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NY Daily News posted a fine gallery of old timey altered photos. Above, "Lincoln's head was placed atop South Carolina politician John Calhoun's body in this 1860 photo. Interestingly enough, Calhoun died in 1850." At left, the powerful Benito Mussolini would never require the services of a horse handler! "Historic photos that have been altered" (via Dave Pell's NextDraft)

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Photoshop was developed from darkroom techniques. The earlier versions (6 and earlier) there was direct links. As the tools have developed, it’s gone way beyond that.
http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

I’ll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i8cqtv6a2uU
Pedantic Douchebag

Every time I see “shoop”, it makes me wanna listen to Salt-N-Pepa.
- elchip
  
  I always want to listen to Salt-N-Pepa.
  - Pedantic Douchebag
    
    They’re very good! But consider branching out, perhaps to Monie Love, Queen Latifah, and MC Lyte.
GIFtheory

‘shopped. I can tell by the silver halide crystals.
- PhosPhorious
  
  You win the internet.
rattypilgrim

This speaks as much to the history of propaganda as making simple copies. Creating propaganda must be the second oldest profession or at least in the top 10. It would be fascinating to see how the Romans used it or the English when they invaded France, etc.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513448972 Sid Dobrin

Hany Farid at Dartmouth has been doing this kind of work and gathering examples of this for quite a while. His web page For and Six (from where the Daily news took these pics) has a much more elaborate collection than does the Daily News: http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/
Farid is probably the foremost expert in the world on these kinds of manipulations.
Manntis

The 14th on that site surely looks like a different photo of the same event. Way too many things that weren’t worth editing are different. Such as the cufflink to jacket ratio.
- schrutzki
  
  Just take a look at Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr (that’s the chap right behind Brandt, state secretary then, if I remember correctly), they’re looking into the camera in the the upper photo, not in the lower one. Also, the upper photo was taken from a much higher point, the angle is completely different. No manipulation here, just two shots whith a bit of cleaning up in between.
  Also, the caption ist wrong in at least one point: The upper photo surely has not been taken from German press, but Russian: The print is in Cyrillic.