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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I'm not trying to debate, I was serious. I was of course concerned when you said some ebook makers were potentially photoshopping pictures of devices.
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while there is nothing wrong with cleaning up a photo of a device. Marketing can be a tad eager trying to make an impression. Here is one example I just ran across shown right in this forum in the first post.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...7&d=1236329874
here is the tread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...25&postcount=1
If you examine the EXIF on the first image, you can see it was edited in Photoshop, CS3 to be exact. There were two likely reasons for this. First the white balance of the shot was off because the image was not correctly lighted and or exposed. While correcting that white balance could inadvertently changed the display, I doubt it. More likely is the 2nd reason was to enhance the whiteness of the display.
I am not going to hold BeBook as the only company guilty of such misrepresentation as I know I have found other examples during the course of my research.
Unfortunately the EXIF on the BeBook image is a minimal detail level so there is no information about the original exposure and what sort of white balance adjustment was performed in post processing. I do feel this was intentional not an innocent action.