Photoshop Boobery

Friday, July 25, 2003

Of course this never would’ve come to anyone’s attention had there not been nudity involved, but it’s interesting.

The preview image in Photoshop apparently doesn’t always change dynamically if, when editing the original image, your changes are minimal.

Really though, this could’ve been prevented by using the “Save for Web” feature which strips jpegs of all Adobe’s superfluous data including thumbnail previews in order to make the files as small as possible for download.

Here’s the article which goes into full detail as to how this bug (or feature?) was discovered.  And warning: there is some nudity.

I suppose I needn’t point out the irony of the victim working for TechTV.