Reuters put a serious cap on editing

[RacePhoto]

After they got bagged by two photoshopped images, one that had added smoke and made explosions look larger, and another where the same photographer added additional flares dropped from a plane, (which looked like weapons by the way) Reuters fired the editor and recently announced that they checked their photos on file for alterations.


But here's the new policy which I thought was very interesting. Yes restrictive but it's speaks for their integrity and efforts to make news photos honest.

http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/01/18/the-use-of-photoshop

ALLOWED:

• Cropping
• Adjustment of Levels to histogram limits
• Minor colour correction
• Sharpening at 300%, 0.3, 0
• Careful use of lasso tool
• Subtle use of burn tool
• Adjustment of highlights and shadows
• Eye dropper to check/set gray

NOT ALLOWED:

• Additions or deletions to image
• Cloning & Healing tool (except dust)
• Airbrush, brush, paint
• Selective area sharpening
• Excessive lightening/darkening
• Excessive colour tone change
• Auto levels
• Blurring
• Eraser tool
• Quick Mask
• In-camera sharpening
• In-camera saturation styles

THE RULES ARE:
• No additions or deletions to the subject matter of the original image.
(thus changing the original content and journalistic integrity of an image)

• No excessive lightening, darkening or blurring of the image.
(thus misleading the viewer by disguising certain elements of an image)

• No excessive colour manipulation.
(thus dramatically changing the original lighting conditions of an image)

 

[just x joey]

how do u get a job at rueters? and how wuld they know what u did in photoshop?

 

[dewey]

Reuters has always been more aggressive than the AP on this... but I think AP and CP will be close behind before some photog gets busted altering a news image a little too much.