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* 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...
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