Alan MacMasters hoax
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In February 2012, a group of British students created a hoax by editing the English Wikipedia article about the electric toaster, inserting the false claim that a man named Alan MacMasters invented it
The manipulated photograph of Alex purported to be of Alan MacMasters
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Alan MacMasters hoax
…Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1893. In February 2013, Alex escalated the hoax by creating an article dedicated to Alan MacMasters, including an image of himself manipulated with Adobe Photoshop to resemble a 19th-century photograph. A digitally added tear was included at the bottom of the image to conceal Alex's modern…
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man overlaid with Goethe's Color Wheel using a screen layer in Adobe Photoshop. Screen layers can be helpful in graphic design and in creating multiple exposures in photography.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man overlaid a soft light layer Moses Harris's Color Wheel and a soft light layer of Ignaz Schiffermüller's Color Wheel. Soft light layers have a darker, more translucent look than screen layers.
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