Another Royal photo photoshopped

[AdultFemaleWoman]

Another terribly badly photoshopped photo with th Queen

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And will probably be the same with the picture of the Queen with Liz Truss…no way was that lady standing upright,looking immaculate and died the next day .She didn’t die suddenly!

Ffs. Are we doing this with every photo Kate’s ever taken?

The Kardashians et al must be bricking it if photoshopping images is now disallowed.

If its come from Twitter it must be true

Really? Who actually cares.

Youd think noone had ever edited and used photoshop before.

That photo was taken Tuesday morning. She died Thursday afternoon. I suspect she was wheelchaired in there and stood in that same spot for the few minutes needed, but there’s no way it didn’t happen.

Nearly every photo on social media is photoshopped - same with newspapers and magazines. It's such a non-story

Yes,but @AdultFemaleWoman wants to feel important by bringing this non story to our attention.

The photo with the grandchildren was published as The Queen with all her Grandchildren. That's exactly what it is. Even the best photographer would be hard pushed to get all those small children looking at the camera & smiling in the one shot.

There are loads of FB groups for exactly this. People post several photos of their family & ask if child 1 can be replaced with their image on photo 2 because they're smiling & can child 2 be replaced with photo 3 because they're crying on the first one. The photoshop wizards work their magic & remove crying, scowling children & produce a lovely family photo.

The photo of QE2 was never issued claiming she'd been babysitting for them all or even they were all there. It was presented as a lovely photo of a proud Granny with several generations of her family.

Why is there a need to dissect it now. What's to be achieved.

It's absolutely pathetic the things being posted about just now it really is

You try getting ten children to face the same way at the same time. Let us know how you get on.

The issue is that officially released Royal photos are considered historical documentation for the future.
Also, anything released to photo agencies has to present a moment in time that actually happened. They can't be enhanced in any way. Otherwise it is literally fake news.
The Royal Family would be well aware of these stipulations / contracts with the press and society. So to breach them is much more significant than normal people or other celebrities Photoshopping.

Agreed. There was something odd about that.

I suspect there will be some new legalese added to photos in future to caveat minor tweaks.

I really can't begrudge the RF tweaking a photo trying to get 10 children to all be facing forward and smiling especially when everyone will be scrutinising them to death just to write crappy headlines. And if we start with RF where do you draw the line, all politicians? all celebrities or only when they are representing something important like non for profits or health issues?

And besides all of that, surely most royal portraits are taken from multiple sittings and photos and of course are not accurate representation but impressions/artistic expression so really how is this different?

You may be shocked to learn that EVERY SINGLE PHOTO of the royal family is photoshopped. This is not a new phenomenon, nothing to get excited about.

What’s the big deal? This is 2024 and most pictures have some kind of photoshop. Any professional photos will be touched up etc, filters used etc. If you’re taking photos that will be in the royal archives forever of course you’re going to touch it up. Who cares?

Do people really not care if they are being fed false information from the royal family? Touchs up fine, but editing in people that aren't there for example? Where's the line people are happy with in false images - and does it vary based on source - ie government need to present true images, but royal family can manipulate images to their hearts content.

What is your aibu?
This should be in RF forum where other wannabe detectives/photographers reside

Meeting Liz Truss is probably enough to make anyone want to curl up and die.

I had no idea photoshopping is so acceptable. I don’t think I’ve ever done more than brighten a photo when it was too dark. Then decide it doesn’t look right and cancel
that. I’m not a celebrity etc, before people jump on.

I can’t be the only one who has photos of my kids with their nursery class where all kids look straight on and don’t cry etc. I’m sure they were not photoshopped. Also not offered to add a child in if he wasn’t at nursery that day. I think people are being disingenuous saying the practice is widespread or not dodgy.

I agree with this...

Wait until you hear that portraits of old weren't done in a single sitting and contain some artistic licence.

How do we know that they weren't all there? The originals could have been taken all in the same sitting but with the Prince Louis from shot three inserted over the one from shot seven where he was poking his tongue out. Meanwhile Savannah Philips may have been blinking so they used the one from shot 5 etc.

I don't think anyone thinks that the portraits of old were accurate reflections, potrait painters would be ruined if they didn't flatter. But times have moved on and you'd hope the royal family would have more respect for their subjects these days than just making up shit, and doing a shit job of it too.

As if airbrushing isn't completely normal these days...

Would your reaction be the same if it was a picture of Putin and his family with an obvious seam down between family members and different lighting?
Do we really want to get to a point where we don't know if photos in the media are composites or just have a bit of airbrushing? I think the media are doing the right thing taking a hard-line on this.

This is all getting revolting now the press supposedly check photos before they release them so why wasn't this checked?

People are openly bullying her unchecked by the Palace and I'm revolted by it