2018
DOI: 10.1177/1470357218759809
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Photorealistic computer-generated images are difficult to distinguish from digital photographs: a case study with professional photographers and photo-editors

Abstract: Abstract:There are strict guidelines on photoediting in newsrooms, and serious professional repercussions if failing to adhere to these, while computer-generated imagery is increasingly used in other areas of visual communication. This paper presents empirical research on the ability of professional photographers and editors to distinguish photographs from photorealistic computer-generated images by looking at them on a screen. Our results show clearly that those studied (n= 20) are unable to distinguish these… Show more

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“…Any form of artistic expression is created on the basis of social and technological development, and technology can promote the development of art [12]. Digitalization is the basis of computer, multimedia, Internet, and information society technology.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Any form of artistic expression is created on the basis of social and technological development, and technology can promote the development of art [12]. Digitalization is the basis of computer, multimedia, Internet, and information society technology.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, social media channels are said to inundate us with trivial user-generated content (Warnick & Heineman, 2012), but is this content really devoid of rhetoric? How do we deal with stock photography that is easy to reuse to achieve trending in social networks (Frosh, 2002), or photo-shopped photographs and computer generated photo-realistic images (Lehmuskallio et al, 2019)? By itself, such heavy exposure to images, even if the fraudulent and manipulative ones still constitute a fraction of political content (Mourão & Robertson, 2019), cultivates new visual literacy practices.…”
Section: Visual Persuasion In Theory and Practice Of Political Communicationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Likewise, it might also be difficult to tell whether an inherently digital image had any so-called "digital enhancement". Indeed, even professional editors can have a tough time distinguishing between digital photographs and photo-realistic images generated by computers [Lehmuskallio, Häkkinen and Seppänen, 2019]. Thus, asking a coder to differentiate heightened digitality from "plain" brain images is likely to prove difficult given a vast intermeshing of digital visual highlights, compressions, and over-laid elements.…”
Section: Second Coder Reliabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%