and photo-shopping an official MoDOT photograph of contest winner... State Employees putting out political propaganda... How low will they go? This type of "Fake News" only substantiates the complaints of POTUS... When and where will it stop?
Missouri Department of Transportation apologizes for editing photo of boy wearing 'Trump 2020' shirt, hat
That isn't an "edit". That is a "crop".
An "edit" changes what's in the photo to something that is not. And there's NO WAY this is "photoshopping", NOR is it the state "putting out political propaganda". The crop was doing the opposite of that, preventing political propaganda from having the state's name on it, which is entirely reasonable. They SHOULD crop it.
They have no reason to apologize. I crop every one of my photos to cut out extraneous info, and I apologize to no one.
Sorry POGO, your narrative doesn’t hold. First, they have admitted that it was an edit. Secondly, if they cropped because of space, then they should have cropped from the bottom to get more of the bridge which is part of the subject matter. They clearly didn’t want the hat, and were willing to sacrifice the bridge in the picture to keep the hat out.
The Definitive Guide To Cropping And Resizing Images
Cropping is cutting off a portion of your image to improve framing, put emphasis on your subject, or change the aspect ratio. This kind of photo manipulation allows you to keep all the elements you want and eliminate the ones you don't.
I don't give a flying fuck what term they used erroneously while being led around by the nose by fascistic PC crossing guards, a crop is a crop and an edit is an edit.
Don't sit here and lecture me on what a crop is. I've been doing it since probably before you learned to speak. This is a crop, and it's clearly done to **REMOVE** the political bullshit from the original photo. They could have airbrushed it out but that would be an EDIT. Not what they did.
The Commonwealth of Missouri, or any other of the 57 states, DOES NOT TAKE political positions. That's why the crop was made, and it should have stayed that way.
PERIOD.
Just admit you were wrong and slither away.