Another Royal photo photoshopped

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Another terribly badly photoshopped photo with th Queen

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The twitter link is to a Sussex squad member. The Sussex Squad has a million gripes with the RF. One is that the Sussex children aren't in any of the group great-grandchildren photos.... Even though they weren't born / didn't attend Balmoral. They're not a particularly bright bunch.

To be fair, I would love if the Kardashians were no longer allowed to alter their pictures, as it would mean that they would disappear altogether.

If a Kardashian ever becomes a head of state, I think we may have bigger problems……

Of course it was edited. How else did she manage to get 10 kids looking at the camera at the same time, smiling and with their eyes open?

Openly stating a keepsake picture is a composite is fine but not allowable for proper news photos.

The issue with these photos is that what most people think of as photoshopping - smoothing wrinkles, using a composite of two or more photos taken at the same time to get everyone facing forward and smiling etc. is fine these days. As people say, there probably aren’t any photos in the press today (other than war / disaster photos) that don’t use it.

Outright fabricating an event that never happened is still not acceptable, particularly when it comes to people who have a public role (like the RF).

I know nothing about photoshop - never used it, don’t see it until the errors are pointed out - so I have no idea if the ‘Mother’s Day’ and ‘Queen with her great grandchildren’ photos are photoshopped (i.e. tidied up a bit) or outright fabricated (Kate / Queen never there).

The thing is, no one else knows either since the originals haven’t been released.

Also, Kim K did fabricate an event in her reality show - a scene in a car of her and Kris discussing her doubts about her second marriage that was purported to be filmed before the wedding and it transpired was actually filmed during the divorce. She got absolutely shredded for it in the press.

FFS, Julia Margaret Cameron used 'dodging' techniques to balance her pictures.
The Cottingley Fairies were manipulated a hundred years ago. They created less fuss.

Our school photos are deinitely not photoshopped as they are awful.
Always about 20 kids rolling eyes or squinting, eyes shut.

I dont think the fr should release photos which are xomposites of multiple photos.
Its unnecessary.

However its true at school and rf etc that some of the kids photographed by being more important ie teacher or ta children etc will have better photos released.

They created enormous fuss, because they were faked.

Henry VIII famously edited out his then current wife - Katherine Parr - and had (the then long dead) Jane Seymour added to a family portrait in ghostly form because he was on the outs with Katherine.

It's also pretty certain he wasn't as tall as he appeared in portraits.

That's ok thanks, I heard that when I was wee.
It's part of the reason technology can be used to show something is accurate.

Shockingly all magazines edit their pictures too!!
🙄 did you really think all the celebrities are thin line less and perfect??

I was a bit shocked to discover that the boudoir photos are shopped. I assumed they were flattering angles and poses etc.

It’s demoralising to realise they aren’t.

My kids’ school photos aren’t composites. Neither were mine for graduation years ago. I know because I was ill that day and they didn’t add me in retrospectively.

Wow, wait until you find out about Stalin, OP.

Fun fact, all those extreme Victorian corseting photos are mostly primitive photoshop. Corsets we're far more practical and supportive than images would suggest.

Have lost count of the 'wow, wait until you hear about' on this thread. There's a fair chance we have already.
People expect the RF to hold themselves to a higher standard than Stalin.
The whole RF shtick is based on them being somewhat better than the rest of us. So for it now to be at the level of equating their behaviour to the Kardashians etc., it throws the cat among the pigeons.

This. Unless they’ve spent their entire life in a cave, everyone knows that there have always been ‘tweaks’ to paintings / photographs etc.

It’s just that we expected the RF to be trustworthy (because that’s the public image they’ve been pushing for literally centuries - since Queen Victoria) and to, at worst, polish up their photos.

If they have been faking them entirely, that’s a big deal. If they’ve been doing so to hide serious issues, that’s an even bigger deal.

I have no idea if they have been. I’m absolutely not in the confidence of the Royals.

If the photos (Mother’s Day and Queen with great-grandchildren) are genuine (and I think they may well be), the RF could apparently prove this by showing the originals (not necessarily to the public - showing them to chosen experts would do). They haven’t and that’s why the issue rumbles on.

It probably is just inept PR (possibly because Kate does at least contribute to the RF PR strategy and she’s not well enough at the moment) but the Palaces don’t normally leave this sort of space for conspiracy theories to flourish.

I find this bullying of the POW really distasteful. Most photos in the media are altered a bit. What does it matter.

This was not simply a family photo. No one would care then. It was released to the media. Some of that media state clearly that this type of photoshopping is not allowed for photos they publish.
We expect the Royal Family not to lie. It is clear now they do. The trust has been eroded.

@JPGR Depends on the publications. In trusted publications there are strict rules about photos. They can not be altered much at all.

Sorry but....
this is simply not a family photo,
It's an m and s family photo !
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Fine laugh. But decent media will now double check all the photos the Royal Family send them. They are no longer a trusted source.

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He was over 6ft according to his suits of armour.

But surely the argument is that if this sort of ‘picture faking’ is going on (and as I’ve said before, I don’t think it is), it’s not the POW doing it, it’s other people doing it and slapping Kate’s name on it to give the photos a veneer of credibility.

I don’t think it’s bullying to suggest the Palace need to stop making Kate the scapegoat. If she did screw up minor photoshopping on the Mother’s Day photos (and I think this probably is the explanation), she’s physically ill and off work - someone should have taken a second look. If it wasn’t her, having her take the blame to take advantage of public sympathy for her illness was tacky in the extreme.