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Originally Posted by Vanessa
Of course you can do that, and you don't have to redraw it ^^
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Ever tried it? I have (not on an iLiad, of course) more than once. And it's not as simple as you probably think and looks very artificial unless you more or less redraw the highlights and texture from scratch.
And besides, i doubt someone with enough skills to do that would be so careless and sloppy as to forget to do a simple masked lens blur and fix the contrast on a faked, pasted screenshot (which is exactly what iRex did with the product shots).
I'm 99.99% positive the PR shots were authentic (except for the screen of course) and about as sure i would've easily noticed if they weren't.
Regardless of all that... I find it a bit worrying that iRex is pulling cheap shots like painting the device silver (i guess they took the PRS-505 as a hint) and bundling free books with it. It could be interpreted as a last ditch attempt at salvaging sales... :/
The (probably too few) work hours that went into marketing BE could've been better invested into developing the existing software (if not hardware), IMHO.