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May 4, 2013

How to Tell “Real” from “Digital” Green Grass

The easy way to tell the difference? Drive by the house. Assuming that’s not convenient, the other way to tell is to note whether the grass is too uniformly green (characteristic of Photoshop), and whether other detail (like budding leaves) is consistent with the rest of the photo. Of course, while I have seen digital photos...
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Brown Lawn (or No Lawn)? Not Online

Not Waiting for the Weather There are two situations I can think of where “digitally” adding green grass to an otherwise brown front yard makes sense:  1) early Spring, after the snow has melted but before lawns have “greened up”; and 2) new construction, where earth-moving equipment has trampled the yard, and the developer has...
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