Gizmodo readers aren’t the only people who love digitally altering photos using Photoshop — so does Iranian state media! You may have seen the above photo yesterday, which features four scary missiles being fired off as a test/example of the size of Iran’s dick. Guess what? One of those missiles is a fake. Here’s what the original photo looks like:
Nice work with the Photoshopping, Iran. You guys should enter one of our contests sometime. [NY Times]
Stevo The Devo
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 9:54 AMEven as a know nothing,m once told there was a fake I could pick that one.. the exhaust trail was all splodgy as though they’d just used the spraycan tool.
Stew
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 10:46 AMHeheh yeah – you can also see that the right hand side of the right-most cloud of dust has been copied & pasted to the fake missile’s cloud of dust.
Abey
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 11:20 AMThe part that is clearly a fake for me is the shape of the right most part of ground smoke on the two missiles on the right.
Andy
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 1:18 PMGoogle list this story under More Top Stores, wrong it should be listed under Entertainment.
Rob
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 7:37 PMThey’ve also lengthened the trails of the other three rockets. Maybe it’s a composite of more than one photo?
Mr. E
Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 9:46 AMWhat make you think it was the Iranians PhotoShop hack job? Doesn’t the Bush government have a well established practice of over inflating threats from abroad in order to scare the crap out of the electorate, and Congress, and say…maybe.. take liberties like illegally invading a foreign country?
Milad
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 12:54 AMIt’s really funny! But hey, they did show them on video, live!
So, why do you guys think they need to do that?
john
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 5:31 AMfaked photo released by an unauthentic website, please check below link.
http://www2.mardomak.net/files/cache/_.._photoeditor_albums_album-22_lg_payambar-azam8%5Bwh373mtextWatermark_resizeByMaxSize%5D.jpg
Kif
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 10:55 PMCame here via the 20th anniversary of Photoshop link… but still. Did anyone forget that in Iran, people are noobs and would be easily sucked into this propaganda?
The real threat is that operatives are supposed to be gathering intel, and they find this crap and send it back home, although it was probably posted all over the country. And they’re supposed to be “observers”.
Dispite that, while the western world is laughing at the fake, the eastern world is using it to incite violence and promote war, because they see it and believe it.