I was working on a computer magazine! Can’t someone get computers do all this photo jiggery in a computery kind of way without the rip-off prices? To save money, many big publishers sent off their images to be scanned in the Far East for £20 each, typically receiving the colour separations two weeks later.Įvery time I ran to the typesetters and back, I was appalled at how magazine production was every bit as Blue Peter as my University Union rag. What's in a name?Ĭolour photo scans at the time cost between £40 and £80 a pop – the equivalent of £100 and £200 today. The scanned photos were returned as four-colour separated film, which would be sent down to the printers along with actual-size mono film shot from magazine pages – leaving gaps for the colour photos – cut up and laid out from bits of bromide paper using scalpel and wax on art board. After the kid had dropped off the various bundles of hardcopy typescript and pictures, the typesetters would turn the text into fonted type in columns, screen the black and white photos in-house on a PMT machine and send the pictures out to get scanned by a specialist. Some 3,700 miles east of Michigan, in London, an office dogsbody in his first job was spending his days running back and forth between a magazine editorial floor and a typesetters up the road. Nasty but nice: Zombie pensioners (benefits claimed for elderly deceased) for the Sunday Telegraph So Tom did what any self-respecting PhD student would do: he wrote his own subroutine to simulate greyscale. This was disappointing for Tom because he wanted to produce the illusion of continuous tone in a photographic image.
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The Mac Plus could display amazing graphics for the era but the monochromatic limitations of Apple’s bundled software meant it was unable to show levels of grey, only dithered solid black pixels. He was conducting research into vision systems. In 1987, Thomas Knoll purchased an Apple Macintosh Plus to help him complete his thesis at the University of Michigan.
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Let’s go back before Photoshop, before smartphones, before the Web, when DOS was king and Microsoft Windows was still at version 1.0. To be more accurate, the revolution began three years earlier. After a hard day at the office, image editors would go home with their clothes splattered with ink or dotted with pin-hole burns. So what did we do before Photoshop? Was it all scalpels, scissors and glue? Actually, yes it was… plus humongous prepress cameras, lots of smelly chemicals and armies of dextrous airbrush tint and retouch artists. Photoshop fail: Chinese officials visit diminutive pensioner – oops, no legs The next time you see a picture that seems too dark, too smudgy or too brown, you’ll know why: it simply hasn’t been Photoshopped. Sod ethics: this man should never be allowed loose with a Clone Brush again.įor every example of crap Photoshopping – politicians and women’s magazine covers seem cursed by it – millions of other photos are routinely Photoshopped before going public, whether for purposes of retouching, compositing, conversion or production. Or consider the Adnan Hajj controversy, in which the photo-journalist apparently needlessly and very badly retouched his own photos of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Think of the notorious "tourist guy", supposedly caught in a pre-selfie holiday timer shot on the top of one of the Twin Towers on 9/11 just as a plane was about to hit. And what do you do to a photo?Ī poorly Photoshopped picture can arouse horror or derision, while a half-decent one can become an internet phenomenon. Rival companies hate it, but carpets get Hoovered, wrapping paper gets Sellotaped.
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