A SNAP FROM THE PAST
THINK IMAGE MANIPULATION today and Adobe’s Photoshop software may spring to mind. In fact, so embedded in popular culture is this program that ‘photoshopping’ has even entered the lexicon. Image manipulation has been normalized to the extent that photoshop is more of a term to describe this technology than the application itself. But how did we get here? Adobe’s giant plays a massive role in this whole industry, but it wasn’t the start. Before getting familiar with where image manipulation came from, we need to understand what it truly means.
In short, image manipulation is the art of transforming an image to get a specific and desired look. Of course, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds and there are plenty of implications to it. Since the creation of the first camera, photo editing has naturally developed alongside it.
It’s interesting to note that
