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Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. In the past, the composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. The same method is accomplished today using image-editing software. The technique is referred to by professionals as "compositing", and in casual usage is often called "photoshopping".

Photomontages are also sometimes called photo composites. Photomontage differs from retouching in that at least two images are combined. There is a great art to creating a good-looking (which usually means realistic-looking) photomontage.

[edit] Ethical and legal issues with photomontage

A photomontage may contain elements at once real and imaginary. Two-dimensional representation of physical space in a picture is, by definition, an illusion. Such combined photos and digital manipulation can set up a collision between aesthetics and ethics - for instance, in faked news photographs that are presented to the world as real. In the United States, for example, the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) have set out a Code of Ethics promoting the accuracy of published images, advising that photographers "do not manipulate images [...] that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.

Photomontages can violate a person's personality rights and can also lead to images that may classify as child pornography or indecent pseudo-photograph of a child.

[edit] Photomontage in spanking art

Some spanking artists create photographic spanking art by making composite pictures from two or more source photos. Sometimes the source images are not photos but works of fine art.

Such photomontages can:

• turn a non-spanking image into a spanking image
• change details of existing spanking images (e.g. the implement, the setting or the state of dress/undress)
• exchange the face or body of the spanker or spankee
• change the apparent age or gender of the spanker or spankee

Such images are also known as spanking fakes.

Examples of spanking artists working with photomontage techniques are Danilo, Paolo, Bebbon and Lee Warner.

[edit] See also

• Creative tracing
• Photomontage on Wikipedia
• Compositing on Wikipedia (the same in video/motion picture production)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Photomontage. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Spanking Art, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.