Cropping can completely change the context of a photo.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 months ago
I think every touch up besides color correction and cropping should be labeled as “photoshopped”. And any usage of AI should be labeled as “Made with AI” because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.
Besides, this is totally a skill issue. Removing this metadata is trivial.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
IIII@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sure But you could also achieve a similar effect in-camera by zooming in or moving closer to the subject
hperrin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A lot of photographers will take a photo with the intention of cropping it. Cropping isn’t photoshopping.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 months ago
Image manipulation is still image manipulation
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
If I open an image in Photoshop and crop it, it’s photoshopping.
hperrin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You don’t have to open photoshop to do it. Any basic editing tool will include a cropping tool.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Agreed. Photo editing has great applications but we can’t pretend it’s never used maliciously.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why label it if it is trivial to avoid the label?
Doesn’t that mean that bad actors will have additional cover for misise of AI?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 months ago
Yes
piecat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Film too, any trickery in the darkroom should be labeled because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What do you mean by real
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Some of the more advanced color correction tools can drastically change an image as well. There’s a lot of gray in that line as well.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 4 months ago
DOD Imagery guidelines state that only color correction can be applied to “make the image appear the same as it was when it was captured” otherwise it must be labeled “DOD illustration” instead of “DOD Imagery”