erasure.

Erasure is pretty frickin’ cool. The fact that you can manipulate an image that was meant to be a permanent moment in time into an altered reality blows my mind. It creates this belief that never existed in the first place. There are so many possibilities! You could finally erase your ex from that one prom photo that you thought you looked great in so didn’t want to completely destroy it. And as wonderful as this is to do, you’re almost always going to have some indication of manipulation. The ex in your prom photo wasn’t see-through but you know that behind him is a background that the viewer can’t see. In order to replicate it you’d have to borrow from various other sections of the image to compose a filler that doesn’t look completely out of place. Not all people can tell when this has been done unless they’re told beforehand so you can get away with it if you really wanted to but it doesn’t completely replace what was already there.