Unaltered Images That Seem Like They're Photoshopped

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People cry Photoshop when they think something's wrong with an image, but if they'd spent less time crying fake and more time Googling they'd see many of those supposed fakes are actually the real deal.

Take this terrifying photo for instance:

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People screamed fake when it was posted, but if the accusers had simply rotated their point of view they would see it for what it really is- a visual gag done well.

And then there are those who refuse to believe bright, vibrant colors like these can be captured in the wild, when we all know Mother Nature is one hell of a painter.

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People said a lizard couldn't be caught on camera while chillin' with a leaf, but those buzzkills were just trying to harsh this little guy's mellow.

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And as for the image at the top of the post- just a trippy optical effect caused by a tarp thrown over the Hausmannian building in Paris during renovation in 2007. No Photoshop, no bull!

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That one with the black trees on the orange background is awesome. That's the desert in Namibia. There are plenty of other pictures that show the same area, with different angles that look more "real." It's an amazing spot.
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When you send a video news story to a radio/tv station, you send along a pre-written "suggested intro/outro" with it. Apparently, none of the anchors bothered to write their own intro. ALL of them used the canned verbiage sent out by Conan's PR people.
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@WordyGrrl, not quite true. When you send a press release to the media you send your own version of the story. It has been thus since there was such a thing as PR. What used to happen was that journalists would take the story, research it and write their own copy. All this shows is that these days there are fewer real journalists than there once were and that people posing as journalists don't write their own copy, but regurgitate press releases wholesale.

Of course a good PR person has always known how to manipulate the system. Send your release to the news desk so late that they don't have time to do any work on it, but not so late that it won't make it out. With printed news and old fashioned TV this was pretty easy to do. Which is why a story would change between the early and later editions or the 6pm and 10pm news.

When rolling news came along what should have happened is that the story would go out almost per press release the first time and then get worked on through the day. This does not seem to happen.

Their used to be a saying that a good news story almost writes itself. It would seem that modern "journalists" have misunderstood this maxim.
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