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{{trope}}
[[File:wonderella-filter.png|link=The Non-Adventures of Wonderella|
{{quote|''"Just listen to the music, Marge! He's evil!"''
|'''Homer Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
[[Photoshop Filter
See also [[Deliberately Monochrome]].
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{{examples}}
== Film ==
* Used for horror in film in ''[[The Ring|Ringu]]'', as it happens every time somebody dies by {{spoiler|a stare-down with Sadako.}}▼
== Literature ==
* Elizabeth Short, ''The Black Dahlia'', has this done to her photo quite often on documentaries. It's usually meant to add chilling eeriness, emphasizing the way she was gruesomely murdered and severed. It's not applied to the actual crime scene photos, mind you, but her vanity head shot.▼
* Parodied in ''[[Dave Barry]] Hits Below the Beltway'', where two political candidates running against each other each show their opponent in hideous and increasingly libelous grainy black-and-white photographs.▼
* The History Channel lives, breathes, and eats this trope. ''Monster Quest'' has had a [[Jaws First Person Perspective|reenacted first wild hog perspective attack or three]], where the post-production crew apparently felt little shame applying a desaturation filter and jarring piano chords. ''Ice Road Truckers'' even does this for accidents or ice cracks.▼
* Notorious example: ''TIME Magazine'' did the desaturation and edge burn bit on a photograph of O.J. Simpson, in addition to resizing and moving the man's prisoner ID number. The resulting image made O.J. Simpson's [[Unfortunate Implications|skin appear darker]] and gave a heavy vignette. The manipulation became extremely obvious when Newsweek used the same photo with accurate color, resulting in a [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/31/012306.php side-by-side comparison] when the two magazines were displayed together at newsstands. This was met with significant outcry. ''TIME'' would eventually issue an apology for the cover.▼
== Live-Action TV ==
** A variant is the [[Fox News Channel]] [http://mediamatters.org/items/200807020002 showing obviously altered photos] of New York Times reporters they accused of being "attack dogs".▼
* Martin Bryant, perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre, was represented in the media with a picture that had been digitally altered to look like an [[Evil Albino]]. One would think the fact he murdered 35 people would be enough to turn the public against him...▼
* People that [[Stephen Colbert]] has decided are "destroying America" often get this treatment.
* An early episode of ''[[The Chaser
== Vdeo Games ==
* In ''[[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties]]'', the developers apparently just got Photoshop and were playing with it while making the game. The result: Tons of filtered photos in ridiculously random places.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in an episode of [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]], when Strong Bad is watching a marathon of rockumentaries, he stated "Uh-oh, they're using that negative photo effect; somebody's going to rehab."▼
▲* Parodied in ''[[Dave Barry]] Hits Below the Beltway'', where two political candidates running against each other each show their opponent in hideous and increasingly libelous grainy black-and-white photographs.
▲* An early episode of ''[[The Chaser]]'s War On Everything'' has the group lampshading and spoofing this trope by using the same technique on the Australian PM. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* A popular variant on Australian tabloid television is to slow footage to ~6 frames/second.▼
* Parodied by ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2008/09/06/electoral-dysfunction/ here].▼
* Used on Original Bubs in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', in the sbemail [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail177.html original]. It goes greyscale, too.▼
▲* Used for horror in film in ''[[The Ring|Ringu]]'', as it happens every time somebody dies by {{spoiler|a stare-down with Sadako.}}
* The method is [[Older Than Radio]], though was used not as a trope, but as a prank. R.W.Wood once asked a young lady to pose for a photo to be printed in Encyclopædia Brittanica article he was writing. She was flattered, but had no idea he's ''the'' trailblazer of IR and UV photography, the article is about fluorescence, and her photo is going to look [http://www.eskimo.com/~nickz/uv/img/UVlensFluorescence.jpg like this].▼
* The [[Wii]] has this filter in the Photo Channel.▼
* A minor [[Easter Egg]] from ''[[Homestuck]]'' features a wacky (mildly crude) sound clip of [[Nic Cage]] from ''[[Snake Eyes]]'' with transformations making it into something a bit... disturbing. The visual accompaniment uses an effect much like this, except it's not a photonegative (rather, the image's color is distorted and JPEG artifacts become exaggerated). {{spoiler|1=[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=darkcage "boner!"]}}▼
* The ''[[Yarudora]]'' series uses this trope a few times in several of its games.
** ''[[Double Cast]]'', the 1st game, uses it during a sequence of the [[Kill Them All|Genocide]] [[Bad End|Route]], when {{spoiler|the protagonist and Haruka discover [[Blood Is Squicker in Water|Shoko's body in her bathtub]], and confirm, to their horror, her death}};
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*** On the game's [[media:sampaguita cover 1118.png|box cover]], although it's done to symbolize the mystery behind Maria and her memories, as she's not evil.
*** And during the game, when {{spoiler|the protagonist [[The Hero Dies|gets fatally shot]] [[Taking the Bullet|while protecting his lover Maria with his body]], in Good End 3 and Normal End 2}}.
== Web Comics ==
▲* Parodied by ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2008/09/06/electoral-dysfunction/ here].
▲* A minor [[Easter Egg]] from ''[[Homestuck]]'' features a wacky (mildly crude) sound clip of [[
== Web Original ==
▲* Used on Original Bubs in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', in the sbemail [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail177.html original]. It goes greyscale, too.
▲* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[
== Real Life ==
▲* Elizabeth Short, ''The Black Dahlia'', has had this done to her photo quite often on documentaries. It's usually meant to add chilling eeriness, emphasizing the way she was gruesomely murdered and severed. It's not applied to the actual crime scene photos, mind you, but her vanity head shot.
▲* The History Channel lives, breathes, and eats this trope. ''Monster Quest'' has had a [[Jaws First Person Perspective|reenacted first wild hog perspective attack or three]], where the post-production crew apparently felt little shame applying a desaturation filter and jarring piano chords. ''Ice Road Truckers'' even does this for accidents or ice cracks.
▲* Notorious example: ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME Magazine]]'' did the desaturation and edge burn bit on a photograph of [[O.J. Simpson]], in addition to resizing and moving the man's prisoner ID number. The resulting image made O.J. Simpson's [[Unfortunate Implications|skin appear darker]] and gave a heavy vignette. The manipulation became extremely obvious when Newsweek used the same photo with accurate color, resulting in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331062928/http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/31/012306.php side-by-side comparison] when the two magazines were displayed together at newsstands. This was met with significant outcry. ''TIME'' would eventually issue an apology for the cover.
▲** A variant is the [[Fox News Channel]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430182208/http://mediamatters.org/items/200807020002 showing obviously altered photos] of New York Times reporters they accused of being "attack dogs".
▲* Martin Bryant, perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre, was represented in the media with a picture that had been digitally altered to look like an [[Evil Albino]]. One would think the fact he murdered 35 people would be enough to turn the public against him...
▲* A popular variant on Australian tabloid television is to slow footage to ~6 frames/second.
▲* The method is [[Older Than Radio]], though was used not as a trope, but as a prank. R.W.Wood once asked a young lady to pose for a photo to be printed in Encyclopædia Brittanica article he was writing. She was flattered, but had no idea he's ''the'' trailblazer of IR and UV photography, the article is about fluorescence, and her photo is going to look [http://www.eskimo.com/~nickz/uv/img/UVlensFluorescence.jpg like this].
▲* The [[Wii]] has this filter in the Photo Channel.
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