{"id":817,"date":"2012-08-22T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/22\/before-photoshop-cs6-there-were-giant-chickens\/"},"modified":"2012-08-22T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T18:32:00","slug":"before-photoshop-cs6-there-were-giant-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/22\/before-photoshop-cs6-there-were-giant-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Photoshop CS6&#8230; there were giant chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RELSF6n86aU\/UDUkbzFG-2I\/AAAAAAAAAEE\/fyW0b9GjPRc\/s1600\/4203034019_9b31b7e6e9_o.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"235\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RELSF6n86aU\/UDUkbzFG-2I\/AAAAAAAAAEE\/fyW0b9GjPRc\/s320\/4203034019_9b31b7e6e9_o.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For as long as we&#8217;ve trusted the authenticity of photography, it seems like, naturally, we&#8217;ve wanted to mess around with photos too. Now it seems like this urge his been around for generations \u2013 in this case, a whole century before we started Photoshopping mustaches onto people&#8217;s faces. <i>Wired<\/i> recently uncovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2012\/08\/primitive-photoshop-postcards\/\">a collection of unusual postcards<\/a> from the turn of the 20th century showing evidence of some of the first photo manipulation&#8230; though it appears that back in the 1900s, it was primarily used to make pictures of giant chickens and potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, these pictures from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/talltalepostcards\/pool\/\">Tall Tale Postcards<\/a> group and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinhistory.org\/\">Wisconsin Historical Society<\/a> are a neat look back at our obsession with photographic fakery. If you want to take a leap into photo editing with modern technology (and presumably beyond pictures of livestock), the computers at the New Media Center are now equipped with Photoshop CS6.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as we&#8217;ve trusted the authenticity of photography, it seems like, naturally, we&#8217;ve wanted to mess around with photos too. Now it seems like this urge his been around for generations \u2013 in this case, a whole century before we started Photoshopping mustaches onto people&#8217;s faces. Wired recently uncovered a collection of unusual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,245,269],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-new-media-center","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}