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Photoshopped

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Photoshop is a high performance image editing tool sold by Adobe. Adobe is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Photoshop this year, so in computer and software terms it is definitely a venerable product. I began using Photoshop shortly after it was introduced in 1990 so it has become like an old friend to me. Since the beginning of photography in 1839, photographers have been editing images and faking situations to appear as something else. There is even a genre of 19th century photography featuring oversized vegetables on wagons, men climbing on huge watermelons and the like. There are some historical photographs that we now realize were made in the darkroom by combining several images. For example, I owned an original print of the above photo for years before I realized that it was probably faked. With Photoshop these types of things are easier and more believable than ever before.    Recently Photoshop has been getting a bad rap as a tool that allows people to