The company, in an effort to show off the Galaxy A8 Star's amazing photo retouching abilities, used a cleverly shot portrait, modified it and then ostensibly passed it off as one taken by the A8.
The added speed, along with its bigness and extremely high resolution retina display (2732 x 2048, the highest resolution of any iOS device), allows it to run two apps side-by-side in a sort of modified, asymmetrical dual portrait mode.
Couples hauled shopping bags, two to a hand, past dozens of tables heaped with art-themed bric-à-brac, like Van Gogh self-portraits modified as magnets.
The picture is invariably a self-portrait, perhaps modified by artistic license.
Jake and Dinos Chapman, known for buying Goya etchings and drawing clown faces and puppy heads on them, are represented in the exhibition with "One Day You Will No Longer Be Loved," a series for which they purchased Victorian portraits and modified them so that the sitters appear to be decomposing.
Using herself as model, she began taking self-portraits that were later digitally modified to alter her physical and aesthetic features, thus creating several different "characters".
Michael Specter undermines his argument in favor of genetically modified crops, which is couched in a negative portrait of the environmentalist Vandana Shiva, by failing to mention major scientific concerns (Seeds of Doubt," August 25th).
Between 2002 and 2004, Anne Collier, whose mid-career survey is up through January 10th at the Art Gallery of Ontario, took portraits of artists (including herself) using a modified Polaroid camera, which its inventors claimed had the capacity to capture auras.
In these portraits the detailed description and tenebrism of Velázquez's Sevillian paintings have been modified; only the faces and hands are accentuated and the dark figures stand out against a light background.
In the case of the Janssen portrait, conservation work carried out on the painting found that the sitter's hairline had been modified to make him look more "Shakespearian" and a fake inscription had been added.
