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Yesterday, @exjon did the quick and dirty Photoshop on the left and posted it to Twitter. His next tweet was: for the record, it’s a fake. I mean, duh.

So the file was picked up — somehow — by the blog Forensic Photoshop, which analyzed the digital image using…ummm…digital image analysis software. It works by transforming pixels into random, glowing magenta blobs and making the president look like Curious George. It’s science. Just not as we know it.

His conclusion? Yes, it’s a cut/paste forgery.

Uhhhhhh.

I can’t quite capture the gallumphing cluelessness of his tone, so do go read it in the original Knuckleheadese.

So, let’s all take a deep breath. Vote with intelligence, not emotion. And, please, let’s resist the urge to use Photoshop in such nasty ways. Let’s make art, and clarify images – let’s not use such a wonderful tool to confuse and anger and annoy. Help make Photoshop a noun again.

What-what-what? Dude, that would be the end of this blog, right there.

November 4, 2012 — 5:06 pm
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