Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987 146
nacturation writes "Three years before Photoshop 1.0 was released, computer engineers in the USSR were already retouching photographs using some surprisingly advanced technology. A video shows how the Soviets went about restoring damaged images with the help of rotary scanners, magnetic tape, and trackballs. No word on whether this technology was used to fake moon landings or put missiles in Cuba." Photo manipulation in the USSR (and elsewhere) had a pretty good jump on computers, though.
Re:I would assume the Chinese had the lead in that (Score:5, Funny)
[Insert Obligatory Soviet Russia Joke Here] (Score:3, Funny)
DHMO Connection (Score:4, Funny)
Re:[Insert Obligatory Soviet Russia Joke Here] (Score:5, Funny)
the real story (Score:5, Funny)
The real story is that the Soviets had clip art collections that made their job easier. This was years before clip-art was widely used in the West.
People doctoring photos could choose from the "Still Popular Heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution" as well as "Accepted Images of our Beloved Leaders: Lenin through Gorbachev".
What was little known at the time is that if you bought both sets, you would also get a free set "Communist Leaders of the world". This set had flattering pictures of Chaiman Mao, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevera.
Re:from comments there (Score:2, Funny)
Exactly. This is why I can speak Russian, in French. Stay thirsty my friends...
Re:I would assume the Chinese had the lead in that (Score:5, Funny)
The Chinese have the lead in a lot of things. And cadmium as well.
Photoshop 1.0 (Score:3, Funny)
There were image manipulation before Photoshop?
LIES!
That the verb for doing image manipulation is 'to photoshop' should be proof enough! I mean OMGz LOL If teh wordz is to photoshop, how could you photoshop, before photoshop 1.0? with the beta release???!!!111oenenoene
Seriously, kids, the shift of the millenium was not celebrated as the end of the stone age!
Re:the real story (Score:2, Funny)
Collect 'em all!
Re:BT, DT (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stalin was having people edited out for years.. (Score:3, Funny)
You'd be written in and out of the "history" books.
Zinoviev died, and was written out.
Trotski was murdered in Mexico, and was written out.
Hundreds and thousands were written out of existence, their tombstones chiseled clean.
[citation needed]
Family of Greedo rejoices (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't it be cheaper (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to rent the same studio that NASA used?
Collect 'em all! (Score:5, Funny)
Before they collect you.
Re:In fact it is French PERICOLOR-1000 Software (Score:5, Funny)
Well we stole Tetris and made billions on it, so it all worked out in the end.
Re:BT, DT (Score:5, Funny)
I don't believe it. Next you will try to tell me that Microsoft did not invent spreadsheets word-processors and windowing OSes.