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Teach your Dog how to Drive: A PhotoShop Tutorial

For those of you that came to this site to listen to my audio PhotoShop Tutorial on "Teach Your Dog to Drive with PhotoShop", you can scroll down to the bottom of this post, click on the "Listen Now" play button, and skip all of this mumbo-jumbo you already read in my blog post.
For the rest of you who made it to this podcast site by other means, this is for you:
Hi all, and thanks for stopping by today, for this weeks lesson on "Teach your Dog how to Drive with PhotoShop". This really works, and I have the picture to prove it, SEE!
 
For those of you who believe this is possible, based on my picture, just stop right here, and send me some money. It might work, and your results may vary. Ok, not really, it's just not possible. If your dog was actually equipped to drive, then he should have been the one to lead the people out of Israel, because that truly would be a miracle.
This picture was obviously manipulated, or"PhotoShopped", and before we get started, I want to talk a little bit about this term PhotoShop.
Photoshopping is slang for the digital editing of photos. The term originates from Adobe Photoshop, which is the image editor most commonly used by professionals for this purpose however, other programs, such as Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photopaint, Pixelmator, Paint.NET, or GIMP, may be used.
Adobe Systems, is the publisher of Adobe Photoshop, and discourages the use of the term "photoshop" as a verb, out of concern that it may undermine the company's trademark. However, despite this concern, photoshop is widely used as a verb, both in the professional and academic world, when referring to retouching, compositing (or splicing), and color balancing, carried out in the course of graphic design, commercial publishing, and image editing.
So, in keeping with Adobe's wishes, I'll refer to this process as photo manipulation, rather than photoshopping.
WHAT is photo manipulation? Just what it sounds like. The manipulation of a photo or image, through the application of image editing techniques to photographs or images, in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means, and usually by computer.
Before computers, photo manipulation was achieved by retouching with ink, paint, double-exposure, piecing photos or negatives together in the darkroom, or scratching Polaroids. Airbrushes were also used, whence the term "airbrushing" for manipulation.
The first recorded case of photo manipulation was in the early 1860s, when a photo of Abraham Lincoln was altered using the body from a portrait of John C. Calhoun and the head of Lincoln from a famous seated portrait by Mathew Brady – the same portrait which was the basis for the original Lincoln Five-dollar bill.
Photo manipulation is as old as photography itself, and contrary to the idea of a photo having inherent validity. Photo manipulation has been regularly used to deceive or persuade viewers, or for improved story-telling and self-expression. Often times even subtle and discrete changes can have profound impacts on how we interpret or judge a photograph, which is why learning when manipulation has occurred is important.
Today I'm going to take you through a crash course of how to manipulate a photo, using Adobe PhotoShop, and you can see for yourself, just how easy it is to teach YOUR dog how to drive. Just click the play button below, for the audio PhotoShop Tutorial.