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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.astro,net.rumor,net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Billy Meyers (sp?) and Pleiades Astronauts???
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 06:42:06 EST
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[Photo folks check out net.rumor on this, it's a short discussion.]

CoEvolution Quarterly (now the Whole Earth Review) had a cover
story on how easy it is to fake photos these days.  It was within
the last year, maybe the summer issue.  There is commercial image
processing equipment that digitizes photos and does interactive
"paint program" stuff, matting, etc in high resolution, then prints
them (to film).  The cover showed flying saucers flying near
the Transamerica building in North Beach, SF; inside the article
were many "before and after" pictures, like the National Geographic
cover where they moved the pyramid over to make it fit.

Truly amazing -- don't believe ANY photo these days.  Technology has
come a long way since Playboy's 1950s airbrushes...