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It turns out Photoshop was a thing even in the 19th century | Dazed

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Don't believe your eyes with our pick of the trippiest pre-Photoshop image manipulation

One of the great misjudgements in art is the idea that “ the camera never lies ”: it does, a lot and frequently. Even before Adobe’s Photoshop was released - the ultimate image manipulator - back in 1990, there was no shortage of doctored images being produced, whether they were surreal, profound, or beautiful. Ernest Eugene Appert faked photographs of the 1871 Paris Commune massacres , whilst photographs published in Stalin-era Soviet Russia had purged Party officials erased from them . Others were more playful. Photographs were manipulated using a variety of techniques: multiple exposure (ta

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