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I understand that photoshop made the technology more accessible to ordinary people, but wasn't superimposing and image editing already possible well before then? (Green screens, double exposures, etc). A sufficiently motivated and skillful person could just paint over an existing photo and take a picture of that. Why are they talking like this is the first time a photograph can be edited in misleading ways?