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Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World by cat_plus_plus on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:32AM (#33803172)
Your phone likely takes a collage of 3 photos, otherwise known as HDR, every time you tap the shutter and then does various AI thingies to make a selfie look pretty. And if you look closely, no that's not how things look to human eye. Wide angle group photo? A physically impossible illusion distorted to look passably normal. How much are you going to disclaim on Facebook?
Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World by gus_massa on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:39AM (#33803296)
In Argentina, if a publicity that has photoshoped human, then it must have a text explaining that. The idea was to fight against unrealistic body standards.

The actual result is that every publicity has that text, and people just ignore it.

Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World by cat_plus_plus on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:02PM (#33803641)
The problem is that non-photoshopped photos do not represent reality either. Anything with different focal distance from human eye is by definition distorted. Levels of dark and light have to be squeezed into what computer/phone screen can show, often resulting in faces that would be fully black or white if corrective steps are not taken. Depth perception is lost, making people look much fatter than they are. A lot of edits are about approximating perceived reality rather than deception.
Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World by gus_massa on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:16PM (#33809424)
> The problem is that non-photoshopped photos do not represent reality either.

> A lot of edits are about approximating perceived reality rather than deception.

I agree with the first, but disagree with the second.

Anyway, another interesting thing is that many cell phones have a filter by default that removes skin imperfections, so now almost all photos by non professionals are "photoshoped" by default.

Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World by matkoniecz on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:37AM (#33803271)
Border is not 100% clear but making collage out of multiple photo and pasting leopard that would never visit such location is definitely beyond what needs disclaiming
Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World by cat_plus_plus on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:48AM (#33803430)
Copy and paste zoo photo on top of the mountain and claim you saw that in the wild? Sure, that would be a lie. But individual animals are also not unheard of to do unusual things and just how well are Snow Leopards researched to say they never ever come near glaciers? Maybe they do once in a while for their own reasons.
Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World by matkoniecz on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:05PM (#33807679)
well, teleporting mountain ranges are even less likely and this would be also needed to create images that they attempted to pass as real photographs