asked, "Now do you want to watch while I remove his pants?" Larry >>>>>>>>>> Just to clarify what happened here. The photo editor said to the Scitex (10 years ago the ultimate digital imaging machine) operator "get rid of it." Referring, of course, to the diet Coke can. He meant "Crop it out." But the Scitex operator heard "Do your magic." It wasn't noticed until too late. The Post Dispatch has taken a lot of lumps over that one, and it was an innocent mistake. The Scitex operator wasn't a journalist. Now he knows. <<<<<<<<<<