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Iran State Media Used Photoshop to Make Missile Tests Look More Impressive

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]

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  • Stevo The Devo

    Even 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

    Heheh 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

    The 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

    Google list this story under More Top Stores, wrong it should be listed under Entertainment.

  • Rob

    They’ve also lengthened the trails of the other three rockets. Maybe it’s a composite of more than one photo?

  • Mr. E

    What 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

    It’s really funny! But hey, they did show them on video, live!
    So, why do you guys think they need to do that?

  • john

    faked 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

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