NBC BUSTED - NBC Photoshopped Photos of Lia Thomas to Make Her Look More Feminine

This blatant propaganda alone should discredit the whole thing

Show you what a charade this is and the lack of credibility from the narrative manipulating lamestream media.

What percentage of photos that show up in mags/online are not edited? Do you complain about all the photos were woman are brushed to look more femine or just when it is done to a transwoman?

This just seems like one more non-issue for the snowflakes to get upset about

There's a big difference between photoshopping photos from a photojournalist, which are supposed to be objective and real, compared to your Instagram feed of clearly doctored big busted women.

'freak'? Who still uses words like that nowdays? Most likely angry , closeted bigots.

Don't worry your day will come. You just need a little more courage.

Photo doesn't seem any more feminine to me.

+1. Looks like a simple blur filter. If their intention was to portray a more feminine appearance, it would have required significant manipulation of the original image.

The face of the end of female sports as we know it. Why does an obvious person with a huge genetic advantage from natural doping have a chance to completely destroy XX athletes?

If Bruce Jenner had competed in Montreal in the Pentathlon as Catlyn, Catlyn would have swept every event on the XX side.

An athlete like that will destroy female sports and turn it into a freak show. It's much worse than Eastern Bloc doping or Flo Jo or the Chinese runners or swimmers as nobody had evidence of concrete doping we know this person was born a male and went through puberty as a male as going to destroy XX swimming as long as this person competes.

Exactly...how is making it lighter or removing goggle lines more feminine.

These Trumpist morans will complain at anything ...and who says the person that did it was so called 'leftist'?

silly me for expecting a photshopped image made to make Lia Thomas more feminine when the title of the thread is "NBC Photoshopped Photos of Lia Thomas to Make Her Look More Feminine".

That is literally just a filter. Ya know the same kind of filter that every single other image has on any news source. They would have to adjust her cheek bones and jawline to make her more feminine.

Can't trust anything you guys say smh.

for more feminine, what you are really reading is

'less like a man'

That's exactly what I was thinking. Is it anything more than a filter?

Don't all broadcasters do that for TV for everything, making adjustments for lighting, contrast, and smoothing and a number of other enhancements?

Do we know NBC even did all of the filtering?

My big screen TV has a bunch of settings where I can apply a load of filters myself, to remove a number of digital artificacts, including smoothing out lines on faces. How do we know we aren't looking at video captured with filters applied at the TV?

Yes people do. Celebrities doing this on Instagram and hurting girls self esteem has been a pretty big topic. Do you live under a rock?

A "filter" is just a shortcut that applies a set of editing functions so that the photographer doesn't have to tweak each individual slider. In popular use, people often think of filters in terms of Instagram, where the effects are extremely heavy-handed, but pros generally use much more subtle filters as a way of simplifying workflow, though the filter is often just a starting point, with further edits coming after.

Even if you don't bother to do any post-processing on your photos, that doesn't mean your pohtos aren't "edited." The raw data from the image sensor has to be translated into a viewable image, and that requires decisions to be made. Even an "unedited" photo right out of your camera has still been "edited" by the default software that turns it into a viewable jpeg. Fuji has recently become famous for having an on-camera jpeg engine that simulates a number of classic film stocks. These could be viewed as "filters" too, though they are far more subtle than IG filters.

It's also true that all professional photographers edit their photos (or if their deliverable product is RAW, someone else edits it). But there are also expectations about what kind of editing is appropriate for different kinds of photography. Photojournalism editing is typically supposed to unstylized and close to what the human eye would have seen. So the photographer might crop images, or adjust the white balance, or try to bring back some blown highlights, but they shouldn't be adding a gaussian blur in an effort to make the subject have softer features. Photographers have lively debates about what kind of editing is ethical for different kinds of subjects. There are differences of opinion, but these images of Lia are not really a close call. No photojournalist would consider this to be ethical photo editing.

It makes Lia's skin look far softer, which has the effect of making it look more feminine. It also makes Lia's shoulders look less muscular, and Lia's cheeks and jawline are less defined; all of which has the same effect.

You can be pro-trans and still admit that this is blatant propaganda. It turns out, that in politics, people do in fact cheat in order to make sure their side wins.

Maybe, but how do we know what editing NBC did, if any?

My TV can do the same thing -- it's a feature called "Noise Reduction" which can make facial details artificially smooth and waxy. I can enable that on my TV without consulting the lively debating photographers or NBC broadcasters.

How do I know what I'm looking at and how many times the pictures has been edited, and by whom, since it left the photographer's camera?

I believe it was NBC who edited the George Zimmerman phone call in the Trayvon Martin case to make him sound like a racist. It stopped being a credible news organization years ago.

We don't have a free press, we have a biased, one party press...