Photoshopping The Past Away
Dan Gould
We all have memories we’d prefer to forget, bad relationships, awkward events. Taking them as a learning experience and moving on used to be the only way to handle it. But now, people are beginning to use technologic tricks to erase all evidence of bad things from the past. Photoshopping ex’s out of images is becoming a curious new trend.
The New York Times reports:
Removing her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.
Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions.
“In my own reality, I know that these things did happen,” Ms. Horn said. But “without him in them, I can display them. I can look at those pictures and think of the laughter we were sharing, the places we went to.”
“This new reality,” she added, “is a lot more pleasant.”
NYT: “I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.”
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Posted on: Monday, August 18, 2008 at 12:06 pm 
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