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October 24, 2002
Thursday
 
 
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Thank God Stalin antedated Photoshop.
- Alex Kroll Jr in a comment on this posting last Sunday.

Comments

Actually, Stalin was the father of photoshop. He would routinely have photos retouched to remove the image of people who had fallen from grace.


Posted by Walter E. Wallis at October 24, 2002 06:08 AM

He also mastered such techniques as cloning (terrified apparatchiki) and masking (the hellish reality of Soviet life), which later inspired a whole generation of graphics software designers.


Posted by Steven Chapman at October 25, 2002 12:51 AM