“By contrast, the transformation of Obama’s image in Shephard Fairey’s poster is something that most likely took twenty steps or fewer in PS to accomplish. There is a filter that will do the red, white & blue coloring for you automatically, or any one of many other color combos. It’s not like Fairey sat down & meticulously used a tool to pick out the hair, ears & suit as one layer, then cut & pasted and filled them in blue; then repeated for the white & red & in-between layers, etc. The effect you see is 98% Photoshop, 2% Fairey’s pointing and clicking.

Fairey’s contribution is not technique or labor but concept, that of mimicking the Soviet poster. ”
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So that should be illegal?
(like eating a Whopper)