Anderson Cooper has been tweeting pictures from the tornado wreckage in Joplin, Missouri. But then he took some time out to call another Twitter user a "moron." What got Andy's parka in a bunch?
"It has layers" would be a great tag line for a new line of frozen baclava. But now it's the zombie chant of idiot internet detectives who believe they found proof that Obama's birth certificate is fake while goofing around on the computer at work. This shit's never gonna end.
Artists Oli Beale and Alex Holder have a great, subtle way to piss your friends off. From a post on their site, James' Face: "I like going onto my friend's Facebook page, taking photos of him, changing them slightly, then putting them back up on Facebook. He doesn't like me doing this."
Today Star reported that Britney Spears' ex-husband Jason Alexander had a phone conversation about current boyfriend Jason Trawick "beat on me." Hours later, Radar published audio of the alleged conversation. But Britney's lawyers say it's all a fake.
"No, they're not airbrushed," began Bret Michaels when he was asked about his recent nude Billboard cover, "I'm like The Situation's older older brother." Why won't he admit that he's been even a little brushed up for a magazine cover?
Last weekend, a Daily Mail photog snapped a picture of Tiger Woods chipping a ball at him—but all anybody wanted to talk about was a member of the crowd, now dubbed "Cigar Guy." Today, his identity was revealed.
Jezebel has reported extensively on the controversy surrounding Gabourey Sidibe's Elle cover. Here's E!'s take, featuring a recap of other recent airbrushing/photoshop disasters involving Beyonce, Britney Spears, and Kate Winslet.
Can you spot the difference between these photos of world leaders at the Middle East peace talks? That's right! One was photoshopped by Egypt's state-run newspaper to put Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in front of the group instead of behind.
Jersey Shore hooch JWOWW is one fit lady, so you'd think her body wouldn't warrant too much retouching for this new Maxim spread. Yet they inexplicably erased her belly button. Maybe it was just to get rid of the bling?
In your sedate summer Monday media column: NBC's shirt budget is astronomical, our hard work finally acknowledged, a Getty Photoshop mini-scandal, a new NYT Berlin bureau chief, smarty sportswriters talk amongst themselves, and your daily "oh, snap."
In your illiterate Wednesday media column: Joe Klein fails reading comprehension, Gerald Posner does the Gerald Posner thing again, Photoshop model disclosure in Australia, a Conde-Hearst talent war foreshadowed, and Playboy grows ever less sexy.
Lance Armstrong, True American Hero (and cleanest cyclist ever), is upset with Outside magazine for Photoshopping a slogan onto his t-shirt. So he did what you might expect—he took to the Twitter, writing "That's some lame bullshit. #weak."
As Bret Michaels recovers from a brain hemorrhage that nearly killed him (and gears up for the Celebrity Apprentice finale), a nagging question keeps popping up online: "Was it all a publicity stunt?" Is nothing in public life believable, anymore?
Recently, a new poster for Sex and the City 2 was released. Immediately, the ridiculous amount of Photoshop in it was criticized. At last night's Met Gala, NYPost.com caught up with Kristin Davis and asked her opinion. Davis' response, inside.
Here's an amazing demo of the "content-aware fill" tool that's apparently forthcoming in Photoshop CS5. The tool makes it easy to delete objects from a complex photo, without any trace they ever existed. The ramifications for internet publishing are frightening.
In a special new Sunday newspaper roundup, we discover that Jamaica has the best photo illustrations and a crime boss named "Dudus Coke." SF Chronicle's still talking about pill parties, NYT identifies a new recession carpetbagger, NYPost on Jihad Junior.
With the huge success of Avatar—a movie starring blue people—a lot of fans want to look like those blue people. Most just paint their faces and look ridiculous. But one fan used Photoshop with impressive results.
Killing infidels sure ages a fellow. The FBI just released "age progressed" mugshots of America's most wanted terrorists. You'll be pleased to hear that Osama's luscious pout has withstood the sands of time.
It didn't very long for people to notice that the photo of Demi Moore on the cover of the December issue of W had been photoshopped. Half of her hip was missing! The magazine didn't even try to deny that the photo had been retouched. (A W spokesperson said the mag "did not do anything unusual or out of the ordinary,"…
