ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, October 15, 1996 TAG: 9610150131
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: ALEXANDRIA
SOURCE: Associated Press
Doctoring a political photo is easy, and yes, kids, you can try this at home.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner is having a little fun at the expense of Sen. John Warner, who has apologized for including a fake photo in a campaign ad last week.
Mark Warner's site on the World Wide Web is offering an irreverent on-line examination of how the deed was done. And Mark Warner, who campaigns as the candidate with his finger on the pulse of technology, is also offering a technical primer for would-be photo artists.
Mark Warner's head replaced that of another politician in John Warner's television ad. The doctored image placed Mark Warner, who is not related to the Republican senator, in a tableau with President Clinton and former Gov. Douglas Wilder.
Mark Warner posted a movie on his Web site Sunday that shows how widely available computer software can simply and convincingly alter a photograph to replace one person's head with another.
The step-by-step demonstration called ``The Case of the Doctored Photo'' even includes helpful tips to improve the look of mismatched hairlines.
``We worked on it all weekend,'' Mark Warner said at a campaign stop Monday.
On the stump, Mark Warner is trying to widen whatever chink the ad controversy may have opened in the senator's armor.
When a laugh line fell flat at a campaign appearance Monday, Mark Warner joked, ``Would it help if I moved my head to another body?''
For links to both candidates' home pages and other election information, visit our on-line voters guide at: www.roanoke.com
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