8/24/07

Enhancing advertising pictures, magazine covers, and even the postwork done on renders submitted to 3D galleries do not really disturb me. Practice the adage, "Let the buyer beware." Consumers need to take responsibility for themselves.

The time will come, however, when artists will be able to reproduce the likeness of about anyone and put a person into almost any situation/pose/invironment they want. It will not be too long before we can make realistic movies with Bogart as Captain Kirk, and Elvis as Spoc.

Altering the pictures used in photographic journalism frightens me. I believe that this is truely deceptive. If it is not already here, the time will come when we will not be able to believe our eyes (when it comes to picture and video "evidence"). There are already many well publicized incidents of retouched or altered photographs used to falsely enhance news stories. What will happen when even experts can no longer tell that a picture has been "touched up?"

LMK

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.