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[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I think every touch up besides color correction and cropping should be labeled as "photoshopped". And any usage of AI should be labeled as "Made with AI" because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.

Besides, this is totally a skill issue. Removing this metadata is trivial.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Some of the more advanced color correction tools can drastically change an image. There’s a lot of gray in that line as well.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

DOD Imagery guidelines state that only color correction can be applied to "make the image appear the same as it was when it was captured" otherwise it must be labeled "DOD illustration" instead of "DOD Imagery"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cropping can completely change the context of a photo.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Sure But you could also achieve a similar effect in-camera by zooming in or moving closer to the subject

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A lot of photographers will take a photo with the intention of cropping it. Cropping isn’t photoshopping.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Image manipulation is still image manipulation

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I open an image in Photoshop and crop it, it's photoshopping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You don’t have to open photoshop to do it. Any basic editing software will include a cropping tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So we agree cropping is plain and simple image editing, yes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yes. I think the question was should it be labeled as “photoshopped” (or probably “manipulated”). I don’t think it should. I think those labels would be meaningless if you can’t event change the aspect ratio of a photo without it being called “photoshopped”.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There are absolutely different levels of image editing. Color correction, cropping, scale, and rotation are basic enough that I would say they don’t even count as alterations. They’re just correcting what the camera didn’t, and often available in the camera's built in software. (Fun fact, what the sensor sees is not what it presents you in a jpeg.) Then there are more deceptive levels of editing, like removing or adding objects, altering someone’s appearance, swapping faces from different shots. Those are definitely image alterations, and what most people mean when they say an image is “photoshopped” (and you know that, don’t lie). Then there’s AI, where you’re just generating new information to put into the image. That’s extreme image alteration.

These all can be done with or without any sort of nefarious intent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Agreed. Photo editing has great applications but we can't pretend it's never used maliciously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Film too, any trickery in the darkroom should be labeled because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why label it if it is trivial to avoid the label?

Doesn't that mean that bad actors will have additional cover for misise of AI?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What do you mean by real